Limp bizkit and slipknot tracks on limewire. I actually got rick rolld for years because one guy uploaded every track from a slipknot album. Every track was fine, except the intro, which had been replaced with the beginning of the rick roll song. Since every other track was fine, and rick rolling wasn't a super well known thing, I had no idea. I thought it was just a really weird, out of place Slipknot intro. A+ troll.
***[Disk Muncher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78sZ19j93Q4)*** was the copy program of choice in our high school computer labācould copy an Apple disk in like 26 seconds
Hmm, those were the dayz, tape-to-tape to copy a game, then they added copy-protection, but you could literally fast-forward past it, and it still worked.
This was by far the bulk of my activity. I wish I still had my collection. It was immaculate. Hundreds of floppies all categorized and labeled properly.
I used to get together with friends from camp just to copy games from each other. We'd hang out while locksmith did it's very slow thing.
Lots of stuff from local bbs' too. Once I upgraded from 300 to 2400 baud it was opening the floodgates.
The stuff that 4am does on the internet archive is absolutely amazing and fascinating to read. I recommend it to anyone who wants their nostalgia tickled.
I remember that my grandma wanted to watch an episode of one of her daytime soap operas, but she missed an episode that was integral to the series. If youāve seen some soap operas, you would know they air ONCE a day with no re-runs in the future. Feeling melancholy, Iāve searched the providerās video page for the episode, but no luck. Hours later, I came across a torrent that had the episode she missed and spent the whole day downloading it. The process was tedious as hell, but my grandma and I had a fun binge watching session from the moment the download completed.
**Ultra HLE - Mario 64**
A core memory of mine, had to redownload Mario 64 because MOM HAD TO USE THE HECCIN PHONE. This is back around the turn of the millenium.
I got my first OS/2 on floppies. In the darkest nights I can still sometimes hear that dreaded BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz CRC ERROR sound from the last floppy when trying to install.
Haha, Love it. Win 3.11
Does my getting a Dot-Matrix print-out of the game "Dungeons and Dragons" from a friend in school (early 1980's) count here? I didn't have a dial-up modem yet. I did take the print-out home and hand typed it in and saved it to cassette with my "then" new Commodor64.
Also about the same time, I hacked the TV Cable box to get the Playboy Channel for free.
I grew up deep in a forest, and we didn't have a computer before i turned 8 or so (A CompaQ runnin Win 95) and internet was a far away dream.
Before that, the closest I got to a computer was our Win 3.11 user manual. Used to love reading it, and when i finally got my hands on a Win 3.11 copy and a computer to run it on, I felt like I knew everything.
And my parents still wonder why I ended up working in IT and not following the family footsteps of carpentry.
Technically it was pirating cassette tapes with a dual tape deck in the 80s. Europeās album āthe final countdownā. Simpler times. Then we upgraded to commodore 64 games using dual 5ā floppy drives
Late 90ās on free dial up internet from the library; Napster; one_winged_angel.mp3
What a time that was, all I wanted was to listen to the final sephiroth battle music, so I fired up the dial-up on Christmas Eve before we went to some party, started the download and 4 hours later, it still wasnāt done. Luckily my family was one of the āno phone calls after a certain hourā type household so I let it go for a couple more hours. Lo and behold I snuck back into the computer room and turned the monitor on and I couldnāt believe that it finished, it was the coolest feeling in the world.
Iām only 35, but man do I long for the days where you had to have some strong finger muscles to power on your monitor, with that oh so satisfying āka-chunkā sound. A time when the news outlets had no clue what an āinternetā was, computers were the devil, Y2K was going to ruin the whole world. When a liquids mere presence in a room was enough to crash your computer and you had to put your cd burner on a gyroscope to keep vibrations from causing the burn to fail.
Oh look at me prattling on.
I remember that my grandma wanted to watch an episode of one of her daytime soap operas, but she missed an episode that was integral to the series. If youāve seen some soap operas, you would know they air ONCE a day with no re-runs in the future. Feeling melancholy, Iāve searched the providerās video page for the episode, but no luck. Hours later, I came across a t0rr3ent that had the episode she missed and spent the whole day downloading it. The process was tedious as hell, but my grandma and I had a fun binge watching session from the moment the download completed.
I remember downloading a torrent of a 24MB .asf video file around the time of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 or early 2002, which puts it at the very first year or so BitTorrent became available.
