LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 7 days agofor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1imagefor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlLiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-26 days agoWhat, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
minus-squareKissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThere are good file hosters, not only bad. You can see gofile in the screenshot, where you can download full-sized files at full speed.
minus-squarelocuester@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 days agoWhat, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?
minus-squareCodingCarpenter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoFucking war flashbacks happening now
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoWhen gen Z asks about this the only response we can give is “you don’t know man, you werent there”.
minus-squarecheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoit ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
minus-squarealmost1337@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThis is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
There are good file hosters, not only bad. You can see gofile in the screenshot, where you can download full-sized files at full speed.
What, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?
Fucking war flashbacks happening now
When gen Z asks about this the only response we can give is “you don’t know man, you werent there”.
LimeWire has entered the chat…
it ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken