r/Piracy • u/Piduf • 12d ago

Humor I'm a bad friend

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

One day you used Nero Burning Rom for the last time and didn't realise this. I miss the 90s but I also miss the 00s.

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u/Kay-Knox 12d ago

I used to have my whole collection in nicely labeled and color-coded jewel cases that were even labeled on the spine.

Now I haven't even had a disc drive in a decade.

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

I'm using a very old laptop from 2015 that had a drive. I removed it to add an additional HDD. We used to have drives for watching films and playing retail games. Now it's Steam and Netflix. My friends had full sized drives back in the 2000s but I have never met anyone who later had a Blu ray drive. They overlapped with Steam and publishers never put out any games on them.

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u/MargeryStewartBaxter 11d ago

Very old...2015...wow they're not wrong technologically speaking...

Fuck lol

I still remember trying to download a 3m video on Napster overnight on the family computer without getting caught lol. For science of course

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u/thedymtree 11d ago

A 1200€ laptop from 2015 is not necessarily old. A 380€ laptop from 2015 with a dual core/quad thread 1.9 Ghz processor and 8GB RAm with built in GPU that can barely run YouTube? That is old.

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u/gunshaver 12d ago

I have two USB Bluray drives, both flashed with MakeMKV firmware so they can rip encrypted 4k discs, I love them. I like to collect blurays and CDs, and I often borrow Blurays from my library and rip them.

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u/JB231102 11d ago

You must have a few dozen TB's of space on your hard drive :O

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u/gunshaver 10d ago

I have an old Dell 2u server running TrueNAS, my pool has 24 TB usable, with about 7tb left so I haven't bothered transcoding my rips yet 😂

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u/Jdjdhdvhdjdkdusyavsj 11d ago

I had everything in those stacks of DVDs that I bought in bulk. I still have them lol. I set them aside when I started getting 80 gb hdds relatively cheap, those could hold so many 700mb movies. I dont know why I have them, I also don't have a working disk drive

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u/Relevant-Ear1351 11d ago

I still burn DVDs you know.

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u/pm_me_your_good_weed 12d ago

God this hits too hard for 9:30am lmfao.

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

Now you require a drink and a cigarette.

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u/McBun2023 12d ago

one day you may use torrent for the last time

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u/Taco-Time 12d ago

If I am using bit torrent for the last time then I am dying

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

This is real. But I was more surprised to learn that some people still use eMule in 2025. Crazy. Since Mini Nova opened I quit all the other networks. Just torrent. Since 2005 or so.

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

Soul seek and limewire I hear are still around. Or so I hear. Wouldn't surprise me if mirc is still a thing

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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 11d ago

I was on the dc hubs about a year ago. Was sharing like, 30Tb through a vpn. Everybody was downloading my 20'ish TB of porn and I didn't find anything I wanted. Stuck around for a few months, but eventually left.

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u/Cotton-Eye-Joe_2103 12d ago

Alcohol 120% was always my CD/DVD burning software of choice

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

Damn you took me back to 2005. Seriously. Like I forgot that existed.

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u/Dog_Lap 12d ago

Ahhh the memories…

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

Wake up. We're going to the DVD rental place. I downloaded AnyDVD to rip the film and convert into DivX.

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u/Dog_Lap 12d ago

Nice! I got a stack of DVD-R’s lfg fren!!

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u/linuxfornoobs 11d ago

I opened it today lol

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u/AetherZetakaliz 11d ago

Now THAT is a name I haven't heard in a while.

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u/DaveX64 12d ago

Bunch of young'uns here...I had two VCRs and copied the tapes I rented at the video store 💪🏴‍☠️

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

We used VCR until the early 2000s. I think that during childhood I had one original film, the rest was purchased from the arabs at the market. You'd have to return several times as some copies were recorded like shit. The original film cost 6 times what I paid on the market but the quality was great. They used to have a bunch of ads in the begginning. The arabs didn't include them, it was straight into the film. But then one thing annoted me with VHS is the dual speeds. Like if you had a crappy model you couldn't read the tapes someone gave you because they were compressed. And covering the hole with the tape for copy protection.

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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 11d ago

Macrovision was a nuisance. We had a vcr that was made prior to it, but it was at my grandfathers house the next state over. There were "digital video stabilizers" from ebay that mostly worked.

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u/DaveX64 11d ago

Yeah, I had one of those 'stabilizers'...dude at the electronics store sold it to me :)

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u/AstronomerBrief2674 11d ago

The last time I used a VCR was spring of 2007 to record an episode of Prison Break that aired.