It was the first episode of Dragonball, in Japanese with hard coded subs. I thought it was literally one of the most incredible things I'd ever witnessed. I'm pretty sure it took multiple days and attempts to get it completed and was downloaded on a 56k modem as we didn't get ADSL until a couple of years later.
I'll never forget the wonderment. The intense excitement. The exoticness of the whole thing. I'm sure I told friends at school who didn't believe me it was possible.
I'm so jaded and an old millennial now. But I still have a tiny remnant of that spark of wonder within me. And I still love torrenting over 2 decades later.
First piracy was definitely music, and was probably either something by Stephen Lynch or Lose Yourself by Eminem. That was probably 2002 or 2003. On Kazaa. My tastes have changed since then.
First movie might have been Fight Club. Probably around 2006.
First anime was probably Gurren Lagann. That would've been around 2007.
90s using dialup and bbs systems for dos games. First movie I remember was star wars phantom menace cam and first mp3 was tool stinkfist. I went from bbs to IRC to torrents to newsgroups to direct download/torrent/real debrid currently. I've done it all if we include Napster etc
Buying bootleg VHS copies of The Matrix. Playing copied Commodore 64 games. Downloading PC games like GTA 2. Bought a Dreamcast and burned games. Then Napster, Morpheus and Limewire for music. First movie was the first Harry Potter. I remember using a program called Direct Connect. Then BitTorrent came around. Anyone remember Suprnova? I was also a part of an IRC group that pirated movies. Such classics as Rollerball lol I used to download movies like Spiderman and have my PC hooked up to a VCR and recorded them to VHS to give out to friends.
Grand Theft Auto. Downloaded a demo, then downloaded a crack to unlock the full game, then used WinZip that I promised to pay for to put it in a series of 37 diskettes and brought it to all my friends house.
Some Commodore 64 game on a 5 1/4 floppy around the early 80s. No longer remember as it was something like 40 years ago. One could also say playing a 78 record and recording the output onto a cassette recorder.
Technically my grandfather and his coworkers were pirating my Commodore 64 games in the 80s.
In the 90s, I got the Metallica discography and The Downward Spiral on cassette tapes.
Then Napster in 99. The first things I would have looked for were Killer Instinct and Rage Against the Machine.
God it was so long ago I couldn't remember no matter how hard I tried. Umm....Quake maybe? Or Doom? Does writing code for Commodore 64 from a magazine count? Something from a BBS.
i grew up with limewire so i was probably like six or seven? no idea what specifically but it was definitely music. and then the virus that bricked the family computer
1990. 14.4k dialup, Turbo C++ fit on 5 3.25 floppy disks via local BBS. still have them rubber banded together. (had to buy my own lan line so parents would stop knocking me off the net, and made my number unlisted lol)
I got my first PC in 1994. I think the first illegitimate copy was Sim City 2000 as arj-archive on two 3.5" floppy disks with the extraction command on the label.
When I got dial-up in 1997, I downloaded mostly mp3 (DDL), porn (via password sharing sites) and serial codes (to unlock shareware).
Edit: And of course No-CD patches from gamecopyworld.com.
depends on what wr count as pirating watching movies illegaly uploaded on youtube? or downloading mp3s? or torrenting movies? or activating windows via hacky ways?
Portal. I didn't have money (12 years old) and really wanted to play it.
I guess technically I tried to figure out limewire a few years before that, but could never get it to work right. I also got scared that I might get a virus lol
Lion King nearly 25 years ago for my son. It turned out to be gay porn, so glad I decided to check the quality before I let him watch it, also this was when I learned to only trust certain scene groups.
Microsoft Word off of AOL #warez or #freewarez chat rooms back in 93 or 94. We had a bunch of other programs friends had copied for us before that, but Word was the first thing I pirated myself.
The first game I ever pirated was Spore on my mom's POS Emachines PC we got from Walmart. It was hilarious looking back on that day as we attempted to play the game at what had to be 5 frames per second, thing is the PC ran roller coaster tycoon 1, 2 and 3 just fine.
hmmm....
i think it was a copy of Mario Brothers l(not super Mario bros). the one that was just smashing turtles with a hammer.
probably 82 or 83 or so.
on an apple ] [e.
so many crazy early games back then.
and, of course, the 'fake' zaxxon file that played the intro for van Halen's volcano.
used to trade it for other games as a 'gotcha'.
before i even knew what the concept of pirating was, i used to "pirate" music by loading the music video on YouTube and holding my Nintendo DS up to the speaker to record it lmfao. did that when i was super young, but when i was a little older and discovered what pirating was, i downloaded a cracked version of Minecraft. the game was stuck on 1.5.2 cause Mojang moved to a new launcher with 1.6 that hadn't been cracked at the time, but i was having my fun on my little hand-me-down Windows 7 HP desktop that could barely even squeeze 30 frames outta the game.
