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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30015573

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[–] 39 points 2 months ago (9 children)

For me, there was never any move to netflix or any streaming. Piracy has always been cheap and convenient, and I don't want to deal with big corps

Also, piracy not popular before 2007? Pirate dvd/cd/vhs/etc stands were a very popular thing, at least around here. There was already a lot of piracy before the internet became popular

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah piracy was everywhere during the cassette tape and floppy disk era, I don't think it just was called piracy yet back then

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Bootlegging is what we called it as kids

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And, BBS, IRC, etc. were around long before the 90s, too. OP's a child and/or this is low-effort agitprop. (ah, my fellow plebs in these comments that knew those times well...)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    5-10 years ago I would have said agitprop but man, I’m getting old and more and more I feel the weight of things like Limewire and 9/11 being nouns the youngins genuinely don’t know. So I’m actually not sure lol

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    There was plenty of it going on around here. Even after Napster was taken down, there was Kazaa, Limewire, and your choice of Gnutella client. It was mostly us downloading stuff to listen to on the bus because high speed internet was rare unless you were in a city.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I never used netflix either. Their DRM won't let me watch in 1080p because I'm not using a spyware infested browser and OS. Back when they had a good selection, my internet was too slow to stream HD video anyways.

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