I thought you might bring up how BitTorrent ended up being made into a coin, that's why I also mentioned limewire/FrostWire

And if you'll point out how nobody uses those or anything like them anymore, that's because there's soulseek which is centralized but has run with no ads and very little censorship for years and sucked up all the oxygen in the piracy software sphere - again, without throwing money around or having users who aren't "cheap"