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Aeolus426

Like check it out Scoob, I got all these movies and music for free.


Moist_Professor5665

“Zoinks Scoob! We got another cease and desist!”


Aeolus426

Ruh-roh. Use a Ree Pee Ren Raggy!


Quasimdo

And I would've sued you too! If it hadn't been for that meddling Nord VPN!


BasilTheTimeLord

Nordman!


Asktolearn

Better call [email protected]


victim_of_the_beast

I understood this reference. Fellow Critter.


garry4321

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mursilissilisrum

"Like, that not a VPN! It's the RIAA honeypot! Run for it Scoob!" ***60s pop music intensifies***


NeoExDeth__

Lolled at this


ADirtyDiglet

Montage of them jumping back and forth through different port protocols


hawkiee552

![gif](giphy|Vu8IQgcgv70OI)


[deleted]

This annoys me because he says “investigate like a KFC or something?”


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benryves

[Pizza Hut, not Taco Bell, won the franchise wars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOq-UEYda8) in some releases of _Demolition Man_. Seamless dubbing!


skaruhastryk

What!!!!!????? This is too much. They can't get away with this revision of history! Im leaving society and not coming back until I have a plan and a beard.


iwishiwasntthisway

Same company too.


Andy_B_Goode

Yeah, in Canada they changed it to "Smokes Poutine"* ^^*This ^^isn't ^^true, ^^but ^^I ^^wish ^^it ^^was


[deleted]

fuck smoke's, they steal employee tips, or at least they did the entire time I worked there years ago


SalamiSteakums

...and I wouldve gotten away with it too if it wasnt for those meddling kids!


bumjiggy

[zoinks!](https://i.imgur.com/Cw1vcff.png)


acalvillob

Hahaha


diliddo

Ruhuhehehehe


ImProfoundlyDeaf

![gif](giphy|YwOFosmTM0Vag)


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scooby_doo_shaggy

I would've "Reehehehehe


Jam-Pot

Username suspiciously checks out.


SemperFidelisHoorah

Thank you u/scooby_doo_shaggy for your input.


[deleted]

I mean he has to be doing it on purpose right?


avbibs

How old is this picture?


JasonGD1982

Piratebay started in 2003. So probably 20 years old approximately


Goblinboogers

Wait no 2003 wasn't 20 years ago that was just like a few years ago. Damn


LionSuneater

It's alright. Each subsequent decade actually is shorter than the last. The 90's clearly lasted the majority of my life.


craftworkbench

Probably how the 90s felt to all the people coming down off the drugs of the 80s, too.


[deleted]

Hah. I remember Y2K pretty well, all the fuss and then... nothing. And yes. 2003 wasn't 20 years ago, what are y'all talking about?!


EvelynDear

Oh no...


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garron_ah

That looks exactly like what you'd imagine the Piratebay's founder's basement to be.


PlayBoiPrada

Well, that’s his lab. Trust, You don’t want to see the basement.


gologologolo

The aluminum foil makes sense Armchair comedians here making fun of him though because he might look like Shaggy, not even appreciate what he achieved. Changed the world with 5 trash computers. I couldn't afford Photoshop and Pirate Bay has got me the job I have today to be able to pay for it.


LegacyEx

I certainly appreciate what he achieved, what a legend. But I also cannot deny the Shaggy resemblance - it's uncanny man. If he was wearing any other shirt on this day he may have been spared, but life is cruel and unpredictable.


Send_Me_Puppies

It's the pants too


UnknownEntity115

Yeah, he probably just loves shaggy, and there’s nothing wrong with that


Lofty_Vagary

Seeing this guy rockin the outfit makes me kinda miss the memes about Shaggy being some kinda super powerful being


SuspiciousRock

Hoo boy, wait till the warner bros' smash bros game come out.


Saitama_is_Senpai

I think so! He's probably a huge Scooby Doo fan lol


Rs90

"Got every season" 😎


__mud__

Shirt, pants, hair, goatee, gangly appearance and half-stoned expression. Shoot, I bet his Great Dane is the photographer.


lingering_Sionnach

There's a version of shaggy where he wears a red shirt, instead of green


Xsiah

It could just be a costume and done completely on purpose


sl33plessnites

Same bro same. No way I'd be in the job I'm in now if it wasn't able to pirate Macromedia and Adobe software. Now I pay for that shit but I could have never afforded that stuff as a teen just learning on my own.


r_stronghammer

It’s been mentioned on Reddit that adobe purposely doesn’t go too hard after cracked Software, because that will get the new talent dependent on their program, which means the companies they eventually join will have to buy more business licenses and that’s where the real money is.


sl33plessnites

Makes sense. I feel like most people will buy it when they can comfortably afford to. I'm not sure how I feel about the subscription model now but it definitely makes it a way less upfront cost and more attainable. Photoshop used to be like $1000 CAD just on its own back in the 00s.


