• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    142·
    8 hours ago

    the high seas have grown more treacherous, but you still can.

    • ilega_dh@feddit.nl
      15·
      6 hours ago

      More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        15·
        6 hours ago

        That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?

        • despicableEnglish
          6·
          5 hours ago

          It’s considerably easier to deal with these days so the seas are less treacherous. Even Windows’ default antivirus will catch most of those too.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    131·
    9 hours ago

    Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time…

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
    183·
    14 hours ago

    Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free

    • Nikelui@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 hours ago

      Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    17 hours ago

    Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).

    It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:

    Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject

    I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.

    I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 hours ago

      I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.

    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Somewhere in my files I still have the file of a hoarse, cracked male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.

      Probably fake, but I want to believe.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Dude what is this Tetris one. I remember this too.

      I also remember some some that was by a dj called dj triangle and it was a super high tempo song with all kinds of songs mixed in. Haven’t found it since those days.

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    15 hours ago

    Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.

      • Matriks404@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 hours ago

        I have never used Limewire, but if they had distributed binaries that you should pay for, it is a copyright infringement, even if you could technically compile it yourself. There are applications that do this and it’s compatible with GPL license.

        • Max@lemmy.world
          1·
          44 minutes ago

          AFAIK the GPL does not forbid selling binaries in any way. You have to provide the sources of course.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    15·
    18 hours ago

    I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

    If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

    I used to have a demonoid account and kept my seed ratio high just because that private tracker had the biggest collection of random ass music and movies you couldn’t find anywhere else. Unreleased shit and whatnot.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      53 minutes ago

      If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

      This is literally how I got introduced to several bands I never would have heard otherwise. Missing one track off one album, downloading…this definitely isn’t the right track, but who is this? And now I need to download another 8 albums by that band…

    • Schleppy@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.

      Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.

      I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.