🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 6 months agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up11.5K
arrow-up11.5KimageAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 6 months agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•6 months agoOP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
minus-squareDr. WeskerlinkfedilinkEnglish20•6 months agoEven before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn’t a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•6 months agoIRC was a wild level of automated for its time too
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilink22•6 months agoAdd LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoThere was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc
OP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.
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!
Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.
There was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc