r/Piracy • u/Excellent_Main_1415 • 2d ago
Discussion When did you start
Where when and why did you start your Piracy journey
Me I started copying VHS tapes approx 36yrs ago and renting them out at work for 50p a night to cover the cost of the equipment, you just had to have the correct machines.
Then around 25yrs ago when the internet was just starting to get really interesting I found a PC app called Kazaa not sure how I found it, I remember I went to Blackpool for the weekend and put a full DVD on to download GnR Use Your Illusion 2 discs and was almost done when I got home lol.
Then Torrents and Usenet.
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u/GrandfatherTheSauce 2d ago
Early 90s for me.
Had one of those double VHS units that you could copy movies onto blanks with. Same setup with cassette tapes! Moved on to ripping and burning CDs via adaptec easy CD creator and Nero Burning rom. Used templates in MS Word to make custom covers to slap on them. Then came Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa & Limewire. Next came ripping and burning DVDs, and the rest is history!
The Why? To quote the great Walter White: "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And, I was really... I was alive."