🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 1 day agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonimagemessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up11.22Karrow-down121
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minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up28·22 hours agoOP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
minus-squareRetro_unlimited@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoThere was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
minus-squarePagPag@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·22 hours agoAdd LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·22 hours agoEven before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
minus-squarecurbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·22 hours agoIRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
OP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
There was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
Even before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
IRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
Shared drives on a LAN!