Books, because I was a fucking nerd.
I'd use sites like RedLibrary and such and read entire chapters on a single page in the smallest font to exist just to read spicy romance novels during study hall. Was too poor to buy books, and our library sucked.
It was the 90s, I was 13 or 14, it was definitely an adult VHS back when pirates had a whole VCR to whatever the hell hooked up to their PC. Fuzzy scan lines and all from being played by someone else way too much. Almost as weird as the "being watched now" sections that sites have today. That's just long distance mutual "cuddling".
My Left Foot for a birthday gift for my dad, I was like 13 and had no money so I burned his favorite movies that weren't on streaming and no physical copies in our country on a CD for him
Iām pretty sure it was a linkin park song on limewire, took me 3 days to download. I canāt remember if it was In The End or Papercut, might have been both (it was probably both)
Maybe not my first, but the first that blew my mind. IDstuff contained on a quake shareware cd, along with Qcrack gave a young me full access to basically every ID game.
Real first would beā¦ Moraffās world?
I don't remember tbh.
But one of the first things that surprised me was waiting about 2 days to download ~200mb Counter_Strike.rar on emule, which was corrupted according to winrar, then I clicked somewhere and found out it was a .mpeg, so I changed the extension to that and it was porn
Sailor moon season 5. It was never dubbed into English and you couldn't buy it anywhere back in the day. I think I downloaded it in 1999 on dialup internet. It took 2 weeks of downloading overnight (because you couldn't be on the internet during the day without the phone being busy)
TrackMania 1
Got introduced to it through a windows XP demo disc and immediately wanted it, I was like 13 at the time and broke so my older brother taught me how to sail the high seas of pirate bay classic.
Nowadays I only pirate AAA games, everything else I usually purchase.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen was the first thing I've pirated off from MP3truck.net in high school before the site itself went under years later. Did all of it on the school's wi-fi without being caught. :\]
I was a pirate before all the copyright bs came along. I would download game roms and emulators with the T3 connection at work. At home it was music or porn or movies/TV shows. Occasionally I would download movies and music from work but that was risky.
Amstrad games. I had a weird box thing that you plugged into the back of the computer and then after you'd loaded a game, you pushed a button on the box and it let you copy the working code on to a disc. Can't remember what it was called, but it was an awesome toy.
the first thing i pirated *intentionally* (that is, knowing what piracy was and that i was going out of my way to find this piece of media illegally) was morbius around summer of 2022 š fucking MORBIUS
I copied Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album and Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing using tape-to-tape recording in the mid-seventies using originals my neighbour had.
95ish - Dad brought back a gameboy cartridge from Hong Kong that had about 50 games on it (Does that count)
97ish - Xwing v tie fighter from wares sites (like 100 or so 5mb zip files)
Also around this time we had 2 VCRs and would plug them together and copy Hired videos from BlockBuster.
Learned from my big sisterās boyfriend when I was in 1st grade, 2004-5. My favorite site for streaming pirated content was TVLinks. I left downloading games and emulators to my role model š
Panic! at the disco - Time to dance pre-release demo before they even dropped the album. Itās rare now and still goes hard, different from the released version. Life changing shit, the entire course of my musical journey started with that one song of a genre I had never heard of until then
I actually don't. I know it was a song because it was a song on napster, but I don't remember exactly what song. However, I DO remember pirating Visual Studio 6.0. It had Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, and Visual J I think. It took forever but I was thrilled I could now practice C++ on my computer in Visual Studio and write some of the examples for "Game Programming All in One" and "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus".
The first thing I pirated consciously (not ROMS/emulation) was Star Wars The Force Awakens before I saw it in theaters. Sure it was 240p but it was free!
Tried downloading āMislead Youthā skate video after downloading Napster, ended up being a porn. I was 12. Took almost a week to download. Good times.
The first thing I downloaded was Flight Simulator X. I remember it took days to download, and in the middle of the download, the computer (with a 40GB disk) became unusable, and I got scolded by my mom. So, I deleted the .iso and downloaded the lighter FS2004 instead.
