The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A decade or so ago, there were some widely-publicized cases of folks who got absolutely ruined with six- or seven-figure judgements against them for copyright infringement.

    Example from 2012.

    Maybe it was a tactic the copyright cartel used in the mid-2000s and then stopped or something, but it was enough to shift folks’ behavior such that using VPNs became the norm.