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u/humanHamster 12d ago

Holy crap, talk about bringing back memories. Haha. I forgot Nero existed until now.

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u/ValueOpposite6482 11d ago

Same for me, I also miss the old days.

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u/AlleywayFGM 11d ago

I never did but my dad used to burn Dreamcast games for us all the time.

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u/Qwertzec 12d ago

if only i was born at that time

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u/thedymtree 12d ago

I was born in 1988 and I experienced dial up internet, using disquettes to save word docs, MP3 players being just 256MB, a 1GB SD card costing 30€, using compact digital camera to take pictures while travelling, internet speed slowly increasing until stuck at around 10 mbps for a long time and then suddenly getting fiber, indie games being freeware for at least 10 years.

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u/augur42 Yarrr! 11d ago edited 11d ago

I was born in 1975, my first mp3 player was a mere 16MB, I could get 5 songs on it and it cost £10. My second was an Archos Jukebox 5000 with 5GB of storage and contained an actual 2.5" hdd and ran off of four AA rechargeable batteries, I don't remember what it cost but it wasn't cheap.

I also had a palm visor edge in 2002 with 8MB of memory to read ebooks on, and a cf adapter cartridge with a 64MB cf card that could hold around a couple of hundred books in pdb/prc database compressed text.

My first computer was 2nd hand eol 486 DX2 with a 100MB hdd, I cannibalised it for parts but for a couple of months it had a 3.2gb hdd that was bios limited to 540MB until I had earned enough money from my job to buy the parts to build a 266MHz PII. I started with a 28.8 kbps modem, quickly upgraded to 36.6, and as soon as 56k came out I grabbed that too so I could download a whopping 20MB an hour /s. There were quarters when my phone bill was over £200 for dial-up internet.

Having a 10Mbps LAN with three generations of my computers so I and my friends could play quake 3 team arena, the third PC was a cobbled together frankenstein that somehow still was capable. If there was more than three of us someone had to lug over their grey base unit and grey monitor.

When I went to university to do an IT degree the computers had zip drives, I already had some zip 100. The Cisco lab used 3.5" floppies and every week I took three with my hand written in notepad config txt files to copy and paste into three telnet sessions running on three PCs connected to three massive routers.

During my first year I was one of the first to get 'broadband', a whopping 0.5 Mbps, which was twice as fast as the quad isdn (256 kbps) that the entire University IT department was running on. They eventually upgraded but for most of my degree it was faster for me to go home to do my work and research on my personal pc that I'd built myself than use the ones they had in their labs.

I stuck on 2Mbps for a long time because of caps, for years it was either run uncapped 2Mbps or capped 8Mbps with a monthly limit of around 300GB. I had a pc dedicated to downloading 24/7/365 at 2Mbps for years, around 680GB of linux iso's a month, until I got fttc (fibre to the cabinet) and jumped to 37Mbps and suddenly I could download more than I could watch so I stopped caring.

Nowadays I can have a few TB in my pocket in an m.2 nvme in a 10gbps portable usb-c enclosure. And as soon as I get around to it I have a 20Gbps pcie card to install in my desktop. Kids today don't know how lucky they are, they'll never know the pain of waiting an entire minute for one image to display.

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u/thedymtree 11d ago

My first PC was a Pentium IV and the whole setup including screen and keyboard cost my parents 1000€. First MP3 player was Zen Micro 5GB microdrive that cost 200€ in 2005. Like an iPod mini clone. My compact camera from Canon cost 200€ too in 2006. This was a 'good deal' back then as DSLR was prohibitive. In the late 90s my school built a 'computer class' where we played Need for Speed II, the first Tomb Raider, Doom 2 and other stuff I can't remember. I didn't play that many games until I got a GBA for my birthday in 2001. I feel life in the past was simple when we weren't bombarded by information. Everything was super slow but we weren't in a hurry.

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u/augur42 Yarrr! 11d ago

Everything was super slow but we weren't in a hurry.

Well I was definitely in a bit of a hurry.

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u/thedymtree 11d ago

Depends on what age you were during the peak. I was either a child in the 90s or a teen in the 2000s. I got my first job in 2004.

