LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 days agofor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1188arrow-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 · 5 days agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up152·edit-24 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-up1·4 hours 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-up58·4 days agoFucking war flashbacks happening now
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 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-up2·22 hours agoit ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
minus-squarelocuester@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-23 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-up2·4 days agoThe best I got is 200 10 meg chunks on a 512k ): part 150 something didn’t work… I was very sad.
minus-squarealmost1337@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoThis is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
minus-squareturdburglar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·4 days agooh luelinks, you are missed
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
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.
This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
oh luelinks, you are missed