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We should go and save the useful info to re-post it here, it's a good opportunity to migrate all the information.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an awful lot of TERRBILE 'information' on there though. What we don't need are thousands of posts from idiots who don't know what a torrent is, what a seeder is, what ddl is, why they receieved a warning notice, or a those idiotic 'why I pirate' shitposts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Why I pirate" was so annoying. It was like a lamp to the edgy moths who loved to bullshit how they're thieves and criminals and aren't afraid to admit it. Homie you're copying somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of a bunch of files, you aren't slicing Spanish sailors' throats and plundering sugar, rum, food and drinking water from merchants and trading vessels

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. We objectively steal stuff (the question if it is morally correct is irrelevant) so why do we need to justify it? To ourselves?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We don't steal, we copy stuff we shouldn't. Big difference. Both are bad but different