THE HISTORY OF INTERNET PIRACY

This is the HISTORY OF INTERNET PIRACY. From the inception of computing to the modern "non-profit" industry.
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Subtitles will be added within the next few days. I'm sorry it's 2 am I've been editing for the past 5 hours I'm just going to sleep that'll be fixed on the weekend or something. btw the patreon videos will be free for this video but I need to finish the editing on those and record the bonus one so those should be up within the next month or something.

edit: sorry I'm too lazy to add subtitles to the video as I'm working on 2 videos at the same time now.

0:00 1971-1989
16:53 ad break
17:23 1990-Now

[mobiusddrip]

WTA ADL. Having an issue pasting the sources onto the description because YouTube now requires me to send my ID or "verify" my identity to post external links. I've tried doing this twice and was rejected twice (not sure why). So for now I cannot post the sources in the desc. I will post a pastebin to them in this comment when I get it all compiled. Apologies for the lateness on this. - MOD

[biggychugss]

new video essay just dropped by painfully small youtuber pull up

[evanmartin]

I’m a professional audio engineer and wouldn’t be successful had i not been able to torrent software as a kid. This also lead to me learning how files and computer works. Now I’m a regular thief.

[alanomofo]

Another reason why piracy is on the rise is because of ads, when we pay for a streaming service but still get our content interrupted with advertisements. Piracy is offering a better better product than what streaming services can provide .

The high seas are open once again ☠

[goncaloazevedo]

Bro the algorithm just knew this was a banger

[veeislow]

No way this is first video on this channel, bro spawned in with the highest quality video production

[speedosam]

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

[jakebodnar]

"Companies lost over $800 million to software piracy in 1990".

Everyone who downloaded warez in 1990 never had the intention of buying it in the first place, so technically they lost nothing.

[bugs]

referring to people who use torrented versions as crack addicts is crazy, i love it

[otonomicomicon]

>intel processor for 60 dollars "okay thats a really good price for then"
>in todays money its 460 dollars "oh"

[painfulbunny]

It is insane how much 'smaller' the piracy scene has become. However, these small communities are still thriving and make it seem like the scene is still as big as it initially was e.g. anime, steamunderground, private forums, private torrent sites.

[talkingdeads]

it's incredible how sometimes youtube's algorithm says "oh this guy with less than 800 subscribers just dropped absolute gas time to get the video on everyone's recommended"

[xenvitsu]

disgustingly, atrociously, criminally, and offensively underrated.

[picklerick]

3:41 14-56 kilo BYTES would have been amazing. It was kilo BITS, so 1/8 of that.
So your 700mByte CD with 56kbit/s would take 28 hours.

[Felisitus]

It's not just movies and series. With how games go these days, there's an uptick of piracy. Insane pricing, DLCs for basic content, always online, invasive and performance degrading anti-piracy, terrible performance in general not deserving of the price they're asking. Shame that Empress is gone though.

[nilamelody]

I like how company nowaday just say they lost x amount of money from piracy, as if everyone who pirated will instead buy had they didn't pirate it in the first place.
These corperate greed is the type of mindset that will probably be their own downfall.

[annihilatorg]

Small thing, but at 21:15. Napster didn't use bittorrent. It was another 3 years before bittorrent was started and had the first real implementation.

[DRONZER]

im not religious but damn "predicting the future is betting against god" goes extremely hard

[oelkerstein]

Im very pro piracy. I wouldnt have the same amount of fun when i was a child if it didnt existed, as a poor brazilian kid, in a country that everything has a ultra high tax rate and everything is super expensive, im glad that piracing exists and i still use it 80% of the time

[cendicate]

Feels refreshing to catch a youtuber before they blow up!