Demoind is dead for good, RIP

[BigusSchmuck]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408369,00.asp

[BlueBMW]

While many would agree that sites such as demonoid and piratebay are typically used to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted stuff, I'm afraid that if the restriction/crackdown on the internet continues we wont have the same internet that I grew up with.  Everything will be restricted and will only be available as a pay service.  I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect the internet is headed this way.  Even things like youtube and facebook that got their start as a free service are now turning into giant advertisment machines.  Can I have the old Napster back?

[BigusSchmuck]

While many would agree that sites such as demonoid and piratebay are typically used to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted stuff, I'm afraid that if the restriction/crackdown on the internet continues we wont have the same internet that I grew up with.  Everything will be restricted and will only be available as a pay service.  I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect the internet is headed this way.  Even things like youtube and facebook that got their start as a free service are now turning into giant advertisment machines.  Can I have the old Napster back?

You and me both. Next thing you know, we will start hearing about tired internet service again. Man the times are changing...

[BlueBMW]

Who remembers the old "10 hours free!" AOL disks that came in the mail.... ahh how times HAVE changed.  In a way I feel bad for the next generation of young people.  They have missed out on what were probably the golden years of the internet.  Even though I'm not that old, I am thankful that I experienced a time before the modern internet.

[Jibbajaba]

Whelp, that sucks.  I didn't use Demonoid very often, but it was nice to have as an option.

Chris

[BigusSchmuck]

Who remembers the old "10 hours free!" AOL disks that came in the mail.... ahh how times HAVE changed.  In a way I feel bad for the next generation of young people.  They have missed out on what were probably the golden years of the internet.  Even though I'm not that old, I am thankful that I experienced a time before the modern internet.

Yeah and reformatting the floppy disk to use for your own purposes. Ahh memories.....

[Samurai Ghost]

Where there's a will there's a way. The face of piracy will always change, but it will always be there. Each of these sites/trackers/apps will just be blips on a long line of file-sharing methods tracing their roots back to the old BBS days.

[BigusSchmuck]

Anyone here remember the direct connect days? It was there I found a thriving tg16 community and watched (with much amusement) Riggs vs other peoples tg16 cd rips.

[esteban]

I remember asking questions about NES, Blake's 7, Secret Agent Man, TG-16 and 3DO (amongst other things) on Prodigy bulletin boards (late 80's/early 90's)!

[KnightWarrior]

When I first started the Net..I was looking for old Game Genie Codes at the Library

But my first internet on AOL, with some chat site, Don't remember the name

[Ji-L87]

I remember finding the demo for the classic vehicular carnage-game Carmageddon on a site called Rocketdownload. What blew my mind at the time was that I was on a 28k modem, and the game was a whooping fifteen megabyte download. I always wondered "WHO can dowload something like that?!". Downloading it while on school, using their superfast ISDN connection would be possible, but I only had 10 megabytes of space on my account total (which could be exceeded) and I would have no way of bringing it home from there

Thankfully, a friend had a demo cd.

[Tatsujin]

demonoid was my #1 source for obscure films you won't find anywere. tried to contact the site for weeks, and now its gone for sure.

[Bernie]

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[BigusSchmuck]

Tats, get with me via PM.  I can hook you up with something else, thats more secure.

Newsgroups per chance or something completely different that we probably shouldn't be discussing on the forums? Either way, I would be interested as well.

[Nando]

Tats, get with me via PM.  I can hook you up with something else, thats more secure.

Pretty much the way things will be in the future, the internet is just the medium now.  I can set up a VPN with some friends or even use an open source drop box like services/program and share to my hearts content.