Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 months agoYou could get anything you wanted and it was FREElemmy.worldimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1448
arrow-up1448imageYou could get anything you wanted and it was FREElemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squareilega_dh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 months agoMore treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
minus-squaredespicable@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoIt’s considerably easier to deal with these days so the seas are less treacherous. Even Windows’ default antivirus will catch most of those too.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoToday it’s harder, not more dangerous. But also everything is darker.
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThe government will snitch on you to who? A foreign government?
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoYeah, ISPs are usually under pressure to obey the copyright holders. But VPNs should always be used.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day. Now its basically required.
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More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
It’s considerably easier to deal with these days so the seas are less treacherous. Even Windows’ default antivirus will catch most of those too.
Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.
But also everything is darker.
In what way?
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The government will snitch on you to who? A foreign government?
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Yeah, ISPs are usually under pressure to obey the copyright holders. But VPNs should always be used.
That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.
Now its basically required.