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  • Spotify Will Never Replace What.cd
     OP - November 20, 2016, 03:31 AM
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    Just like that, and it was gone.

    What.cd, an online music community that had operated in the shadows of the private BitTorrent underground piracy scene since October 2007, suddenly shut down on Thursday, leaving its estimated 150,000 former active members memorializing the site’s place in the short history of online music consumption.

    “What I will miss the most was the biggest, most complete, and most carefully curated music library that ever existed,” one former member, who, like many others quoted in this story, requested anonymity in order to speak freely about his time on the website, told me. While What.cd’s library numbered around one million “unique music releases,” it was partially the sheer variety of available music, just a quick BitTorrent download away, that kept the faithful coming back over its nine-year existence.
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    http://motherboard.vice.com/read/whatcd-shut-down-interviews-former-members
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