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submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn't say anything about them not being allowed, but I don't see anybody posting any 🤷‍♀️

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.

IRC? Napster? Edonkey? Emule? Kademlia?

And, hell, before that there was that guy in class who for five bucks would burn you a CD with any game you wanted, which he probably got off usenet...

And of course for music there was the old double deck cassette copier...

(Personally the first software crack I remember was dismantling Monkey Island's “dial a pirate” wheel so I could photocopy it to share with friends after copying the diskettes...)

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I remember those copy protections. Go to page 6, line 42, word 3

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago

Damn, I miss when games came with manuals... the anticipation when reading them while coming back home from the store...

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 10 hours ago

Your list is compromised primarily of P2P networks and a DHT?

Older methods still best methods.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Test Drive 3 had a pretty complicated wheel.