What happend to warez

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wHiTe*LiGhTnInG

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What happend to the way everyone used to download back in the day?.

I remember cruzing the websites for 0 days appz and games and downloading with download accelerator at 3kb. Straight from the websites.

Downloading from a website is usually super fast?, so why was it changed really?
 
Cause the web sites were liable for copywrite cr@p. Whereas a torrent site doesn't hold any of the suspect files and so doesn't break the law. Or something like that.
 
p2p happened and was better because it didnt require a site to provide the bandwidth for everybody to download and made more sense when you have a fast connection to someone closer than the site.
 
wHiTe*LiGhTnInG said:
What happend to the way everyone used to download back in the day?.

I remember cruzing the websites for 0 days appz and games and downloading with download accelerator at 3kb. Straight from the websites.

Downloading from a website is usually super fast?, so why was it changed really?
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For one. The internet grew quite a bit. And ISPs started charging for bandwidth. Demand was so high it will literally pull the server down (connection and all) so ISP's started blocking them.

Was easier to get 0-day ftps. But when p2p (torrents specifically) happend the guys responsible for these ftp's decided to rather seed the files for a bit and let the sharing/loving happen instead of being caught.
 
It is still possible to find ftpz and http links to gamez, appz, mp3z and pr0n. There is one particular website with warez from the 90s - the site design unchanged, no pop up banners, but the links are always updated and seem to never be down - that site's even in Wikipedia. There's also that Terminator search engine from Slovakia for security related info with links to various things :).

It's possible to find much stuff if you google well - www.fravia.com
 
So then whats this new thing i hear about http torents without a tracker, is that sort of the same thing. Cause it seems like old technology seems to come back better like how it works with the hardware side of things.
 
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