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Comment by self_awareness

15 hours ago

It's not really about piracy in general, it's mostly about What.CD.

Equivalent of what.cd today is RED.

But, TBH, most of the pirated music today is on YouTube anyway.

What.CD's real magic was the curation and lossless-everything culture, not just free files. Redacted keeps the archive going but that obsessive completeness is hard to rebuild.

  • It also had a sense of community that was never quite replicated on RED. The freeleech events were fun. I remember there was a release request for Kirk Van Houten's "Can I Borrow a Feeling?".