sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn’t say anything about them not being allowed, but I don’t see anybody posting any 🤷♀️
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actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don’t know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.
I am rusty and don’t have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.
Qbittorrent and https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
https://fmhy.net/ all you need right here!
People just have some random site they found on tiktok
Nice meme 👍
be me
born in 2005
used to use steam unlocked
torrent
is bisexual
the meme is partly correct i guess :3
It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.
We’re doomed to help our parents AND our kids.
cries in millennial
I hear if you torrent you get a nastygram from your ISP. Meanwhile, I hear if you find a site that offers to stream it for free, nothing bad happens. Also I hear that Yandex gives better results for such sites than Google or DDG/Bing.
If you’re in Canada those nastygrams are merely scare tactics, generally.
If only I were in Canada 😭 so free it hurts here in the US
Depends what you torrent. Torrenting exposes your IP to all the other peers.
I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that’s just a rumour.
I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.
For now they still do…
it’s slopsay
Where do i find games outside of steamrip.com and gog-games.to
inside qbittorrent’s builtin search
They’ll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
Soulseek was the best
*is
I was born after 2000, and use soulseek to this day.
Was
Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
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.
Just do it now. Only like 8 other people are using DCC, so it’s obfuscation in itself
Grab list, found what you wanted… As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
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.
Oh definitely, but wow did it suck when they went offline… You just keep those parts around unless you can find another bot to start and complete a whole other download of different sized split rars…
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack
*starts downloading hardcore goat sex*
"Ah shit, I meant 127”
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! cancel 128
*goat sex downloads even faster*
“…well, at least it’ll be educational”Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw
Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn
my favorite was the Madonna song that was just Madonna saying “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” over and over again for three minutes, and then someone made a dance remix of it and uploaded it again
I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone’s ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago
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 used to have a couple of songs where there was a skip because of an error in the CD rip, now when I listen to the song and the skip is missing I find it jarring
Same! Yes! I specifically remember one my (then) girlfriend (now wife) made like that. She made me a mix of some songs. I put them on my mp3 player so they had that slip in them on that too. Even on my first smart phone too back before I streamed music.
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
Quspicious Minds sounds like a documentary on the Qanon movement
They can’t go on together, with Quspicious minds…
i did not have sexual relations with that woman
I reinstalled Windows like every other week 😅
Can I finger your plastron?
I’ve watched so much free anime by being bisexual
It’s wrong, but also, it’s right a surprisingly good amount of the time.
Speak for urselves lul (I dk how to seed tho)
Just let the torrent keep going after you’re done
Tried that but for some reason it doesn’t seed :3
That means you either have a shit isp or a misconfigured router.
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.
PIA does
As does Proton VPN.
If you move or delete the files it would break it
Solution: use Linux and hardlinks
Yeah I could guess that, but no just sitting around it either doesn’t upload anything or uploads and absurdly small amount (less than 50mb)
If it was a popular torrent with a lot of seeders, it was probably still working but you never got selected. Could also happen when it was the opposite. If there was like three seeders and no peers, when you finish you’re just sitting there with the other folks with no one to seed to.
Probably an issue with connecting to peers or trackers. One common issue is not having the port forwarded properly at your router.
Yeah I see the same thing and I self host a seedbox that has hundreds of seeding torrents. Some torrents do get some seeding action but most never upload anything. Never figured out why but some private trackers give you points towards your up/down ratio the longer you seed so I just roll with that ¯\(ツ)/¯
I gave up on private trackers a while ago. Nothing I’ve ever been looking for was obscure enough to warrant putting up with their bullshit rules.
Only private tracker I use is MyAnonymouse, they’ve got all the books/audiobooks anyone could ever need, which I have had a really hard time finding on public trackers. Their rules are super lenient as well.
Ah, yeah that’s fair. I’m on a few but primarily use TorrentLeech which is more relaxed about things. To be honest though, torrents are my fallback anyway and most of my downloads are done via Usenet
Private trackers are the WoW raiding guilds of piracy xD
make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)
Depends on the country tho, in some countries you will not have legal issues
true true
Two things. 1. Already mentioned, you need to be connectable. Torrent client port needs opened on router admin panel. 2. You can only seed if there is another user(s) actively downloading that data. And if you’re 1 of many seeders, you’re only uploading a little bit
Theres a lot more to it but thats a good high level overview
Not to mention XDCC over IRC
I actually maintain my own xdcc download client
I don’t know if this meme is fully ironic, but kind of strange to think “torrenting” is considered the OG piracy method now.
For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.
torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.
IRC? Napster? Edonkey? Emule? Kademlia?
And, hell, before that there was that guy in class who for five bucks would burn you a CD with any game you wanted, which he probably got off usenet…
And of course for music there was the old double deck cassette copier…
(Personally the first software crack I remember was dismantling Monkey Island’s “dial a pirate” wheel so I could photocopy it to share with friends after copying the diskettes…)
I remember those copy protections. Go to page 6, line 42, word 3
Damn, I miss when games came with manuals… the anticipation when reading them while coming back home from the store…
Test Drive 3 had a pretty complicated wheel.
Your list is compromised primarily of P2P networks and a DHT?
Older methods still best methods.
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
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
Those were the times when my ISP, which was owned 100% by the city, had it’s own newsgroups server full of warez lol
I’m gonna ignore non internet based methods. Here is the evolution imo
- BBS
- Usenet & warez websites
- Server client setups (Hotline etc)
- P2P without resuming (Napster etc)
- P2P W/resume & multiple sources (Kazaa, LimeWire etc)
- Torrents
- Streaming torrents
- Usenet
Edit: I’m seeing IRC a lot, not sure where it fits in this list. Assume it’s around no 2.
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
Copying cassettes
Original method wasn’t FTP?
They can’t even eat Hot Chip? 🤯
in this economy?
They can’t even drink Driz Izzle.
I do :( unfortunately none of my peers are even close so I just tell them fmhy
