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> if a parent agrees to whatever activity is being done My mom definitely wouldn’t be able to provide informed consent to half the stuff I was doing on the int

by Swizec 4y ago

> if a parent agrees to whatever activity is being done My mom definitely wouldn’t be able to provide informed consent to half the stuff I was doing on the internet in high school and middle school even if I told her about it. She worried, I’m sure, but between speaking next to zero english and the novelty of www in the early 00’s, best she could do was threaten to take the computer if things got too weird.

Semaphor 4y ago
When I was a kid, i hosted WC3 beta cracks, patches, and servers on our ISP Webspace. Blizzard had some call our ISP, who called my dad, who told me to stop doing whatever it was that got people mad It feel like nowadays, it'd have resulted in a lawsuit, but at least threatening lawyer letters. edit: Archive.org link to the site. With a visitor counter and cringy teeny-sounding English ;) https://web.archive.org/web/20020522193227/http://home.foni.net/~wagners/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020522193227/http://home.foni.... For anyone interested, this was strictly beta, by a group of crackers who said they’d stop releasing anything as soon as the game was done. I was one of 4 or 5 people who’d get advanced notification in IRC to upload the newest patches etc. so there’d be multiple mirrors available for the announcement.
- jotm 4y ago
  Nothing beats "Stop using Mandrake, this is illegal software and we will get sued!" On that note, my sister can't wrap her head around the fact that people can have multiple bank accounts and many of them are completely free. She looks at my collection of cards and says "omg the Finanzamt will get you!". Just wait until they get you for making money off TikTok videos lol
- stjohnswarts 4y ago
  Nowadays they would have tried to get you taken from your parents and sent to an Activision owned private prison facility to stamp out Blizzard game stickers.

by Swizec 4y ago

Semaphor 4y ago

When I was a kid, i hosted WC3 beta cracks, patches, and servers on our ISP Webspace. Blizzard had some call our ISP, who called my dad, who told me to stop doing whatever it was that got people mad It feel like nowadays, it'd have resulted in a lawsuit, but at least threatening lawyer letters. edit: Archive.org link to the site. With a visitor counter and cringy teeny-sounding English ;) https://web.archive.org/web/20020522193227/http://home.foni.net/~wagners/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020522193227/http://home.foni.... For anyone interested, this was strictly beta, by a group of crackers who said they’d stop releasing anything as soon as the game was done. I was one of 4 or 5 people who’d get advanced notification in IRC to upload the newest patches etc. so there’d be multiple mirrors available for the announcement.

jotm 4y ago
Nothing beats "Stop using Mandrake, this is illegal software and we will get sued!" On that note, my sister can't wrap her head around the fact that people can have multiple bank accounts and many of them are completely free. She looks at my collection of cards and says "omg the Finanzamt will get you!". Just wait until they get you for making money off TikTok videos lol
stjohnswarts 4y ago
Nowadays they would have tried to get you taken from your parents and sent to an Activision owned private prison facility to stamp out Blizzard game stickers.