sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn’t say anything about them not being allowed, but I don’t see anybody posting any 🤷‍♀️

  • destiper@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    48 minutes ago

    2001 baby here with a home ubuntu server running Plex + Jellyfin, *arr suite, qbittorrent and slskd in docker, and a few TB on my favourite private trackers. I’m an outlier for sure, I don’t know anyone else my age that even knows what 1337x is

  • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    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.

    • Apocalypteroid@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      There are quite a few apps on Linux that will let you dl music from streaming sites and keep it if you have a subscription. My personal favourite is qobuz-dl. I have pretty much all of my favourite movies still from way-back-when but usually don’t downloading new ones as 1) streamio with torrentio is so effective and 2) they don’t make 'em like they used to.

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      24 minutes ago

      iptorrents, it’s a bit of a scummy private tracker but you can donate a few bucks to get in and they have pretty much everything. It’s a good first in for private trackers. Keep in mind with private trackers, you typically need to seed whatever you download for at least 14 days.

    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      The best site right now (in my lazy opinion) is

      http://1337x.to/

      qbittorrent is the best client these days. uTorrent went and did some bad stuff that I can’t remember off the top of my head.

      You should really get a VPN to keep your isp from bothering you about it. I use Private Internet Access (PIA) because it’s relatively cheap, has port forwarding, and doesn’t store any user data.

      That’s the basics. Happy sailing matey. Remember to seed to a ratio of at least 2!

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
    15·
    8 hours ago

    be me

    born in 2005

    used to use steam unlocked

    torrent

    is bisexual

    the meme is partly correct i guess :3

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    211·
    9 hours ago

    It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
    87·
    23 hours ago

    They’ll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      28·
      21 hours ago

      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.

      • Kanda@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Just do it now. Only like 8 other people are using DCC, so it’s obfuscation in itself

        • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          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.

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            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…

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        18·
        20 hours ago

        xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack #128
        *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”

    • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
      18·
      22 hours ago

      Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn

      • trendingnongamer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        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

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        21 hours ago

        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

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          10 hours 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.

          • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
            3·
            9 hours ago

            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

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              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.

        • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
          7·
          19 hours ago

          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

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          30·
          24 hours ago

          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.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8·
            24 hours ago

            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)

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              10 hours ago

              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.

            • dontsayaword@piefed.socialEnglish
              15·
              24 hours ago

              Probably an issue with connecting to peers or trackers. One common issue is not having the port forwarded properly at your router.

            • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
              6·
              24 hours ago

              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)/¯

              • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                10·
                23 hours ago

                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.

                • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  5·
                  22 hours ago

                  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.

                • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
                  6·
                  23 hours ago

                  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

    • HeneryHawk@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      23 hours ago

      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

    • J-Bone@piefed.caEnglish
      16·
      23 hours ago

      For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        15·
        22 hours ago

        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…)

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      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

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      10·
      23 hours ago

      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

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Those were the times when my ISP, which was owned 100% by the city, had it’s own newsgroups server full of warez lol

      • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        21 hours ago

        I’m gonna ignore non internet based methods. Here is the evolution imo

        1. BBS
        2. Usenet & warez websites
        3. Server client setups (Hotline etc)
        4. P2P without resuming (Napster etc)
        5. P2P W/resume & multiple sources (Kazaa, LimeWire etc)
        6. Torrents
        7. Streaming torrents
        8. Usenet

        Edit: I’m seeing IRC a lot, not sure where it fits in this list. Assume it’s around no 2.

        • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          7·
          21 hours ago

          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/

        • Beacon@fedia.io
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Great list! And according to your list I’m right. BBSes aren’t internet, and usenet is a synonym for newsgroups