Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Except in the good ol’ days just about everything on the 'net benefited most of us in some way … and it was free. Now it sure as hell ain’t free and it’s been co-opted to benefit billionaires only.

  I started torrenting 23 years ago and it was easy. Just a client, no VPN required. Now I need not only a VPN, but a good router that I can flash with a (still mostly free) program, hours of working out how best to set up the router with wireguard etc, then scroll through dozens of links to try and find a stable stream to watch hockey.

  It’s fucking exhausting.

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