What was the first thing you can remember Pirating ?

lol, some songs off Limewire

Limp Bizkit - Nookie


why can I not go back, WHY!

Im I was taping radio songs before I was copying c64 games. I'm gonna have a guess at some guns n roses as my first venture

muppetkiller wrote: »

I remember making a copy of the game Barbarian on the C64 with the double Tape Deck

Ahhh simpler times....

When the prodigy released 'experience' i got a copy,used the school photocopier to make up cassette sleeves (the album cover was plain black and white anyway
)and made a sh1tload of tapes,one by one and sold them in school and to mates for 2quid apiece.Made about £80,a tidy sum to a 12year old.

Music. I had a box of literally hundreds of tapes, copies of either other tapes or CDs. I have a friend who is 4 years older, so between the age of 11 and 15, he was working and earning (in a family business) and obviously I was not. He bought loads of music and another friend and I would basically copy all of them.

Of course if that ability wasn't there, we wouldn't have bought any of that music anyway, so nobody lost out. Even more, I have later bought all of the best of those in digital or CD format when tapes became obsolete. If I hadn't pirated them, I probably would never have bought them.

I remember using Napster for a while, queueing up 10 tracks or so and leaving it running as long as I could to download them. They stick out in my music collection like a sore thumb with weird filenames and no artist/album/track information whatsoever.
Buying a CD was still easier than downloading until I got broadband.

Some demos and b-sides for bands I'm now embarrassed to have liked on limewire.

I remember driving out to the Ashbourne Market from Dublin every couple of Sundays when I was a kid and buying Mars Attacks, Space Jam and Jean-Claude Van Damme's 'The Quest' on VHS for 3 pounds each when they were still in the cinema.

It's mad to think I could torrent all 3 of them now in about 15 minutes for free!

I remember my eldest brother doing the C64 double tape deck job on some crap Navy Seals and Terminator 2 game too!

OneEightSeven wrote: »

I'm from Ashbourne and I don't remember a market. When was it held and what part of the village?

Ah I don't know I would've been only 8 or so when we would go out there.

It was a big car boot sale in a field and it was referred to as the Ashbourne Market.

Around '96/ 97

aidoh wrote: »

Around '96/ 97

The only two markets near here were the Fairyhouse Market in Ratoath and the White House market near the Coolquay Lodge. The White House one used to sell fireworks until the Gardaí clamped down on it. I think there was pirated stuff too.

http://www.whitehouse.ie/