Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Or the even worse era of trolling IRC chats looking for DCC bots and hoping your feeble attempts at security or obfuscation will hold. Ah, the good ol days.

Ah limewhire where you went to download ripped halo 3 roms and ended up with a few GB of amature porn

Soulseek was the best

Just let the torrent keep going after you're done

make sure your torrent client is bound to your VPN interface before seeding also :)

Two things. 1. Already mentioned, you need to be connectable. Torrent client port needs opened on router admin panel. 2. You can only seed if there is another user(s) actively downloading that data. And if you're 1 of many seeders, you're only uploading a little bit

Theres a lot more to it but thats a good high level overview

For me personally, the OG pirating was buying bootleg VHSs/CDs/DVDs. But torrenting/P2P was the first mass scale digital piracy method.

It's old but it's not even close to the OG. I believe the OG is newsgroups, and after that was p2p file sharing apps like limewire and napster, and only then did torrenting become a big thing

We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.

cries in millennial

most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses

also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled... in highschool

There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren't able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.

in this economy?

I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.

I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.

i kid you not my roommate watched a movie someone posted on Twitter

It's still somewhat big in certain regions, even younger people torrent (although streaming piracy is more popular).

Nah, not until all of the GenXers and Xennials die out at least