I used to buy every new game and try it back when Freelancer was released, so bought the vanilla and played through SP multiple times. Well, Because my copy of FL was a Not-so-Legal one, I never even tried joining the MP, cause I thought it wouldn't let me in.
A few years later, I felt like playing through SP again, so went to install the Game but noticed the Disk is not working anymore. Well, I visited a Bay of Friendly Pie-rats who gave me a new copy of FL, and I noticed it says we can play online too. So after downloading the game, I went to ModDb and searched for a nice Mod, and Disco's description and screenshots looked more interesting than others.
So yeah, I downloaded the Mod and sticked around ever since.:P