Re: The era of freeloading is officially over

D wrote:
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
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D wrote:

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Very interesting! Will people turn to piracy once more? I
have never had a streaming account and I am aboslutely
amazed that torrent and yt-dlp (for pulling content off
youtube) works as well as they do.

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I'm on Usenet and that works very well! No need for password
sharing at all. ;-)

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Wow... are binaries on usenet still a thing?

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No, No, no, <looks around> definitely not... <looks over
shoulder> binaries are long gone, they were way too complicated,
nobody's doing that sort of thing anymore... torrenting is the
new way forward, so everybody go and torrent, stay away from
Usenet. <checks Eweka traffic and bandwidth> Yep, stay away.
Nobody bothers with old slow tech like that anymore.
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