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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (lemmy.nz)

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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago

Piracy didn't start in 2006, before that there was likewise and Napster, and before that bootleg DVDs, and before that the MPAA spent billions lobbying to ban VHSs with a record function and get draconian punishments for recording movies.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 8 minutes ago

I was downloading episodes of Jackass back in about 2001, using I think it would have been eMule.

You'd get a 240p MPEG-1 file, and you were happy with that.

Hilariously, for people who didn't own computers that could handle playing videos from CD-Rs, as my PC's video card had composite output I used to make VHS tapes from those files. And then put the adhesive label sheet for the tape cassette through the printer.

Y'know, normal stuff.

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