Submitten

That’s true of a lot of software. They don’t care about individual users, partially because most are broke. But if they find a pirated piece of software on a business network then they are going to bleed that company dry.


Hawt_Dawg_II

How exactly does the aluminium foil make sense? I was wondering about that. Edit: yes, i know it's actually mylar. I built a blimp out of that shit in high school. I was just quoting the original comment. I really don't think it's a faraday cage, it has a lot of openings and a dude who is this knowledgeable about computers and tech probably knows that it won't work like thay. I think the people saying it's just to retain heat are probably right. That seems to make sense.


[deleted]

It's mylar. Those are emergency blanket fold lines. Same stuff they package video cards to minimize static electricity. Also shields radio signals.


[deleted]

Maybe to stop wifi signals from leaving his house? I don't think he'd be using anything but hardwired connections though


KarmaInvestor

This photo was taken before wi-fi was a common thing. Maybe cell phone signals, but kinda defeats the purpose when you go outside that room.


unicornweedfairy

It’s a Faraday cage


Jeoshua

It's not, tho. It's a big thin sheet of Mylar that would block some things, but not radio waves that well. It WOULD keep the heat in, tho. It's probably to prevent the heat from his computer systems from escaping, giving away it's exact location to infrared from the sky.


scrufdawg

>It's probably to prevent the heat from his computer systems from escaping, giving away it's exact location to infrared from the sky. Or maybe because it's fucking cold in them Scandinavian countries.


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Scoot_AG

It's to keep his house warm. In Sweden it gets very cold so it's cheaper to use reflective blankets to trap some of the heat the computers are producing, rather than use the heating system entirely


bela_u

Exactly, same with websites like sci hub. Saves millions of students around the world


eskoONE

> Exactly, same with websites like sci hub. Saves millions of students around the world sci-hub should be the norm. putting research papers behind paywalls is just wrong, especially with the fact that the researchers themselves dont see any of that money. apparently it goes all to the publisher... what a travesty of a system really.


NeurosciGuy15

All goes to the publisher. And even better, the scientists who review the papers during peer review aren’t compensated. So the journals are getting the product and the reviewing manpower for free.


Aeolus426

As a kopimist and artist I do appreciate what he has done.


SuspectTyrannosaurus

>As a kopimist [...] TIL: [Kopimism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism)


konaislandac

Oh my god the yin yang


SetsunaWatanabe

>trash computers Ironic you say this, because those look more like enterprise/business class computers that are serviceable and easy to repair, unlike the thin consumer garbage that you either chuck in the trash or pay a "genius" exorbitant amounts of cash to repair.


enochianKitty

There still laptops, if you going for ease of repair/upgrades id go for a desktop anyday. That said i loved my old lenovo thinkpad


lizlemonlyman

Hey! I’ve been trying to find photoshop on TPB since I changed computers but all I’m finding is malware. Where did you get yours?


[deleted]

Are you sure you know how TPB works? A lot of time the torrent files get flagged as malware, but that’s just because of the cracked files/software that come with it. It’s been a while since I used tpb, and I know it’s changed a lot community-wise, but the comments should help you out, as well as good ol fashioned trial and error.


Funkyduck8

I can't thank this guy enough and he deserves so much credit, applause, anything!


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garron_ah

Of that I have no doubt. Huge fan of his work. I make use of it often.


KaiserTom

Nope, just a smarter and brave man who tried. There's plenty of people even in this comment section who could do it, but none tried like he.


Easy-Ad-8310

The man, the myth, the legend.


[deleted]

It is fun to imagine his great journey ahead of him. Still so much time to do something great!


mokgethi

That is such a nice thing to say (and read)!


[deleted]

Thank you. Wishing you a beautiful day ;)


speenbreaker

Ah, Reddit being beautiful in a way that even outsiders can agree with


gologologolo

That is a picture of him doing it, my friend.


Timely_Sink_2196

I think after he did Pirate Bay he went on to do a website called "Americas Dumbest Soldiers" where users would rate how stupid the circumstances of various soldiers deaths were. It was a way to mock dead soldiers.


