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TheAmazingIdiot on Sept 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin

Umm, no.

The very first bittorrent torrent was a 100 MB pirated porn video. I still have it.

The client was a .py script. And it was hardcoded with said video.

klrr on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Of course "warez" and such appeared earlier, but it ws far from being so mainstream. And I'm still correct about the first purpose of the protocol.

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