EmuParadise has removed its entire library of retro game ROMs and ISOs

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Originally Posted by xelement5x

It's a long read, but you may enjoy this article.
The Man Who Broke the Music Business | The New Yorker

If you were around in the 90s it's an amazingly in depth look at how piracy worked on both the digital and physical level back then.

tl;dr: Yes, people sold burned discs and made huge amounts of money off it.

Thanks, OK so there was a specific time when people were making money by selling burned discs. I did not realize it. Thanks for the read. I wasn't familiar with such a scene but I did get into Napster and Limewire BITD, both of which were free, of course.

Also, the video is still outdated for rapping about it 2009 lol. AFAIK. The thing that is self-contradictory is that when most people have internet, then it doesn't seem possible to sell discs of content that anyone could access online for free.

The closest thing that I see nowadays are the small stores that sell cheap burned DVD's, but they have a cheap case too, so it could be worth a few dollars, for the physical package (as cheaply made as it is).

Nowadays, I can't imagine teenagers making money by hosting file-sharing sites or selling burned discs... Then again, maybe I'm just out of the loop lol.

Limewire...man, there's a blast from the past. You could download pretty much anything from there, and I do mean anything.

Napster here. At school, I listened to a lot of Napster music. Could not download them at home as no PC but did at school. I once used Kazaa in 2003 but quickly canceled the download seeing as it had some malicious software and that was my last experience with piracy lol.