But Russians started pirating way before the shit hit the fan, even before Chinese Spy Mr Putin
Also, (post)soviet mentality, having 100 hammers and files per adult and kid created this mindset where a lot of people get technical about some things(make stuff, fix stuff), at least to widely adopt torrenting. (Also, another thing to mention, when the torrents first were getting on the rise, most of the ISPs were hosting their own trackers, and many city and towns had their local city trackers)
That was my point though. Soviet / post-soviet countries are effectively very hyperindividualistic despite enforced societal conformance. There’s this perceived ingenuity where people will go great lengths to come up with clever ways of skirting the law. It’s what makes it incredibly hard for society to become mature enough to rely on systemic solutions to problems and gives way to authoritarian rule.
Piracy is fine and mostly harmless but I don’t like idolizing it because there can be a really dark undertone to it.
I’d say Putin is a product of society that allows anything as long as you don’t rock the boat and steal only from the people you’re allowed to.
This is the new reality of Russia indeed
But Russians started pirating way before the shit hit the fan, even before Chinese Spy Mr Putin
Also, (post)soviet mentality, having 100 hammers and files per adult and kid created this mindset where a lot of people get technical about some things(make stuff, fix stuff), at least to widely adopt torrenting. (Also, another thing to mention, when the torrents first were getting on the rise, most of the ISPs were hosting their own trackers, and many city and towns had their local city trackers)
That was my point though. Soviet / post-soviet countries are effectively very hyperindividualistic despite enforced societal conformance. There’s this perceived ingenuity where people will go great lengths to come up with clever ways of skirting the law. It’s what makes it incredibly hard for society to become mature enough to rely on systemic solutions to problems and gives way to authoritarian rule.
Piracy is fine and mostly harmless but I don’t like idolizing it because there can be a really dark undertone to it.