Torrents died because you can basically just download anything off file hosting sites now, or bootleg OneDrives/Google Drives.

There is still plenty of quality stuff in 2025, and a lot of slop, just how it was 40 years ago.

Why was IPv4 so pitifully small? I guess most people thought 100 million parcels a year was a ridiculously generous limit that we'd never reach.

It is clearly effective. Go to a PC game piracy site and most games will be available, but anything covered by Denuvo is unavailable even years later. Either nobody is willing to crack it (unlikely) or Denuvo have done an exceptional job.

Safari doesn't support Web MIDI apparently for this reason (fingerprinting), but it makes using any kind of MIDI web app impossible.