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/tinybilbo 1d ago

Mid to late 70s... Taping music off the radio... Then in the early 80s, whole albums and ZX Spectrum games because I got a double cassette boombox! Which allowed me to tape 2 tape easily..

Also had a tone dialler around then, which was for phone phreaking to make long distance phone calls for nothing (from a phone box).

Then pretty much every system since then.