How Long Have You Been Pirating Software

[twisterX]

Got this off TB :D

[tesco]

Since I got the net, 6 years. :O

edit: I think first thing i ever pirated was WinZIP, got a crack or serial or something from my friend so we could use winzip for extracting those 'fart machines'. :lol:

[Barbarossa]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:

[ObiWan]

the first thing I pirated was Windows 3.11, got it off a friend to install on a dos machine

[Vargas]

filesharing since 1983 on BBS's

[river_springs]

too long to think about

[S!X]

6 Years.

[twisterX]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:

Dont copy that floppy! :lol:

[Cheese]

Since the 80's.

[enoughfakefiles]

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

[Virtualbody1234]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:
Before that there was cassettes and don't forget punchcards. :01:

[Barbarossa]

Now that you mention it, we did copy Commodore 64 games from one cassette to another. ;)

[enoughfakefiles]

Spectrum 48k FTW!!!111!!!:01:

[Chewie]

Spectrum 48?
Vic20!

[Formula1]

4-5 years. i voted 5 years. my first ever pirate was winzip 8.0 :P

[Virtualbody1234]

Check out one of my first posts here: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showpost.php?p=7944&postcount=20

[twisterX]

but thats not you. :huh:

[GepperRankins]

been downloading shit since i had a 133mhz windows 95 machine.


i had an atari STe when i was 2 foot tall that i used to get copied floppies for. karma means i now can't touch floppy discs :(

[Snee]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:
I still have a box full of discs with amiga software.

I loved those little intros the crackers added.

[Virtualbody1234]

but thats not you. :huh:
Yes it is.

And also: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/member.php?u=15012

[Vargas]

whats next? Anybody1234?

[jetje]

Since i discovered the sneakers network
So actually since i started playing computers (Comodore, was it the Vic20???...) somewhere in the late 70's :)

[sArA]

Since my mate downloaded and gave me an asteroids simulator and I copied it and passed it on :lol:

[Guyver]

over 3 years

[Seedler]

Haha I remember when I was like 4 or so, and my dad tried to copy games from legal purchases of 3.5 floppies and it didn't work...

Apparently they wrote data on separated sectors of the floppy and if you just copy the content onto another floppy, the games won't run because the content is written in order.

Man that's gotta be the first anti-pirating technology invented...

[Virtualbody1234]

Haha I remember when I was like 4 or so, and my dad tried to copy games from legal purchases of 3.5 floppies and it didn't work...

Apparently they wrote data on separated sectors of the floppy and if you just copy the content onto another floppy, the games won't run because the content is written in order.

Man that's gotta be the first anti-pirating technology invented...
No. There were fake bad sectors on Atari 5¼" diskettes. The program would load and when run it would check that sector and if it could read that sector then the program wouldn't run. I even saw one that would check the sector, find it to be good (not supposed to be) and then format the diskette blank and then display a message: "Your pirated copy has just been formatted. Have a nice day!"

I found that writing to a sector with the speed control of the drive slowed down it would create a bad sector when trying to read it at normal speed. :)

Also write protecting the diskette would prevent the "unexpected" formatting. :lol:

[Seedler]

Haha I remember when I was like 4 or so, and my dad tried to copy games from legal purchases of 3.5 floppies and it didn't work...

Apparently they wrote data on separated sectors of the floppy and if you just copy the content onto another floppy, the games won't run because the content is written in order.

Man that's gotta be the first anti-pirating technology invented...
No. There were fake bad sectors on Atari 5¼" diskettes. The program would load and when run it would check that sector and if it could read that sector then the program wouldn't run. I even saw one that would check the sector, find it to be good (not supposed to be) and then format the diskette blank and then display a message: "Your pirated copy has just been formatted. Have a nice day!"

I found that writing to a sector with the speed control of the drive slowed down it would create a bad sector when trying to read it at normal speed. :)

Also write protecting the diskette would prevent the "unexpected" formatting. :lol:

wow...5 1/4 diskettes? I was too young t remember them I guess...:P

The very last PC I remember playing "base defense" is a 486 machine when I was like 3 or 4 years old.

