They'll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.
Warez websites with 9/10 links broken ftw
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack #128
*starts downloading hardcore goat sex*
"Ah shit, I meant 127โ
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! cancel 128
*goat sex downloads even faster*
"...well, at least it'll be educational"
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
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Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn
I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone's ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago
I downloaded an Elvis song with a mispelled song title, and for a while I would refer to it as "Quspicious Minds" and sing along
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Soulseek was the best
Was
Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
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Iโve watched so much free anime by being bisexual
Speak for urselves lul (I dk how to seed tho)
Just let the torrent keep going after you're done
Tried that but for some reason it doesn't seed :3
If you don't have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don't support port forwarding.
If you move or delete the files it would break it
Yeah I could guess that, but no just sitting around it either doesn't upload anything or uploads and absurdly small amount (less than 50mb)
Probably an issue with connecting to peers or trackers. One common issue is not having the port forwarded properly at your router.
Yeah I see the same thing and I self host a seedbox that has hundreds of seeding torrents. Some torrents do get some seeding action but most never upload anything. Never figured out why but some private trackers give you points towards your up/down ratio the longer you seed so I just roll with that ยฏ\(ใ)/ยฏ
I gave up on private trackers a while ago. Nothing I've ever been looking for was obscure enough to warrant putting up with their bullshit rules.
Ah, yeah that's fair. I'm on a few but primarily use TorrentLeech which is more relaxed about things. To be honest though, torrents are my fallback anyway and most of my downloads are done via Usenet
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make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)
Depends on the country tho, in some countries you will not have legal issues
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Two things. 1. Already mentioned, you need to be connectable. Torrent client port needs opened on router admin panel. 2. You can only seed if there is another user(s) actively downloading that data. And if you're 1 of many seeders, you're only uploading a little bit
Theres a lot more to it but thats a good high level overview
It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.
We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.
cries in millennial
most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses
also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled... in highschool
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There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.
Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren't able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.
Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.
be me
born in 2005
used to use steam unlocked
torrent
is bisexual
the meme is partly correct i guess :3
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I hear if you torrent you get a nastygram from your ISP. Meanwhile, I hear if you find a site that offers to stream it for free, nothing bad happens. Also I hear that Yandex gives better results for such sites than Google or DDG/Bing.
I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.
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I personally just check the db0 megathread and torrent from there, sometimes I watch online because I cant be bothered to download tho
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It's wrong, but also, it's right a surprisingly good amount of the time.
Hey now, Iโm younger than that and I know how to do both things lol
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Wait, is torrenting actually dying out?
i kid you not my roommate watched a movie someone posted on Twitter
It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).
Nah, not until all of the GenXers and Xennials die out at least
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actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don't know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.
I am rusty and don't have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.
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