Yeah. I wasn't around in 2008, but read this quote from the Nakamoto Institute.

"Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own."

I had a "Fuck The RIAA T-shirt" and a Napster T-Shirt and bumper sticker. I started using LimeWire, a Gnutella client, after the government shut it down. BitTorrent was the pinnacle of these.