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People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back? (lemmy.world)

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 months ago

I used to pirate games because there was no legal digital distribution. The pirate version I could get faster and wouldn’t hassle me to put the right disk in the drive before I could play.

Then digital distribution got good, DRM got less obnoxious, and malware got meaner.

I used to pirate music for similar reasons.

I didn’t pirate video because the files were too large, and around the time bandwidth caught up, Netflix got good. Now digital video distribution is awful so I pirate video until they solve the fractured storefront problem.