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Actually it was pirates who did that in the late 90s/early 2000s. Nobody was showing Naruto except kazaa. But noone ever gives them credit.
by phobosdeimos 8y ago
Actually it was pirates who did that in the late 90s/early 2000s. Nobody was showing Naruto except kazaa. But noone ever gives them credit.
- abritinthebay 8y agoBecause the implied point is about it being mainstream. Which what you’re describing explicitly isn’t.
- slededit 8y agoPiracy was mainstream in the early 90s/2000s. It was only when iTunes came out and the RIAA lawsuits successfully killed the p2p clients that it tamed back down.
- isostatic 8y agoNapster made music sharing mainstream c. 1999, but only the most extreme people were DCCing sg1 episodes over modems at that point. It was the emergence of iTunes that killed off unauthorised sharing - because the product was available at a reasonable price in the way people wanted it.
- wolco 8y agoiTunes changed the music business into what it is today. The heyday of albums, bands, 20 dollar cds is over. But music has become less special less mainstream and people are less likely to identify themselves by subgroups formed around a music type. Young people are not on mass claiming to be Punks, goths, hippies, metal fans, disco heads, something new etc. Which has slowed down the evolution of music.
- abritinthebay 8y agoI lived that era and that’s nonsense. It was popular amongst tech savvy people, with decent connections, and younger (<25yr old) ones at that. Hell CD burners were not even that mainstream around then (remember how big of a deal it was that the later candy iMacs shipped with a CD burner?) That’s a niche. Not mainstream.
- fiblye 8y agoThe most normal, borderline tech-inept people I know were all torrenting stuff 15 years ago. People I know here in Asia were torrenting American music that they couldn't easily/cheaply find here, and Americans I know were pirating anime subs years before they'd ever get legally released in America.
- orbitur 8y agoAt least in North America, torrenting is no longer mainstream. Netflix is too easy. Adults that were previously torrenters barely use a machine that offers a torrent client anymore, it's mostly iPads and phones for casual use.
- wolco 8y agoIt is easy to torrent from a phone/device so many good standalone clients. The streaming of popcorn movie time to kodi plugins life is all about streaming but a lot of content still comes from torrents.
- dzhiurgis 8y agoFunny. I find WebTorrents a bliss to use compared with Netflix - you wan't me to install WHAT? And then pay how much??? Heeeell no.
- orbitur 8y agoInstall? Netflix comes with even the cheapest TVs now. It's hard to buy a new TV without it.
- AngryData 8y agoMany people, including me, don't want or have any desire for 'smart' TV. Even using somebody else's smart TV makes me want to kill myself. They run like shit, are slow, laggy, and the picture is subpar compared to even cheap monitors, especially for high-def video. The only plus point they have is size but that isn't a problem either if you don't have a 50 foot long living room.
- ericd 8y agoIt was very mainstream, at least amongst students at the time.
- phobosdeimos 8y agoYeah. Streaming was basically the answer to TV piracy. Everyone was downloading the latest American TV shows and Japanese anime until Netflix and others showed up.
- abritinthebay 8y agoI was a student at that time. Common, yes, specifically with tech course students (like myself) but mainstream? No. I had to explain it to several others students in 2001. That is not “was mainstream in the late 90s”. That’s “was breaking out” at best.
- ericd 8y agoI was too, maybe our middle school was more into piracy than your school was, but Napster use was rampant.