sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn't say anything about them not being allowed, but I don't see anybody posting any π€·ββοΈ
They'll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
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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.
Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw
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"
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Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
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Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn
Ah, and there I was, trying to download horse porn and ending up with Halo 3 π
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
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Soulseek was the best
Was
Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
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Iβve watched so much free anime by being bisexual
Speak for urselves lul (I dk how to seed tho)
Just let the torrent keep going after you're done
Tried that but for some reason it doesn't seed :3
If you don't have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don't support port forwarding.
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If you move or delete the files it would break it
Yeah I could guess that, but no just sitting around it either doesn't upload anything or uploads and absurdly small amount (less than 50mb)
Probably an issue with connecting to peers or trackers. One common issue is not having the port forwarded properly at your router.
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make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)
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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.
We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.
cries in millennial
most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses
also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled... in highschool
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There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.
Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren't able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.
Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.
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...)
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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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be me
born in 2005
used to use steam unlocked
torrent
is bisexual
the meme is partly correct i guess :3
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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 rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.
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It's wrong, but also, it's right a surprisingly good amount of the time.
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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Wait, is torrenting actually dying out?
i kid you not my roommate watched a movie someone posted on Twitter
Nah, not until all of the GenXers and Xennials die out at least
It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).
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2001 baby here with a home ubuntu server running Plex + Jellyfin, *arr suite, qbittorrent and slskd in docker, and a few TB on my favourite private trackers. Iβm an outlier for sure, I donβt know anyone else my age that even knows what 1337x is
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