Swatting wasn't really a thing until the 2000s. The term wasn't even really coined until nearly the end of the 2000s. The FBI was using it in like 2008 or so.
"he raised his hands, presumably to grab a gun from the ceiling, i had no choice but to fire five warning shots in his head and emptying the rest of the clip in his dog that was tied outside in the yard"
I'm a big bearded Scandinavian (born in Denmark and lived here all my life) with far left political views and a love for tie dye, so I'd say it fits quite well 😁
I'm even growing out my beard to go for a viking braid like this 😁
Goddamn....I wish my beard came in that magnificently.... seriously didn't have "emasculated by the picture of a glorious beard" on my 2026 bingo card....
I hope your beard goals come true, don't let beard dreams stay dreams my friend!
I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.
I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could "get the update".
I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.
They started investigating him as soon as he started downloading that MP3. Did some reconnaissance around the house, got some surveillance intel, consulted a judge and a few expert witnesses, then commenced the on-site op and apprehended him when it was about 90% complete. (That's about how long it took to download MP3s in the 90s.)
Actually, they're all working for the profit of someone else who had the capital to afford the tools they need and extracts labour from them without giving them anything beyond the most basic necessities.
Today the corporate AI downloads all of the songs, artwork, movies, text, etc. on the internet and the police will just shoot you in the face for no reason.
Metallica seen by people through the decades :
80s : Oh wow, it's a fun thrash band with a cool bassist
90s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit
00s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit also you're fucking clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
10s : Oh wow, they're still going
20s : Oh wow, they're still going
(NB : My opinion is still the 00s opinion because I'm a millenial)
Still remember downloading nirvana_smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 for the first time. It may have taken 25 minutes on Napster, but nothing has ever sounded so good played out of my aux speakers in Winamp.
I remember one time I got spooked that I was about to be raided and took all my backups (on DVDs) to a friends house after a loooong and winding path to their house to ensure I wasn't followed.
when I dropped it off all he asked was, "can I copy what you have?"
told him he could copy whatever he wanted if he had the drive space. it was a full binder of 100 data DVDs.
was never raided but I was looking over my shoulder for weeks after that.
I worked at an electronics store at the time and a cop came in asking me some very specific questions about pirating. like a dumbass, I shared my knowledge. Though at the time I didn't know he was LE.
one of my coworkers called me and told me a cop was around asking for me at work on my day off. soon after that my internet connection died.
I got spooked and dbanned my drives while I took my backups to another friends house.
the guy was probably just trying to learn about piracy tbh. never saw him again after that.
'90s? This came out in June 1st of 99 so I guess for 6 months it was the 90s. Napster was mainly the early 2000s. Before really LimeWire and stuff came around.
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3's from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
Yes I nearly got stung once circa 2002, I downloaded some pirated movie off of one of those platforms and shortly after received something in the mail specifically telling me what I downloaded and that I was required to respond to them and they were going to litigate. I did not respond. And the problem seemed to disappear. Thankfully I did not end up being one of those people in the news who was taken to court for millions of dollars.
Ah, now they bust down your door in full paramilitary tactical gear after rolling up in an MRAP and APC, then just shoot you for “resisting.”
90’s were the good old days.
Remember the ‘80s, where a lot of the action films were heroes wiping out boardrooms full of evil dystopian executives…? Yeah. Funny we don’t see much of that anymore.
You laugh now but my family was sued by limewire for file sharing. My parents paid like 3500 bucks to settle. Which in 1999 times was pretty much a million bucks
I do understand it's a meme, but I really wonder if the folks commenting understand the difference between civil and federal litigation and how folks were caught..
112 Comments
ignotum@lemmy.world · 119 pts · 223d
I miss that,
These days they just shoot you on the spot
marcos@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 223d
Swatting became a verb in the 90s.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 223d
Swatting wasn't really a thing until the 2000s. The term wasn't even really coined until nearly the end of the 2000s. The FBI was using it in like 2008 or so.
See Wikipedia or this FBI archive article https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/february/swatting020408
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 221d
There weren’t many ways to make anonymous phone calls in the 90s, you had to find 10¢ and go into town to find a pay phone.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
He threatened me with his crt
ignotum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 223d
"he raised his hands, presumably to grab a gun from the ceiling, i had no choice but to fire five warning shots in his head and emptying the rest of the clip in his dog that was tied outside in the yard"
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
“Fucking bitch”
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 221d
It's why I switched to LSD.
LCD?
