This topic is probably unwise, but hey I won't stop anyone from contributing if they want to.
i figured, apologies for that. how do you delete a thread again or is that only possible for moderators/admins?
You should be able to delete your own thread by clicking the gear/settings button I believe. I'd do it for you if you want but I only have mod abilities in the main subforum. I could just report the thread and when it asks for a reason I could just write "op wants to delete it"
i figured, apologies for that. how do you delete a thread again or is that only possible for moderators/admins?
You should be able to delete your own thread by clicking the gear/settings button I believe. I'd do it for you if you want but I only have mod abilities in the main subforum. I could just report the thread and when it asks for a reason I could just write "op wants to delete it"
the gear options only seems to work on just the post and the not the thread itself. can you please do it for me? that would be great. thank you
I didn't grow up with cable so I first learned how to pirate Pokemon when I was about 7 probably. I probably gave the family computer a lot of viruses with that. Although I didn't really start to pirate cartoons until I was closer to 12 and found better sites to do it with.
I also learned how to pirate ROMs early on because I wanted to play Pokemon Yellow and couldn't find a physical copy. That was also where my love of glitch Pokemon came from because it was really convenient to do it with ROMs.
Post by pixelatedharmony on Jan 28, 2022 19:00:39 GMT
Earthbound ROM when I was 6. The game was still new enough for this to probably be a prosecutable crime? You could still buy a super nintendo in the store.
Post by forlornjackalope on Jan 29, 2022 18:59:55 GMT
Oh, now you have me flexing my brain noodles here trying to remember.
I'm fairly certain it was music on Limewire in the early 2000s, like the Winamp days. I remember that specifically because I unknowingly had one or two Flyleaf demos and I never noticed until years later when it didn't match up with the album version. After that, it was stuff from the Jackass / CKY days and the first season of Family Guy.
I believe the first time I pirated anything was when I wanted to burn a CD for my mom, and my brother suggested I download LimeWire to get the songs for free. Yeesh, that was so long ago. After LimeWire was over and done with, I started using some website that I think was called Derpy to rip audio off of Youtube, but I haven't heard anybody mention that site in years.
Post by extremewreck2000 on Feb 21, 2022 22:41:28 GMT
No idea really, but here are my best guesses. I used to have a bootleg DVD of the insanely messed up(in terms of the movie itself, not the quality of the DVD, though I have seen some really bad quality bootlegs before)Bee Movie as a kid that had what might've been the Russian title at the beginning for whatever reason, which presumably meant it was recorded in some Russian theatre of sorts. It also didn't show the credits. When the movie ended, the audio would just cut off a bit & then a tiny little bit of Russian credits show up, presumably saying "END" in Russian... or maybe the text was in another language that used similar letters to Russian. However though, despite the text being in another language, the movie itself was still in English.
Same for the Cars 2 bootleg DVD I had as well. I also had a bootleg DVD with episodes of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it, which was copied from an official Lionsgate DVD of sorts. There was also a couple of bootleg DVDs that had multiple movies on it, some of which I have never heard of again for sometime. The Home one included some weird uncanny valley CGI movie about the 7 dwarfs that was about the prince being captured for reasons I cannot remember & him saying that he tastes bad, or something like that. There was also the first in what was 3 CGI Maya the Bee movies from France on it & it was... okay I guess, though in hindsight, at least that movie didn't have as many creepy implications as Bee Movie did & actually had a more interesting take on the insides of a beehive. Yellowbird was perhaps the best movie on the entire disc honestly mainly thanks to its memorable moments, great CGI & having better songs than most other modern music out there. I believe a TVTropes page on that movie is out there, & if you ever find it in good quality, I would suggest watching it. May not be incredible, but it was pretty good. Certainly better than the below average Home.
As for video games, well I had a Power Kracker. Yes, the one that Jontron showcased. Eventually I got one of those bootleg 500 in 1 NES plug-n-plays which had like, over 100 Nice Code games on it alongside several other NES games, licensed or unlicensed.
I kind of wonder if any of you guys had those "multiple movie" bootleg DVDs as well. It would be very interesting to see what very obscure movies appear on those DVDs.
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I am not quite sure but my best guess was downloading a MP3. I don't know when it was but it was using 56k dialup and the 3-5MB file took just over an hour hour to download. The length of time it took to download didn't really seem worth it. I don't remember what the music was though.
This topic is probably unwise, but hey I won't stop anyone from contributing if they want to.
"unwise" not to be mean here, isn't piracy the reason some of this stuff has been preserved in the 1st place? If the owners aren't gonna crap about it & they're not willing to release it anytime soon, then you're going to have to leave it to the pirates to do the work.
Heck, emulation in general involves getting a copy of something & getting its ROM dumped, eventually working on emulating it time & time again in order to get it to work perfectly on emulators. You're downloading a ROM instead of the actual game because the emulation team actually gives a crap about these games being preserved meanwhile the actual owners just don't care about preserving such media.
Like seriously, without piracy being a thing, the Nosferatu movie would be lost forever, Metallica would've been nothing more than a cult classic metal band, California Raisins: The Grape Escape wouldn't have been dumped at all, etc., etc.
In other words, what I'm saying is, while it is a bit taboo to ask such a question really, it's not an unwise question to ask since this is on a forum site mainly about lost media, which in turn was made as some sort of expansion to a wiki about lost media.
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I agree with everything you just said. Thats why I take the position that if you want to be the person to take a public stand and potentially "die on that hill" so to speak, by all means go for it. I will not stop anybody, but just understand the gravity of what you're doing.
Post by stintergalactic on Mar 3, 2022 15:58:26 GMT
The first thing I pirated was Vanilla Ice's album Mind Blowin'. It wasn't a very popular album, so it was hard to come across in the 90s. But there was a Vanilla Ice fan page that had all the album tracks hosted on their site as Real Player streams. So, I remember I had to stream the file, and run the audio to a cassette tape and capture everything in real time. And at the end of it all, I ended up with a really terrible sounding bootleg Vanilla Ice cassette tape, that I probably only listened to a few times before buying the CD off eBay.
I believe the first time I ever pirated something was some SpongeBob DVD rip off of TPB or some similar website
