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I co-owned a semi popular console ROM and PC piracy site as a teenager with two others. While it was a lot of fun especially in the forum and I made a lot of cool friends, it was very risky in hindsight. I'm amazed we never even got C&D emails before we lost interest in the project once life got busy.
Basically it was direct download for ROM files while PC games and console ISO were shared on the forum in the Warez-bb styling. This grew the active daily forum users rapidly at the time who then stuck around to yap.
Ah, my teenage hero. Good chance I direct downloaded something; the Internet was so much better back then, lol.
Possibly you did! Discoverability was easier back then too, people were still using ROM site link lists. We'd add ourselves to all of them manually and then we slowly crawled up Google's page ranking passively! Now most everyone (not counting anyone reading this comment) has an allergic reaction to a social hub not owned by a corporation.
This is awesome. In the off chance i had downloaded a ROM from your site back then, thank you so much.
Captain!
This sailor probably enjoyed your hospitality back in the day.
Thank you much!
I had a twenty gig warez ftp site for a few years. At the time the average hard drive was 1 gig. It was on a T1. 1.5Mbps was Lightning fast.
I mean, twenty gigs was more than anyone would ever be able to use.