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Very based. It always surprises me that so many people don't know how to pirate, not even torrents tbh. Been on it since I was 12 and will never stop![:marseyindignant: :marseyindignant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignant.webp)
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whats the point of torrenting in 2024. real question bc theres sites to watch movies/shows where u dont have to download anything
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Games, putting files on mobile devices, hoarder tendencies, and sheer force of habit tbh. Personally I don't trust everything to be available forever online, I've seen too many things slip away forever over the years.
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Also stealth editing and stealth deleting. Full seasons of a number of shows require a pirated copy or a hard copy because streaming won't show 'problematic' content.
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If you're still torrenting in 2024 in the West, then you're a fricking boomer thats too ill-adjusted to have been invited to the newer cooler private groups![:marseyshrug: :marseyshrug:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyshrug.webp)
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u dont have to save the file to ur computers drive. is that better peepeehead?
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Kids these days just don't understand the terror of launching a newly pirated game and seeing cmd open and immediately close
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Kids will never understand the fear of pirating something on your parents computer and installing a virus by mistake![:marseyheadcrab: :marseyheadcrab:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyheadcrab.webp)
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Yes?
The first ipad came out when, 2010 or so? Thats definitely zoomigger territory
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Shhh! Don't admit that! What will the neighbors think if they hear you?![:marseypearlclutch2: :marseypearlclutch2:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseypearlclutch2.webp)
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I wasnt a kid when the ipad came out tho?
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Lmao I accidentally got a rootkit on my dad's computer
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I remember watching porn on Kazaa on the family computer while my mum was in the house. She started walking upstairs so I tried to close Kazaa but it crashed around the video which was still playing with no option to exit it. I had to turn the monitor off and pretend I was reading a book.
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holy shit yes kazaa! And it was web based at first so you didn't have to download the malware to your computer lmao. That's where I went after they shut down napster.
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phew, another day another ransom left unpaid![:marseyfedoratip: :marseyfedoratip:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyfedoratip.webp)
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I got banned from downloading Minecraft mods as a kid because my dad installed a virus by clicking an adfly link when he was helping me install it
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Bro i got a virus on my family mac because the official adobe flash player had so much adware in the installer. People forget how bad shit used to be with that. Plenty of official companies would ship installers with borderline malicious adware just to make a few extra bucks.
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The true
kid experience is trying to download videos on eDonkey2000 and half the time it's not what's on the title, it's some pirated software pretending to be porn as a ruse, or it's some disgusting anal bondage shit.
But the true pinnacle of being a
kid is if you were there on The Night of the Thousand MP3s. There was a court order to shut down Napster at midnight but one of us had a T-something line (it's been awhile) so he could actually download stuff relatively fast. So we all sat around and just called out any music we might possibly want to hear in the future to preserve it while we could. That was a defining moment in the lives of everyone in our generation who lived through it.
!oldstrags
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But I moved from napster to something else. Maybe soulseek at that time.
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IIRC there were a bunch of them. Like LimeWire I tried, but it just didn't work, at least not back then. eDonkey2000 was the first I found that really worked. And it let you look through all the files that a user was sharing. The most common thing I saw was Friends. Every fricking European had every fricking season of Friends. I've never had any respect for anyone from that continent since then. I'm hoping it was like... maybe they were trying to learn English... Not that Europe has no culture and has to import it from America and it picks the most vapid r-slurred thing it can.
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Imagine not being on Undernet and DALNet simultaneously with two mIRC sessions running Shadowscript and downloading all your shit either from xdcc bots or T1 FTP servers after fulfilling the 2:1 ratio requirement.
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My family moved to Rhapsody which was still pretty usable, worked great with MP3 players. Of course then Spotify happened and we never looked back (except for me, I use offline files for my music now).
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I went Napster --> Kazaa --> Limewire. I still have Limewire installed on some old laptop around here.
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Holy shit eDonkey2000.
Im back. Had a seizure
when i remembered downloading Powerman 5000 mp3s on eDonkey2000.
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I remember when you'd pirate games and movies at LAN parties because using filesharing for anything but mp3s was just painfully slow.![:boomerjam: :boomerjam:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/boomerjam.webp)
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eDonkey was a piece of shit.
