I got a notice from Time Warner for downloading copyrighted movies
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A guy I work with used the excuse twice with Showtime and it worked. After all, they don't know you're a sophisticated computer user.
Taking a stroll through the Time Tunnel.....Backwards!!
Hmm....I was 25 yo back in 1989 and got my first 386 25mhz computer with 4MB of expanded RAM, a 40MB HD, a Math Co-Processor, a Paradise VGA card, a CTX "Color" monitor, Kurta Digitizer, a Panasonic KXP2400 24" carriage Dot Matrix printer and the crème de le crème Us Robotics 9600 baud modem. (Most people back then had a 1,200 baud modem and some even had a 2,400 baud. BUT, only people that ran/hosted a BBS dropped the dough on a 9,600 baud modem. That and "some" businesses.)
That system set me back about $5,600.00 in 1989.
When people saw my system or heard what I had, even the place I bought it from, I would be questioned as to just how many computers were in my NETWORK? Because back then my setup could have handled a mid-sized corporation's terminals.
They would be SLACK JAWED when I told them that it was just my "Personal" computer for running AutoCAD and keeping track of my clients as well as some games for the family to play. Like Leisure Suit Larry. The first one.
ROFLMAO!!
Compuserve was "OUR" internet back then. And BBS's who used FidoNet were the blogs, P2P, news, and forums of the time.
Everything, and I mean eveything you uploaded or downloaded to a BBS had to be and was compressed. Unfortunately, there was no standard program used at all BBS's. You would need to find out what each BBS used to compress their files so you could make use of their files or share yours on that particular BBS. It was a PITA!!
It could take a WEEK to get just one file. Then once you got it, you might find out that the ARCHIVE is corrupt!! You'd post up about it and then it would another week to get the fixed file once the original uploader got the fixed file back onto the BBS. So, it could take as long as TWO or THREE WEEKS to get one damn file!!!
Now days we BITCH when it takes more than 2 minutes to get something!!
LOL
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESaTREAAzww"]Connect: A Look At Bulletin Board Systems - YouTube[/ame]
Pay ATTENTION the to stats that are quoted in this video. lol
To use Compuserve, you needed an account with MONEY in it to do ANYTHING!! You had to PAY for each and every single search query!!!! And it was like $1.25 per search!!!
Just think about that for a moment, what if YOU had to PAY $1.25 every time you did a search on Google?!!! Lulz
I did quite a bit of Patent Research back then and it would've actually been cheaper for me to have driven down to Miami and stayed in a Hotel for a week and PHYSICALLY searched through the Patent Repository there.
I hated Compuserve with a passion!!! They had most every business by the short hairs for Intellectual Property research.
A lot of the PORN you got back then from the BBS's (When you could find it at all. lol) was of such LOW resolution that a text file with the video would tell you HOW FAR AWAY to stand from your monitor with a different distance depending on whether you had VGA or not.
If you sat at your desk it looked like little squares dancing around, but once you got about 6 to 7 feet away at VGA res & about 3 or 4 feet away if you had eVGA then you could actually see a "closeup shot" of a Cock moving jerkily in and out of a pussy.
ROFLMAO!!!!
They were almost always BLK & WHT videos as well. Porn PICS are what 98% of computer porn was then.
Oh and Usenet!!! Don't EVEN get me fucking started!!! @#$%!
Newsgroups were on USENET and use to be FREE. Gopher net was pretty good back then as well.
You got FREE access to Newsgroups as a part of your ISP package and browsers like Netscape came with a newsgroup program as a part of it.
But, again.....PORN and fucking Affiliate SPAMMERS shitted/clogged the whole thing up!!! Newsgroup Spam.
So much BS traffic was going through the servers and very few customers back then even knew about or how to use the News groups that most major service providers put an end to the free offering.
So, as I'm pretty sure the USENET is just awesome and all, I'll stick with Torrenting until I'm actually forced to PAY for the use of USENET.
The whole point of my stroll down memory lane is that "I" cut my Computer RECREATIONAL Teeth on File sharing by way of BBS's.
No matter how much money I have I will ALWAYS be a part of P2P file sharing. Period.
