DISCWORLD

Surprisingly, I actually have a pretty robust history with media piracy despite my parents not really being very techy as well as not being super gung-ho about doing it themselves.

My uncle and cousins are really smart and super into computers, so whenever we'd go over to their house, they'd have something new to show off. Sometimes it would be that my cousin had programmed a raspberry pi, or my uncle showing off how to program a website with javascript, there was always something going on. One day, my uncle handed my mom a hard drive and told her it had a ton of movies on it. I don't remember what was on it (I'm 90% sure Avengers was there), and we can't find it, which is a shame.

When I was little, one of my friend's dad burned CDs and DVDs for us, and we'd get some whenever we went to his house. These were the classic blank discs with the name of the movie written on them in sharpie, and we really enjoyed them. My family went on a lot of long roadtrips, so we had these little TVs that you could strap to the back of the seats to watch movies. We had a case full of discs, and I've seen every movie in that case at least 3 times. One disc was blank, so every year my brother and I would filp through the discs and come across the blank one, and get excited that we'd get to watch a mystery movie. And every year, we'd discover the fact that it was Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and we'd have a great time watching it, only to forget again the next year and redo the whole process.

This last one isn't super related to piracy, but I think it's relevant and pretty funny. When my mom when to Thailand in October of 2008, one of the things she brought home was a DVD of Kung Fu Panda (which wasn't out on home media yet). This was not an official release. I remember it looking and sounding fine, everything was up to par... except for the subtitles, which were hilariously mistranslated. When I was younger this really bothered me, but now it's just absolutely hilarious.