• thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    It’s easy to forget, but the vast majority of people, especially young people, mean pirate streaming sites when they say piracy.

    Even the piracy subreddit seems to be mostly about them after the great Exodus.

    They seem to be under the impression that those are somehow safer than torrenting, despite the opposite being true. Though I guess they’re right about there being more to learn about torrents and other methods.

    It hits me like a slap every time piracy comes up in conversation we’ll start to get into it when they ask me what site I use to watch things. I Once answered “jellyfin?” With some confusion before they brought up like hanime or some shit. Illegal streaming sites with mountains of ads are what most people mean when they say “piracy”. It’s the only piracy that can really access on their iPhone anyway.

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      But there’s so much else to pirate: games, books, music, roms. There’s a wide world of content out there! (Obligatory don’t pirate stuff, visit your local library and ask a librarian to hook you up. Or do. Whatever, IAALIANYL[I Am A Librarian I Am Not Your Librarian.])

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      I thought the meme was about ads on torrent tracker sites.

      They seem to be under the impression that those are somehow safer than torrenting, despite the opposite being true.

      In theory, copyright infringement is committed by the uploader, not the downloader. As such, torrenting is more dangerous if you allow it to seed instead of just leach.