How Long Have You Been Pirating Software

[sakur]

Since about 2-3 years back.

[clocktower]

5yrs plus i wonder why :lol:

[tres08]

used to hack into aol with nightmare, way back in the day, and download fun stuff from private warez chat rooms... those were the days....

[prasadah]

until programmer programs it uncrackable

[legand]

is long time

[snowultra]

started in 2---

[ivenkii]

from the past 2-3 yrs :D

[sanath]

from 1 yr

[dineshreddy]

me from 2 to 3 years

[GooDay4U]

I'm no pirate, I just hate Microsoft!!!

[robert03]

For about two or three years.

[zippy2u]

Geez. I thought only people who worked in corporate offices actually bought software. It's a world unfamiliar to me.

[STORMCAST]

G'har,Software is so overpriced,Its the pirates life for me!

[TaNZaNio]

my first contact to a pc ever was playing a pirated game

[elm]

Ever since I got on the internet through AOL, getting MMs in the warez private rooms.

[rocky1234]

Piracy, never heard of that :whistling

[LaoziSailor]

Probably been brought up before, the topic instead of "
How long have you been pirating software? might have been "sharing software".

[rukshankb]

around 1 year

[Torture_Artist]

The first thing I ever got (for security reasons I won't say what exactly), I infact learned of BitTorrent because the stores were out of it. This was back in Sept. of '04, so a little over 3 years.

[Diiyad]

What is Piracy?

:P

[Diiyad]

What is Piracy?

:P

[SceneLOL]

1-2 Years

[Cabalo]

since zx spectrum games, i guess it's somewhere around '86 ... double-deck ftw...

edit: jeez, it's over 20 years pirating... my first original game was, imagine, Call of Duty (cuz of multiplayer modes).

i'm getting old for this shit...

[trusca]

6 Years.

[leoandru]

since i started using a computer.

[Nemesis123]

since i started using a computer.

Me too, it's 4 years ago.

[aaatoel]

For quite some time... Actually since I started using internet... A couple or more years!

[BEGINER]

since i born:D

[kenetic]

about 4 years but it all started with copying cassettes and vhs years ago

[colombianino]

pirating, never heard of that, you might be referring to 'free share' :P

for me its been ~5 years, my first cracked software was mmmmmmhmmmm i think it was that hot zip program, then i just started dling movies/games....

[torrentgeek]

since I sat before my computer.... :)

[matrixmk]

tooooooooooo looooooong

[X4NdrZ]

All my life :P

[alexandru89u]

since i was a child....

[DrSteve]

filesharing since 1983 on BBS's

WOW. I thought I was the only old fart around here, who even knew what BBS's were! Glad to see another old fart! :whistling:whistling

[ticklemyego]

I don't know whats dumber here, asking the question or answering it..

[Aeyen]

I just started this January :D I'm still not familiar with many things but I know the basics :)

[dpr]

since I have net.....I had Star Wars:Racers and that crack was the start of pirate-mode for me:)

[dinko]

from my dial up days to today so it's so long :smile:

[nemrac]

use to crack games for the C64....man that was a long time ago.

[alfry1010]

Since i saw the price of a license Windows lol

And after been convince by friends i never stop doing it cause let the compagny pay the full prize and us have the cracked version ...lol

[maddoxro]

more that 3-4 years...

[Dark Archon]

wow 5+ years...you guys are too pro for me, i only recently got broadband

[maul1515]

long before internet was on computers. remember dont copy that floppy... :-)

[Nemanja]

Hmmm that day when i get the internet connection :D. A loong time ago !

[lordoflard]

I Knew this was a trap!!!!

Oh bugger....

[Quarter]

6 Years.

[Johnneke]

I started out with fxping as a small town guy when I was 15 or so. That was 10 years ago :D After that been around everywhere, in the higher hierarchies and afterwards when I had nothing to offer to the scene anymore in torrents and newsgroups.

[Aka_katz]

From late 1999 when i got on the scene..