[suprafreak6]

who put never?

[Virtualbody1234]

who put never?
Umm It says: DrBeerMan, iMoviez

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=862

[Dark Steno]

8+ haha! wait... Maybe more. :D It's because it's not easy to find original stuffs since I was small.

[Chewie]

Haha I remember when I was like 4 or so, and my dad tried to copy games from legal purchases of 3.5 floppies and it didn't work...

Apparently they wrote data on separated sectors of the floppy and if you just copy the content onto another floppy, the games won't run because the content is written in order.

Man that's gotta be the first anti-pirating technology invented...
No. There were fake bad sectors on Atari 5¼" diskettes. The program would load and when run it would check that sector and if it could read that sector then the program wouldn't run. I even saw one that would check the sector, find it to be good (not supposed to be) and then format the diskette blank and then display a message: "Your pirated copy has just been formatted. Have a nice day!"

I found that writing to a sector with the speed control of the drive slowed down it would create a bad sector when trying to read it at normal speed. :)

Also write protecting the diskette would prevent the "unexpected" formatting. :lol:
A few years after the Amiga hit the shelves it's world was dominated by "Cyclone" leads and adapters.
I remember sitting up late at night in a neighbour's flat soldering wires between two 23D connectors, making them to sell.
That was back in the days of Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Jimmy White's Snooker, Kick Off 2 and Populous

[Busyman]

wow...5 1/4 diskettes? I was too young t remember them I guess...:P
They were "floppy" diskettes.

They actually flopped.

I remember when the 3.5 disks came out, I called them "hard" disks.:huh:

[Virtualbody1234]

There were 8" floppy disks.

http://williambader.com/museum/vax/12disks.jpg

[fkdup74]

I am not a pirate. :snooty:

[Filliz]

Voting on this poll through the frontpage gives a 404 :ermm:

[tesco]

I used to have an 8inch disk. :01:
My dad got it from my aunt, and kept it for years, before realizing how outdated it was and then just gave it to me...i broke it open :01:

[Tempestv]

wow, that takes me back, i voted 2-3 years, when I got into p2p, but with disks, I was copying software back... I'm just going to say that the comp was a Mac II, and fairly cutting edge for the time. two true floppy drives and no harddrive- program disk and a file disk- boot up with the OS disk, then to type, replace the os disk with the typing program disk, and put in your files disk where you saved your docs to, wow I remember it like yesterday. the big computer that was all one unit- the computer monitor and keyboard all molded into on shape, long before the days of mice. what a shock when we got my laptop with win 3.11 (still use that today sometimes). but ya, i had a couple pirated games on those big floppys.

[Silentredninja]

This discussion brings me back to the days when I would walk down to my parents dark dank basement, fire up my 286, connect my 2400 Baud to a bbs and eagerly wait 30 minutes for a low resolution gif of boobs while I watched a new episode of Star Trek: TNG.

Good Times!!!!

[arabstealth]

I am a newcomer to the whole pirating thing but I seem to be enjoying it.

Long may it continue.

[Seedler]

I'm just happy Canadians are protected by law and cant be sued for downing from BT

[dRhOdeS]

Since I started my net connection but don't tell anybody :P

[erRor67]

Probaby when I got my first computer... MS Office 95 was the first software i pirated. My family didnt have the money to buy MS Office 95 (wasted the money on a "new" computer) so my mom borrowed a copy from her friend at work. Installed it and gave back the disk.

[thefallout]

This all makes me feel sooooo young. I chose 3-4 years, but I do remember when I was in like 4th grade and my uncle put Commander & Conquer on like 13 floppies. But now I am embarased that my memories aren't so nostalgic.

[gevorg]

Damn, I didn't know this poll is public! :O :cry:

[Mad Cat]

I just voted 3 years, but then I remembered all the old Amiga disks I used to copy, so its more like 16+ years...