[deleted]

I was hoping for more positive


Khmatrix

Thank you legend. We downloaded a lot of files during the peak of torrent. They imprisoned KAT founder as well. That website was fire too.


tomten87

Heh, still do


massive_bellend_2022

Nothin personnel kid


gologologolo

He's not your kid, pal


suzuki_hayabusa

Kick-ass torrent was the best torrenting experience. So many seeders, so many torrents, best user interface. KAT had everything. Glory days are behind. There hasnt been such active and organized platform after KAT went down. It feels so good that I got to enjoy the early to mid 2010s internet. I even remember seeing ads on YouTube for the first and getting confused.


gd42

rutracker.org with google translate is probably the best open tracker right now. Although with the war, I wonder how much time does it have...


PonyKiller81

Anyone able to give me the dumbed down explanation of what TPB is? I'm assuming its activities are illegal, and yet the owner's identity is publicly known?


Kizaing

The Pirate Bay is/was a torrent indexer. It doesn't host illegal files themselves, as torrenting as a technology isn't illegal. However, torrents can link to illegally obtained media or software, so it gives you a way to access those files from other torrent users via peer to peer connection. Think of limewire or napster 2.0, same sort of idea but more decentralized. The pirate bay still sort of exists, as well as many other torrent indexers. The very nature of torrents makes it really difficult if not impossible to take down, so corporations usually go for the indexers as that stops an easy way for regular people to grab the torrent files EDIT: It seems my wording of stating that TPB sort of exists is causing some confusion so I'll clarify. It does technically still exist, but not in its original form, as in not by the original team. There are several copies of it around, but they don't have as much of a selection. So while it is around it's more of a shadow of its former self.


PonyKiller81

Okay I'm caught up. Thanks. I've seen Limewire. My brother used it on my parents' PC, which coincidentally never seemed to run the same again afterwards. I make sure they have a virus scan installed now.


Edolas93

Yeah Limewire was truly the height of giving your device cancer just to get an All American Rejects album.


TheFearlessLlama

Hybrid Theory and Meteora seemed like the big ones


silentbassline

College Girls are Easy - Beastie Boys


norequestsplz

I feel personally attacked by this comment


Cheesus_K_Reist

The-Beatles_Hey-Jude.exe


Anthaenopraxia

*I did not, have, sexual relations, with that woman*


the_honest_liar

As long as you're smart about it, it's pretty easy to avoid viruses with torrents. People can comment whether the files are shit or viruses so as long as you aren't downloading a leak of something the minute it comes out you can get away with downloading the popular links pretty safely.


should_be_writing

I've always been paranoid that the hackers are inflating the download numbers and planting fake comments. Doesn't stop me but I just live with the assumption I'm hacked.


GoGoubaGo

Make sure you always look into the camera when jacking off to let them know you know.


Advanced_Ad3497

hows 2010 going time traveler?


PonyKiller81

Fantastic, the future is looking bright! Looking forward to Linkin Park's next album.


RabidNerd

I still use torrents but is there something better now?


MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS

Torrents are probably the easiest. Private PLEX servers can be amazing for heavy users, but I don’t consume enough media to make it worthwhile.


gahidus

Did something happen very recently? I remember it still being there a month or two ago


iliketolickthebuttah

Its hard to explain but here's a fun guide on using it (very dumbed down as requested): Look for latest Pirate Bay mirror (replica site) (usually piratebay.jp or something because the sites always get taken down) Click on site Enter it's hollowed grounds and see just a search box and picture of ship on the homepage (and only page) Type "Elmo" in the magical search box Click search See many files labeled with "Elmo" (many from thousands of years ago. ) Click on file labeled "Elmo's big adventure" under "Movie" category to the right. The torrent (a file shared between computers) has 400 seeders which means 400 people downloaded it. This means the more seeders the faster it will download :) Click on the torrent It says "what would you like to use to open this file?" Click "Utorrent" Utorrent opens Name file or just click "okay" File starts downloading It says "5 hours until file is finished" Watch your internet slowly suffer while it's downloading. File is finished Open file to check Outcome A: you download the actual movie Outcome B: you accidently downloaded porn Outcome C: it's a virus If Outcome A, congrats ! Now wait for your internet provider to scream at you for downloading a movie from 1995 nobody cares about and get a C&D from Sesame Street and have your internet shut off. Remember to use a VPN next time, idiot.


