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Torrents have a bad reputation due to malicious executables, I have never met someone who genuinely saw piracy as stealing, only as dangerous. In fact, stealing
by tourmalinetaco 2y ago
Torrents have a bad reputation due to malicious executables, I have never met someone who genuinely saw piracy as stealing, only as dangerous. In fact, stealing as a definition cannot cover digital piracy, as stealing is to take something away, and to take is to possess something physically. The correct term is copying, because you are duplicating files. And that’s not even getting into the cultural protection piracy affords in today’s DRM and license-filled world.
- master-lincoln 2y agoWhat does this have to do with torrents? If you get an executable from the internet it is widely known not to execute it if not trusted. You can get malicious executables from websites too. If this is what people think we need to work on education...
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoPiracy also is not unique to torrents, and yet that was what GP used. The average person, in my experience, can barely work a non-cellphone filesystem and actively stresses when a terminal is in front of them, especially for a brief moment. Education went out the window a decade ago.