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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 years ago (3 children) No wonder piracy was so popular permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago (4 children) 1999 piracy mostly consisted of paying for a pirated copy that someone decided to make profit off; most likely, they weren't the person to make the (first!) copy, and they're not even sure what's on the thing they were selling you. It was mostly bootlegging. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I think maybe he meant before 1999. Before Napster(99)/limewire(2000)/morpheus(2001) pirating was bootlegged shit you paid (less) for. But yeah after 99 you got that shit for free on the internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent [–] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago When I was a kid we still recorded stuff off the radio and copied our zx spectrum games on the family hi-fi. I'd say good times but it's so much better now I can pirate everything in great quality from teh interwebs. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago My memory is a little fuzzy with dates but I'm pretty sure Napster was going full steam by '99 but even before that we used to trade mp3 files on mIRC or ICQ+CuteFTP, I had hundreds of albums I never paid for which I am still amazed I managed to do over a shared 56k connection permalink fedilink source parent [–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago Like buying a game CD and a warez copy bypass and the crew doing an ASCII art walk through, bought for $5 from a classmate Or shareware floppy disks with copyright bypass permalink fedilink source parent [–] squiblet@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (3 children) In the pre-Internet early 90s, CDs were $15-25 (with inflation, about $40 now)…. And for a lot of music, you had no way of hearing it first. Shoplifting was popular. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago At least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Man came here to say this... Hell I was in a class action lawsuit in the early 2000s because of CD pricing. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/cd-price-fixing-suit-settled-for-143-million-74008/ Shit was super expensive back in the day. But as weird Al says... How else is he going to get a diamond encrusted swimming pool? permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago That’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart permalink fedilink source parent [–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago For real... I never had this problem before... Currently I'm a proud Spotify user. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago (4 children) 1999 piracy mostly consisted of paying for a pirated copy that someone decided to make profit off; most likely, they weren't the person to make the (first!) copy, and they're not even sure what's on the thing they were selling you. It was mostly bootlegging. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I think maybe he meant before 1999. Before Napster(99)/limewire(2000)/morpheus(2001) pirating was bootlegged shit you paid (less) for. But yeah after 99 you got that shit for free on the internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent [–] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago When I was a kid we still recorded stuff off the radio and copied our zx spectrum games on the family hi-fi. I'd say good times but it's so much better now I can pirate everything in great quality from teh interwebs. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago My memory is a little fuzzy with dates but I'm pretty sure Napster was going full steam by '99 but even before that we used to trade mp3 files on mIRC or ICQ+CuteFTP, I had hundreds of albums I never paid for which I am still amazed I managed to do over a shared 56k connection permalink fedilink source parent [–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago Like buying a game CD and a warez copy bypass and the crew doing an ASCII art walk through, bought for $5 from a classmate Or shareware floppy disks with copyright bypass permalink fedilink source parent
[+] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I think maybe he meant before 1999. Before Napster(99)/limewire(2000)/morpheus(2001) pirating was bootlegged shit you paid (less) for. But yeah after 99 you got that shit for free on the internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I think maybe he meant before 1999. Before Napster(99)/limewire(2000)/morpheus(2001) pirating was bootlegged shit you paid (less) for. But yeah after 99 you got that shit for free on the internet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago Fair most CD’s I bought were like $13 I didn’t go to tower or best buy cuz nah permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago When I was a kid we still recorded stuff off the radio and copied our zx spectrum games on the family hi-fi. I'd say good times but it's so much better now I can pirate everything in great quality from teh interwebs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago My memory is a little fuzzy with dates but I'm pretty sure Napster was going full steam by '99 but even before that we used to trade mp3 files on mIRC or ICQ+CuteFTP, I had hundreds of albums I never paid for which I am still amazed I managed to do over a shared 56k connection permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 point 2 years ago Like buying a game CD and a warez copy bypass and the crew doing an ASCII art walk through, bought for $5 from a classmate Or shareware floppy disks with copyright bypass permalink fedilink source parent
[–] squiblet@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (3 children) In the pre-Internet early 90s, CDs were $15-25 (with inflation, about $40 now)…. And for a lot of music, you had no way of hearing it first. Shoplifting was popular. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago At least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Man came here to say this... Hell I was in a class action lawsuit in the early 2000s because of CD pricing. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/cd-price-fixing-suit-settled-for-143-million-74008/ Shit was super expensive back in the day. But as weird Al says... How else is he going to get a diamond encrusted swimming pool? permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago That’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago At least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Man came here to say this... Hell I was in a class action lawsuit in the early 2000s because of CD pricing. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/cd-price-fixing-suit-settled-for-143-million-74008/ Shit was super expensive back in the day. But as weird Al says... How else is he going to get a diamond encrusted swimming pool? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago That’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago For real... I never had this problem before... Currently I'm a proud Spotify user. permalink fedilink source parent
