i just remembered one time in the 2000s when some pop culture website i read was like "watch this Batman fan film. trust us" and there was a hyperlink to a file download for what i believe was a QuickTime mov, which for you post-youtube readers was basically the highest quality video you could get back then that wasn't also super huge in terms of file size, but also, it was still very huge in file size compared to anything that was usually way smaller and looked way shittier. anyway the point is i guess i trusted these writers or was intrigued enough by the mystery that i downloaded the file, which took maybe something like an hour even on my DSL connection, and then settled in to watch. lo and behold, it's a 10-minute live action short, admittedly very slickly produced, about Batman fighting the fucking Predator, a premise i find so bafflingly pointless to consider that i think then and there i turned against the nerd industrial complex for the rest of my days
i remember when Sonic X came out i tied up the phone line for a full 24 hours to torrent the first fansubbed episode (which was like ~300MB)
and getting disconnected every night. i think it was like, 200 MB
I had a similar experience trying to pirate Little Big Adventure 2 from a slow FTP site that kept kicking me off. Took me something like 3 or 4 nights before I got it. Then it turned out it was corrupted and wouldn't install. It wasn't a total loss though - the installer played some music while it failed to work, so I kept the ~10kb MIDI file around and would listen to it sometimes.