I have uploaded/seeded over 17 TB at just one site in 9 months back in 2009 while only getting like 1.5 TB from it.
I have no clue as to how much I have shared over the years, but I'm pretty sure it's close to if not over a Petabyte by now.
So, when I see that the Ischmidt says, "I've uploaded 330 GB in the past few years and downloaded 180 GB from IP Torrents with no problems."
I just sigh and think, "Well, at least his ratio is Almost a 2:1."
ROFLMAO!!
Most of you guys here are half my age, and in just 23 years the technology and resources we have now are BEYOND light years past where "I" started!!
Now that I think about it, OMFG am I ever getting OLD!!
I can remember hearing the same thing I'm saying here from someone YEARS ago!!
One of the IT guys at a Mutual of Omaha office where I sold Insurance once told me how BIG a 2MB HD was when he started with computers and they would have to take a 5 lb. Mini-Sledge Hammer and Chisel to physically break the drives in half to protect/destroy the data when they would replace old drives.
Most IT guys that "I" saw in businesses back in the 1980's working on the networks were in their 50's and 60's.
I BIG change in the age demographic now!!
lol
End of The Old Man's rant/tare!!
:angrysoapbox_sml:
fftopic:
Hmm....I was 25 yo back in 1989 and got my first 386 25mhz computer with 4MB of expanded RAM, a 40MB HD, a Math Co-Processor, a Paradise VGA card, a CTX "Color" monitor, Kurta Digitizer, a Panasonic KXP2400 24" carriage Dot Matrix printer and the crème de le crème Us Robotics 9600 baud modem. (Most people back then had a 1,200 baud modem and some even had a 2,400 baud. BUT, only people that ran/hosted a BBS dropped the dough on a 9,600 baud modem. That and "some" businesses.)
That system set me back about $5,600.00 in 1989.
When people saw my system or heard what I had, even the place I bought it from, I would be questioned as to just how many computers were in my NETWORK? Because back then my setup could have handled a mid-sized corporation's terminals.
They would be SLACK JAWED when I told them that it was just my "Personal" computer for running AutoCAD and keeping track of my clients as well as some games for the family to play. Like Leisure Suit Larry. The first one.
ROFLMAO!!
Compuserve was "OUR" internet back then. And BBS's who used FidoNet were the blogs, P2P, news, and forums of the time.
Everything, and I mean eveything you uploaded or downloaded to a BBS had to be and was compressed. Unfortunately, there was no standard program used at all BBS's. You would need to find out what each BBS used to compress their files so you could make use of their files or share yours on that particular BBS. It was a PITA!!
It could take a WEEK to get just one file. Then once you got it, you might find out that the ARCHIVE is corrupt!! You'd post up about it and then it would another week to get the fixed file once the original uploader got the fixed file back onto the BBS. So, it could take as long as TWO or THREE WEEKS to get one damn file!!!
Now days we BITCH when it takes more than 2 minutes to get something!!
LOL
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESaTREAAzww"]Connect: A Look At Bulletin Board Systems - YouTube[/ame]
Pay ATTENTION the to stats that are quoted in this video. lol
To use Compuserve, you needed an account with MONEY in it to do ANYTHING!! You had to PAY for each and every single search query!!!! And it was like $1.25 per search!!!
Just think about that for a moment, what if YOU had to PAY $1.25 every time you did a search on Google?!!! Lulz
I did quite a bit of Patent Research back then and it would've actually been cheaper for me to have driven down to Miami and stayed in a Hotel for a week and PHYSICALLY searched through the Patent Repository there.
I hated Compuserve with a passion!!! They had most every business by the short hairs for Intellectual Property research.
A lot of the PORN you got back then from the BBS's (When you could find it at all. lol) was of such LOW resolution that a text file with the video would tell you HOW FAR AWAY to stand from your monitor with a different distance depending on whether you had VGA or not.
If you sat at your desk it looked like little squares dancing around, but once you got about 6 to 7 feet away at VGA res & about 3 or 4 feet away if you had eVGA then you could actually see a "closeup shot" of a Cock moving jerkily in and out of a pussy.
ROFLMAO!!!!
They were almost always BLK & WHT videos as well. Porn PICS are what 98% of computer porn was then.
