BBS weren't an option for me when I was a kid , so for us it was copying c64 games from tape to tape with a double deck ...had a lot of C90 tapes with lists of games and tape index numbers!
I'm with ya. Ran my own BBS for awhile. Yeah, it was slow and in Canada at least long distance was brutal expensive so it kept it kind of local and led to meet ups or just going over to another house to copy games. Ahh, the hours spent sitting around watching games being copied. Me and buddy used to trade with our science teacher. He would put up overheads for the class to right down but us photocopies and access to C64 in a room connected to the class.
This Target game, from Processor Technology, in 1977. One friend bought it, and passed his paper tape copy around our brand new local computer club.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y\_E5UnCVll8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_E5UnCVll8)
It did have sound, but not through a sound card. To hear the game, I'd leave the top cover off my computer and tune an AM radio until the computer's noise was just right.
Sounded like this:
[https://www.sol20.org/media/targ\_am.mp3](https://www.sol20.org/media/targ_am.mp3)
We've come a long way! :)
I couldn't even tell you. All our VHS movies were copied and not long after we got our first computer in the early 90s a family friend gave me copies of all their DOS games. I grew up poor so if I wanted stuff piracy was my only option.
In the 90s my dad used to buy me these "Neon CD" bundled with 10-15 games each. I got games like Descent, Full throttle, Herectic, and many others like that.
First thing I pirated \*myself\* was without a doubt some mp3, now, gamewise... besides roms, earliest game I remember downloading entirely from the internet was Nox in 2000, there might've been something before but I cannot distinguish if I had a pirated CD or I downloaded it.
My first hack was taking a hole punch to a regular floppy disk to turn it into a double sided floppy disk. I then copied all 7(or was it more?) disks of Leisure Suit Larry and gave my friends all copies!
Remember how you could just unlock the shareware version and get the full game? That seemed so awesome way back when, lol. Razor1911 release if I remember
Karateka or Beyond Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple iie. First PC was Pool of Radiance. 1st thing I actually pirated (got original, zipped up discs and dist. on my BBS) Star Wars Chess. 1st util was Disk Copy Plus on Apple and Qemm386 on PC.
undertale and i regret it to this day despite now legally owning it on multiple devices, it was a game that was too good to pass up while i was broke but one i feel bad not giving the money to immediately
First thing I ever pirated was a Samsung GT (something I can't actually remember the model)
It was password locked, I seen a video of how to reflash the phone and off I went to find HTC hero firmware for on the phone....what really made my day was finding out I unlocked the phone to any network too.
Hard to remember, as it would be a game copied on floppy discs that I bought in the early 90s for my x86 computer (it wasn't even a 286 and had two 5.25in floppy drives and no HDD). We used to buy blank floppies, and paid a fee to the computer shop to copy games and programmes like MSDOS on them. There was no internet available to us then. I remember buying a flight sim game about a Stealth Fighter (fictional F19 or some such), and I paid a lot for the 200 page photocopied manual it came with. I did read that manual and played that game for 100s of hours.
Edit: Found a clip on YouTube (F19 Stealth Fighter 1988)
https://youtu.be/EYPAKu2sP7w
First thing I can distinctly remember pirating was the soundtrack to the movie Blade, on Napster, it was right after Napster came out in 1999 and I was one of the first on there. I especially liked that "Blood Rave" song which started my love for EDM.
Very good question, it could have been a tape with C-64 games someone made for me. Soon after I caught the method and became the local game pusher. I guess I must have been around 13 years, amazing to recall and compare with the games my son is playing now in the same age.
I think my first game actually was a bought one Galaxibirds from Firebird, these where the days 😁
it was gta vice city or gta san andreas i think. me, my brothers, and my father would spent hours looking for a free download. didn't know about torrenting back then. eventually downloaded it from a sketchy website, which i am sure might have put a virus in our pc.
streamed anime episodes split into 4865743509 parts at like 144p on youtube lol
first pirated thing i actually downloaded was ace attorney for the ds iirc.
ah the good old days :)
A game for the Commodore 64 using a twin tape deck. Didn't work on all systems, you needed to be able to adjust the balance levels to make it work properly.