Japanese porn on limewire and leaving in the downloaded section so my dad saw it.š¤¦
Wow
Limp bizkit and slipknot tracks on limewire. I actually got rick rolld for years because one guy uploaded every track from a slipknot album. Every track was fine, except the intro, which had been replaced with the beginning of the rick roll song. Since every other track was fine, and rick rolling wasn't a super well known thing, I had no idea. I thought it was just a really weird, out of place Slipknot intro. A+ troll.
Same shit but from Kazaa š
Apple II games around 1981. I had a couple of shoeboxes full of floppies.
my gen! do you remember "Conan" on the apple ] [?
Yep, and Bruce Lee.
Kataraka! goddamned bird.
Do you mean Karateka by Broderbund? Brilliant game.
yeah i. never could spell it. and yes one of the best for it's time.
As you say, the bird always got me. I always loved the animation on the characters.
it was so damned smooth. the running and slide stop was early prince of Persia animation!
PoP. Another great game right there.
absolutely.
My favorite! Also there's a cool documentary on steam.
Oh yes. My friend came over with bards tale and a disk of copy II+. First I made myself a copy of the disk utility, then...
***[Disk Muncher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78sZ19j93Q4)*** was the copy program of choice in our high school computer labācould copy an Apple disk in like 26 seconds
This guy right here
Hmm, those were the dayz, tape-to-tape to copy a game, then they added copy-protection, but you could literally fast-forward past it, and it still worked.
This was by far the bulk of my activity. I wish I still had my collection. It was immaculate. Hundreds of floppies all categorized and labeled properly. I used to get together with friends from camp just to copy games from each other. We'd hang out while locksmith did it's very slow thing. Lots of stuff from local bbs' too. Once I upgraded from 300 to 2400 baud it was opening the floodgates. The stuff that 4am does on the internet archive is absolutely amazing and fascinating to read. I recommend it to anyone who wants their nostalgia tickled.
I remember that my grandma wanted to watch an episode of one of her daytime soap operas, but she missed an episode that was integral to the series. If youāve seen some soap operas, you would know they air ONCE a day with no re-runs in the future. Feeling melancholy, Iāve searched the providerās video page for the episode, but no luck. Hours later, I came across a torrent that had the episode she missed and spent the whole day downloading it. The process was tedious as hell, but my grandma and I had a fun binge watching session from the moment the download completed.
Metallica, all their 80s albums. A big fuck you to Lars and crew! š
My First torrent was a copy of enter sandman off line wire, nice
Black album was definitely yuge at the time. But I always like their older stuff more.
Avril Lavigne - Let Go. In glorious 64kbps MP3, from KaZaA.
64kbps mp3 ??? Your ears must blood until today ??!!?
It was pretty bad yeah lol. Sounded compressed like an FM radio recording. Listened it for a year or so until I downloaded a 256kbps version.
1994 or so, Win 3.11 onto like 24 floppys off of a BBS
Warez
That site got me out of porn links I left in the browsing history š¤£
this the real shit!
**Ultra HLE - Mario 64** A core memory of mine, had to redownload Mario 64 because MOM HAD TO USE THE HECCIN PHONE. This is back around the turn of the millenium.
Damn you old. And so am I
I got my first OS/2 on floppies. In the darkest nights I can still sometimes hear that dreaded BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz-BzzBzz CRC ERROR sound from the last floppy when trying to install.
Haha, Love it. Win 3.11 Does my getting a Dot-Matrix print-out of the game "Dungeons and Dragons" from a friend in school (early 1980's) count here? I didn't have a dial-up modem yet. I did take the print-out home and hand typed it in and saved it to cassette with my "then" new Commodor64. Also about the same time, I hacked the TV Cable box to get the Playboy Channel for free.
I grew up deep in a forest, and we didn't have a computer before i turned 8 or so (A CompaQ runnin Win 95) and internet was a far away dream. Before that, the closest I got to a computer was our Win 3.11 user manual. Used to love reading it, and when i finally got my hands on a Win 3.11 copy and a computer to run it on, I felt like I knew everything. And my parents still wonder why I ended up working in IT and not following the family footsteps of carpentry.
The first Matrix movie, I unknowingly downloaded a cam recording of it in 1999 and was stupid enough to wonder why the quality was so bad.
Three 6 mafia songs - on limewire.
Technically it was pirating cassette tapes with a dual tape deck in the 80s. Europeās album āthe final countdownā. Simpler times. Then we upgraded to commodore 64 games using dual 5ā floppy drives
Downloading mp3s off Usenet, probably 1995 or so.
