The YouTube thing doesn't sound right. They had a ¿10? minute video limit for a long time and it was really annoying to watch pirated stuff on there. Google Video had a lot of full movies before they bought YouTube and shut it down.

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sebastiansm7 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Still remember those times watching movies or documentaries by parts. Sometimes I started watching just to discover that part 8 was missing :(

edit: in previous years some anime communities uploaded episodes to photo sites. They chunked the episodes in small JPGs with the video data encrypted. Just download hundreds of photos, join them and you got the episode :)

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someguyornotidk 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Remember this :)

I also remember how we (I?) used to hard link the /tmp/RANDOM.tmp files that youtube buffered into so the video parts don't get automatically unlinked and we could then stitch them back with ffmpeg or whatever buggy fork ubuntu had in its repos. Full Star wars in glorious 240p! (I had shitty internet.)

The good old days. Back when people called streaming what it really is (downloading) and exercised their god-given right to keep what was sent to them.

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zhengyi13 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wild to see the usenet/uuencoding model reproduced on the web w/ jpegs.

	▲	sebastiansm7 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then with the raise of rapidshare, megaupload, etc that JPG thing stopped.

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andai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow, how did that work? Steganography?

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figmert 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it was 15 minutes? Or maybe it was upped to 15 mins? But yes, it was super annoying when part n of something was missing.