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

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    16 hours ago

    Yeah not me, I keep on saying I use torrents and privatw trackers for the better quality. But really i just find it more fun.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      i know I posted the meme and all, but what’s the benefit of private trackers? is it like a search bar where you’ll find niecher stuff or is it just that it downloads quicker?
      i don’t think I’ve ever had a time where 1337 and standard qbittorrent won’t work

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Whats 1337? Never heard of it.

        I mainly torrent movies and a bit of tv. For me private trackers have by far the biggest library of high quality 4k encodes, which is what i’m after personally. And at decent speeds, public trackers often don’t have enough seeders for higher quality encodes. There is also the community ascpect which is pretty nice, and lower risk of malware or copyright trolls although I still use a vpn anyway.

        Also private trackers for movies are super easy to join. I woulf recommend FNP since I dont think you need any prior experience with private trackers, you just need to send them an email. Also they have global freeleech until chistmas!

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    251·
    1 day ago

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

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses

      also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled… in highschool

  • destiper@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    20 hours 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

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    be me

    born in 2005

    used to use steam unlocked

    torrent

    is bisexual

    the meme is partly correct i guess :3

    • TheOakTree@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      TIL those born in 2005 are 20 now.

      Well, not “learned,” but you know what I mean. I feel old :(

  • MadhuGururajan@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    24 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.

    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      21 hours 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!

    • Apocalypteroid@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      20 hours 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·
      20 hours 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.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    17·
    1 day 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.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    I am so old I remember most of the pirate stuff and did all of it. I am pissed at myself for disconnecting drives and messing up boot order, won’t boot so far. I had an old pc (still do) they were IDE drives in it. The boot drive was over one 1tb and needed special driver to break the 1tb barrier. I think it was from Acronis’ partition editor. I have at least 300gb in flac music, tons of movies (mostly yify). One day I hope to revive it if I can find an anything partition reader so I can nab it of the drives. I will make it available for everyone to grab an old slice of pirating.

  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
    94·
    2 days ago

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

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      29·
      2 days 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.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        19·
        2 days 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”

      • Kanda@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

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

        • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          23 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·
            22 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…

            • bktheman@awful.systemsEnglish
              2·
              14 hours ago

              I’ve never heard of this before. I was on IRC in the oughts, probably a bit late to see it happening. Neat.

              • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                1·
                14 hours ago

                By that point there were other options that were more popular, yeah. Xdcc as a script for ircii came out around 1995ish, maybe a bit earlier. Early 2000s would be around when mirc scripts had xdcc bots built in, so well after they first became common.

                At that point you also had Napster, kazaa, limewire, even the first bittorrent client (BitTorrent).

    • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
      18·
      2 days 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·
        1 day 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·
        2 days 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·
          1 day 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·
            1 day 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
              2·
              22 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·
          2 days 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
          32·
          2 days 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·
            2 days 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)

            • dontsayaword@piefed.socialEnglish
              16·
              2 days ago

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

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              1 day 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.

            • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
              6·
              2 days 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·
                2 days 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.

                • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
                  6·
                  2 days 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

                • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  5·
                  2 days 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.

    • HeneryHawk@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      2 days 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·
      2 days 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
        16·
        2 days 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…)

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      10·
      2 days 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

      • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        2 days 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·
          2 days 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·
          2 days ago

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

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        1 day 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

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 days 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