[cpklas]

Since 1998 maybe, thats 8 years

[twisterX]

Damn, I didn't know this poll is public! :O :cry:

what are u worring about. your at a file sharing board anyway.:lol:

[okili]

1-2 yars

[riggle]

Yepp! since the 80:s! Does anyone remember "Copypartys" Where people like myself with c-64:s and amigas, would get together with boomboxes and copy games on tapes!! haaha.. We've come a bit since then! :)

[T0TAL-RECALL]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:

Ha been doing it before floppy disks... Me and my m8's copied C64 tapes and spectrum tapes... Then moved onto floppy and took Lemmings into school to play on the Acorns also had Moonquake (Earley Bomberman).

[py3m4n]

its like an advertisement to the authorities in here like enoughfakefiles said lol!

[zedaxax]

since 1843

[Knocky]

Ahoy there Jim'Lad. Stone the crowws I has 'neva pirated anything, arrrrghhh!

[thewizeard]

...this is incorrectly phrased, we don't pirate software...we share data...

[theflystyle]

i think the first stuff i did was winzip as well..

i even remember back in the day when credit card num generators actually worked and i was able to "expand" my horizons lol

wow im old

[LegendaryU2K]

Sharing is the gift of love.......

Sharing old games anyway, sharing new stuff i have a problem with.

[crazy11]

been doing it ever since i got my first computer back in '99.

[roy669]

since bill gates was born..

[blade72]

Since ZX81 & spectrum days, so over 20 years I guess. Still remember doing tape-tape copies on C15 cassettes!

:geek:

[Draugr]

I was shown the ropes of pirating back in '92 when I was 5 years old. Thanks dad!

[Skiz]

What is this "pirating" that you speak of? :shifty:

[Boogieman117]

Since Kazaa Lite! in 2000.

[visionaryone]

Too long, prob since 89' roughly

[rguinn]

my first attempt at piracy was stealing oregon trail from an apple computer in 1st grade computer lab with a floppy.

in 1999 when I got my 1st computer I happenend upon a site (kickme.to/fosi) offering programs that cost money... for free. what an idea!! it was all downhill from there :P

[gamer4eva]

well to be honest i've had the net quite recently and i havent really had the chance to actually start pirating

[MOrami]

4 yrs

[UDP0611]

2 years

[bytesmack]

The first pirated software that I ever had was a keygen for WinRAR back in 1998. I can't remember what version it was. I have never stopped since:shifty:

[tywyn]

Since the days of the ZX Spectrum....old habits die hard :)

[zengin]

5+

[necromantic]

You know, come to think of it I dont think Ive ever paid for an OS lol.

[arane]

pirates existed before i was born. so why cant be one too

[frozenAss]

Way too much... since 4th grade if i'm not mistaken.

[ColorsInMyHead]

a good 5 years, just little stuff before napster though

[szakalit]

Comodore 64 with tapes :) That was life ;p

[HairlessApe]

Right, ive got everybodys name and i'm gonna phone the authorities :dry:
not if I can pirate your phone by then :ph34r:

[Hermiod]

Since 1994, dont remember what program exactly. Probably was that screensaver of a dude on a island or simcity.

[jooface]

Ever since I remember using the computer because i got pc demos from happypuppy and then searched for "<game name here> full version" and then found out it was actually warez =)

[Gish]

About 4 years. I'm guessing thats not as long as some other people!!

[tolga]

i recently bought a parrot and now i have this eye patch Arrrr.. now where's my dang VCRrrrrrrrrrr. :lol:

[Sissoko]

Since I got my Spectrum when I was kid. Used to borrow games from the library, use a tapedeck to copy them, then take them back.

[hifreak]

Yep i have also been in the underground since I was 14 I like it because it gvies one a adrenalin kick :D

[qwertt]

Probably 6-7 years .

