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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by TheSkyHasEyes on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:25PM (#35102738)
Not who you asked.

The reason was the juice. The excitement of sending stuff around the world before everyone else. I never cracked on x86 just a little bit with 6809.

I was a courier in late 90s(anyone recall FlashFXP). Fall of 1999 is when isonews.com(some old schoolers here will remember this website) got their homepage owned by the FBI. I left the scene that day.

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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by matthew-wegner on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:58PM (#35103112)
1999 was still pretty early! iSONEWS launched in December '98, but really it was the spring of '99 when things really gained momentum. The domain seizure was 2003.
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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by jbverschoor on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:25PM (#35103409)
Ahh the memories
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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by mike503 on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:55PM (#35105099)
FlashFXP was insane! It's funny to think now a 1.2ish meg disk in 2 seconds between two servers seemed nuts and now I have almost 100Mbps to my house.
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