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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

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ExoticPearTree · 1789799838 · focus · HN ↗
I grew up in a country where every kind of software was availbale on a CD - usually a collection of whatever could fit on a CD. And paying for software was a considered a blasphemy.
My first software purchase was I think after 2015, and it still felt weird compared to the usual process of finding a keygen somewhere.

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