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Every time someone invents an actually effective method of person-to-person file transfer, it gets used for piracy and blocked and shunned.

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The age of piracy has dawned upon us yet again! WHO wants to be paying $100+ every month to Disney+ Netflix Hulu etc. just to watch 1 or 2 shows on each service?? Who the hell wants to pay for a game that works worse and hurts the customers more than a deDRM'd, cracked version?

POWER TO THE PIRATES

I usually only have one active subscription at a time.

People who don't want to faff about with VPNs, BitTorrent, malware scanning, and the anxiety of never knowing if your gaming machine has been compromised or not.

You need to be careful with executables, that's true, but

Signed GOG installer? That'll be fine.

File checksum matches known scene release? That'll be fine.

I've heard of more people getting infected via Steam than by torrent downloads recently (see: Slay the Spire on Christmas day).

What do you wish to use that is blocked?

I'm still bitter that abuse brought down Firefox Send

Try https://upload.disroot.org/

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