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Leo clicked it. He was a college student on a budget, and the new Imagine Dragons tracks were calling to him. The link redirected through three different countdown timers before finally landing on a sparse Google Drive folder. There it was: a single ZIP file named ID_New_Album_Full.zip . He hit download. The progress bar crawled.

In 2023, a Reddit user shared a Google Drive folder claiming to have the “Imagine Dragons discography FLAC.” Within 48 hours:

While downloading from Google Drive may seem convenient, there are several risks involved: