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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For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But 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...)
I remember those copy protections. Go to page 6, line 42, word 3
Damn, I miss when games came with manuals... the anticipation when reading them while coming back home from the store...