[livewirerules]

from the day i got my pc

[FreeDoom]

Hmmm more or less 10,11 years now. Since i went to a windows 3.11 formation :lol:
I started playing warcraft 1 :P in a 386dx 33Mhz :blink: :D

[Gish]

Im new, only 3 years(zonealarm)

[war59312]

Well lets just say, before e-mail was invented. :) Let alone the "Internet" or the "World Wide Web" .

[mdshilli]

Used to get it straight from M$ library. You could check out almost any windows application you could think of.

[Hardyfan4eva]

Ive been piratind for 2 year my first tign i pirated was
Windows xp pro
and
Photoshop

[Basquiat]

the first real thing i pirated was win98 se before se was released, was very exciting.

[digmen1]

Yes the poll needed adding 10 years and 20 years

I started in the mid 80's Lotus 123, DbaseII, then Windows 3.11

And porno videos before that !

Regards

Digby
NZ

[terran_male]

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

Heeheeheeeee........just email'em. This is the new millinium after all. Hell, I downloaded stuff before the internet. It was called am/fm radio and I used a state-of-the-art device (then) called a cassette deck. 'Course the RIAA folks claimed they'd be bankrupt in a year cuz of it, I wonder what happened??

[longboneslinger]

Does xeroxing my ass count? Jeeeeezz, I'm glad to see the cassette and other 'back in the day' stuff. I dont feel so damn old now.
Later taters,
bone

Hell, I just found an original copy of 'Scorched Earth' an old DOS game I 'pirated' on a floppy. To damn bad the disc has crapped out on me........

[spenz]

I've been doing it for about 4 years and so far my collections are not bad. But then i've given more than i'v got. Does that make me a good pirate?lol

[illusiveX]

ever since i learned that i could get stuff for free ive downloaded lol

[smalle]

at all started with a leet winzip crack... lol.. where were the days... :)

[Daywalk]

Since i got my Commodore 64. That was for a long time in

the mid 80´s:rolleyes:

[tdao]

Since i got the thenet , 5 years

[Ph03n1x]

From the beginning.

[bmt134]

Copy games off of floppy discs....

[CableMan391]

Started by copying software on floppies and cd's with my windows 95.

[Gish]

Too long:)

[chicksy]

Started by copying software on floppies and cd's with my windows 95.

the same here :D

[ApocStorm]

First thing I pirated was one of those huge 5.25 inch floppy disk.

[sear]

I voted 3-4 years since I got the internet but thinking back I can remeber coppying games on floppies from my school computer lab in year 5 to play at home so that's like 17 years...:)

[justinius23]

^much the same as sear. i voted 6 months as i only got the internet in recently :(

but i have been copying games since i got an amstrad cpc 464 (green screen) for christmas like 15 years ago or something...

[klumsy]

remember when copy protection only involved keying in phrases from the game manuals :P ?

[charlie1515]

i'm very new too all of this and it's cool to hear a lot of the older pirates stories.

[backlash]

I'd have to say 10 or so years, though at the time it was probably just the OS. They had those 8" floppies when I was in Elementary School. That was my first intro to computers. I didn't start getting my own stuff via the internet until I had to reinstall my OS and didn't have the programs I had before. When someone told me to look for a serial or crack or something I took the plunge. That was probably going back 4-5 years ago.

I haven't looked back since. :)

[DBLClick]

Ever sense software started to come on floppies.

[spenz]

hmm about a year or two, i should say. ^_^

[lajbah]

about 2,5 years

[sttrop]

8 years or something =p

[Nigi]

About 2 years+ to me. The day we got our cable internet :D

[zippster12]

remember when copy protection only involved keying in phrases from the game manuals :P ?
Now that is something I have not thought about in a long time but made me laugh very hard!!! :D

[Chessking]

First time I pirated software was on an old Atari 800 computer and Used "Text Wizard" word processing software. load a binary program into the wizard and changed the words in the program and saved to disk. "Hacked By CHESSKING" .

