Regulatory or legal action

15 projects

Omegle Talk to strangers, for fourteen years, until it could not be made safe 2009–2023 Messengers What.CD The best music library ever built, erased in an afternoon 2007–2016 File Sharing Grooveshark All the music, none of the licences 2007–2015 Music Streaming isoHunt One man, seven years of litigation, $110 million 2003–2013 File Sharing Audiogalaxy Killed by a filter it agreed to install itself 1998–2013 File Sharing Megaupload The file locker the FBI took down 2005–2012 File Sharing Kazaa The post-Napster free-for-all 2001–2012 File Sharing Google Buzz The launch that put Google under 20 years of privacy audits 2010–2011 Social Networks LimeWire Half your MP3s, half your malware 2000–2010 File Sharing Morpheus Cut off its own network overnight, and kept going anyway 2001–2008 File Sharing Oink's Pink Palace Raided by Interpol, and its founder walked free 2004–2007 File Sharing eDonkey2000 Two founders who went on to build OkCupid and Stellar 2000–2006 File Sharing BearShare Paid the RIAA $30 million, then became someone else 2000–2006 File Sharing Grokster The case that made building the tool a crime 2001–2005 File Sharing Napster Every song in the world, free, right now 1999–2001 File Sharing