LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 28 days agofor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1194arrow-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 · 28 days agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up156·edit-228 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-up1·23 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-squareCodingCarpenter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·28 days agoFucking war flashbacks happening now
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·27 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-up2·24 days agoit ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
minus-squarealmost1337@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·27 days agoThis is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
minus-squareturdburglar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·28 days agooh luelinks, you are missed
minus-squarelocuester@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-226 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-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoThe best I got is 200 10 meg chunks on a 512k ): part 150 something didn’t work… I was very sad.
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.
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”.
it ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
LimeWire has entered the chat…
This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
oh luelinks, you are missed
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?
The best I got is 200 10 meg chunks on a 512k ): part 150 something didn’t work…
I was very sad.