GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1651file-text
arrow-up1651imageAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksGolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square116fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareunitedwithme@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days agoOP says ~2007 internet (asumming bandwidth and avail content) got good enough to become mainstem, not that I started around then.
minus-squareNot a newt@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoIt 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.
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoThat’s… not a contrary point, that’s merely an addition to the stated fact from @unitedwithme@lemmy.today . 💁🏼♂️
OP says ~2007 internet (asumming bandwidth and avail content) got good enough to become mainstem, not that I started around then.
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.
That’s… not a contrary point, that’s merely an addition to the stated fact from @unitedwithme@lemmy.today . 💁🏼♂️