People who missed out on the good ol days of bittorrent have no idea how awesome it was. The Pirate Bay had an entire published page of cease and desist and summons and every other letter and demand on their website where they posted all of their responses. The sheer magnitude of GFY was incredible. There are few things as empowering as a kid than to see someone stand up to what appears from your vantage as a giant, unstoppable institution, and succeed... and in a huge way.

The torrent world truly had the heart of the cypherpunk. They wrote code and they didn't fuck around. This was about disrupting the powers that be, not downloading free music. I was 100% here for it.