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It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.
I hear if you torrent you get a nastygram from your ISP. Meanwhile, I hear if you find a site that offers to stream it for free, nothing bad happens. Also I hear that Yandex gives better results for such sites than Google or DDG/Bing.
I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.
Iβve watched so much free anime by being bisexual
It's wrong, but also, it's right a surprisingly good amount of the time.
They'll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
Soulseek was the best
Was
Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.
Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack #128
*starts downloading hardcore goat sex*
"Ah shit, I meant 127β
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! cancel 128
*goat sex downloads even faster*
"...well, at least it'll be educational"
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw
Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn
my favorite was the Madonna song that was just Madonna saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" over and over again for three minutes, and then someone made a dance remix of it and uploaded it again
I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone's ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago
I downloaded Rammstein's Amerika but it was like just one specific verse and chorus repeated. It was really weird. It took my a while to notice because I didn't know German. My best guess is someone took a free sample of the song from somewhere and edited it so it was longer by repeating it a couple times.
Also, a few of the Nightwish songs I downloaded had an announcer in the middle of the bridge say something like "You are listening to Nightwish's new song Blah on the album Once." Maybe it said something about being able to buy it on iTunes. That one was interesting because it definitely seemed legit. I guess some artists released stuff like that knowing people would steal regardless so they wanted a version with instructions to buy it if you liked it. To this day when I'm listening to those songs I hear the voice in my head when the song gets to those parts.
I used to have a couple of songs where there was a skip because of an error in the CD rip, now when I listen to the song and the skip is missing I find it jarring
I downloaded an Elvis song with a mispelled song title, and for a while I would refer to it as "Quspicious Minds" and sing along
I reinstalled Windows like every other week π
Can I finger your plastron?
I do :( unfortunately none of my peers are even close so I just tell them fmhy
I don't know if this meme is fully ironic, but kind of strange to think "torrenting" is considered the OG piracy method now.
Yeah, I imagine to younger folks it feels like what usenet felt like to me when I was their age. Mystical land of unknown loot, if you know how to get there
For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.
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 βdial a pirateβ 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...