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I've been paying Amazon for more than 25 years just for the free deliveries. I don't watch anything on Prime, it's so hard to navigate between the free and rent videos. Been torrenting since the 90s, yeah I'm old, so my advice stands -get a good VPN, and sail the seven seas-
BitTorrents initial release was in July of 2001. You were not torrenting since the 90s. In the 90s we were still on Napster, soulseek, Usenet, and IRC. Limewire, DirectConnect, and The Pirate Bay wouldn't come around until into the 2000s. I used BitTorrent mostly to get actual Linux ISOs at first because it was better than downloading for several days only to discover at the end that your md5sum checked bad. The pirating came later once the trackers got a better selection than the competing protocols.
P2P filesharing has been around since the '90s.
His point was that bittorrent wasn't around in the 90s
Not really. "Torrenting" has become synonymous with "P2P filesharing," so it's clear what OP meant.