I always forget 😶🌫️
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 100 pts · 223d
Don’t forget that he owes his entire life earnings to a corporation for downloading 180 songs.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 48 pts · 223d
Most heinous crime. Almost as bad as downloading a car
tektite@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 223d
You wouldn't!!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 223d
I did. In fact, I've downloaded more cars for Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA IV than I've been inside of IRL.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 223d
Username almost checks out
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 223d
I'm a big bearded Scandinavian (born in Denmark and lived here all my life) with far left political views and a love for tie dye, so I'd say it fits quite well 😁
I'm even growing out my beard to go for a viking braid like this 😁
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
I just meant you paid for the cars, rather than just take them, because you can. As a Viking.
Lol I'm dumb don't worry.
Sweet beard though. I gave one of my employees an award at my Christmas party for having the best beard. The only beard actually.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 223d
Nice! Was she pleased?
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 222d
Goddamn....I wish my beard came in that magnificently.... seriously didn't have "emasculated by the picture of a glorious beard" on my 2026 bingo card....
I hope your beard goals come true, don't let beard dreams stay dreams my friend!
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 223d
i so would. downloading new car, while the uploader keeps theirs? that's a fucking no-brainer.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 222d
We would certainly be buying cheaper cars if the car industry wasn't helping keep the cars away from the same place they get their car parts.
washbasin@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 223d
2pac.mp3.exe
architectonas@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 223d
Wait, why does the song not start playing when I double-click it?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 223d
You have to run the song as an administrator.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 223d
Its soo good its needs full read write acess to your drive.
Its for uh surround sound 👌👌👌
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 222d
Then they discovered it was much easier to do that in people's phones and that they got way more information from it they could sell.
cozzy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 223d
go into powershell and type sudo [song name]. sudo is the music player
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 5 pts · 223d
Does
sudorun things as administrator now on Windows?aloofPenguin@piefed.world · 2 pts · 222d
Yes. They added it a few months ago i believe.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
Su su sudo
Finally makes sense!
Venator@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 222d
Nah in the 90s you were always running as administrator unless on a school computer or using Linux or something...
fennesz12@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 222d
I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.
I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could "get the update".
I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.
CustardFist@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 223d
Oh, that one was good. 😙
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 223d
"Malware distributor too, eh?"
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 57 pts · 223d
They started investigating him as soon as he started downloading that MP3. Did some reconnaissance around the house, got some surveillance intel, consulted a judge and a few expert witnesses, then commenced the on-site op and apprehended him when it was about 90% complete. (That's about how long it took to download MP3s in the 90s.)
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 223d
At what point did they shoot the dog?
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 223d
Kristi Noem wasn't working with the government back then.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 15 pts · 223d
ACAB. They'll all kill your dog, She just somehow took pride(?) in doing so.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 223d
Noem is unique in that she killed her own dog instead of someone else's, and then bragged that it spoke to her leadership skills.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 223d
And spent 10,000% more on salaries for all of those people than was "lost" by the music industry.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 221d
JUSTICE HAS NO PRICE!!!!!
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 223d
Zink@programming.dev · 6 pts · 222d
Yooo, can communism get ME that swole too?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 222d
Well, you'll certainly get plenty of exercise and won't have to stop yourself from binge eating in the gulag!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 222d
Is this real?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 222d
Real in the sense that it was made at the height of the napster crisis. It wasn't put out by the RIAA though.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 222d
😨
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!! I didn't know!!! 😭😭
blinfabian@feddit.nl · -4 pts · 222d
i just realised how communist crypto farms are. youre telling me hundred PCs share their resources to reach a greater goal?
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 13 pts · 222d
Actually, they're all working for the profit of someone else who had the capital to afford the tools they need and extracts labour from them without giving them anything beyond the most basic necessities.
That's capitalism.
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 222d
🤯
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 223d
Today the corporate AI downloads all of the songs, artwork, movies, text, etc. on the internet and the police will just shoot you in the face for no reason.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 222d
Oh and they DDOS your little private webpage too.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 221d
I wish death upon Alibaba Group. Half the shitty AI scrapers are theirs.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 223d
now this happens when you post wild shit on social
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 223d
Quote charlie kirk being racist and they will come take you away
Slashme@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d
Du bist so 1 Pimmel.
motruck@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 223d
Got'em. Wie peinlich.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 222d
* Grot'em mit grünen Grüßen aus Hamburg als übertriebene Reaktion. Leider außer dem Streisand-Effekt kein weiterer Gegenwind.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 23 pts · 223d
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR NOW WOULD YOU??
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 223d
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 223d
That's the spirit!
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 223d
::: spoiler spoiler Hackers ::: entered the chat
Mess with the best...!
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 223d
....die like the rest....Cras.... ZeroCool
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 223d
🤬
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 223d
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 223d
I might kill a constable, shit in his hat, and then send that hat to his widow, though.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 223d
As long as you don't buy illegal video copies, you and I are golden 👍
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 223d
These days, making a U-turn could be your last.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 223d
Don't exaggera...
Never mind. My bad.
