LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 months agofor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square65linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up157·2 months agoWhat, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
minus-squareCodingCarpenter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·2 months agoFucking war flashbacks happening now
minus-squarenova_ad_vitum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months 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-up1·1 month agoit ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
minus-squarelocuester@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-21 month 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-up2·2 months agoThe best I got is 200 10 meg chunks on a 512k ): part 150 something didn’t work… I was very sad.
minus-squareturdburglar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agooh luelinks, you are missed
minus-squarealmost1337@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThis is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
minus-squareKissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.
What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
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
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.
oh luelinks, you are missed
This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case 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.