Us Millenials used to have media sharing parties - we'd all bring o🌞ur laptops and externals to drink and copy eve෴rything all the others had.

We all left with more than we started with - almost all of it stuff that we were never going to buying while college studeܫnts, or early into our i🐽magined careers.

I had all of the music released by major studios before 2005ish - all of it, like maybe not every single track, but e♔very major release, every one hit wonder - I had all that but would never have purchased it, bc I'd never listen to 98% of it - never did, the drive died in a rather minor drop during a move.

I had a drive with all the movies and series released before 2000ish - I just never really used it tbh and lost track of it at soꦯme point.

It's incredibly difficult for me to consider any of this theft as nobody could have money off us at the time anyw✅ays.

Theft is also the wrong word, as I've never taken a single file from someone online, that they didn't also keep. If I download something, that I'd never buy bc I will likely 𒅌do nothing with - like a cool anime artwork, thats not Theft either, its not even lost revenue, as I was never going to generate revenue.

Tbh, the internet just dওoesn't naturally work like that - its just bc of the corpos that it ended being this perversion of the free and open place it was.