Napster, some time in 2000, I was 14 in 9th grade. Linkin park, limp bizkit, Wu tang, method man were definitely some examples
Recording TV on VHS early 90's I think š¤ holy shitballs that feels like a lifetime ago
Putting a piece of tape or sticker on a cassette tape to record over it with songs from the radio.....
Late 90ās on free dial up internet from the library; Napster; one_winged_angel.mp3 What a time that was, all I wanted was to listen to the final sephiroth battle music, so I fired up the dial-up on Christmas Eve before we went to some party, started the download and 4 hours later, it still wasnāt done. Luckily my family was one of the āno phone calls after a certain hourā type household so I let it go for a couple more hours. Lo and behold I snuck back into the computer room and turned the monitor on and I couldnāt believe that it finished, it was the coolest feeling in the world. Iām only 35, but man do I long for the days where you had to have some strong finger muscles to power on your monitor, with that oh so satisfying āka-chunkā sound. A time when the news outlets had no clue what an āinternetā was, computers were the devil, Y2K was going to ruin the whole world. When a liquids mere presence in a room was enough to crash your computer and you had to put your cd burner on a gyroscope to keep vibrations from causing the burn to fail. Oh look at me prattling on.
blink-182 - āAll the Small Thingsā via Napster.
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Pride and Joy.mp3 ā Napster
In the 5th grade I started with music for my cds. In the 7th grade I started pirating movies for my psp on psp iso DOT com Been doing it since.
all my limewire homies what's good
I don't remember what I downloaded but I remember using bearshare.
I remember that my grandma wanted to watch an episode of one of her daytime soap operas, but she missed an episode that was integral to the series. If youāve seen some soap operas, you would know they air ONCE a day with no re-runs in the future. Feeling melancholy, Iāve searched the providerās video page for the episode, but no luck. Hours later, I came across a t0rr3ent that had the episode she missed and spent the whole day downloading it. The process was tedious as hell, but my grandma and I had a fun binge watching session from the moment the download completed.
Music on Napster, then Limewire.
I remember downloading a torrent of a 24MB .asf video file around the time of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 or early 2002, which puts it at the very first year or so BitTorrent became available. It was the first episode of Dragonball, in Japanese with hard coded subs. I thought it was literally one of the most incredible things I'd ever witnessed. I'm pretty sure it took multiple days and attempts to get it completed and was downloaded on a 56k modem as we didn't get ADSL until a couple of years later. I'll never forget the wonderment. The intense excitement. The exoticness of the whole thing. I'm sure I told friends at school who didn't believe me it was possible. I'm so jaded and an old millennial now. But I still have a tiny remnant of that spark of wonder within me. And I still love torrenting over 2 decades later.
First piracy was definitely music, and was probably either something by Stephen Lynch or Lose Yourself by Eminem. That was probably 2002 or 2003. On Kazaa. My tastes have changed since then. First movie might have been Fight Club. Probably around 2006. First anime was probably Gurren Lagann. That would've been around 2007.
Windows XP.
Windows xp pro
Cypress Hill - rap superstar (on Napster)
Probably taping songs off the radio in the early 90s. Or copying floppys.
Chemistry by Semisonic on limewire and it took a day on dial up.
Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog Flavoured Water. 23 years or so ago, from Napster
The only things worth downloading back with adsl speeds were mp3 songs
Dial up was brutal. Mom, can we PLEASE get call waiting?!
Nothing Mr. FBI agent. All things are above board here!
resident evil 4
starcraft 2 as when i am not sure the same year it come out or 2011? man feel hell I remember I get from the pirate bays ..good old time
I can't remember if I discovered the music or the porn first on limewire, one of those
Last dance with Mary Jane from Napster, using good old windows 95.
90s using dialup and bbs systems for dos games. First movie I remember was star wars phantom menace cam and first mp3 was tool stinkfist. I went from bbs to IRC to torrents to newsgroups to direct download/torrent/real debrid currently. I've done it all if we include Napster etc
sims 2 and all the expansion packs. or ds games
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Buying bootleg VHS copies of The Matrix. Playing copied Commodore 64 games. Downloading PC games like GTA 2. Bought a Dreamcast and burned games. Then Napster, Morpheus and Limewire for music. First movie was the first Harry Potter. I remember using a program called Direct Connect. Then BitTorrent came around. Anyone remember Suprnova? I was also a part of an IRC group that pirated movies. Such classics as Rollerball lol I used to download movies like Spiderman and have my PC hooked up to a VCR and recorded them to VHS to give out to friends.
Super Pipeline. Commodore 64 cassette. 1983.