[rhak]

Too long, I can't remember exactly.

[Bubbadog]

Actualy off andonfor a few years but i have yet to pirate a Game that really works like itis supposed to lol. Probably my inexperience. And I am new to thsi forum so i may have lots of questions.

[(I)]

9 years

[5+4=9]

5 years

[markupmaster]

2-3 years...

[saqib]

about 2 years ,

[thewho]

5 years

[Mee2]

filesharing since 1983 on BBS's

WOW. I thought I was the only old fart around here, who even knew what BBS's were! Glad to see another old fart! :whistling:whistling

LOL,, make that 3 old farts.. :) BBS in Texas... 4 nodes.. lol :)

[punjabdagabru]

since the 80's? wow

[Cabalo]

hi piku20045 !

[sd4]

WOW. I thought I was the only old fart around here, who even knew what BBS's were! Glad to see another old fart! :whistling:whistling

LOL,, make that 3 old farts.. :) BBS in Texas... 4 nodes.. lol :)

i been doing BBS since 1989, i remember pissing one of the admin when calling their 1800 bbs a lot. they call my mom back and started yelling like crazy LOL

[necromantic]

I never got serious about pirating until about 2001. I got on sharereactor with ED2k. The rest is history.

[Aether]

Been about 7 years now

[seek54]

Probably about 3-4 years.

[Jdsnut]

Im over 80 years old and Ive been downloading since 1945.

[ilovednb]

think 7 years already :P

[abcjim]

well, whenever napster came out. that was when i started

[natedogg]

I started like in 2001

[Nihil]

Since 1999, when I got my first computer.

[Qlix]

Started a little bit with Napster. It died. Went on to Kazaa -> Kazaa Lite -> Bearshare/Limewire/Bearshare Lite/Morpheus, you name it -> Went to TPB in the early days, then Torrentbytes -> Then on to better trackers where I am at the moment. So that would probably be 5+ years. :)

[BigMike01]

it has deffinently been well over 5 yrs, i would say around 8 yrs and winmx was my baby.

[reckless1o1]

I'd say 2-3 years, ever since I began to spend my whole day on the internet.

[dunkItOut]

Back when audiogalaxy was in its prime.


Hahahaha! Audiogalaxy. Ah man...that brings back memories. That was the first site I used for music...

For software, it's been about 10 years now...maybe a little bit more.

[BlackTiger]

first thing that i am pirated are Carrara 5 Pro, Windows 98, WinRAR and many others
it was stealed from friend's HDD, LOL

[Yoann64]

+ of 6 years !
Maybe Nero or Photoshop

[The Flying Cow]

what does 'pirating software' here imply?

are you talking about actually cracking software?

or just acquiring softwares that otherwise require you to pay good money for, in a free way?

if it's the latter, then I would say I have been acquiring these materials ever since RealPlayer 8 was released. that was when i popped my keygen cherry. i remember the maker, GanJaMaN, from CORE, probably the most successful RE group to have every existed.

So, that was in the beggining of 2001. (Around about the time when RealNetworks released their version 8 Plus Player).

[dedro]

not long enough

[bgiovand]

I basically grew up on the internet.

[kloot]

1-2years

First thing I ever grabbed was a LOST epi ^_^

[Tobiasz]

5+ years

I remember that on begining i downloaded only mp3s because of my sloww internet connection xD

[td212]

i started on the last legs of kazaa. man things have gone up hill since then. I didn't have the internet til i joined the military and got to my first base. I was nineteen then and am 26 now.

[lukee]

if you really thing about it, everybody here are internet veterans. taker in count, that the www only went global in in the 90's. for fucks sake, we are running on KB/s speeds, ridiculous. soon enough it will be GB/s.

[jeymacel]

i was born for this :))

[dmanjohn]

for about a year and a half by now

[ocanica]

I was relatively a late bloomer when it came to online piracy (2001). First song - Tribute : Tenacious D, first software Alias|Wavefront Maya 4.0 ^^

[Theif]

its been a long time..2-3 years.

