First thing you ever pirated

In our country, selling pirated DVD's is all the rage. As some guys burn some movies on Dvd's, stick a legit looking sticker, and sell them for a hugely low price. It usually ranges from around 30-40 pesos (60 Cents to 80 cents) if it's a cam and 40-50 pesos ($0.80-$1 USD) if it's a dvd-rip. Also, they offer a collection of movies or series on a dvd for 50-60 ($1-$1.10 USD). So, everyone buys these especially because most people either do not have computers or do not have computer knowledge. I think the first one I bought (that someone else didn't buy for me) was a VCD of the first Harry Potter movie.
 
We had this guy who had a tape-drive with a 100MB capacity !!!
every week or two he would have new games (DOS games) available and he would pass a 1.4MB diskette between whoever asked for it, so I guess that could be considered my first piracy.
 
For my first computer (a laptop with 386 with Win 3.1/DOS 6.22 which both were on copied floppies) I copied some floppies from friends for the The Island of Dr. Brain, Flight Sim, Battle Chess, QEMM (a program that allowed you to use space on your hard drive as virtual RAM in 3.1 for you kids that didn't have to deal with old PCs), a C interpreter (yeah NOT compiler!) whose name eludes me.

The first thing I got online was Photoshop 4 from some company's unsecured FTP incoming directory. It took me probably two days of 33.6 dialup to grab it. But it was thrilling nonetheless to see people putting stuff online.
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The first song I downloaded was NIN - Closer.
 
Mine was big.

A fullset of every NES rom on the scene. A GoodSet. That was a long time ago.
 
Shit knows what it was or when it was but I definitely taped it.
 
As far as music goes me and my brother had a small ring in our elementary school where we sold copies of the popular tapes with the new parental advisory stickers in 92. I was pirating and copying WAV files for freinds before anyone heard of MP3s (circa 1995).

As far as games go i had nesticle snes and gba emus since they started, I consider my first real achievement my extensive collection of Dreamcast games via DSL and the Utopia disc. No one i knew had any idea the dc could be pirated yet. Poor Dreamcast.
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xflak40 said:
do u guys honestly think its a good idea to be posting this kind of stuff?

did we learn nothing from kongznuts?
I could say something similar to you: Didn't you learn anything from Hatsu?

Which company would give a shit if we're saying we pirated a game on let's say the Atari 2600 15 years ago? We talk about hacking/pirating/anything here, I don't see why all of a sudden they'd come up and make us do something for them because of what we did ages ago.

Kongsnutz was a fool, posting images of himself with the game, making a website about it and even more. Of course Ninty sued him.

Also, don't post unnecessary question marks, it makes you look really noobish.
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lol @ Antoligy
 

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