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To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

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[–] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Limewire was like that. It was heavily abused and unsafe to find shit with but it was like living in the future.

[–] MeatballFlag@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe because I didn't know what I was doing back then but that was the only way I used Limewire

[–] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was both a torrent manager and search engine. What we didn't know was what came from where.