or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I’m like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don’t want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don’t want to “sign up.”

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I’m not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that’s enough.

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    By not torrenting. Use Usenet instead. Way safer and easier. Once I went Usenet I literally haven’t touched a single torrent in over a decade.

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        Newsgroups.
        Basically (Its all afaik) bulletin boards and meant for groups juat chatting like we do here on reddit/lemmy.
        But they also host binaries that (when put together) equal a movie file. Kinda like a multi-rar file.
        Thwy usually have deals around black friday.

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      I’ll be the first to preach Usenet for movies and shows, but I’m wondering if you’ve found it useful for gaming/ music.

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        I haven’t tried it for gaming or music. Like always, piracy is a service problem. Spotify and Steam have solved the service problem so I pay for those. Haven’t felt like pirating in a game in 14 years due to it, and spotify literally has every song I could ever want to listen to on the planet.

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      Unless I’ve misunderstood how it works, don’t you need to pay for Usenet?

      Something about paying money for pirated content rubs me the wrong way.

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        Yes, you’re essentially paying for download capacity. But I never have to worry about viruses or my ISP saying anything. And downloads are instant.