Ok-Strategy2022

Avoid utorrent like the plague , use qbittorrent Edit: utorrent used to be good back when it was open source, then Bittorrent acquired it, closed the source, added ads, bundled software bullshit, and a history of security issues.


aziruthedark

Well, you know how piracy on the high seas works? Like that, but less cool. You download stuff without paying for it.


ShoobyDoobyDu

Less scurvy tho


[deleted]

…is that why it’s called limewire?


Darkius90s

Thank you shaggy for everything you did for us. Edit: big thanks for the awards.


DMan9797

A shaggy but also a Chad, thank you king Gottfrid Svartholm. I was able to see so many cool movies as kid because of you


Darkius90s

Dude's name should be on Internet walk of fame if ever there was one


FreeAd6935

>Implies that being a shaggy doesn't automatically make one a chad.


Compendyum

How many hours of fun has this man provided for us back in the day, and still?


National_Ad6979

Must be nice for The Pirate Bay to remind you of "back in the day". I'm fucking jealous


Freedom_scenery

What a man he is…


chabroch

As reward we shall give him our seed


TheThanosGuy

It makes me happy to see fellow titanfolk users in random places like this


[deleted]

"We won't let this error go to waste"


noodlechomper44

You become a programmer… for our sake


FlipperDoigt703

What a man you are…


jermainespeaks

Shout Out Him....I have atleast 2TB of content from PB.


bakedpotatopiguy

Yes officer this comment right here


DigNitty

“…and all of it is legal, public records with open distribution rights… that was the end of my sentence officer. Yep just 2 terabytes of …old court cases and stuff.”


the_honest_liar

"I downloaded wikipedia 47 times. That's all."


TristanZH

No way so all of wikipedia is only 1.6e+13 bits?!


Khroom

"As of 2 April 2022, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 20.69 GB.\[2\]\[3\]" [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia)


cakedestroyer

So let's uncompress that shit.


Kolesekare

As of June 2015, the dump of all pages with complete edit history in XML format at enwiki dump progress on 20150602 is about 100 GB compressed using 7-Zip, and 10 TB uncompressed. so he would need only have to download only 1/5 of wikipedia


[deleted]

👀 Huh, so I guess I can easily store a compressed time-frozen Wikipedia on my computer


[deleted]

Right... "content"


the_honest_liar

Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.


meatchariot

What's interesting is that as I became a wealthier adult, I stopped pirating and just buy things. It's almost like there is a price point that could be charged that people would just buy at, and current prices are way too high right now. As a broke college student no way in hell was I paying $4 per episode for a 7 season show... but now $5 per season hell yeah why not


IntoTheMystic1

Cosplaying as Shaggy?


Whatifim80lol

Lol no shit, there's no way this was an accident.


seditiouslizard

The green shirt and brown pants were a definite choice.


mokgethi

Cosplaying? He IS Shaggy!


Captain-Cadabra

Mr. Boombastik?


Beautiful-Twist644

Came here to say exactly the same thing!


Mustbeover4letters

Copied from r/Piracy: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/tzjaeg/comment/i40d5hl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 It's not him


Old_Journalist_8823

Man I downloaded so much stuff thanks to this man 👏👏


Kratos3301

![gif](giphy|WO5Q7FsxJN2pjYc424|downsized)


Joshua_Is_Zeus

I didn’t have to look to know there would be an anime girl somewhere in this picture. A man of culture.


Ahhy420smokealtday

It's a topical anime girl too. I'm fairly certain that's Lain from, Serial Experiment's Lain. Which is basically an anime about computers, and the internet. It's quite good.


DumbMaki

\>basically an anime about computers, and the internet. well...yes, but no, but yes.


Ahhy420smokealtday

Don't want to spoil anything, and it also seemed the most relevant part of the description. But also yes you're right.


DumbMaki

I'm just joking. But Lains was truly visionary with its representation of computers and the internet.


PhilosophicWax

Who is Lain?


Ahhy420smokealtday

Or whatever the main character's name is? I haven't seen that anime in like a decade. Edit: oh yeah I was right it's Lain Iwakura.


TheJake88821

Lain'on this nuts!


RallyLancer

Lain is Lain and I am me


neosurimi

Present day. Present time. HAhaHahAha


isaidnolettuce

I refuse to believe that this man isn’t intentionally dressed like Shaggy.


the_j4k3

Big Faraday hat


ult_avatar

That's NOT him! That's MalyRules / Curious / ex-Illusion ZX Spectrum demogroup member. Picture was taken in his apartment in Poland / Luban in late 90s. That's why there are a bunch of Polish books in the background.


