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lost art 😔 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 96 points 5 months ago

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

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 months ago

Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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"

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.

While on dialup.

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[-] Forester@pawb.social 16 points 5 months ago

Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months 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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months 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

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[-] almost1337@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago
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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 42 points 5 months ago

I’ve watched so much free anime by being bisexual

[-] Kasane_Teto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 5 months ago

Speak for urselves lul (I dk how to seed tho)

[-] dontsayaword@piefed.social 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just let the torrent keep going after you're done

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago

Tried that but for some reason it doesn't seed :3

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 5 months 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.

[-] dontsayaword@piefed.social 12 points 5 months ago

If you move or delete the files it would break it

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months 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.social 16 points 5 months ago

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

[-] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 6 points 5 months 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.works 9 points 5 months 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.ca 6 points 5 months 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

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[-] snowykitty@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago

make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)

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[-] HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 7 points 5 months 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

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 37 points 5 months ago

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

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 months ago

We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.

cries in millennial

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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

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[-] stray@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren't able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 32 points 5 months ago

Not to mention XDCC over IRC

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[-] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 24 points 5 months ago

They can't even eat Hot Chip? 🤯

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

in this economy?

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 20 points 5 months ago

be me

born in 2005

used to use steam unlocked

torrent

is bisexual

the meme is partly correct i guess :3

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 5 months 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.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.

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[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago

It's wrong, but also, it's right a surprisingly good amount of the time.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

I personally just check the db0 megathread and torrent from there, sometimes I watch online because I cant be bothered to download tho

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[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Hey now, I’m younger than that and I know how to do both things lol

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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Wait, is torrenting actually dying out?

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago

i kid you not my roommate watched a movie someone posted on Twitter

[-] jbone@piefed.ca 10 points 5 months ago

It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).

[-] dontsayaword@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago

Nah, not until all of the GenXers and Xennials die out at least

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[-] destiper@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months 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

[-] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Let them be the fodder for the authorities

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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

its just advertising places "to rent", like craigslist, but for films. Sometimes the rent is free

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[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 6 points 5 months 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.

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