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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)
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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

just like back in the good ol' days.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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 firmware, 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.