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[–] scottywh 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CDs for sure but I owned over 2000 DVDs and I never would have done this with any of them.

I bought heavy duty drawers to store my DVDs in inside their cases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well... I guess you are talking about legal DVDs, this although maybe people did it as well with originals, pretty sure it was more common for not authorized copies.

[–] Sunforged 2 points 1 year ago

YoU wOuLdN't StEaL a CaR!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you were fancy you'd buy a stack of DVD-Rs that came in jewel cases. For the stuff you didn't care so much about you'd keep them in paper sleeves.

Or do like everyone else: store them on the spindle they came on.

[–] MissJinx 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a disk wallet full of pirated PS2 games. That was the coolest shit

[–] scottywh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had several full of pirated Dreamcast games and it was glorious.

[–] MissJinx 3 points 1 year ago

We lived the sweet spot of time when internet piracy, crackable consoles and home cd burners converged