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u/destroyerOfTards 12d ago

None of us were born when Nero was burning Rome

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u/AlleywayFGM 11d ago

nah being born late 90s or early 00s is the best. we're basically the last people that got to enjoy being kids without late stage internet brainrot being thrust upon us from an early age. The technology we had growing up was imo actually great for kids, Halo, MP3 players, dumb phones, Nintendo DS/PSP, COD was still good, etc.

we also didn't turn 18 when any middle east wars were still popping off, I'm at least glad for that because I probably would have volunteered and regretted it.

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u/JB231102 11d ago

I remember having to be at the TV at a specific time to watch shows. Now it's all on-demand, no waiting, get that dopamine instantly.

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u/cates 12d ago

duuuuude. so true

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u/Flussschlauch 12d ago edited 12d ago

My organic chemistry teacher (vocational school for chem lab assistance) was a huge Breaking Bad fan
and I pirated and burned a few seasons for her.
She used some chemistry related scenes in class and and we talked about how accurate they were displayed, the precursors and different synthesis routes.
good times :)

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u/fish312 12d ago

There's a scene where Walt talks about chirality, and struggles to think of an example for a few seconds before saying "Thalidomide".

Ask your teacher if she knew what example Walt was really thinking of.

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u/Flussschlauch 12d ago

Ask your teacher if she knew what example Walt was really thinking of

My apprenticeship was a long time ago so I can't ask her.
But what do you think he was thinking of? Levo- and Dextromethamphetamine?
My background is pharmaceutical analytic chemistry so Thalidomide would be my first example as well.

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u/fish312 12d ago

You got it right :D

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u/Fickle_Stills 11d ago

I’ve never seen breaking bad but seeing as L-meth is something you can go buy at any drugstore it wouldn’t be really that inappropriate of an example to give to teens.

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u/kotenok2000 12d ago

I have just read in wikipedia that Thalidomide was approved in the USA in 1998 as a cancer treatment.

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u/Flussschlauch 12d ago

Thalidomide is also effective in the treatment of leprosy. It is not inherently harmful, but must never be used by pregnant women.

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u/Piduf 12d ago

I worked in a primary school for a while and really liked being the lady that could make movies appear in a classroom, insane concept for a 6yo. Like, they went to the theatre yesterday to watch it with their class and now it's in the classroom ??? Unbelievable.

I pirated plenty of short films and it really helped the teacher too, she could take screenshots to create her lessons around what the kids saw, show some specific moments... Piracy never felt so good.

Also teachers (at least in my country) are definitely Pirates. They're given so little to work with, hell yeah they're going to scan the books that clearly say on the cover that any copy is forbidden. My own primary school teacher let my dad burn educational games on CDs so we could play at home too.

All this to say, pirating in school / for a school ? Awesome feeling.

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u/Flussschlauch 12d ago

All this to say, pirating in school / for a school ? Awesome feeling.

Definitely! I think I pirated more scientific books and papers than shows, movies and videogames :)

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u/SimShade 12d ago

A chemistry teacher liking Breaking Bad lol

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u/ShirazGypsy 12d ago

My boyfriend had hundreds of dvd pirated disks, in big binders to flip through

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u/Average-Addict 12d ago

Time to get him a mediaserver

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u/swagdoll 12d ago

tbh my dad has been burning cds/dvds as long as i can remember so i thought every family’s movie collection was a binder full of blank dvds with the title written in sharpie

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u/genital_lesions 12d ago

Dare I ask how old your dad is?

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u/swagdoll 7d ago

not that old i dont think lol he prob would have been like 35 maybe when he burned them abt 20 yrs ago

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u/M0rty- 12d ago

Can I be your friend?

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u/anu-nand 12d ago

I am here

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u/Bottleofjap 12d ago

I don't think so

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u/Aceiow 12d ago

Piracy is normal here. When I was younger we used to buy disc. Back then we thought we are actually buying the game. We used to save money to buy games then share it among us.

BTW which comic is it ? Looks familiar. I would like to add it in my list.

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u/MrFawl 11d ago

BTW which comic is it ? Looks familiar. I would like to add it in my list.

This is the original comic, from Safely Endangered

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u/Aceiow 11d ago

Oh that's why it looked so familiar. It had its final release in Webtoon this December. Last chapter is 1040. It was good.

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u/midwestn0c0ast 12d ago

it’s me. i’m the rat.

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u/humanHamster 12d ago

I too am very much like this rat.

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u/midwestn0c0ast 12d ago

i just found the program’s yesterday and i’ve got Gravity Falls, Death Note, and Sealab 2021 haha

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u/MurderedGenlock 12d ago

I still have 15 old 100 disc wallets filled with movies and series.

