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Torrents have gotten pretty amazingly simple and are now mainstream . My 65 year old mother figured out how to torrent a TV show (that wasn't available in Cana

Torrents have gotten pretty amazingly simple and are now mainstream . My 65 year old mother figured out how to torrent a TV show (that wasn't available in Canada - she tried to buy it first, but they wouldn't sell it to her) in about 30 minutes, including the time required to download and install µTorrent. I would guess that 90%+ of the computer using population is now comfortable torrenting files. Agreed with you on the hassle of running a pirated game, and, honestly - I'm unwilling to run some random .app/.exe on my system. Hell, I'm not even comfortable opening .pdfs anymore.

pc86 14y ago
Guess that just goes to show you how long it's been since I've downloaded a torrent :)
andypants 14y ago
Torrenting video games is still a bit more involved than torrenting a tv show. You have zips, rars, 7zs, archives split into parts. Some need you to mount a iso file, some you need to mount multiple iso files. You may need to run a sketchy exe to patch the game, or copy files from an iso into the installation folder, run other patches in the correct order, etc. etc.