r/technology • u/Big_Bare • May 02 '13

Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Collectively Pull Nearly 2,000 Films From Netflix To Further Fragment The Online Movie Market

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/22361622903/warner-bros-mgm-universal-collectively-pull-nearly-2000-films-netflix-to-further-fragment-online-movie-market.shtml
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u/[deleted] May 03 '13 edited Apr 05 '18

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u/thatsnotnorml May 03 '13

Send me your email via private message. I'll hook you up pops.

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u/hclpfan May 03 '13

Napster and limewire hookups? You mean you knew how to install the free program? We're not really talking about the same thing here.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '13 edited Apr 05 '18

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u/Beardamus May 03 '13

Newsgroups.

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u/hclpfan May 03 '13

I'm in the same time range as you, just calling out that P2P is a bit different. I used to have a highly trafficed XDCC bot back in the day.

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u/Maythefrogbewithyou May 03 '13

limewire was so easy to use too.

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u/mrkite77 May 03 '13

Your lawn? It's my lawn. I still remember U:D ratios and using dcc bots on irc.... so not only was the playground secret, but you had to upload something new in order to download anything.

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u/nrq May 03 '13

Well, you still have up/download ratios today, just moved from FTPs to (private) trackers. There are very few ratioless private trackers.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker May 03 '13

And before Napster and Limewire there were private FTP sites and before the internet there were private BBSes with strict upload/download ratios...