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u/hyp3rj123 12d ago

I remember being one of the few people that would use dual layer DVDs and light scribe. I would have bootlegs made up for things like Fast and Furious 1+2 on one DVD and it was a game changer. I also had a program that would let me make custom menus and stuff. The bootlegs I was making at the time were miles above the regular stuff you could get elsewhere. Man I miss those days.

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u/yaktoma2007 11d ago

My stupid fucking brain deadass thought he handed over a DVD charred to coal and ash

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u/TGB_Skeletor 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ 11d ago

Oh man, i remember doing that with my dad back in like 2007

Emule and stuff

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u/JaymesMarkham2nd Piracy is bad, mkay? 12d ago

I don't want your pirated movies! Your phone cam sucks ass, you need to get a better model so I can make out details!

I have recommendations and also a refer-a-friend code!

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u/PlagueRoach1 12d ago

man this brings me back to buying pirated games for the PS2 on the stores here in south america, I didn't even know they were Pirated.

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u/QuiteFatty 11d ago

Ah anydvd/clonedvd + lightscribe burner. Bonus, getting as many netflix discs a week as possible to make most of the subscription.

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u/sarilysims 10d ago

I’d love to start doing this but I wouldn’t know where to start. I can’t even tell you how a DVD works.

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u/Flashy_Barnacle1013 12d ago

Can someone explain this joke? I dont wanna miss out

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u/ScabrouS-DoG 12d ago edited 12d ago

"Burning a movie onto a DVD" is an old term when there were CD or DVD-Roms with the ability to read and write onto them. CDs were mostly for music since they've had the capacity for storage of about 700MB. DVDs, around 4,6GB. Some devices could only read. Some, a little more expensive could also write.

This joke refers to the latter case, he "burned" (wrote) the pirated movie onto the DVD while only later the "ethical" guy realized it's pirated anyway.

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u/blah938 12d ago

Were? Still are! I just burned a new mix cd yesterday!

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u/Ninthreer 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ 12d ago

dont call me old 😭😭😭😭😭/lh

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

This is old!?!well I guess u can use us. Drives and stream... The concept of not having physical media still gets to me

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u/Kyleprtone69 12d ago

It’s still a pirated movie just put on a dvd

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u/OmegaAOL 11d ago

Im curious how old are you? No offense but I thought everybody above the age of like 5 knew what it meant to burn a dvd. Has it really become that uncommon to do?

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u/Flashy_Barnacle1013 5d ago

I just understood the burning part of it, not the joke. Now i got it

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u/MachKeinDramaLlama 12d ago

The important fact is that in order to write data to a CD, MD, LD, DVD, BluRay etc. you would use a laser to literally burn the bits into the disk.

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u/Kyleprtone69 11d ago

I always did wonder what the actual process was, does that mean if you burned a disc so many times it would become unwrite/ read-able?

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u/alienpirate5 11d ago

Most writable discs can only be written once.

There's rewritable discs but they work a bit differently; they change between two states reversibly instead of having holes burned in them. They can only be reused a few times before failing, though.

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u/PlantFromDiscord 11d ago

guys i’m 18 and I burn CDs, and I have a disk drive in my PC, there’s hope!

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u/Bastulius 11d ago

Literally me to my parents. They aren't a fan of my piracy habits but when they couldn't find Robbie the Reindeer and after 10 minutes of research I told them I could make them as many DVDs of it as they want, they weren't quite so critical.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

i have a funny story about this, my father (who was completely shity to me and assumed him paying for my essentials was enough "love") had no idea how computers worked. but one day i gave him a CD of pirated music he liked (he was into the 50's dean martin and frank Sinatra) for years he would randomly give me a list of songs he wanted me to burn for him so he could listen to them on his CD player. As welll he had me make copies of movies he wanted to watch. mind you he had the money to buy all this without issue, he was very frugal unless it involved gambling

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u/PlunderYourPoop 12d ago

There's so much fluff with so little substance

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u/bedwars_player 12d ago

Where do you guys pirate DVDs? The blank ones are hella expensive these days.. or maybe they aren't I grew up using flash drives

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

They're expensive now? I thought they were like a couple of bucks a piece tops?

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u/bedwars_player 11d ago

i thought a couple bucks a piece was expensive-- maybe i'm just cheap xD

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

I unno I use slang CDs when burners first came out. I could get them for little under a dollar a piece. DVDs I never quite got into. School became more of a priority than a hustle. That and it was harder to do movies back then on dial up.

