sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn’t say anything about them not being allowed, but I don’t see anybody posting any 🤷‍♀️

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Yeah not me, I keep on saying I use torrents and privatw trackers for the better quality. But really i just find it more fun.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      i know I posted the meme and all, but what’s the benefit of private trackers? is it like a search bar where you’ll find niecher stuff or is it just that it downloads quicker?
      i don’t think I’ve ever had a time where 1337 and standard qbittorrent won’t work

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I am so old I remember most of the pirate stuff and did all of it. I am pissed at myself for disconnecting drives and messing up boot order, won’t boot so far. I had an old pc (still do) they were IDE drives in it. The boot drive was over one 1tb and needed special driver to break the 1tb barrier. I think it was from Acronis’ partition editor. I have at least 300gb in flac music, tons of movies (mostly yify). One day I hope to revive it if I can find an anything partition reader so I can nab it of the drives. I will make it available for everyone to grab an old slice of pirating.

  • destiper@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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. I’m an outlier for sure, I don’t know anyone else my age that even knows what 1337x is

  • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don’t know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.

    I am rusty and don’t have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    be me

    born in 2005

    used to use steam unlocked

    torrent

    is bisexual

    the meme is partly correct i guess :3

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
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    7 days ago

    It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Funny, I remember being in middle school and getting detention for playing a RS private server called hackscape, clearly I was intending to hack the school.

        Meanwhile I found the network drive and constantly deleted a bullys progress in our keyboarding course lmao, they never figured that one out.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I personally just check the db0 megathread and torrent from there, sometimes I watch online because I cant be bothered to download tho

    • J-Bone@piefed.caEnglish
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      8 days ago

      You can stream popular torrents. It can be challenging with more niche content (unless you’re on private trackers), but you’re not going to find niche content streams in the first place.

    • J-Bone@piefed.caEnglish
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      8 days ago

      For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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…)

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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

    • Beacon@fedia.io
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      8 days ago

      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

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Those were the times when my ISP, which was owned 100% by the city, had it’s own newsgroups server full of warez lol

      • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’m gonna ignore non internet based methods. Here is the evolution imo

        1. BBS
        2. Usenet & warez websites
        3. Server client setups (Hotline etc)
        4. P2P without resuming (Napster etc)
        5. P2P W/resume & multiple sources (Kazaa, LimeWire etc)
        6. Torrents
        7. Streaming torrents
        8. Usenet

        Edit: I’m seeing IRC a lot, not sure where it fits in this list. Assume it’s around no 2.

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          7 days ago

          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/

        • Beacon@fedia.io
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          7 days ago

          Great list! And according to your list I’m right. BBSes aren’t internet, and usenet is a synonym for newsgroups