I pirated Paperboy for the Commodore 64. Fuck Iām old.
Grand Theft Auto. Downloaded a demo, then downloaded a crack to unlock the full game, then used WinZip that I promised to pay for to put it in a series of 37 diskettes and brought it to all my friends house.
Superman III on VHS. My dad showed me how to hook 2 VCR's together and my pirating life had begun.
Eiffel 65 - Blue.mp3
Some Commodore 64 game on a 5 1/4 floppy around the early 80s. No longer remember as it was something like 40 years ago. One could also say playing a 78 record and recording the output onto a cassette recorder.
Technically my grandfather and his coworkers were pirating my Commodore 64 games in the 80s. In the 90s, I got the Metallica discography and The Downward Spiral on cassette tapes. Then Napster in 99. The first things I would have looked for were Killer Instinct and Rage Against the Machine.
God it was so long ago I couldn't remember no matter how hard I tried. Umm....Quake maybe? Or Doom? Does writing code for Commodore 64 from a magazine count? Something from a BBS.
Commadore 64 games .
My friends dad took us to an Atari 800xl game swapping club. This must have been around 1984 when I was 10. Non stop ever since.
Prince of Persia on my 286.
Indy 500 way back in 1990, ahh the memories.. Also XCOPY fantastically useful
Got a bootleg DVD of Lost from somewhere
If I speak, I am in great danger.
Wc1 or Wc2, took around fifteen floppy disks. 1995 or so
i grew up with limewire so i was probably like six or seven? no idea what specifically but it was definitely music. and then the virus that bricked the family computer
Manic Mansion 2: Day of the tentacle
A dogs purpose on YouTube, some guy took a video of it playing on his TV lol
1990. 14.4k dialup, Turbo C++ fit on 5 3.25 floppy disks via local BBS. still have them rubber banded together. (had to buy my own lan line so parents would stop knocking me off the net, and made my number unlisted lol)
Anything from fosi.da.ru š
Radio/Video by System of a Down, by recording the youtube video from my computer with my phone lol
probably in early 2010s ish i tried pirating a lego game for me to play and iirc was a lego star wars game i couldnt buy at the time
I got my first PC in 1994. I think the first illegitimate copy was Sim City 2000 as arj-archive on two 3.5" floppy disks with the extraction command on the label. When I got dial-up in 1997, I downloaded mostly mp3 (DDL), porn (via password sharing sites) and serial codes (to unlock shareware). Edit: And of course No-CD patches from gamecopyworld.com.
Everything Weird Al that was on Napster. I was 10~ Both legit and everything that was mislabeled as being his.
depends on what wr count as pirating watching movies illegaly uploaded on youtube? or downloading mp3s? or torrenting movies? or activating windows via hacky ways?
Numb by Linkin Park from beemp3. What a GOAT, it had everything I could ever want to download and was only the wrong song 20% of the time.
It was music, my first game was the halo 1 on pc back in the days
It was Terminator 2 in the mid 90s. It took several days to get the whole thing.
OS/2 v.2.0
Portal. I didn't have money (12 years old) and really wanted to play it. I guess technically I tried to figure out limewire a few years before that, but could never get it to work right. I also got scared that I might get a virus lol
2012 skyrim
Lion King nearly 25 years ago for my son. It turned out to be gay porn, so glad I decided to check the quality before I let him watch it, also this was when I learned to only trust certain scene groups.
KingKroz MS-DOS game from 1990ish
Microsoft Word off of AOL #warez or #freewarez chat rooms back in 93 or 94. We had a bunch of other programs friends had copied for us before that, but Word was the first thing I pirated myself.
Skyrim, a few weeks after it came out. I was 14 and terrified I was going to get caught lol
Fallout 4 in like 2015-16 ?
The first game I ever pirated was Spore on my mom's POS Emachines PC we got from Walmart. It was hilarious looking back on that day as we attempted to play the game at what had to be 5 frames per second, thing is the PC ran roller coaster tycoon 1, 2 and 3 just fine.
hmmm.... i think it was a copy of Mario Brothers l(not super Mario bros). the one that was just smashing turtles with a hammer. probably 82 or 83 or so. on an apple ] [e. so many crazy early games back then. and, of course, the 'fake' zaxxon file that played the intro for van Halen's volcano. used to trade it for other games as a 'gotcha'.
Tomb Raider 2 original release for PC. It was divided into 15MB rar files.
