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Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy? (feddit.nl)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 weeks ago (24 children)

I'm an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I've had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

The idea of you needing a "special" program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I've noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn't a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I've had that conversation).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (10 children)

Why can't browsers treat torrents as just another protocol for downloads, so that if you haven't got a default set for torrent out magnet mimetypes, it just downloads it in the included download manager?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

This would be terrible, because any website could potentially make you a seeder for „illegal“ content while normally browsing the web without a VPN. Meaning, your real IP address may accidentally be recorded by some lawerers and you'll get a fine for whatever you accidentally shared (very dangerous, depending on country).

There are already solutions for webtorrents, but at least these scripts can be blocked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No Herr officer, I was just trying to download my favorite distros, and I don't know where all that Metallica/Disney/Nintendo came from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

While I appreciate the reference, most kids probably don't know about the whole Metallica Napster thing.

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