[default]

there is software to pirate? i didn't know that

[limesqueezer]

Sharing with friends probably 6 years, before that 386, c64 and sometime before internet i've had fun times with pirates :D. Nowdays everybody that buys a empty cd/dvd and burns a pay game on it is a pirate, just nobody sells this anymore, u get caught too fast and we went online..arrrrrrrr

[SlappyOil]

Over 8 years, started back in 1998 - lol

[dml]

5 years :D

[Theo_Nean_Donly]

1986. You used to be able to walk into computer stores and buy copies on the 5in floppies.

[Death in Vegas]

Relatively new on the scene, just started last year around this time.

Haven't looked back yet :cool2:

[DtM2000]

Since 2000 - when PC's were supposed to crash?????

[Necrophag]

Over 5 years now :P

[sherlock]

Three to four years.

[magnoman]

over 5 years :(

[Nemesis®]

well for what I consider pirating, which is downloading, uploading, passing around hundreds of megabytes, then gigabytes,, 1995 is when it started for me, hell now you can upload a dvd in a matter of minutes. :D

Doing the getting and giving to/from friends went on since the beginning around 1987 forward but I don't consider that pirating. ;)

[azaxmaxy]

well around 5 years

[ianjmcd]

too many years to count

[0ctane]

along time :P

[limesqueezer]

you enlighted me

[oo3]

Since I've been using Napster with AOL Dial-up.

*edit*
Oh you meant progs...hehe...well since cd burners came out...

[gustafo]

been hooked up since the day i got the net :naughty:

[pECi]

well...since the first time my fingerz touched the keyboard...i was born a pirate :lol:

[dmnyanks1]

Any one remember when Dizzy for the spectrum? er when that came out

[adtimg]

=))
excellent poll question
How many liars do we have on it?

[bdotj02]

haha this computer is too slow to run hardcore progs like flash dreamweaver ps cs and counterstrike damnn

[Skiz]

haha this computer is too slow to run hardcore progs like flash dreamweaver ps cs and counterstrike damnn

Way to keep the thread on track. :ermm:

[aburyach]

Who said never? This is a filesharing forum... lol

[ngoducthang]

wow, alot of 5+ years people. next question would be are you pirating software just for learning purposes since the software costs too much? or are you just pirating everything?

[pECi]

just about everything...i put my money to better use...like buying hardware:D

[kuban177]

since the time i reached the age of 10

[DSLFreak]

Since about 2002

[joeybuttawipo]

I was doing it while Eve was biting the fruit.....

[joeybuttawipo]

I was doing it while Eve was biting the fruit......

[alphabeta]

i dont pirate, i borrow.

[guille03]

Over 6 years

[thraxed]

think i started on the commodore 64

[ssj4gogeta]

A long time now can't really rember exactly how long but at least 5 years.

[almighty1]

Since i used to have a Commodore 64 and used to copy cassettes on my twin deck player :)

[markes_do]

Maybe too long... :D

[frunzel]

Like some others, started on the commodore 64 :)

[omgwirjo]

I think around 10 years or so. I remember getting pirated stuff when the CD-Rom drive wasn't around. Ahh, the good ol' days of floppys...

[simplton]

Used to copy discs on my Commodore 64. Bought 4 or 5 games but must have had hundreds. I am sure alot of peeps my age did the same thing.

[darknewday]

6 years (or more) ago, since i got internet
i thought Kazaa was super...

[doctorcdcs]

when my parent bought my brother and myself our first 286, we were first exposed to copied games on 5 1/4 disks.. those were some innocent times. most notable of the games that we were given were leisure suit larry 2 (when a badly photocopied manual that someone had to write in pen for the phone number part), double dragon, and ghostbusters II. ah, good times those were.

[scone]

its been awhile..
I started on windows 98 when that first came out :)

[omd]

Since the early 80s, remember those 5 1/4 floppies, Still have my first pirate copy of DOS 3.11

[xoas]

Sine Atari ST's were popular so that much be somewhere around the late 80's?