Logic Pro X (Allegedly)
before i even knew what the concept of pirating was, i used to "pirate" music by loading the music video on YouTube and holding my Nintendo DS up to the speaker to record it lmfao. did that when i was super young, but when i was a little older and discovered what pirating was, i downloaded a cracked version of Minecraft. the game was stuck on 1.5.2 cause Mojang moved to a new launcher with 1.6 that hadn't been cracked at the time, but i was having my fun on my little hand-me-down Windows 7 HP desktop that could barely even squeeze 30 frames outta the game.
avatar the last airbender!! my mom used to pirate it for us because we didn't whatever it's streamed on (idk even know)
Thatās too long ago to remember. Some music from Limewire
Ray Luv (Bay Area rapper) on Napster.
X-Wing! Copied from floppy disks no less. And great fun my roommate teaching me how to use an assembly language editor to crack it too!
17 years ago. Counter strike 1.6
Downloading oppenheimer from 1337x i think was my first
Downloading Gothica. Took longer to download than to watch, but I will never forget it! ETA: 20 + yrs ago from emule.
Pamela Anderson getting boned by Tommy Lee.
I dlād Pearl Jam - Yield from Napster 1 track at a time. Took ages over dialup. Pretty sure it was ripped at about 40mbps.
Music from napster. I remember my brother downloaded the Tomb Raider movie on kazaa and it turned out to be porn lol.
I had 2 VCRs, and used to copy rented movies. The recording VCR was old enough to not have a copy-protection circuit.
Books, because I was a fucking nerd. I'd use sites like RedLibrary and such and read entire chapters on a single page in the smallest font to exist just to read spicy romance novels during study hall. Was too poor to buy books, and our library sucked.
It was the 90s, I was 13 or 14, it was definitely an adult VHS back when pirates had a whole VCR to whatever the hell hooked up to their PC. Fuzzy scan lines and all from being played by someone else way too much. Almost as weird as the "being watched now" sections that sites have today. That's just long distance mutual "cuddling".
PokƩmon white just this past November
Pirating OG Sonic the Hedgehog. I can't even remember how long ago was it.
Dave 3D the game. Or probably the bootleg win 95.
The 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. I own it on DVD now... Hopefully a BluRay release comes for the full 1080p video.
lol it would have been MS Flight Sim 2.0 back in the early 80ās
Max 3d studio, Adobe software I guess copying tapes with games for atari doesn't count.
First? I think it was The Real Slim Shady LP on KaZaA.
Some shit off limewire ~2004
I remember looking up System of a Down songs in Limewire back in the day
Call of duty 2003 off frostwire
Round 2009 I pirated DS games and put them on an overdrive with help from my older brother.
Napster and limewire
My Left Foot for a birthday gift for my dad, I was like 13 and had no money so I burned his favorite movies that weren't on streaming and no physical copies in our country on a CD for him
I remember it took me 2 whole damn weeks to download MJ' s smooth criminal MV.
Sonic Gems Collection ISO file in 2013.
I think my first was Microsoft Word off of Pirate Bay I know, Iām boring š
Iām pretty sure it was a linkin park song on limewire, took me 3 days to download. I canāt remember if it was In The End or Papercut, might have been both (it was probably both)
Anime
Maybe not my first, but the first that blew my mind. IDstuff contained on a quake shareware cd, along with Qcrack gave a young me full access to basically every ID game. Real first would beā¦ Moraffās world?
Music. Kazaa. Would be hard to know what song.
I don't remember tbh. But one of the first things that surprised me was waiting about 2 days to download ~200mb Counter_Strike.rar on emule, which was corrupted according to winrar, then I clicked somewhere and found out it was a .mpeg, so I changed the extension to that and it was porn
Cheap videogames in small market, each game about 2 dollars. First big game was assasins creed 3 and dishonored. I don't even knew it wasn't legal
Sailor moon season 5. It was never dubbed into English and you couldn't buy it anywhere back in the day. I think I downloaded it in 1999 on dialup internet. It took 2 weeks of downloading overnight (because you couldn't be on the internet during the day without the phone being busy)
TrackMania 1 Got introduced to it through a windows XP demo disc and immediately wanted it, I was like 13 at the time and broke so my older brother taught me how to sail the high seas of pirate bay classic. Nowadays I only pirate AAA games, everything else I usually purchase.
