Any song you had in your head left from childhood, any inclination of a rime a verse, you could find on it. And yes it was free. Or so we thought.

It was the ultimate resource for music, while making friends sharing the same kind of taste. It was a database, a greatest of libraries, a direct link of something that is the fuel for our daily inspiration. We thought third parties were there for the sake of just that. At least that's what we were told. How naive we were.

Because soon enough, those parties showed their teeth, even more so as they probably originally intended. Lashing out it in its most brutal, cold blooded way.

By killing it. There are no other words for it. They killed it.

And their reason was clear.

It was a shot through the head, and it shook the world wide web in its core, while at the same time everyone else clinging onto it, allowing to cement it's roots into our daily reality.

But it came with a very high cost. Sometimes, I think the price was too high, for it came with the loss of one of its most spontaneous and beautifully sincerest of creations. A kind of phenomenon I got to see only once in a life-time.

Because every day, every click reminds me, all of us, through our discourse, muddling through the policy statements of money hungry companies, that it is all about selling information, our information to the highest bidder, while at the same time jailing us for doing simply the same.

In a way I should be relieved it is no longer there. It would have been heart-breaking to watch that gem dissappear down the drain of everything that transpired in order to prevent it from ever happening again.

Just mentioning it still creates a lot of phantom pain. It still feels like a freshly carved wound that burns like it was yesterday. Just type 'first peer to peer music', and you'll know.

You'll know the name of the shot that was truelly heard across the globe considered by the powers that be was/is aimed at them.