I honestly have no clue, I just know people were copying things onto CDs and the Dreamcasts were reading those CDs without any pesky soldered modchips.
Ahhh okay, cool. So people were essentially overburning or ripping games and resampling video/audio. Fascinating indeed! The dumping tricks too xD
I don't think I've heard that word since 2005 or 2006.What year is it
Napster was first for me. I was around 14. Then Kazaa when Napster went legit. It didn't take long for Kazaa to turn to shit; every other file would contain a virus. So Limewire replaced it. Limewire never was quite as good as Kazaa. After that came torrents.
Still torrents today. I don't see anything replacing it, really. It feels like the final form of file sharing.
Are there any documentaries, stories, books, etc on this kind of stuff?
I still pronounce it "wah-rez" to this day. My brain can't do otherwise.
I find the whole scene a bit pathetic really. The race to be first is fine, but how seriously they take it all is just embarrassing, calling each other out and that.
I remember when one scene group complained about another using their line audio without permission. We're talking about a stolen movie here...
Also those fucking awful midi themes they'll attach to video game installs. Oh god.
Haha reminds me of a friend who pronounced it "Juarez" and broke my brain.
This bookThese hidden internet groups are fascinating. I wouldn't say I respect them, but it is interesting how many of these big things that happen on the internet are completely hidden from most. For instance, since the notorious 'Fappening' event, we also know there are entire groups out there who share and collect stolen nude pictures. You never hear about these guys unless these big leaks happen like in 2014, but I can imagine they have been around for a looooong time and that they have access to a lot more stuff than what was leaked.
I don't remember what it's called, but I once read a pretty lengthy article about the big players in early music piracy. It was fascinating. One of the guys had an insider man at the cd pressing factory who smuggled out the newest albums and there was this entire distribution ring set up over IRC. Very interesting stuff.
They found something they're passionate about in this life. Do you know how hard that is? 😔
Also the underground aspect of it. It seems like a secret club and that part of it is cool
Has anyone ever been involved with the shoplifting scene?
It always seemed like such a cool underground thing. All those groups competing to walk out of shops unnoticed with fashion brand clothes, cosmetics, jewellery, etc. all while avoiding attention from the mainstream & legal venues. There's probably a shit ton of drama and politics involved too
Major respect for these guys and gals. The shoplifting scene appears to be one of the very few subcultures that has been kept hidden underground for the most past, especially in this day and age.
Are there any documentaries, stories, books, etc on this kind of stuff?
This book
goes very indepth into that story, if it's about the same factory working who was putting the discs behind belt buckles.
Is it though? Scene standards are actually pretty awesome. It's like the Nintendo Seal of Quality if Nintendo also didn't let some complete trash slide by.The amount of scene rules for basically everything (audio, video, games, books, etc.) is amusing...
https://scenerules.org
I'm sorry... Did you just call chiptune "fucking awful midi themes"?
https://youtu.be/_suw_zyAX30
How long have you been playing videogame by the way? Guess you started after the 16bit era...
did I just get baited?
He's not wrong, theft removes the originalIt's been so long since I've read a piracy argument. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Only in GAF someone compares pedophiles with torrenting. What the fuck is wrong with you.Do you also respect pedophiles for finding something they're passionate about while remaining underground/in a secret club?
The amount of scene rules for basically everything (audio, video, games, books, etc.) is amusing...
https://scenerules.org
Why do you respect these thieves?
Shame the biggest music torrent website went down a while back. Now there's countless albums wiped from existence and may only have one or two extant copies on someone's hard-drive in their attic.
Shout out to piracy giving us all the great services like Spotify and Netflix today, in addition to preservation of an unimaginable amount of media that would've been lost otherwise.
Why do you respect these thieves?
Because Disney told us to with their Robin Hood movie.Why look up to people who steal shit?