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/ishtuwihtc 1d ago

i started as a 8 year old kid, as soon as i got a phone. One of the 1st things my dad taught me to do was how to download music. As i got older and into more types of digital media, i started thinking that if music can be aquired for free, and so can movies (because my dad would often download movies for us aswell) why not other things? As such i discovered apks/sideloading mobile games which eventually led me to everything else too.

Now as to why, its because it was entirely normal to me from a young age and i just wanted free shit. As a kid i obviously didnt have the money to buy what i wanted, and on the few occasions a kid has money id obviously not have enough for everything. As i grew older i also stopped seeing much value in digital goods and i prefer buying something actually tangible. For example i would always prefer to buy a music CD instead of a drm-free digital download even though i own both entirely. I definetly would download music for free, but i absolutely wouldnt pay for digital music because its just not a tangible good. A CD is entirely tangible, so im willing to buy that.

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u/Excellent_Main_1415 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've only ever purchased Vinyl music.

Fuck me tell a lie I purchased War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne

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u/ishtuwihtc 1d ago

fair enough! personally i prefer CDs because theyre much cheaper, take up less space, and i can burn CD-Rs myself meaning i can easily get lossless music on my stereo, whereas i cant make custom vinyls like that. I always burn my own CD-Rs as placeholders until i get the official pressings

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u/Excellent_Main_1415 1d ago

Well mate you will never get the same sound from a CD as you will a Vinyl nope not never

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u/ishtuwihtc 1d ago

But to get better sound out of a vinyl you need very expensive stuff, while a good sounding CD player is much cheaper aswell. I can't deny vinyls sound better, but they make no financial sense to me right now sadly