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    🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

    Anon gives a piracy history lesson

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    🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago
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      2007? Anon is a sweet summer child.

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        I’ll say. I was sailing the seas back in the late '90s. By 2007, I had amassed quite a hoard of treasure.

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          Motherfucker was unborn while the rest of us were downloading Darude - Sandstorm on Napster.

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            Nah, AudioGalaxy. Or DALnet.

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              eDonkey

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              Do not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written.

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                FTPs

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          One word. Usenet

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            The first rule of Usenet is….

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

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          Add LimeWire and BearShare to the list for nostalgics.

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

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            IRC was a wild level of automated for its time too

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            Shared drives on a LAN!

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

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