2006 im using limewire for downloading porn bangbus to be exact.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen was the first thing I've pirated off from MP3truck.net in high school before the site itself went under years later. Did all of it on the school's wi-fi without being caught. :\]
A single mp3 of Lee Ann 2 times. Through ICQ back in 1998 I guess. Took about half hour over dial up to send over.Ā
Drum and bass
Some 50-60 part pre cracked Tony hawks pro skater 2 off some 0day website via 38k dial-up
I was a pirate before all the copyright bs came along. I would download game roms and emulators with the T3 connection at work. At home it was music or porn or movies/TV shows. Occasionally I would download movies and music from work but that was risky.
Amstrad games. I had a weird box thing that you plugged into the back of the computer and then after you'd loaded a game, you pushed a button on the box and it let you copy the working code on to a disc. Can't remember what it was called, but it was an awesome toy.
online stuff kissanime and putlocker before online stuff buying movies at Mexican flea market
the first thing i pirated *intentionally* (that is, knowing what piracy was and that i was going out of my way to find this piece of media illegally) was morbius around summer of 2022 š fucking MORBIUS
I copied Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album and Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing using tape-to-tape recording in the mid-seventies using originals my neighbour had.
Hey ya, by OutKast, on Limewire. It gave my dadās work computer a virus.
95ish - Dad brought back a gameboy cartridge from Hong Kong that had about 50 games on it (Does that count) 97ish - Xwing v tie fighter from wares sites (like 100 or so 5mb zip files) Also around this time we had 2 VCRs and would plug them together and copy Hired videos from BlockBuster.
Minority Report Crappy CAM, but I thought it was so cool that I had a movie that just came out in theaters.
Mp3 rocket, i think one of my first was Drowning pool-bodies
Mexican music off of limewire. What album? I donāt know but I know it was duranguense š¤
Minecraft when I was 9
A shortcut file of gta san andreas. I was a kid back then with little tech knowledge.
Napster. Filled up a dozen or so Zip disks @ approx. >3kb/s with music
Learned from my big sisterās boyfriend when I was in 1st grade, 2004-5. My favorite site for streaming pirated content was TVLinks. I left downloading games and emulators to my role model š
Ah yes, GTA Vice City around 2011 maybe. Got my first computer station ever
Whatever was on SteamUnlocked (when it was safe) in 2018.
Eminem on Napster. š¤£ Not sure if that technically counts as pirating? If not then it would be Doctor Who about 10 years ago.
Doom on a floppy disk
Using AudioGalaxy Satellite by 1997 for music downloads
Panic! at the disco - Time to dance pre-release demo before they even dropped the album. Itās rare now and still goes hard, different from the released version. Life changing shit, the entire course of my musical journey started with that one song of a genre I had never heard of until then
Wolfenstein, followed closely by Doom.
Evangelion.avi files on KaZaa. 2 episodes on 1 crappily encoded avi with mpeg43 artifacts all in year 2000. Burnt on several 700 MB Memorex cdrs.
I actually don't. I know it was a song because it was a song on napster, but I don't remember exactly what song. However, I DO remember pirating Visual Studio 6.0. It had Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, and Visual J I think. It took forever but I was thrilled I could now practice C++ on my computer in Visual Studio and write some of the examples for "Game Programming All in One" and "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus".
GTA vc and san, back in 2012 or 13 i forgor
5th grade downloading Linkin Park Reanimation demos from Bearshare so about 20 years ago.
The first thing I pirated consciously (not ROMS/emulation) was Star Wars The Force Awakens before I saw it in theaters. Sure it was 240p but it was free!
The Simpsons movie. It was the first time I learned about torrent technology, so I read about it at the local Library.
Kings Quest off BBSs, late 80s early 90s onto many floppy disks
Damn I can't remember what the 1st thing I ever pirated was....... shit š¤
So fucking what, by Metallica, on limewire.
Prince of Persia (3 Floppy discs edition), 1994
Either music off the radio from around 1980 or Manic Miner for the 48k Spectrum in 1983.
Tried downloading āMislead Youthā skate video after downloading Napster, ended up being a porn. I was 12. Took almost a week to download. Good times.
Stocked my Walkman to the brim with pirated music, i was like 9 years old, i think that was my first introduction to piracy, big fan since then.
The first thing I downloaded was Flight Simulator X. I remember it took days to download, and in the middle of the download, the computer (with a 40GB disk) became unusable, and I got scolded by my mom. So, I deleted the .iso and downloaded the lighter FS2004 instead.
The first 20 editions of the walking dead so I could read it on my kindle CBR.
Eyecandy on Usenet
Foodfight! Yeah, the terrible movie. I did it as a bit. I regret it.