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> It took a while to get to the point where you could torrent an arbitrary game Especially so, given that the BitTorrent protocol hadn't even been designed whe
by lukeschlather 8y ago
> It took a while to get to the point where you could torrent an arbitrary game
Especially so, given that the BitTorrent protocol hadn't even been designed when the Dreamcast was officially discontinued.
- notyourwork 8y agoBitTorrent wasn’t how pirated material was distributed in those days. DCC over Irc and FTP were widely used at this time.
- freeflight 8y agoOr simply uploading to some free webspace hoster by breaking the iso up into many smaller rar/zip achieves.
- jandrese 8y agoWasn't it LimeWire/Kazaa? My early P2P history is a little fuzzy. The big issue is that so many people were still on modems back then that downloading a DC game wasn't easy. Plus public WiFi wasn't really a thing yet. It was the kids on college campuses who were connected to brand new and shiny Ethernet networks that really went nuts.
- sizzle 8y agoI used Morpheus I think then bearshare
- notyourwork 8y agoThese applications weren't really where piracy derived, these applications along with a cable modem made it possible for point and click piracy. Similar to Napster. The scene which as others pointed at actually started in newsgroups and shifted to IRC and FTP was where piracy was extremely prevalent.
- borkt 8y agoAlso usenet
- illegalsmile 8y agoAlso newsgroups.