[BadFungus]

What about tape recordings ? Old school piracy !

[Swift]

since forever :D

[Ri0T]

About 2 years.

[MegLeetch]

after the first format..

[Septimus]

2 years

[Fibre]

Since the late 90's :)

[esco123]

at least 5 years for me

[Sekai]

Tomorrow will be my 2 years of pirating anniversary :P
I recieved my computer on the 27th of march and my brother taught me how to torrent that very day.

[ice box]

3-4 years

[freekie]

Dual cassette deck to duplicate Sinclair Spectrum games back in the early '80s

[MikeJJ]

starting in the old days 24 years ago (Commodore VC-20)...been a long way from datatapes to terra-raids...

[GuitarLegend]

3years ago starting to down music
1-2 years on trackers

[Swift]

since i first started to use a PC

[Septimus]

3 or 4 years

[Annoyed]

2-3 years.

[Adydas23]

4-5 years

[susuk]

I still can see myself copying the first Monkey Island

[motiviar]

since 1991..

[kabir]

since 1998 when i first got my new computer. so its 10 years now.

[C-mos]

since 1991..


u must be an old pirate :)

[taffster]

bl00dy hell, i remember 'backups' on my old c64 & speccy...then the amiga days. Tapes and disks that held less than you can download in a second now.

[Theory11]

almost 2 years now

[Capitan Blanda]

since 1991..


u must be an old pirate :)
JAJAJA I also since 1991!!! I supose it was a DOS for a Tandy 1000 with 256 kb RAM.

[Apophis]

8 years.:naughty:

[ACiD5HADOW]

i gess since the time i could use a pc and was able to type "copy" ;)

[wazza100]

since about 2000, roughly 8 years now- when we got a computer which allowed pirating to occur.

[trespass]

Almost 3 years now. Got stuff for like ~$812,116. Crazy, isnt it?

[adissan]

Right, ive got everybodys name and i'm gonna phone the authorities :dry:

Nice one dude :lol: :lol:

[cstrik3]

Since 2006 .. so about 2 years ago.

[Rdysn5]

8 years now

[F3n1x]

i don't pirate, my computer developed AI, so he do all alone.

[LvrPool]

definitely 5+ years

[unowho]

since about 91-92 before i had the net and used to rip cds onto my comp and take them back to my friend at the cd shop and then make copys for my friends or send it on the network at school 1st time on the net i cant remember but it was mortal kombat 4 when it first came out and i still have it now lol kinda sentimental value

[bubucea]

+5 years

[icanhasappz]

5+ Years :D

[n0_NaMe]

3-4 years for me.

[antonii]

1 year only,but i see u guys are more pirates than me ;-]

[XiATH]

I've been at it in some form since i was in 8th grade hehe, good times.

[VIZFX]

No pirating here, nothing to see, move along.

[peeruser]

More than 5 years and I regret to say that I started using private trackers only recently

[EyezSS]

3-4 years. The first ever pirated software i used was TypingMaster.

[DATTER]

5+ :d

[Aerozin]

a really long time ago
the first stuff i pirated was mp3's
i used programs like kazaa , imesh

[najua]

till i was meet with computer

[lolapa]

for as long as i can remeber, like 7-8 years?

[antiglitz]

Since I've had a consistent internet connection back in 98. I used to use all FTP's back then. It was well before Napster.

[gb66pack66]

After I filled a huge box of useless paid-for retail software that was full of bugs and useless. Started with BBSs in mid-80s. Gawd, we thought we were cool when 1500 baud modems came out to replace 300 baud ones. :D

[Odin]

I have been torrenting for 6 years. I came into my first private tracker for ca 3 years ago. My first private tracker was a Swedish one.

