The Tragic Fall Of µTorrent

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Remember guys, It's always morally correct to pirate Adobe products

I spent 6 months when I was 12 years old downloading Blair Witch Project 2 on KaZaa on a 56k modem, coming home every day to see how much further it had downloaded, it became an absolute obsession seeing that one movie. Imagine my utter disappointment when it eventually finished and it turned out to be absolute shite.

I like how you referred to malware companies as "malware providers" as if its a service lol

Torrenting at a decline /= "piracy" at a decline. Plenty of people use "pirate streaming services", like those movie sites you mentioned earlier in the video. And good for them. ;)

Just remember this: Torrenting is also a way to preserve content that will most likely dissapear from streaming services.

Torrenting isn't on the decline. I think it's on a parabolic trajectory. The rise of greedy streaming companies means it's gonna become normal again.

As someone who grew up with 56k AOL Internet... I'll tell you that it was longer than 10 minutes. I remember setting WAV files to download and then leaving to get lunch, hoping they'd be done when i got home haha

Until someone makes a single streaming platform for all movies/shows that comes at a reasoanble price, and where you know your favourite show or movie would never be removed, then I'd say piracy still has a place. I've seen a few instances recently of people losing access to shows (even ones they've directly bought digitally) just because of licencing agreements between the creator and provider. A shop won't break into your house and steal back the DVD, so why is it "okay" for a digital platform revoke something you've bought?

Gabe Newell really said it best, “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

Gaben once said “Pirating is a service problem” He was completely right cause nobody wants to pay $50 a month for Adobe Edit: Looks like piracy is back on the menu now that stuff is getting too expensive again for an average/low quality product or even turning into a subscription service

I'm surprised he didn't mention the government's stand against internet piracy in the early 2010s, which directly affected the ease of torrenting. By partner with isps to detect torrent traffic. Isps would throttle and torrent traffic or send to warning emails for downloaded certain torrents which could ultimately lead to termination or internet service.

Streaming services caused a decline in pirating, but it's also going to cause a comeback. So many shows and movies are spread out over so many services. Everyone wants to set up their own streaming service. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Universal. I'm not subscribing to 20 fucking services to watch a show. Screw that.

Years ago, uTorrent was known as "green steam" over here in Latin America lol. I see torrenting coming back, but not with games or software, but thanks to greedy streaming services.

If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.

A 23 minutes video that basically says "They put ads."

fun fact : people after pirating sometimes buy the actual program after pirating it to support the dev's. but for adobe products, nothing changes.

him: piracy is declining me who lives in brazil: this is the biggest lie of the century

Minor correction: torrenting is still p2p technology, but simply distributed. P2P merely refers to the fact that you are not using a central hosting server (party A uploads for party B to download afterwards), but are circumventing that so that party A, one of the peers, is able to connect directly, just as you describe, with further *peers*. Even further: if A and B have different parts of the stream (which they could have received from C), they can become both up- and down-load peers to each other, while taking the load off C. Your video is also poignant, because when you posted it, you already mentioned that price increases, balkanisation and reducing of catalogues may lead to a return of pirating. Only 1 year later, and the streaming services are in a self-inflicted, dramatic free-fall. I wouldn't be surprised if torrent traffic is back on the rise!

1) closed source 2) ads 3) included a mining program in bundle