It was the golden age of piracy I think, just when broadband internet is started to grow and writeable CDs became cheap.

torrents were small back then, and everyone downloaded games / programs zipped in 10-20 zip partitions.

Google also allowed malware ads, and phishing ads since its existence

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I would seem them as different sides of the same coin, both self governence, communisms being where communities govern, and socialism being the anarchists version.

who do you think threw whom under the bus for that?