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Spotify used to use BitTorrent, or something closely related.

Back in the early days, colleagues in my office would be falsely accused by IT of file sharing, when the only crime they were really committing was listening to Jack Johnson.



If that was the very early days they were quite possibly sharing unlicensed tracks: https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...




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