• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.

    • ilega_dh@feddit.nl
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      39 minutes ago

      More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time…

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      Duuuude. I just decided to look this up on chatgpt. I had no idea that was NOT system of a down. Sounds exactly like serj lol. I used to crank that shit. Be sure link. He come to town. Come to save! The princess Zelda!

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free

    • Nikelui@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).

    It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:

    Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject

    I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.

    I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).

    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Somewhere in my files I still have the file of a hoarse, cracked male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.

      Probably fake, but I want to believe.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

    If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

    I used to have a demonoid account and kept my seed ratio high just because that private tracker had the biggest collection of random ass music and movies you couldn’t find anywhere else. Unreleased shit and whatnot.

    • Schleppy@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.

      Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.

      I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).