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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I presume this is in jest, but to be honest I feel like there is less risk of bad operators consuming my computing power and data when pirating than using legit services these days (ads, marketing, poor software etc...). I actually pirate content that I pay for as it gets all my content into a single location, and easily tracks what I have watched, and is better for taking it offline.

[–] CoolBeance 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd like to say I was half-joking but some of the games and movies I've pirated have directly affected the performance of my CPU (like 100% CPU usage under light loads)

Edit: I was wrong about movies having mining software packed in but I'm leaving the original comment up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have never downloaded a movie that negatively affected your CPU performance. A movie (i.e. mkv file) cannot do this.

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

annakournikova.avi.exe

[–] CoolBeance 2 points 1 year ago

I see... thanks, that's new to me