• Ignotum
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    I miss that,

    These days they just shoot you on the spot

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    Don’t forget that he owes his entire life earnings to a corporation for downloading 180 songs.

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              I’m a big bearded Scandinavian (born in Denmark and lived here all my life) with far left political views and a love for tie dye, so I’d say it fits quite well 😁

              I’m even growing out my beard to go for a viking braid like this 😁

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                I just meant you paid for the cars, rather than just take them, because you can. As a Viking.

                Lol I’m dumb don’t worry.

                Sweet beard though. I gave one of my employees an award at my Christmas party for having the best beard. The only beard actually.

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                  I gave one of my employees an award at my Christmas party for having the best beard. The only beard actually.

                  Nice! Was she pleased?

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                Goddamn…I wish my beard came in that magnificently… seriously didn’t have “emasculated by the picture of a glorious beard” on my 2026 bingo card…

                I hope your beard goals come true, don’t let beard dreams stay dreams my friend!

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          i so would. downloading new car, while the uploader keeps theirs? that’s a fucking no-brainer.

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        We would certainly be buying cheaper cars if the car industry wasn’t helping keep the cars away from the same place they get their car parts.

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      Wait, why does the song not start playing when I double-click it?

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            Then they discovered it was much easier to do that in people’s phones and that they got way more information from it they could sell.

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          go into powershell and type sudo [song name]. sudo is the music player

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          Nah in the 90s you were always running as administrator unless on a school computer or using Linux or something…

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            I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.

            I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could “get the update”.

            I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.

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    They started investigating him as soon as he started downloading that MP3. Did some reconnaissance around the house, got some surveillance intel, consulted a judge and a few expert witnesses, then commenced the on-site op and apprehended him when it was about 90% complete. (That’s about how long it took to download MP3s in the 90s.)

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    Today the corporate AI downloads all of the songs, artwork, movies, text, etc. on the internet and the police will just shoot you in the face for no reason.

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      Quote charlie kirk being racist and they will come take you away

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          * Grot’em mit grünen Grüßen aus Hamburg als übertriebene Reaktion. Leider außer dem Streisand-Effekt kein weiterer Gegenwind.

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    Metallica seen by people through the decades :
    80s : Oh wow, it’s a fun thrash band with a cool bassist
    90s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit
    00s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit also you’re fucking clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
    10s : Oh wow, they’re still going
    20s : Oh wow, they’re still going

    (NB : My opinion is still the 00s opinion because I’m a millenial)

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    Still remember downloading nirvana_smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 for the first time. It may have taken 25 minutes on Napster, but nothing has ever sounded so good played out of my aux speakers in Winamp.

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    They always protect the owner class, never the people.

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    it really was like that.

    I remember one time I got spooked that I was about to be raided and took all my backups (on DVDs) to a friends house after a loooong and winding path to their house to ensure I wasn’t followed.

    when I dropped it off all he asked was, “can I copy what you have?”

    told him he could copy whatever he wanted if he had the drive space. it was a full binder of 100 data DVDs.

    was never raided but I was looking over my shoulder for weeks after that.

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      What gave you the feeling you were about to be raided? Did you receive threats? Was law enforcement stalking you?

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        I worked at an electronics store at the time and a cop came in asking me some very specific questions about pirating. like a dumbass, I shared my knowledge. Though at the time I didn’t know he was LE.

        one of my coworkers called me and told me a cop was around asking for me at work on my day off. soon after that my internet connection died.

        I got spooked and dbanned my drives while I took my backups to another friends house.

        the guy was probably just trying to learn about piracy tbh. never saw him again after that.