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who are trying to download it, and it!s generally considered a
dick move to not seed your torrents for at least 12-24 hours.
Remember, sharing is caring! :)
>>PARTI NG THOUGHTS
Why would anyone pirate anyway? People have all sorts of
reasons # because they!re broke as hell, because they believe data
should be free, because they can. I!m not here to moralize about
or make excuses for piracy. What ever your reasoning is I!m for
it, much like I!m for shoplifting no matter what. Sure there are
strong moral and political arguments for it but it!s mostly done
for convenience and because people can, and I love that.
But what I!ve taught you here is only one part of piracy, the
other part is cracking and warez which is the actual act of
cracking, ripping, and bypassing security features on digital
media to be able to share them. This requires actual technical
knowledge and understanding coding, how to break things down
into machine code like hexcode be able to read that, and
understanding of cryptography. I!m not quite at that level yet but
I!m learning and when I!m able to do it know I!ll be putting out a
guide on that.
So stay tuned for my Piracy Guide Pt 2 where I introduce
you to highway piracy by showing you how to do an armed
robbery of Amazon freight trucks!
-(A) Friend
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>>INTRODUCTION
After the strengthening of anti-piracy laws in Japan that took down the
anime streaming site Kissanime (r.i.p) and reading up on all the outrage and
drama surrounding that, I realized theres a whole generation of people who don!t
know how to pirate shit. I was actually shocked at this, I just sort of took it for
granted that it was common knowledge and every kid and their parent knew how
to pirate shit. I mean back when I was in middle school pretty much everyone
knew and there were so many people, irl and almost everywhere on the internet,
who were enthusiastic about teaching new people how to do this.
I shudder to think about this new generation of broke and/or bored kids
missing out on casually committing 30 felonies a day and just getting away with
it. What kind of person would I be if at 12 years old I wasn!t up at 3 in the
morning pirating episodes of Inuyasha and Linkin Park albums? (dont judge me
both of those are still great.)
But I should probably have expected this to a degree, the internet that exists
now is not the same internet I grew up with. When I was younger the internet was
still kind of decentralized, but it was in the process of becoming centralized.
Facebook, twitter, youtube, reddit, etc. were all still getting started and
communities still coalesced around a thousand different forums. Things were
more difficult to find, internet forensics and govt. tracking was still young, kids
were still on the open internet teaching eachother how to hack. It was good times,
this was between 2006-2010. Things are much different now though. You can still
find some smaller forums if you look, but most of all internet communities are
centralized on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, platforms which are all heavily
moderated, profitable by selling user data to governments and advertisers, and
especailly for big social media platforms like Facebook, are essentailly another
arm of policing. Communities are centralized and you are constantly tracked and
survielled. It sucks.
Printer’s Note: Pirates are the archivists of culture. We would not have
Shakespeare without pirates in the audience writing down the lines and stage direction. Companies cannot be trusted to preserve copies of their
Old movies without re-cutting, nor publishers to continue distributing games. Without pirates, many old games wouldn’t even work on modern computers.