Heil Trumpler! 🫶🙏✝️🫣
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 223d
Metallica seen by people through the decades :
80s : Oh wow, it's a fun thrash band with a cool bassist
90s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit
00s : Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on you sellout piece of shit also you're fucking clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
10s : Oh wow, they're still going
20s : Oh wow, they're still going
(NB : My opinion is still the 00s opinion because I'm a millenial)
Slashme@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
Don't download this song.
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong...
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 223d
"NAPSTER BAD!"
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
FIRE BUUUUUURN
fennesz12@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 222d
Still remember downloading nirvana_smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 for the first time. It may have taken 25 minutes on Napster, but nothing has ever sounded so good played out of my aux speakers in Winamp.
kossa@feddit.org · 6 pts · 222d
Narrator: "what sounded so good was horse porn"
mtpender@piefed.social · 14 pts · 223d
And the file ends up being 5mins of toilet sounds... and 17 viruses.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 223d
They always protect the owner class, never the people.
glibg@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 223d
Gotta love the frosted tips detail.
N0MAD@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 223d
I liked the can of Surge
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 223d
it really was like that.
I remember one time I got spooked that I was about to be raided and took all my backups (on DVDs) to a friends house after a loooong and winding path to their house to ensure I wasn't followed.
when I dropped it off all he asked was, "can I copy what you have?"
told him he could copy whatever he wanted if he had the drive space. it was a full binder of 100 data DVDs.
was never raided but I was looking over my shoulder for weeks after that.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 223d
What gave you the feeling you were about to be raided? Did you receive threats? Was law enforcement stalking you?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
I worked at an electronics store at the time and a cop came in asking me some very specific questions about pirating. like a dumbass, I shared my knowledge. Though at the time I didn't know he was LE.
one of my coworkers called me and told me a cop was around asking for me at work on my day off. soon after that my internet connection died.
I got spooked and dbanned my drives while I took my backups to another friends house.
the guy was probably just trying to learn about piracy tbh. never saw him again after that.
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 222d
Smart move tbh
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 222d
'90s? This came out in June 1st of 99 so I guess for 6 months it was the 90s. Napster was mainly the early 2000s. Before really LimeWire and stuff came around.
ghostsinthephotograph@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d
Growing up for the final 6 months of the 90s, you mean? Napster launched June 1, 1999...
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Thank you for bringing logic here. I remember Napster and Kazaa and LimeWire being a problem in the early 2000s.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3's from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
Yes I nearly got stung once circa 2002, I downloaded some pirated movie off of one of those platforms and shortly after received something in the mail specifically telling me what I downloaded and that I was required to respond to them and they were going to litigate. I did not respond. And the problem seemed to disappear. Thankfully I did not end up being one of those people in the news who was taken to court for millions of dollars.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d
Ah, now they bust down your door in full paramilitary tactical gear after rolling up in an MRAP and APC, then just shoot you for “resisting.”
90’s were the good old days.
Remember the ‘80s, where a lot of the action films were heroes wiping out boardrooms full of evil dystopian executives…? Yeah. Funny we don’t see much of that anymore.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
And then it turns out they weren't even supposed to be at your house, they were targeting your neighbor
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 222d
Should have become an AI CEO.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 221d
The only time I even got a notice from my ISP about pirating shit is if I downloaded anything made by Disney or Nintendo.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 222d
In the 00's, its the same except he's playing CoD.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 221d
Napster actually was mostly in the 00's. Napster came out in the summer of 1999 and the lawsuits over it started in 2000 and it was shut down in 2002.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 223d
Unrealistic no grenades and they didn't enter shooting.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 222d
The hair is spot on.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Don't download this song!
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
South Park did it
humanoftheinternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 222d
If we had social media back then, we'd have people posting "If you don't want to get jailed, then just don't pirate music, FAFO".
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 222d
metallicops
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 223d
Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean
kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
you wouldn't steal the hat of a police officer…
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
You laugh now but my family was sued by limewire for file sharing. My parents paid like 3500 bucks to settle. Which in 1999 times was pretty much a million bucks
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 223d
$6,809.29 in Nov. 2025 equals $3,500 of buying power in 1999 (Average).
https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartingamount1=3%2C500&cinmonth1=13&cinyear1=1999&coutmonth1=11&coutyear1=2025&calctype=1&x=Calculate#uscpi
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d
not accounting for COL and inflation, that's about a million dollars.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 222d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
RedWheelbarrow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d
Yeah.... Good old days!
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
I do understand it's a meme, but I really wonder if the folks commenting understand the difference between civil and federal litigation and how folks were caught..
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
I should check in on Dave Kellett
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 222d
Pretty sure the stormtroopers were murdering 500,000 iraqi kids too... But I guess that's not a popular tale in the imperial core.
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