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What drew you to the high seas? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Vanth@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing.

The earliest desired media I can remember that drove me to figure out sailing was DC Talk, a Christian rock band. Pop music was not allowed in my house, so a Christian group was tantalizing and scandalous to a rebellious, young Vanth. Things escalated from there.

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[–] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Are we counting like Ares and Limewire? I just wanted to listen to music and could never pay it. That turned into software I wanted but couldn't buy. Then I stopped for a while and started up again years ago not wanting to pay for streaming

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ares! I can't find an English wikipedia article about it 😮 Just found out it was written in delphi and opensource.

Those were the days... DC++, Ares, Limewire, Napster, Emule, Bearshare... so many things just to download the latest Linkin Park. Only for it to end up being porn 😅

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[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I never really asked why everything was porn. But like... why?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Cause people like porn. I'll be honest, when I downloaded some music video or something that ended up being porn, I usually wasn't too disappointed, with the exception that I now had to go find what I was originally looking for again and wait for it to download. Shit used to take forever back in the day.

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but I don't see the point. If I'm looking for a song, I don't want porn. It's not like you'd find more than enough porn when searching for it.

My guess is it was a way to "hide" it, when back on the day most people shared a computer. But idk

[–] Koto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I haven't seen that name in ages. I think Kazaa Lite, Imesh and Audio Galaxy were the first file sharing programs I ever used.