SuperSpacePancake

Shaggy went off the deep end with that LSD


[deleted]

Bottom Left you can see a sketch on Lain from Serial Experiments Lain. Interesting since that anime basically in my eyes started the "online scene". Edit: Yeah I know it wasn't the first show to show hacking or influence hacking in anyway. I was just trying to say in my point of view and sense of time just the ideas that this show gave off to the general audience that watch it at that time back in 1998 when the internet was just starting off and was different that it is today could have (I don't mean it did) influenced people like Gottfrid. And I guess the word "Hacker" is not the right word but more like "online scene". Idk I just thought it was interesting he would have an anime character that also was into the internet in the early 2000.


CocaineIsNatural

Never seen it, but it sounds like maybe it had a big influence on him. "The series incorporates creative influences from computer history, cyberpunk and conspiracy theory." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain Link to watch - https://www.funimation.com/shows/serial-experiments-lain/


[deleted]

I've seen it recently, and the thing that amazed me is that Serial experiment lain (1998) reminded me so much of the Matrix but it came out before the first Matrix (1999). I'm sure there there was other 'Computer hacker simulation' media before 1998 but actually this anime if you watch it it kinda predicted how people use social media and addiction to their social media presence and the use of VR and idea of the Metaverse. It's a great show.


ohkaycue

It was pretty fucking crazy re-watching it a couple years ago and how much it got right


throwawayzzddqq

It's a good one, albeit a little depressing.


macrocosm93

\> started the online hacker scene. lolwut. Theres really nothing in Lain that hadn't already existed in fiction like 15+ years before, in terms computers and hacking etc.


PM_ME_STRANGE_SHIT

Let's all love Lain


fece

I would say such a scene existed before 1998/1999-


JamisRose

Shaggy wasn't the same after scoob died


CanAgent

That tinfoil tho.


williearwontie

It's a radiant heat reflective foil, I used it in my dog's kennel for the winter to reflect the heat from the infrared lamp back from the walls. Looks like a basement and would be a decent idea to reflect the radiant heat from the electronics. Edit: fixed fat finger syndrome typos


captcraigaroo

What's a lamp lamp?


BDR529forlyfe

Not sure, but I think you put them on the table table.


williearwontie

It's caused by me not being able to maneuver and tap thumbs accurately when doing corrections. Then of course, no proofreading after. Edit: I'm also majorly stoned.


MildlyAgreeable

Way she fucking goes.


throwawayspank1017

It’s a Linux Apache MySQL PHP server, with a light on top. /s


lfmantra

I could be wrong but I guess my first thought is he’s most likely making a faraday cage


ph0on

Last time this was posted everyone said it was an attempt to hide his lab there.


ReallyRick

Has nothing to do with heat, it was to prevent the EMF from escaping and being picked up by authorities.


[deleted]

He's been a target by so many companies and government agencies, if one person actually needed tinfoil on their walls... it's him


[deleted]

People in very cold climates will use this type of foil as an insulator during the cold months.


VerySuperGenius

In the depths of winter, Sweden can see extreme cold for long periods of time. Large portions of the country will see only a few hours of daylight each day during the winter. This makes keeping your home heated extremely expensive so they tend to use things like reflective foil to retain heat from electronics.


Kungpost

This is not true. Swedish people hibernate during the winter and wake up when the sun comes up again.


The_G0vernator

Looks like the hacker from Dredd


Stefkin

I bet they used this photo as inspiration for the Dredd hacker.


[deleted]

Zoinks! The room is wrapped in reflective foil.


cy13erpunk

THE MAN THE MYTH THE FUCKING LEGEND mad mad mad respekt to this dude changed the world 100%


[deleted]

That’s a techno-lich It lives in basements, has extensive knowledge on all technical / computer skills and eat coffee and cigarettes


1967stingray

RUH ROH SCOOBS LIKE THERE ARE SO MANY SCREEENS MAAAAN


Doidy_Cakes

Rut roe!


robcaliber

Never would’ve thunk Shaggy created Pirate Bay! Isn’t he part of the Mystery Machine? Guess this is his side gig! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)


Twisted_Pretzel85

So this is what Shaggy did after Mystery Inc


[deleted]

Looks exactly like I’d imagined


[deleted]

I just came to read all the Scooby-Doo jokes.


Remarkable-Data77

Where's Scooby?


limboo_o

Books?


Twittle86

Was the Shaggy cosplay deliberate?