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What happened to the main Piracy community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you clearly haven't been paying attention

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Legit. Piracy related to home PC software has been around since the advent of home PCs. Before the concept of LANfests or LAN parties even existed, there were copy parties. I still have vivid memories of 8+ 1541 drives daisy-chained to a single C64. University servers hosting warez... Usenet... there's likely earlier examples I'm not aware of.

Before that, people were hacking phone systems in order to call long distance for free. This ain't nothin new.

Not something I've indulged in for 30+ years, though. I pay for everything, now. Guilty conscience, I suppose. 😁