This is during the era before Spotify existed: during the time CD’s were big along with the infancy of iTunes including the first iPods during the early 2000s (third party sites is where users uploaded mp3 files of songs, the full length available for free download) my cousins would often download entire albums.
The same crap generations before did with vinyls (with a wax mold, used to etch the soundtrack onto a wax copy but audio is shit) since buying an official copy from a record store isn’t cheap for some people. I’ve heard “torrented” songs from cassettes (via a tape recorder) when the radio played a song, press record.
Music stores in the 90s would sell CDs of the latest hits from known artists of the time, a friend would buy a copy then rip the hell out of it by “pirating” the entire album onto a blank CD-R. Pirates did the same with concerts of famous singers, placing a tape recorder on the side adjacent of where the singer would perform.
Torrenting a song from cassette? From what specific era should that be? You forgot Napster, Kazaa, and IRC.
WTF even if this post
Has anyone ever looked at OP’s post history and wondered WTF this thing is up to?
What’s the point of a push-poll about KFC being overpriced garbage? Who’s paying for your server time, is it Big Popeye?
Big fed energy here… Or you’re 12…
What an odd post. You’re asking a question, then pretending to understand the history.
We didn’t “pirate” by copying CDs bro. We were just copying them like you copy a file. And like we copied cassette tapes and recorded songs off the radio.
“Pirating” as it relates to modern music, (discounting pirate radio) was coined when mass distribution was enabled by the internet.
Also, tape recorders on the sides of the stage weren’t considered pirating. The artists allowed it if it happened. The Grateful Dead popularized this.
You can actually pay for music and not freely download it from internet or simply capture from radio/TV?
Hey man sometimes some dude is selling his homemade hick hop CD at the gas station and you have to buy one cause you know it’s not going to be good.
The need to know more about this new genre of hick hop intensifies.
https://youtu.be/ADC_6XFvIxk sadly not the CD I bought though.
I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt but this question feels weird, considering this is a goddamn piracy sub
why does this sound ai
Media piracy is part of the family lore. I don’t recall having more than a handful of original cassettes (audio and vhs), later on the same with cd’s growing up. Turns out my dad was the progenitor, he only had maybe 25-30 records, but recently I unearthed a huge box of reel to reel tapes with music mostly recorded from other people’s records (from about 1966-1980). When online piracy reared it’s head, it was only yet another way to obtain quality home entertainment.
Seems like you know a lot of piracy history so I figured you’d know the answer to this question already?
Torrenting isn’t a slang term for pirating, you can legally torrent things it’s just a file transfer protocol
I’m guessing “SilentStriker” Is also you
Yeah, a “torrented” cassette? That’s called bootlegging or ripping, depending on how you recorded it onto the cassette.
Bootlegging is setting the recorder up against the radio and hoping your parents/siblings stayed quiet long enough for you to record the whole song. Or maybe you simply abandoned the idea of getting a clean bootleg, and recorded a mixtape where you added your own commentary/sang along/etc.
Ripping was running the audio signal directly from the radio into a cassette recorder, bypassing the whole “room noise” issue entirely.
Of course, every radio recording (regardless of whether it was bootlegged or ripped) would always have a few seconds of the goddamned DJ talking over the beginning/end of the track.
And CD piracy was a big deal back when consumer-grade CD burners first hit the market. I remember my dad checking CD albums out at the library and using his dedicated burning setup to copy the albums. He built an entire desktop with the express purpose of ripping CDs for himself and his friends. It had one CD drive, and like five or six burner drives right below it. So he could make five or six copies at the same time. He’d keep two copies (one for the house, one for his truck) and then the rest would get passed around to his friends. He even made custom CD labels with printable CD-shaped adhesive stickers, so he could peel the album art off of the page and stick it directly to the CD. He had a template saved that let him print out like four labels at once.
napster, kazaa, limewire, audiogalaxy are the big ones I remember in the pre-torrent era
hell I remember there were PCs at some kiosk at the mall that random folks had installed Napster on and a bunch of random folks had downloaded random stuff on.
I burned so many audio CDs. Even if it was just to add one single new song, since one song could take like an bour or so to download before we got broadband.
When mp3 cd players became a thing, that was a magical time. Before iPods and before the Creative Nomad, WAY cheaper, and some could even read CD-RWs.
I even sold a few mix CDs, with nicely formatted printouts for the slim jewel cases.
What an era.
Pretty sure back then we didn’t even call it piracy. It was a normal, and perfectly legal thing to do. I remember my uncle and parents copy songs to casettes so 10yo me could listen to my favorite songs on my casette deck. We shared audiobooks with the neighbourhood kids (without copying them). We made mixtapes for the car stereo. And a new mixtape for every road trip. We also “pirated” the TV. Have the VHS record the Star Trek episode because I wasn’t home on thursdays at 4pm. Or record some awesome blockbuster movie to re-watch it later.
Nice try, RIAA!
