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A comment on Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy. Parent comment

Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by kakarot on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:45AM (#18978487)
Surely you're not positing that torrents aren't a technical solution. They are an extremely technical solution to many problems people originally faced with Usenet.
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Re:Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Tow... by wil421 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:07AM (#18978709)
My point is the HN audience is more adept than normal people. The Usenet automation and setup requires more technical knowledge than say drag and dropping a torrent file into a torrent program.
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