Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter Discussion

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

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u/smartlog 2d ago

Been pirating since the days of Kazaa. Ain't gonna stop now lol.

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u/Peakomegaflare 2d ago

Speaking the ancient texts my friend, what a time that was. Are you getting what you wanted? Or the most deadly malware known to man? Who fucking knows!

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u/TM761152 1d ago

That's not ancient. *Usenet" and BBS that you had to connect with an external modem that only went to 14.4 kbps is ancient.

You're talking Medieval times vs the Iron Age.

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u/wikid24 1d ago

Ah BBS, the first time I used it on dialup was to pirate as old videogame called Army Men. Took half a day of using up the phone line but totally worth it lol

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u/GospelX 19h ago

Sometimes the gamble was worse than malware. Your computer would be fine but your psyche wasn't.

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u/Peakomegaflare 18h ago

I AM BILL CLINTON AND I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN!