• Jim@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Early pirating was like playing the lottery.

    Will I get the good version of a song or a weird remix?

    Will the media play or be some unrecognized format?

    What’s making my pc run so slow?

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      1 year ago

      I remember running the 2 command line McAfee scan and clean commands. And it would tell you scanning for 15 known viruses or something lol. Then it became hundreds and eventually just changed into the tsr apps running in the background all the time.

      Generally just booting from a clean disk with clean on it would make you the PC repair god.

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      1 year ago

      I never got a virus from Napster/limewire days, but I do remember downloading an Eminem album and thinking this album really sucks. All the songs were basically just the chorus repeating the length of the actual song. Didn’t make me want to buy the album, just made me think what a lazy crappy album.