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  • Jul 10, 2026, 12:57 PM

    @alienghic@timeloop.cafe I know how, but only because my gen X family taught me. By mid to late 2000s, there was almost no need to torrent, as you could just stream. My younger siblings don't know how, and some of my own peers are hesitant about it even when they do know, because they view it as inherently illegal and/or dangerous to do. They don't really associate it with P2P on its own, but piracy and grazing the dark web (in and of itself scary and suspicious to them).

    P2P became almost synonymous with legal trouble and inconvenience. Younger zoomers didn't have a need for it and elder zoomers are scared to do it. I do get asked if I'm doing something illegal or am aware of how others can share illegal or malicious things through torrents, it's stigmatised if you know how.

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