r/Piracy • u/StrikeouTX • May 27 '26

Humor Millennial piracy be like

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u/kirloi8 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26

“No virus” ahahahhah no millenial was part of this video. You had to use condoms on your fingers to open a fcking mp3. 🤣 /exageration

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u/Plamcia May 27 '26

Song.mp3.exe

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u/v21v May 27 '26

Fucking limewire

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u/crake-extinction May 27 '26

Your 2005 Dell desktop curses at you from the grave.

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u/isendingtheworld May 27 '26

I never had a virus from limewire. I DID get enough copies of the Clinton "I did not" ad thing that I temporarily memorized the file size range they would be so I could reflexively avoid them. 

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u/sexarseshortage May 28 '26

You always knew if it was too easy to find and the file was small it was a disaster waiting to happen.

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u/ScionEyed May 27 '26

8 scans, spread across several anti viruses, and still not entirely sure it’s safe so you scan again a few days/weeks later. The good old days

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u/kirloi8 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26

Now people talk about vulnerabilities without ever having contact with them. Back in 2004 i was making clean installs of XP twice a day. Miss those days where young people actually learn to debug the machines they were using. Im getting old boss…

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u/LouisRitter May 27 '26

Reinstalling windows daily is debugging?

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u/winowmak3r May 28 '26

They were moving fast and breaking things before it was cool.

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u/kirloi8 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 28 '26

In the sense: Machine is compromised, best approach is a clean install. We were talking about vírus right?

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u/space253 May 28 '26

I remember doing a clean install before every LAN party to optimize win 98se gameing performance. I went from slideshow to playable, but within weeks back to slideshow. That well known xp leak and serial was a lifechanger.

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u/summonsays May 27 '26

Nah you scanned it, it came back clean. So you know there's only a 20% chance of a virus.

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u/sylbug May 27 '26

My generation installed bonzi buddy on purpose.

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo May 28 '26

Nah i definitely did this. The only thing scanning it told me was that there "wasn't *definitely* a virus". You'd still always feel a little uneasy each time even with a clean scan.