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happertiger
on June 19, 2018
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BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and ...
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
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on June 19, 2018
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Yes, and we're saying that that campaign has inadvertently made one the strongest extant demonstrations that torrenting is
actively morally good
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And that's amusingly ironic.
Danieru
on June 20, 2018
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"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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