What, you never downloaded a game divided in 40 100MB chunks off of MegaUpload before only to find out part 27 is broken🫠

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

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?

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

How ...inefficient

This is a little different from torrent. This is torment.

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?

If you live in a country that makes telecoms monitor traffic then those have a benefit of not requiring a VPN (because you’re not uploading anything and they usually go for those seeding).

Back in the day, I'd prefer hosted links over torrents. Felt safer and was less hassle.

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.

Any pirate born after 2000 can't torrent. All they know is...

Yeah for reasons beyond my knowing torrenting seems to have really dropped off over recent years.

it isn't illegal to download, only upload. Torrents get you in trouble because of seeding, not downloading

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

Nick x Judy x Snake 😩

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.

For some reason people use torrents over usenet.