Oh and Usenet!!! Don't EVEN get me fucking started!!! @#$%!
Newsgroups were on USENET and use to be FREE. Gopher net was pretty good back then as well.
You got FREE access to Newsgroups as a part of your ISP package and browsers like Netscape came with a newsgroup program as a part of it.
But, again.....PORN and fucking Affiliate SPAMMERS shitted/clogged the whole thing up!!! Newsgroup Spam.
So much BS traffic was going through the servers and very few customers back then even knew about or how to use the News groups that most major service providers put an end to the free offering.
So, as I'm pretty sure the USENET is just awesome and all, I'll stick with Torrenting until I'm actually forced to PAY for the use of USENET.
The whole point of my stroll down memory lane is that "I" cut my Computer RECREATIONAL Teeth on File sharing by way of BBS's.
No matter how much money I have I will ALWAYS be a part of P2P file sharing. Period.
I have uploaded/seeded over 17 TB at just one site in 9 months back in 2009 while only getting like 1.5 TB from it.
I have no clue as to how much I have shared over the years, but I'm pretty sure it's close to if not over a Petabyte by now.
So, when I see that the Ischmidt says, "I've uploaded 330 GB in the past few years and downloaded 180 GB from IP Torrents with no problems."
I just sigh and think, "Well, at least his ratio is Almost a 2:1."
ROFLMAO!!
Most of you guys here are half my age, and in just 23 years the technology and resources we have now are BEYOND light years past where "I" started!!
Now that I think about it, OMFG am I ever getting OLD!!
I can remember hearing the same thing I'm saying here from someone YEARS ago!!
One of the IT guys at a Mutual of Omaha office where I sold Insurance once told me how BIG a 2MB HD was when he started with computers and they would have to take a 5 lb. Mini-Sledge Hammer and Chisel to physically break the drives in half to protect/destroy the data when they would replace old drives.
Most IT guys that "I" saw in businesses back in the 1980's working on the networks were in their 50's and 60's.
I BIG change in the age demographic now!!
lol
End of The Old Man's rant/tare!!
:angrysoapbox_sml:
fftopic:
Magnet links are just a retarded way for trackers to claim that they aren't hosting torrent files. A regular torrent file contains a list of the files in the torrent, along with some basic bootstrap information, such as the tracker to go to.
Magnet links on the other hand, contain a small amount of bootstrap information (mainly the tracker(s)) along with a hash. Your client makes a request to the tracker, and the tracker gives you more information (such as the files). Your client rebuilds the torrent, computes the hash from it, and makes sure it hasn't been tampered with.
Magnet links do not protect you, and they do not protect the tracker. The only places that are protected (from a semi legal standpoint), are places like TPB. As soon as there is a court case which determines that a magnet link and a torrent are the same thing, then that legal protection will go away too.
Are you retarded? You think the RIAA is sniffing traffic? Or that your ISP is sniffing traffic, because they want to get rid of their customers?
Fucking retard.
News flash. RIAA uses the same torrent clients as you do to identify infringers. You know how they determine if you are hosting illegal content? They download it and open it.
Encrypting your P2P traffic does nothing but waste CPU cycles.
Not an aff link
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LOL Midas, you just took me back 20 years
I do kinda miss the old BBS days
Here you go Google BBS Terminal
Lulz
It's somewhat functional in the most Toddler-Like sense.
LOL
Then if you REALLY get to missing it you can always go here BBSfinder.com - The Worlds Only Real Time BBS List.
Unfortunately, that argument doesn't really hold much weight until tested in a higher court.
lol you americans and your funny problems
in soviet russia, you sue movie
that could be why your movies suck.
I just remembered that they ordered me to reply and state my reasoning for downloading da warez or else they would take further action.
But then you're pretty much admitting guilt if you reply so then they can fuck you real good if you do.
If you don't reply all they have is your IP, and like the dude above quoted, you can't do shit with an IP address.
But then you're pretty much admitting guilt if you reply so then they can fuck you real good if you do.
If you don't reply all they have is your IP, and like the dude above quoted, you can't do shit with an IP address.
Or reply saying you have no idea what they're talking about and just deny it.
