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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 16 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

Woefully inaccurate, the entire P2P file sharing craze kicked off by Napster all went down before 2007 and there were plenty of online piracy venues before then too like IRC, 90s copper internet was perfectly capable of all that. And I was torrenting movies right alongside my Netflix DVD rentals. Piracy has always been here and has never left.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    Filesharing pre-dates the web.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    I mean, technically - the internet and computers run on copying functions. On the Internet, it literally reads a file from a computer system (or a database entry), and on a computer, the MOV assembly operation copies memory between registers and RAM.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Oh, yeah.

    But I mean piracy filesharing. That was already popular on dial-in BBSes in the 80s.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    It never left, but common folks decreased reliance on it substantially. When Netflix was popular my house of IT people slowed and almost stopped pirating video content entirely, there was no reason. After Netflix turned shit and half a dozen services sprung up, we cancelled Netflix and now pirate absolutely everything video. There was a slight drop while crunchyroll was good, but it becasue shit enough apparently that those in my family using it returned to pirating.

    Music didn't shitify as much though, I feel it's improved now. I have Tidal because it's cheap and easy to find new music. I seldom find music that I can't listen to on Tidal.

    Elegedly.

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