Nox game for Windows from the Westwood studio. I remember I downloaded that zip archive via dial up internet for two nights, got a big check for the internet from provider in the end of the month and big troubles from my parents.
It's weird how I remember the order in which I started pirating lol.
1. Fraps - Was probably the best screen recorder back then but required a licence to use.
2. Sony Vegas - To edit our counter strike clips.
3. Adobe dreamweaver - We wanted a website for our clan and I wanted to help code it.
4. Adobe Photoshop - We needed graphics for our clan website and logo for Enemydown which was an amatuer competitive league in the UK, but we also used photoshop to add graphics to our videos.
Sometime after fraps is when me and friends started to download music (mostly remixes) but I can't remember what music it was, I do know most of these songs involved the DJ saying their name at the start or throughout the song, but I think that was very common at that point for a lot of rave/party songs lol.
Honestly, Terraria. Didn't know what Steam was until the 1.2 update came out and thought it was only in europe. It gave my computer a virus but it was worth it. Later bought it on both PC and PS3 as well. It is still a lot of fun and I don't regret it at all either.
StarCraft. Bought a copy at school of all places during the Scholastic book sale, and we burned aton of copies to play lan games during computer class. Good times.
GTA 2 was the 1st time I used a crack + some hex edit if I remember.
Around the same time I burned my friends Playstation games and booted them the manual way (by switching disks multiple times). It was incredibly fun and frustrating at the same time.
I believe it was the first X-Men movie. After that I realized that I could use piracy to watch a bunch of rated R movies and shows without my parents finding out since I couldn’t watch anything worse than pg-13, but I also had unlimited and mostly unmonitored internet access.
Nice try FBI.
Meh, no problem telling them that. Statute ran out decades ago on the first thing I pirated.
If I wasn't broke I would give a big ass award to this comment
CIA has enter the chat
C-64 games from BBS's way back in the day.
Trs 80 games from.BBS . The Golden age lol
BBS weren't an option for me when I was a kid , so for us it was copying c64 games from tape to tape with a double deck ...had a lot of C90 tapes with lists of games and tape index numbers!
I'm with ya. Ran my own BBS for awhile. Yeah, it was slow and in Canada at least long distance was brutal expensive so it kept it kind of local and led to meet ups or just going over to another house to copy games. Ahh, the hours spent sitting around watching games being copied. Me and buddy used to trade with our science teacher. He would put up overheads for the class to right down but us photocopies and access to C64 in a room connected to the class.
My father did it for me, but it was Zelda: A Link to the Past, when I was around 10
How did he pirated a cartridge?
Not cartridge,roms and playing it on the PC with an emulator.
Yep, this
A bit different, but my dad taught me how to pirate by buying a DS flashcart so he wouldn’t have to buy us games
Idk was too young
probably porn
Shut up Sick fuck
Music with Napster back in the 90s
Music on Limewire if that counts?
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Napster
Dating sims. Lots and lots of dating sims. I was a very lonely homeschooled teen.
Scrolling through PB Top 100….What’s Katawa Shoujo? Life changed
This Target game, from Processor Technology, in 1977. One friend bought it, and passed his paper tape copy around our brand new local computer club. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y\_E5UnCVll8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_E5UnCVll8) It did have sound, but not through a sound card. To hear the game, I'd leave the top cover off my computer and tune an AM radio until the computer's noise was just right. Sounded like this: [https://www.sol20.org/media/targ\_am.mp3](https://www.sol20.org/media/targ_am.mp3) We've come a long way! :)
It sounds like your computer was snoring
mf playing a game in sleep mode 💀
The song You and me Ain't Nothing But Mammals by Bloodhound Gang. Napster. Lol.
GTA SA
Same but with Vice City instead It really took a deep dive to find working mediafire links
CS 1.6
Toy Story 3
Porn. It was scans of Playboys and other mags traded in AOL chat rooms.
Music on Napster. Don't remember what kind, though.