[Adama]

4 years

[MCS]

Wow, I wasn't expecting the most popular answer to be 5+ years. That's amazing. (-ly awesome)

[trodas]

Since the day I own computer, lol? ;) :)

An Amiga 500 by 1991 - old good times :P
Since 2001 a lame PC crap - oh, well... :wacko:

[kooltilldend]

torrents for prolly 5-6 yrs...

even b4 that tho...it was stuff like soulseek, shareaza, limewire, emule, morpheus and napster b4 everything else + i pirated games (bought 'em) - i've nvr bought an original game in my life (and prolly nvr will)

[ahcorac72]

I since 2003.
5 years in torrents world... :shifty: LOL

[formos]

hmm since 99,so many years beeing a bad person...

[DjFresh]

about 4 years.:yes:

[JBolinha]

since 2002/2003

[Peanut]

1999 tell present lol
and love it hahahaha

[cabang]

2 years.. considering my age lols

[0riGiNaLBoX]

never do this

[kickass]

5+

[yozshura]

Don't remember exactly when. It's way too long ago, perhaps 1994-1995 ...

[tryambaka]

Since I was born or maybe a few more years..

[aced]

Since 99. Wouldn't ever go back either :D luv to download!

[calate]

Since last months of 1999.

[zynwt]

sure! we never do this lol but if I did it it could be more than 12 years :)

[rtxs]

more than 5 years...

[duredhel]

2-3 years....

[hollowed_one]

since i was 13 im 22 now.....i think my 1st was a nero version or a easy cd creator or somthin like that...

[LoneWolf]

the moment i used the first computer. it was a copy of windows 3.1 remember the good old days. lol very simple that was. and before that DOS for DAVE.

[wiseD]

Right, ive got everybodys name and i'm gonna phone the authorities :dry:

Catch me if you can :shifty:

Around 5 years for me...

[Jiriki]

Started with copying tapes to my ZX Spectrum around 84-85.

[R234]

I predate Kazaa even. So call it a *long* time. :whistling

[wevotedno]

1997


Started with copying tapes to my ZX Spectrum around 84-85.

( oh yeah, the tapes...80's)

[Ghostbusters]

1997


Started with copying tapes to my ZX Spectrum around 84-85.

( oh yeah, the tapes...80's)

Snap been in the piracy game for around 20 years, started with the music from the local library progressed onto spectrum,/commodor/amstrad games when I got my first double tape deck recorder, then my love affair with free digital media took off from there and over that 20 years has covered almost every format imaginable...

[ConkiZz]

About 2 years i think.

[veeeee]

I used to get software on like 20 or so 3.5" disks

[Kallileo]

Hmm. For the last 4 -5 years or so, i think.. I'm 17 years old. And still pirating !

[carnas]

Too long to remember. Don't think I owned 1 piece of legal software on my old Amiga 500 despite having hundreds of games.

[Overlord]

Since the 80's. My brother got me into it and I haven't been able to stop.

[misterkrek]

Wow... that goes way back to the 300bps cassette-tapes age, duplicated on an old hi-fi tape-deck to use on my way older Sinclair (I still have it working!), and also on the Apple ][ (I also have it!). It was the early 80's. The exact year was 1982, if I'm not mistaken.

[McBride]

too long to think about

[bammers]

From the time of when I got my first computer.... about 1986 1987ish? :)

[tjazz]

Since about '99

[tnt]

i am pirate from 1996/1997 but sometimes i buy legit stuff

[Seedright]

I have been using pirate software since 1997 aprox.

[thetrader]

Like most of the people, i pirate movies and software more than 5 years !!!

[anon]

Didn't notice this thread before. Perhaps because the last post was made in 2008. :P

Anyway, my vote goes to "5+ years".

[Shinzen]

Ma vote goes to 5+

Started with BBS moved to trackers two years ago

[bijoy]

almost for 7-8 years..

[dagaul101]

I would be careful with downloading pirated software, a lot of them are full of viruses and trojans

[anon]

Just be careful with where you get your warez from, and use common sense.

Yes, if you can spam to increase your postcount I can do it, too!

[Arguti]

I'm doing it for 6 years.
It's one of my favourite hobbies.

[godofhell]

i started with IRC servers :)