Thread: How long have you been pirating for?

The earliest I can recall pirating is since I was 11 years old, so that's almost 8 years ago. It was during my visit in Jordan, I bought some pirated Dreamcast games while there. When was the first time you pirated?

i am pirating since 9-10 years

First time pirated hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....it looks like piracy is not an issu associtaed with computer world....coz we had pirated vhs tapes of movies in 90s...so its a long time for me......

Originally Posted by Waqass

First time pirated hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....it looks like piracy is not an issu associtaed with computer world....coz we had pirated vhs tapes of movies in 90s...so its a long time for me......

Crap. Forgot all about that. My dad has been doing that for movies here and there, but technically it wasn't me, but I would watch some of them, so that would count. Would recording a show so you can watch it later because you are not home at the time it is airing count as pirating?

I started when I was 12. It was anime that got me into this whole mess. :laugh:
One day I looked for where I could find episodes of various animes. I used direct downloads, DC++ hubs, ed2k links, ftp servers, etc. So much effort went into obtaining cartoons back then.

Ah, the good old days when it took me five hours to get a poorly encoded copy of a Ranma 1/2 episode.

Soon after that I began to download games, but that's another story for a different day.

As far as the net is concerned, I started in 1999 with Napster. But really I've been buying pirated movies and cd's and cassette tapes (if we really wanna go back) ever since I could remember.

yeah mine started with vhs and cassette tapes we had a family friend who worked at a movie distribution place and gave us unreleased vhs we copied them and sold them that was at least 10 years ago

I remember my first download was Fight Club

12 years now