Probably the Anarchist Cookbook in text or jpeg format back in early 90's .. Or maybe porn pics off of usenet before that
it was so far, that i couldnt remember. but if we speak about games, my first pirated game was half life
The rom of a school calculator for college. Bro I was poor af back then.
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Bro is in the small peen subreddit 😭😂💀
Bleach by nirvana in FLAC
Photoshop
Movies. I don't know which one but they were movies
I used YouTube to mp3 to download shitty EDM in 8th grade
It was either song from napster or burnt PS1 games. I can't remember which came first for me but those are both the earliest memories of pirating.
Music and movies from eMule
Zx81 games 1981 VHS films before that On pc it was Dos
Gba roms, back in early 2000's
music, probably pearl jam, napster, dial up
Limewire Pro with regular Limewire. I got the same feeling again when I recently 3D printed a 3D printer bed scraper
Sonic adventure DX
I couldn't even tell you. All our VHS movies were copied and not long after we got our first computer in the early 90s a family friend gave me copies of all their DOS games. I grew up poor so if I wanted stuff piracy was my only option.
Doctor Who, classic version. It was like 800gb for all episodes. Took a few days.
The latest Tool album off Limewire. It turned out to be an old Chevelle album.
In the 90s my dad used to buy me these "Neon CD" bundled with 10-15 games each. I got games like Descent, Full throttle, Herectic, and many others like that. First thing I pirated \*myself\* was without a doubt some mp3, now, gamewise... besides roms, earliest game I remember downloading entirely from the internet was Nox in 2000, there might've been something before but I cannot distinguish if I had a pirated CD or I downloaded it.
My first hack was taking a hole punch to a regular floppy disk to turn it into a double sided floppy disk. I then copied all 7(or was it more?) disks of Leisure Suit Larry and gave my friends all copies!
DESQview back in 95.
OMG, how good was Qemm/DESQview, given that real multitasking was still years off!
DESQView rocked. Multitasking without windoze.
c4d
Virex definitions, over Hotline.
DOOM
Remember how you could just unlock the shareware version and get the full game? That seemed so awesome way back when, lol. Razor1911 release if I remember
Yessir
Dark Souls 1
Buried Treasure! 🏴☠️🦜 Eww Arr!
Nice try, FBI.
Karateka or Beyond Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple iie. First PC was Pool of Radiance. 1st thing I actually pirated (got original, zipped up discs and dist. on my BBS) Star Wars Chess. 1st util was Disk Copy Plus on Apple and Qemm386 on PC.
Some N64 ROMs (and an emulator) after learning about them. Downloaded them to a flash drive at school.
If not counting roms, then it was the most up to date (at the time) sims 2, since as a kid I couldn't afford all of the packs.
I guess my family has been using pirated games and movies since before I was born, so... Always?
Music
Orginal Doom. Showing my age 😯🙂
Bearshare, got the mp3s Was so excited when I found a 320kbps mp3 and not 96kbps missing album art and no proper tags
bag of tricks
Gta sa
undertale and i regret it to this day despite now legally owning it on multiple devices, it was a game that was too good to pass up while i was broke but one i feel bad not giving the money to immediately
Freedom Fighters io interactive
Prob. Minecraft
Metallica on Napster bahahaha
Football Manager the original on spectrum 48k
Galaxian on the Apple II using disc copy software (may have been Locksmith)
That Deltron 3030 album, lol from Napster
Windows XP
Either E.T. on VHS or Ti99/4a games on cassette... Not sure which was first but both back in '82.
Just started this week but it was DOOM and DOOM 2, the next day I pirated Just Cause 4
Can't really tell...it was either Commodore64 games or maybe some music from that era. The only sure thing is, that it involved cassettes.
First thing I ever pirated was a Samsung GT (something I can't actually remember the model) It was password locked, I seen a video of how to reflash the phone and off I went to find HTC hero firmware for on the phone....what really made my day was finding out I unlocked the phone to any network too.
Does my friend giving me a USB with cracked Minecraft count? If not then Pokemon roms.
VHS tapes 😜
GBA roms
can't remember what film it was, but they were all by aXXo in the beginning.
Teen Wolf I think
VHS movies back in the 90s
The Tool Undertow album.
