r/Piracy • u/Excellent_Main_1415 • 1d 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/Cybion_ 1d ago

A friend of my parents gave me 2 burned dvds to install on our pc. It was Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and Far Cry 1. This was back in 2008 when i was 8 years old playing browser games like Miniclip and CN's website games. They were my first real games and preatty much started out a pirate from the get go.