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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

OP forgot Napster, as well as the p2p networks of old like WinMX, Kazaa, etc, nevermind Usenet.

[–] PagPag 22 points 2 months ago

Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even before that, BBS, WaReZ sites, IRC. Dialup internet wasn't a problem when RAR files could be split up for a release.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

IRC was a wild level of automated for its time too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Shared drives on a LAN!

[–] Retro_unlimited 2 points 2 months ago

There was even search terms for finding open servers on search engines such as: “parent-of” “open-directory” MP3 AVI etc