@Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 month agoYou could get anything you wanted and it was FREElemmy.worldimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down16
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minus-square@ilega_dh@feddit.nllinkfedilink16•1 month agoMore treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
minus-square@Korhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish-3•1 month agoThat stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
minus-square@despicable@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoIt’s considerably easier to deal with these days so the seas are less treacherous. Even Windows’ default antivirus will catch most of those too.
minus-square@rottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month agoToday it’s harder, not more dangerous. But also everything is darker.
minus-square@modus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•1 month agoThe government will snitch on you to who? A foreign government?
minus-square@modus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month agoYeah, ISPs are usually under pressure to obey the copyright holders. But VPNs should always be used.
minus-square@brucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month agoThat’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day. Now its basically required.
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More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
It’s considerably easier to deal with these days so the seas are less treacherous. Even Windows’ default antivirus will catch most of those too.
Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.
But also everything is darker.
In what way?
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The government will snitch on you to who? A foreign government?
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Yeah, ISPs are usually under pressure to obey the copyright holders. But VPNs should always be used.
That’s the point though, basically no-one used VPNs back in the day.
Now its basically required.