What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
There are good file hosters, not only bad. You can see gofile in the screenshot, where you can download full-sized files at full speed.
What, you’ve never downloaded a game divided into 5 1.2MB chunks via a 1200 baud dialup modem using XModem on a WWIV BBS and had your mom pickup the phone on the last file?
Fucking war flashbacks happening now
When gen Z asks about this the only response we can give is “you don’t know man, you werent there”.
LimeWire has entered the chat…
it ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
This is basically how Usenet piracy works, only with backup sources in case part 27 is broken
Thats a good sign actually.
People have been sharing things in storage drives for decades. Fmhy has a list of some big ones, usually for books.
Traditionally i believe these were not advertised and more underground, a way to easily share with friends.
You didn’t really want them easily found and traceable to you though but that is what changed.
Piracy has become so normalised that people take it for granted that there are no legal risks involved. Normalising piracy is the first step for the ideals of software freedom to flourish.
After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen. You wouldn’t copyright the words to ask a human to make a drawing about a copyrighted something, so why do it for a computer?
After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen.
A digital file is just a number, potentially a very big number, but that’s all it is.
Oh come on. What’s next?
“Child pornography is just a really big number, after all.”
“I didn’t murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We’re all just really big collections of atoms after all.”
If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign.
I’m not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.
To be fair, that’s also like, all information
I think that’s the point.
Funny thing is, if the instructions are written down I’m pretty sure they are copyrightable
Thats what copyleft licensing is for and why physical things are increasingly using gpl and other open software licenses.
How …inefficient
Let the babies have their fun. This is like their Kazaa
I concur
Nothing inefficient about adding another avenue for pirating Decentralization makes us stronger
It’s less resilient, honestly with today speeds it is not that less efficient I would say.
More efficient if the file is less popular or super niche with few seeders with tiny upload speeds or no seeds (due to age of the torrent or the before mentioned). Torrents for sure are more resilient as far as being harder to just shutdown a site. It is still nice to constantly have all options possible to make getting files easy. Though I will say that torrents are more efficient the larger the file. 4k media being a very good example.
Since xitter is only for whiny right wing little bitches and moderation is mostly gone and only applies to political content ego-baby doesn’t like, so I guess this flies under the radar, maybe?
Any pirate born after 2000 can’t torrent. All they know is…
Be gay, Reddit [REQUEST] and JuegosGratis.com
Reminds me of the undergrad experience of someone who is not me, lol. They had “the dropbox”, spoken about only in hushed tones and never openly acknowledged, which may have contained a pdf copy of every single text required by the curriculum of that person’s major.
I feel like a torrent is safer because uploading a file to a cloud storage can be done by anyone, meanwhile creating a torrent and a botnet to simulate an active torrent takes much more time and effort
Then again, people with nefarious purposes are usually highly motivated.
For some reason people use torrents over usenet.
Longevity, trying to find something from 15 years ago is pain
Yeah for reasons beyond my knowing torrenting seems to have really dropped off over recent years.
I think it’s in part because of NAT. Less and less people have a real IP address, so they can’t share the torrents to others, and most VPNs don’t provide an upload port either.
The tracker websites are also increasingly hostile with malicious ads, so those with ineffective ad blockers can’t use them.
Qbittorrent works with my double-nat set up (don’t ask why, my isp sucks) without any set up. I feel like it’s more of a tech literacy issue.
Torrent clients can cope behind NAT but can only upload/download from other peers that have a port open so they are more limited in the pool of peers they can make use of.
