I dont read a lot, but i could download from there, yes.

If you visit enough russian warez sites you will learn what Скачать means. Usually that’s the second language of the pirate world after broken english.

For books my first stop is Anna’s archive

I guess it’s some onion style website. The 20k fine made me not believe the story, otherwise it was totally believable, i know multiple guys who behave like this

No one should go to that website ever. But it’s true, we should have a dedicated piracy memes community, or do we already have one? But until lemmy is this small it wouldn’t help if the communities were even more fine grained.

I have these bookmarked:

• https://wearechecking.live/
• https://www.vipbox.lc/

There was also daddylivehd, but my link does not work anymore

13 years old forum post about this, with a reply from Nir Arbel, the founder:

https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/717

Yeah, I can’t go into too much detail, but we have to filter certain things.

Unfortunately I can’t listen to podcasts. If I only listen to something without visual stimulation my mind start to think about unrelated things, and I just can’t follow what they speak about, I loose track after a while.

Before podcasts there were radio talk shows, I hated them similarly, and I tuned to another station where they were playing music.

There is a very good documentary about Aaron’s life: The Internet’s Own Boy

Its license is Creative Commons, so it’s on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

Thank you for adding NSFW flair. Noone should see the word “r*ddit”