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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (lemmy.nz)

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[-] lemmyng@piefed.ca 8 points 1 month ago

It wasn't that though. High speed internet was available before that time. What really affected things in 2006 was that peer exchange was introduced to bittorrent, giving it a massive advantage over other file sharing services at the time.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's... not a contrary point, that's merely an addition to the stated fact from @unitedwithme@lemmy.today . 💁🏼‍♂️

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