What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠
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”.
it ain’t that far back for early gen z to not experience
LimeWire has entered the chat…
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.
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?
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
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.
This has been a thing for years although it used to be sketchy blogs (and probably still is tbf in addition to this). Back in the days of rapid share, mega before Kim dotcom got busted, etc. some people just can’t figure out torrents or they live in a situation where torrents can’t be used (isp shaping, internet controlled by a 3rd party that blocks torrenting, etc) and usually http downloads are fine in those situations.
If you ever have to rely on this get jdownloader at least
Wait, I thought Mega was relatively safe? What happened with Kim dotcom?
I’m sure I remember that movies were found in dropbox around 2010s as well - it’s sketchy but it exists 🤷 not scary torrent but supersafe download
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?
Yeah, thought the same, another sign of Shitter becoming 4chan.
it isn’t illegal to download, only upload. Torrents get you in trouble because of seeding, not downloading
It depends on your local laws I think. I’m pretty sure downloading free copyrighted product from an unauthorized source is still illegal in France for exemple.
For some reason people use torrents over usenet.
Private trackers are much better. I appreciate p2p as every user helps strengthen the tracker. And usually you pay with that support instead of with money.
Longevity, trying to find something from 15 years ago is pain
I like boobies and Usenet 😁
Can you explain please ? What’s the advantage of UseNet ?
I was just making fun of OP for hating on cloud storage.
Usenet is basically cloud storage as in it’s a server hosting it instead of peers. The advantage being speed. (Oversimplified)
All you all know there are entire sites dedicated to cloud storage sharing right? We also have OD’s and OGD’s. Link shared GD’s. None of this is new, it’s been this way since you could drag anything down off a BBS or mainframe. We have been sharing in every manner you can think of since it’s been possible, digital just made it dummy easy.
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
Do not forget .scr and .ink files. They are probavly deadly.
Some things I’ve tried getting before (typically 2160p television episodes) were only readily available as DDL files (missing from easily accessible private trackers like TorrentLeech), for which Real-Debrid is useful.