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I remember when high speed internet first came out it would bog down at peak hours so real neighbors would game and download shit at like 3am
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I was in boarding school at the time most people used iTunes to store their music library.
Because the whole school was networked, everyone could download each others shared music (provided the other person was online).
It was out own little music sharing site with about 3,000 users.
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A student at my uni got convicted for possessing CP because they inadvertently had Windows Media Player sharing enabled and someone else in the dorm noticed.
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Had this happen yesterday with dead cells. Turns out the official version does it too
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thats why you always check who did the uploading
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fitgirl
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I've been seeing an increasing number of r-slurs across the internet who not only don't know how easy it is to pirate shit, but also are actively against doing it for morals or some gay shit I suppose. I cope by pretending they're bots the music industry created to try to influence the culture.
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It's really underappreciated imo just how moralistic culture has become in current year. To the point where people feel they need to defend and financially contribute to objectively evil corps like Disney or something
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It's weird though. One breath we have to be responsible consumers and the next, we can't judge someone for being a fent zombie
That's pretty irresponsible consumption if you ask me!!
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anarcho-tyranny
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I keep sayin that zoomers and boomers are the same. Boomers used to defend corps too and now it's the zoomers doing it. Xennials know they are evil and will steal from big corps and don't care, which is true and right.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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i dont mind. they are subsidizing my freeloading
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There are so many morons all around us![:marseyrain: :marseyrain:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyrain.webp)
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Bro it is literally easier than ever nowadays to pirate. You don't even need to know how to install bit, mu, etc softwares. Even if you are a total drooling tard, there are more than enough P2P remote servers which let you download whatever the frick you want just by copy-pasting (that's longpressing on ipad for you zoomer !r-slurs) the magnet link.
Even a VPN is optional since you are opening the piracy site for only a couple of minutes till you get the link. And once the link is pasted, you can just go to sleep, wake up the next day and jerk off to whatever hentai VR joi you pirated.
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I stop pirating games since so many new games need like 50 fricking patches after launch to work.
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If you're a casual g*mer it doesn't make sense at all. I don't really play games anymore, so maybe yeah, you're right...however I do like to casually watch/re-watch a movie and I'm not going to search for it on hulu, Netflix, peapeepee etc
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I wait a year to download any new movies and games just to avoid shit like this![:taysmart: :taysmart:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/taysmart.webp)
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Where are all the good torrents these days? Piratebay is garbage now
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If I can't find something in piratebay, almost all of the time I'll find it in yts, rarbg or 1337
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YTS might be a glowie honeypot these days. I personally don't trust them.
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If you're a little sus - go via a VPN
If you're moderately sus - go through Tor
If you're just fricking paranoid - keep a cheap burner smartphone, apply the previous steps just to get that magnet link, send it via a dummy gmail you created on that smartphone to tempmail or some other temporary email service. Copy it from there. Paste it into your remote server. Choose a server which lets you stream so you don't even have to download it.
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I'm in a private group so I dont care
I just remember the Feds nabbing one of the YTS leads, then YTS going down and magically going back up a day later and the userbase splitting.
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I mean the feds made the Argentinians (
@nuclearshill you were the Argentinian snitch, weren't you?) arrest the operators of Z-lib back in 2022. Z-lib is still up however and moreover Z-lib uses the same repository of files that libgen uses. So the Z-lib guys definitely had access to the contributors of libgen.
That hasn't really stopped anyone from using either Zlib or libgen as a free bookshop
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Booknerds don't have the political clout of the Merchants of Venice, Los Angeles.
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No te puedo confirmar ni negar
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usenet
torrent
mega
forums
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i once had the collection of the blueprints of firearms despite having no 3d printer cuz imma bad boy![:marseysunglasseson: :marseysunglasseson:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysunglasseson.webp)
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Frick even is this?
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There was a time around 2014-16 when pirating didn't make sense since streaming was so cheap and accessible. Of course, that has to be ruined
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It's true, there was a brief moment where it was poised to render pirating largely moot. Rapacious greed of course killed the golden goose.
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