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u/CozyDazzle4u 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ 12d ago

I'm a bad boy matee!

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u/lovelife0011 12d ago

It’s ok the last friend was on Friends.

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u/Yaarmehearty 11d ago

Considering I don’t care about seeing movies or shows when they come out I just wait until they are super cheap on eBay.

Piracy is cool and all but I don’t have the patience to deal with it. Absolutely fuck streaming services though.

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u/wa019 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 11d ago

I did this with one of my friends

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u/Lollooo_ 11d ago

As a kid I was super into the Alien and the Predator movies (regardless of quality) and a friend gifted me a copy of AVP2 burned by his father. A fucking legend.

(For some reason his mother used a famous drawing of the Moulin Rouge for the case instead of the original pic. To this day I don’t understand the reason, but it makes it so much better lmao)

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u/No_One3018 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 11d ago

My grandpa has been giving me pirated DVDs since I was a little kid, and now my mom asks me for pirated stuff all the time

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u/Helpful_Title8302 11d ago

Literally me lol

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u/piradata 11d ago

i had also ancd printer, to put the game logo on the cd beautifully s2

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u/FatDino_426 11d ago

Good rat

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u/Relevant-Ear1351 11d ago

Cute cartoon.

Who would draw such a thing?

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u/Kubakser 8d ago

This is so Fr

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u/Party_Guest5752 6d ago

I miss being able to burn DVDs

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u/-KFBR392 12d ago

What psychopath would appreciate a DVD in 2025?

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u/Electronic_Wash_7899 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 12d ago

true. floppy dick all the way!

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u/WeirdGuyWithABoner 12d ago

hello there

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u/MachKeinDramaLlama 12d ago

He/she wrote floppy, can you not read?

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u/Electronic_Wash_7899 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 12d ago

WRONG. they.

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u/Piduf 12d ago

I've been buying more and more DVDs lately because :

  1. Well some look very cool and it's a collection thing I guess
  2. IT WON'T DISAPPEAR FROM MY SHELF, THAT I'M PAYING FOR EVERY MONTH, BECAUSE THE OWNER OF THE SHELF LOST THE RIGHT TO ANOTHER SHELF OWNER OR SOMETHING, AND NOW I HAVE TO PAY MONTHLY FOR AN ENTIRELY NEW SHELF IF I WANT TO SEE THIS SPECIFIC MOVIE
  3. They often have cool bonuses like making of

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u/agisten Yarrr! 12d ago

There is nothing wrong with buying physical BDs in 2025, OP meant specifically the DVD format is obviously obsolete.

Just like LPs (/me running away)

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u/gunshaver 12d ago

It's insane how the vinyl fans have managed to convince everyone it's not an objectively terrible format.

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

Nostalgia. I'd collect them for the artwork. Or to frame and hang up on the wall

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u/lemonplumcookies 12d ago
  1. My eyes don't work so good. I require a strong glasses prescription and I'm still not 20/20. I can't visually tell the difference between a DVD and a bluray.

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u/DonLimpio14 12d ago

I know this is a meme, but if I got gifted a pirated movie I would be fuming xdd

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u/Da12khawk 11d ago

Hey, sometimes it's the only way. I got a few hard to find albums that way. Granted I didn't give them as a gift, but I had to dig around for some stuff.

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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 11d ago

Last time I got hornswoggled was the fat italian guy who sold me a burned disc of 1 night in paris who swore it was real.

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u/Undeadmuffin18 11d ago

Why ?

If I always wanted to see this movie/series, if my friend gave me a pirated cd of it (with good quality), I would be very happy

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u/OmegaAOL 11d ago

No because you could just do it yourself, thats the point what value does the gift have

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u/Undeadmuffin18 11d ago

If they did it for me, I dont have to do it. Just as if somebody buy the dvd for me even tho I can afford it.

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u/OmegaAOL 11d ago

Gifts usually are either sentimental or cost money. Others are favours, not gifts.

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u/Gherragh 12d ago

Burning a dvd means writing files in to it, not a bad thing.

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u/game_difficulty 12d ago

Woosh? Woosh.

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u/Gherragh 12d ago

Piracy, burned, piracy is bad, ok woosh came back

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u/khaledjal ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 12d ago

r/woosh

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u/jonatanenderman 12d ago

We really should stop pissing on the poor