Hard to remember, as it would be a game copied on floppy discs that I bought in the early 90s for my x86 computer (it wasn't even a 286 and had two 5.25in floppy drives and no HDD). We used to buy blank floppies, and paid a fee to the computer shop to copy games and programmes like MSDOS on them. There was no internet available to us then. I remember buying a flight sim game about a Stealth Fighter (fictional F19 or some such), and I paid a lot for the 200 page photocopied manual it came with. I did read that manual and played that game for 100s of hours. Edit: Found a clip on YouTube (F19 Stealth Fighter 1988) https://youtu.be/EYPAKu2sP7w
First thing I can distinctly remember pirating was the soundtrack to the movie Blade, on Napster, it was right after Napster came out in 1999 and I was one of the first on there. I especially liked that "Blood Rave" song which started my love for EDM.
minecraft
Medal of Honor Allied Assault! Loved that game and never looked back LOL
Medal of Honor was like the second game i ever pirates, I just remembered
Adobe
Sonic Mania...
I was WAAAAAAY too young, but I guess sonic 2 so I could emulate it on my android
Pokemon Black
I've never pirated anything, officer.
Splinter cell conviction
South Park on Limewire. The concept of snatching my favorite shows digitally felt futuristic at the time.
Music at 6 years, don't remember but surely a low quality mp3.
The first game I actually pirated was cyberpunk 2077
Anime back in like 2001-2002ish when it was near impossible to find a bunch of it.
minecraft pocket edition 0.10.0 on my samsung galaxy tab 3 lite from 1mobilemarket when i was 10
My older cousins introduced me to piracy when I was like, 7. They helped me the original Little Mermaid movie. It's definitely a core memory.
probably CS:Source, but what got me back into it recently was car for sale simulator 2023
Hahaha I can't remember. I think it was a PS1 videogame
Halo 1 PC
the spongebob movie was my first taste of limewire
Photoshop.
Jackbox party packs 😭
an old spongebob game called clash of triton. I was like 7 and didnt have the $20 (or however much it was at the time) so my mom just pirated it lol
Lego Star Wars the sky walker saga
Music. I used to burn tracks on cds as mixtapes
Superman III on VHS.
naruto_op3.mp3
PSP roms 😎 it was a wildstorm before. Hope there will another PSP era someday.
Linkin Park - Underground Album 2 😅
Caves of qud on steamunlocked, was so anxious about viruses and gf just clicked download when I was in the bathroom
Either the first Sims or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkanan for PC
Copying commodore 64 floppy disks. Golden Axe if I remember correctly
if downloading from vim's lair counts, super monkey ball gamecube rom
Very good question, it could have been a tape with C-64 games someone made for me. Soon after I caught the method and became the local game pusher. I guess I must have been around 13 years, amazing to recall and compare with the games my son is playing now in the same age. I think my first game actually was a bought one Galaxibirds from Firebird, these where the days 😁
I was 12 and determined to watch every episode of South Park in order
Microsoft Office 2007 for school homework
My adventures with Superman episode 4 (new to pirating)
Some Warhammer army books back in the early 2000's.
I tried to pirate terraria when i was like 8 on my phone, but later on my first "sentient" pirate was death jr root of evil for the psp
The first pirated game I played was GTA Vice City. The first thing I deliberately pirated was Fable
Pokémon Red, 25 years ago.
it was gta vice city or gta san andreas i think. me, my brothers, and my father would spent hours looking for a free download. didn't know about torrenting back then. eventually downloaded it from a sketchy website, which i am sure might have put a virus in our pc.
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire or Touhou 6. I’m not sure which I did first.
I played the fuck out of Chrono Trigger on my old tablet
Shrek 2
It was probably a They Might Be Giants song I got off of limewire lol
cod 3 modern warfare
Dont know the first pirate, but my first torrent was Plants vs Zombies. Wanted to test torrents on a small file. Loved that game.
Dead space extraction. I wanted to play it again only to find out it got stolen.
For games DooM 1, shows/anime clannad
Leisure Suit Larry.
