Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

Admittedly, the small file chunks made sense on dialup, but man did it suck when you'd end up with 102 of 110 files and then they'd vanish.

I downloaded an Elvis song with a mispelled song title, and for a while I would refer to it as "Quspicious Minds" and sing along

I downloaded Rammstein's Amerika but it was like just one specific verse and chorus repeated. It was really weird. It took my a while to notice because I didn't know German. My best guess is someone took a free sample of the song from somewhere and edited it so it was longer by repeating it a couple times.

Also, a few of the Nightwish songs I downloaded had an announcer in the middle of the bridge say something like "You are listening to Nightwish's new song Blah on the album Once." Maybe it said something about being able to buy it on iTunes. That one was interesting because it definitely seemed legit. I guess some artists released stuff like that knowing people would steal regardless so they wanted a version with instructions to buy it if you liked it. To this day when I'm listening to those songs I hear the voice in my head when the song gets to those parts.

i did not have sexual relations with that woman

I remember those copy protections. Go to page 6, line 42, word 3

Test Drive 3 had a pretty complicated wheel.

Your list is compromised primarily of P2P networks and a DHT?

Older methods still best methods.

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/

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

Lithuanian ISPs also really don't care the worst that happened is the government shutdown a film site but it is back online.

If you don't have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don't support port forwarding.

If you move or delete the files it would break it

true true

To each their own, but for anyone else reading, try Nicotine+ on desktop, or Seeker on Android (it's on the izzydroid repo)