🏴☠️ IRC Pirating
📌 Written by Jay | FMHY.net
📆 Last updated: 04-02-2025
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🤷♂️ Reasons to pirate via IRC
Some questions you may be wondering:
💭 What is IRC?
IRC (Internet-Relay-Chat), is a very old fashioned way of texting your friends and peers. It has been used since 1988, you can ask anyone born in the 80s and they will know what IRC is.
💭 Why use IRC instead of other methods?
IRC has many sources that you can download from, it is stable, reliable, and decent download speeds that you can rely on.
🖥️ Clients
There is a huge variety of clients you can choose from, the main ones are:
mIRC For Windows, 30 day trial.
adiIRC For Windows, Linux & Mac, free forever.
Irssi For Windows (self-compiled) and Linux, free forever.
📖 Getting Started
Pay attention to all steps or you MAY HAVE A FAILURE.
To get started, you first need a client, after you have installed your client, you need to set up your client for receiving files from sources.
Step 1: Open your IRC client.
Step 2: Go to your options/settings window, usually located within File -> ...
Step 3: Go to the DCC tab, usually will be named DCC for most clients, go to the "Ignore" tab, and set the method to "Disable", This will make sure your IRC client is allowing transfers of files.
🔎 Finding sources
Finding where the target file you want can be tricky, but search indexers help make this easier. For this guide, I will be using XDCC, it is a very well known search indexer used by IRC pirates from around the world.
In this tutorial, I will be downloading Ninjago Season 1 Episode 1. To search for your file, simply type in what you want in the search box, and press enter, for TV shows, the format should be "S..E..", for episodes and seasons under 10, you should add a "0" in front of it, e.g. "S01E01".
Next steps:
After you have found your wanted file, press the 
button, you should get a popup of necessary information for receiving your file transfer.
Receiving your package:
Open up your favorite IRC client, and you should be greeted with a blank screen, there should be a "new window" or "connect" button somewhere, once you have opened your new window, should be greeted with at text box.
Type in /server SERVERNAME -nick NICKNAME, this will be what helps connect you to the actual IRC server, in this case my SERVERNAME will be irc.rizon.net. If all is well, most servers will greet you with a registration page. In RIZON, you will need to type in /msg NickServ REGISTER password email.
After, it should either make you check your email inbox, some servers make you do this to send a verification code to make sure you aren't a robot. After this step is completed, type in /msg NickServ IDENTIFY password, this will basically be a login command for you, you will need to do this every time you log on.
Final Steps:
Go back to your XDCC information popup about your file, you should see a CHANNEL: section, copy the channel name, including the #, in this case it will be #ELITEWAREZ, take this and go into your IRC client, type in /join CHANNEL, so I would do /join #ELITEWAREZ,
Take the command that the popup told you to do, in this case for me it will be /msg [EWG]Modek1 xdcc send #5687, type it and press enter inside the channel, it might take a few minutes because there is a queue, remember that if you want it fast, buy it.
🏁 Conclusion
Congrats! You have successfully pirated your first software via IRC! If you have any questions, DM me or ping me on the FMHY discord server, have a great time and stay safe pirates!