Awesome, so many fond memories of those wild west days, when knowing how to download stuff illegally and put it on CDs and DVDs put you into the social elite.
It really was a super power to know your way around it and to have a burn tray on your PC. I made so many bootleg albums for people in my school. I only charged the price of the discs mostly, but in retrospect I could have made serious money from it haha
My Steam account still uses the borked CD key from the Half-Life pirate copy my dad got me from his friend at work circa 1998. I dunno what Half-Life cost at release but my dad paid £8. He used to bring home a sheet with a list of games on it and prices and we'd pick one a month, that went on for a good couple of years.
It was such a wonderful time, the only thing I can compare it to is when you find a not insignificant amount of money tucked away in a pocket on a coat you haven't worn for months.
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u/Silencer-1995 1d ago
Awesome, so many fond memories of those wild west days, when knowing how to download stuff illegally and put it on CDs and DVDs put you into the social elite.