Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.

Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn

Soulseek was the best

I reinstalled Windows like every other week 😅

We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.

cries in millennial

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

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.

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

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

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

Just let the torrent keep going after you're done

I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.

I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.

in this economy?