[mert1]

5 years

[djenin]

Since the 80s, C64 at first, Amiga later on.

[rufus2]

hmm, on and off for 10 years, but I only REALLY got excited a few years ago because up till then I'd just gotten cracked versions of Winzip and virus-infested warez, etc., and didn't think there was much out there beyond that so I just mainly used freeware/shareware and reinstalled after 30 days thinking that the quality stuff had to be paid out the ass for and there was no way around it....then one day I managed to download Photoshop and just thought, this is $700 software and I've got the FULL version...FREE!!!:w00t: Then things REALLY went downhill:D

[MeShUgG4H]

I think about 3 years, i started with kazaa

[BIRANCHI]

Started File Sharing Since I Yr

[mohammed55]

Around 2-3 years only. I only download that softwere I need,

[Arch1679]

5 years at least...in the old days it was borrowing friends CDs hehe

[smalle]

started in '99, first thing i downloaded was cracked games on public websites

[raspberry1331]

i think the first software i pirated was prince of persia, back in ~1990. i still remember vividly doing the first level about a 1000 time, cause after the level you had to drink the cup of water with the letter in the manual's page x, line y or something like that. of course later i got the properly cracked vesion.

[cno81]

Ever since i got my first PC, so about 13 years ago now!

[hdooga]

all my life started with the amiga

[bunny67]

2 yrs saves on loads a dosh wen ya got kids wanting stuff all the time

[poltergeist]

I "borrowed" the first games when i had an oldschool 80386 PC.
This is ... errrm... a few "weeks" ago. :-)

[matjiz]

i started when napster was born

[menlyman]

ive been using pirated softs so i can remmber me :P

[0ctane]

Now that you mention it, we did copy Commodore 64 games from one cassette to another. ;)

omg i forgot about them days copying speccy games on my double tape deck :lol:

[Kruger]

I've been doing bad things for only about ~2 years(if I don't count the cheap unofficial game copies, which i was buying and copying from my friends in my childhood) :D

[MrChaos]

first prog i ever downloaded was napster ;)

[kimii]

around two years.

[Tmaster]

1 year

[torrentslave]

5 years +

[new4bmn]

I've been doing so for about a year.

[lascard]

well i start with old bbs for the atari/amiga scene

rainbowbox was my friend

[underground33]

Since I got the net, 6 years

[steelshadow]

I'm shocked at all of you! I ONLY use filesharing for legal purposes and only DL backups of what I already own. :)

[eCh]

since 1998 :)

[Panther]

on of the first games I got from a friend was the old Wolfenstein back in ´92 I think,incredible graphic... :)

[NIxaN]

my first comp was sinse 1997 - never buy nothing exept harware :)

[dimagic]

I think my first attemp was 4 years ago......

[2flY]

Starting with downloading from free space offers (damn..what was the name again?) from this one popular site, I changed to Yahoo! free space (damn...forgot all the exact names).
But after they cut down bandwidh, got into p2p ;)

Must have been about six years from now. One year break due to WoW :D

[spidro]

about 7 years

[jmilla]

Ever since I found out you could download stuff for free on the internet and it worked. Which is about 4 and a half years ago. When I found out I was so shocked and excited:O :D

[iNSOMNiA]

Oh boy... +5 years, since the FTP exists tbh :lol:

[nursepissangel]

since I needed photoshop a few years ago.

[janine]

since about 12 yrs ago. found out at school ;)

[trevorob]

about 4+ years ago, first one was kaaza then dvd shrink, how sweet it was.

[turbotalon21]

nice

[mbucari1]

about 2 yrs ago. I also needed photoshop.

[trobinson97]

Man I remember being introduced to Photoshop while at college in the late 90's thinking, "God I would love to have this program on my home computer, but it's so expensive." Thanks to bt, I do.


Thanks p2p!

