Piracy is a skill and no one appreciates it anymore

This is gonna be a half-joking/half-serious rant

My friend got me fucked up today cause she sent a message in the group chat asking "how do you get free PDFS". What the hell kinda shit is that? PDFs are the easiest thing to get for free lmao. There's no software cracking or fighting Denuvo when you're looking for books, you just look up the PDF and download it lol.

It just made me think about how pirating things is an actual skill, and I feel like it's taken for granted these days. When I was a kid, I remember one time I had a friend who was into drawing and I found out about a digital sculpting program that I wanted to show him. I had downloaded it beforehand but it didn't open when he was there. I spent 3 hours, with him right next to me, looking up places to get it, videos, I think I even tried using ollydbg on it and doing it myself lol.

I love pirating; I love it when I finally find a way to get something that isn't easily accessible (like going on TOR when libgen doesn't have something, searching in a different language, whatever). Half the time, I don't even end up using the stuff, I just like the challenge I guess.

I grew up pirating; I got an r4 for my DS when I was a kid, and I put everything imaginable on it. Manga, a billion emulators, imported games, whatever I could find. We live in the age of the internet, and I don't think you're getting everything you can out of it if you're not pirating something.

Well, that's all I have to say thanks for coming to my TedTalk