#and i don't have a vpn to even bother torrenting

[teiasviago]

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[memoryoflooping]

That post that was like "everyone saying not to talk abt pirate sites is a psyop" is still so fucking insane to me. Esp when its a direct download site like you are painting a huge as fuck all caps in red text dcma these links sign in front of it. Like w links to spotify apk hosts. I've been going on sites where they have been increasingly disabling search and being able to view links while not having an account for it specifically so that they don't get exploded. If it's a torrent who give a shit ig (bc you should always use a VPN) but like. Insane to me. The only sites i would even dare to consider fair game to say publicly is anything listed on r/piracy and even some of those are like "DO NOT FUCKING TALK ABOUT THIS SITE ANYWHERE OR WE'LL KILL YOU". We have learned nothing from that book site exploding bc of tiktok. Like yes the government already knows, but what's worse is when the bitches who will bother to do shit abt it learn about it and basically have to take action for their profits due to a sites popularity. Some sites might be out of the jurisdiction to be killed but you don't know that for sure for every site

[albertserra]

thinking about it more i think a lot of issues have arisen from technology, specifically computers (and smartphones by extension) and the internet, becoming so much easier to use and more streamlined. the ease of use obfuscates a lot of the behind the scenes technical details that previously people had to be consciously aware of and/or interact with in order to use the technology properly. now we have people spreading misinformation about how query parameters in URLs work and what purpose they serve, people who don't know how to torrent or pirate in general beyond like illegal streaming sites, people who don't want to bother with or even just plain don't know about alternatives to paid subscription services like netflix and spotify, people who don't know how a vpn works, and on and on. these kinds of things you kind of learned by nature of growing up in the days of sharing one shitty desktop that sounded like a metal utensil in a garbage disposal whenever it did anything, scouring limewire for the right songs or ripping youtube videos to mp3s, having to render your landline useless while using the internet, etc.

technology advancing means a whole plethora of new ways for governments or corporations to surveil, track, and sell your information and behavior while the obfuscation i mentioned means most people who didn't learn about all this are more vulnerable than ever because they don't need to do much to get what they want from the internet besides typing something in google or downloading an app, so all the behinds the scenes surveillance can happen unchallenged/uninhibited

obviously things being easier to use is good in a lot of ways especially with how crucial the internet/technology is to go about day to day life for a lot of people but idk. also bad due to how power will inevitably lead to exploitation by capitalism