sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn't say anything about them not being allowed, but I don't see anybody posting any π€·ββοΈ
It's wrong, but also, it's right a surprisingly good amount of the time.
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Speak for urselves lul (I dk how to seed tho)
make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)
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I don't know if this meme is fully ironic, but kind of strange to think "torrenting" is considered the OG piracy method now.
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...
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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
It's old but it's not even close to the OG. I believe the OG is newsgroups, and after that was p2p file sharing apps like limewire and napster, and only then did torrenting become a big thing
I'm gonna ignore non internet based methods. Here is the evolution imo
- BBS
- Usenet & warez websites
- Server client setups (Hotline etc)
- P2P without resuming (Napster etc)
- P2P W/resume & multiple sources (Kazaa, LimeWire etc)
- Torrents
- Streaming torrents
- Usenet
Edit: I'm seeing IRC a lot, not sure where it fits in this list. Assume it's around no 2.
This is the correct list, having lived through it. BBS services in the mid-1980s were the start of Razor1911, Paradox and other distro and cracker groups. I'd edit 2 to include FTP which is what BBS evolved into with secret dropsites for new releases.
IRC is 2.5 on this list. You can group that alongside the pre-web internet services, like AOL which had slightly IRC-like chat rooms dedicated to serving warez and videos in the same way (requesting a list from a chatbot, and then requesting sequential files).
Some light history here, though like all warez-related scholarship, there's a ton missing that you had to have seen to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157/
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Copying cassettes
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I personally just check the db0 megathread and torrent from there, sometimes I watch online because I cant be bothered to download tho
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Hey now, Iβm younger than that and I know how to do both things lol
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I do :( unfortunately none of my peers are even close so I just tell them fmhy
Wait, is torrenting actually dying out?
i kid you not my roommate watched a movie someone posted on Twitter
It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).
Nah, not until all of the GenXers and Xennials die out at least
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Wtf is torrent
its just advertising places "to rent", like craigslist, but for films. Sometimes the rent is free
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