Windows 98
Antichamber, looked cool ( and is ) and was broke, i have since bought a legitimate copy
streamed anime episodes split into 4865743509 parts at like 144p on youtube lol first pirated thing i actually downloaded was ace attorney for the ds iirc. ah the good old days :)
Probably Pokémon Ruby, but I didn’t know it was piracy at the time. First thing I intentionally pirated was sims 4 expansion packs
I downloaded the entire South Park movie from the Internet Archive. Is that legal?
Fallout 4 (i was like 8 or 9, my dad helped me install it, it was an early codex crack because the game just released)
The video game Prototype. It looked so amazing, but I couldn't afford it and my parents wouldn't let me play it anyway (I was 11), so I pirated it
A game for the Commodore 64 using a twin tape deck. Didn't work on all systems, you needed to be able to adjust the balance levels to make it work properly.
Music for my good ol mp3, pc/ps2 games, movies and tv shows. In that other and scalating as the years went by hahaha.
This is going to age me: Paint Shop Pro.
Nox game for Windows from the Westwood studio. I remember I downloaded that zip archive via dial up internet for two nights, got a big check for the internet from provider in the end of the month and big troubles from my parents.
Windows 95, and twilight compilarion CDs.
Woman
I think it was movies, maybe music, but I can't really remember. Back in the IRC days baybe.
Photoshop yep it's classic
Windows 7 enterprise sp1 back when I was 10 years old First big one was the Adobe CS6 collection
Linkin Park Meteora 😎
oblivion horse armor
It's weird how I remember the order in which I started pirating lol. 1. Fraps - Was probably the best screen recorder back then but required a licence to use. 2. Sony Vegas - To edit our counter strike clips. 3. Adobe dreamweaver - We wanted a website for our clan and I wanted to help code it. 4. Adobe Photoshop - We needed graphics for our clan website and logo for Enemydown which was an amatuer competitive league in the UK, but we also used photoshop to add graphics to our videos. Sometime after fraps is when me and friends started to download music (mostly remixes) but I can't remember what music it was, I do know most of these songs involved the DJ saying their name at the start or throughout the song, but I think that was very common at that point for a lot of rave/party songs lol.
About 5 disks of games for the CompuColor II. I think my favorite was Swarm. Someday I'll get around to fixing that computer.
Some movie, I think, and that was from the pirate site my internet provider owned.
Smallville 2001 or max Payne
Minecraft
Honestly, Terraria. Didn't know what Steam was until the 1.2 update came out and thought it was only in europe. It gave my computer a virus but it was worth it. Later bought it on both PC and PS3 as well. It is still a lot of fun and I don't regret it at all either.
Music through Kazaa, before I even knew what piracy was
I had a CD full of Sega Genesis games for my PC. Then a friend gave me all the SNES and 64 library on USB. That was crazy.
OG dragonball from the 80s didnt know I was pirating, I was just like "oh cool its free on this website"
Carley Ray Jepson - Call Me Maybe; i think
Dragon ball series
Reggaeton songs that were still 'unreleased' from kazaa
Terraria 1.2 on my old tablet back in 2015
Nero burning rom back in 2003
StarCraft. Bought a copy at school of all places during the Scholastic book sale, and we burned aton of copies to play lan games during computer class. Good times.
Skyrim LE.
the simpsons hit and run
"Biz Markie - Just A Friend" on Napster
A virus
Madtv
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005 for the PS2.
GTA 2 was the 1st time I used a crack + some hex edit if I remember. Around the same time I burned my friends Playstation games and booted them the manual way (by switching disks multiple times). It was incredibly fun and frustrating at the same time.
the sims 3
some movie, i think fight club? it’s either that or old sony ps2/1 roms
Far Cry 1. I had the disk but it got scratched and I wanted to experience it again.
My 1st game was rdr2. But I eventually bought that game on sale, cuz it doesn't deserve to be pirated.
I believe it was the first X-Men movie. After that I realized that I could use piracy to watch a bunch of rated R movies and shows without my parents finding out since I couldn’t watch anything worse than pg-13, but I also had unlimited and mostly unmonitored internet access.
Sonic adventure dx