-real testimonial

[NA_Magus]

Yeah Photoshop 7 is one the biggest dls I made quite a while back that I can remember. So 4-5 years I say?

[Finn_1337]

About 29 years ago, my mother taught me how to file my nails. Occasionally she would share her file with me. I'd have to say that's my earliest memory of file sharing. Back in the seventies is was all about the sharing, free love, free files, it was good times.

[popopot]

Ever since the Commodore 64! Cassettes rule!

[bombi]

2-3 years ago..

[thebazzla]

about 4 years now

[jonasfjeld]

pirating since i got my c64!

[shyheim]

about 8 years

[Exploit]

6 yers ago

[kobi_af]

About 3 years

[DarkWave]

since the first day of my computer life :)

[Washy]

93 - ah was a good year.

W.

[SinWithin]

3-2 years downloaded over 3 TB ..

[salehgaliwala]

I have been pirating since 8 years I pirated Ram booster for my old p2 133ghz machine I downloaded the crack from astalavista.com

[Chrys]

8 years

[selector]

Hello again
I have been sharing for about 1-2 years now
regards selector

[Temp2007]

All my life!! :)

[tem]

i am an old pirate. 10 years +

[pesser]

only since broadband came out Patience is not one of my virtues am afraid

[0gbqf3v02]

Since the dial-up hey-days of 1998...so that would be 8 years? :)

[nikoskat]

7 years, as much as i own a pc :)

[Fulanito]

5 years i think

[b33st]

Yeah, late 80's BBS's and Floppys.....

[EFS]

since 6 years as much i can

[KennyD]

1st thing I can remember pirating was Windows 98 and the word suite

[Timer]

3-4 years, I think. Back then, I use Kazaa...:lol:

[milkman_dan]

The first thing I remember pirating were console ROM's off of Usenet, followed by music from Napster (Before they became legit) - Don't know exactly how long ago that was, but it was around 6-7 years ago.

[007™]

9+ years

[Fortech]

around 4-5 yrs

[DDRFREAK1030]

Hmmm, First thing i ever pirated is winzip xD

[micky3840]

i never pirate software i make backups of other peoples software !!!!!

[temagna]

same here as soon as net online .............

[DrAgOn]

since 92's

[Danny]

I've been pirating for a few months, I'm so new that Supreme Commander (which ruins me) is like the tenth thing I've torrented so far.

[joeyg37]

i ben downloading for about a year and i can find any thing on the inter almost lol

[bigimot]

since I discover the sources. about 6-7 years ago.

[yoyogi4]

Yeah I will definite say never!!!!:whistling :whistling

I hope the feds don't come after me!!

[Fritzlang]

Since 2002, im a proud pirate!!

[Backthatassup]

probably for the past 2 years or so...especially M$ stuff...soo overpriced its ridiculous

[catalyst05]

since 2002. im pirating especially microsoft programs.

[Tusker]

Since the 80's on a bunch of VisionX boards on the west coast. Stopped until about a year ago when I discoverd BT.

[mestari]

Something about 5 years. Those old times were great. CD-R's full of game rips :P <3

[j2k4]

We were pirating software long before the internet was invented :D

Floppy disks ftw :01:
Before that there was cassettes and don't forget punchcards. :01:

I have a stash of unpunched punchcards.

I think I even have an original floppy with NAV.

Hell, I even have a copy of the IBM Employee song book.

[Galva]

A while now, pretty much only music until 1999ish when I got 10mbit at home, then the fun really began.

[diablo1231]

from 10 years since i got my computer in 1997

[jojo]

only started 2 years ago.

[kardo]

am 8 years

[n0n3]

For about 4 years i'm using pirated material.

[Cheffy]

Since my first computer thats like 10 years ago.

[phantom_10]

from about 5 years

[seh]

too long :w00t:
id say from 96 / 97 that 10+ years :wacko:

[jackwho]

I used to copy commodore 64 games back in the 80`s and im still going strong :P

[silhouette]

I can't remember ever buying any software.