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0 pointslukeschlather7y ago0 comments

> It took a while to get to the point where you could torrent an arbitrary game

Especially so, given that the BitTorrent protocol hadn't even been designed when the Dreamcast was officially discontinued.

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notyourwork7y ago

BitTorrent wasn’t how pirated material was distributed in those days. DCC over Irc and FTP were widely used at this time.

jandrese7y ago

Wasn't it LimeWire/Kazaa? My early P2P history is a little fuzzy.

The big issue is that so many people were still on modems back then that downloading a DC game wasn't easy. Plus public WiFi wasn't really a thing yet. It was the kids on college campuses who were connected to brand new and shiny Ethernet networks that really went nuts.

notyourwork7y ago

These applications weren't really where piracy derived, these applications along with a cable modem made it possible for point and click piracy. Similar to Napster. The scene which as others pointed at actually started in newsgroups and shifted to IRC and FTP was where piracy was extremely prevalent.

sizzle7y ago

I used Morpheus I think then bearshare

freeflight7y ago

Or simply uploading to some free webspace hoster by breaking the iso up into many smaller rar/zip achieves.

illegalsmile7y ago

Also newsgroups.

borkt7y ago

Also usenet

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