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I think it’s a reference to the famous anti-torrenting campaign that equates real world theft with torrenting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU




Yes, and we're saying that that campaign has inadvertently made one the strongest extant demonstrations that torrenting is actively morally good.

And that's amusingly ironic.


"You wouldn't download a car" is a reference to an IT Crowd skit which parodies the anti torrenting campaign you linked. IT Crowd is a wonderful British sitcom, I recommend any techy would enjoy it.




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