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adwww | 3 years ago

Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.

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vidarh|3 years ago

Maybe not, but the subset of the 99% that are on HN are far more likely to know what to do with them or how to find it out.

aliqot|3 years ago

are you perhaps a teen? that's a magnet link, its used to transfer things via bittorrent. we used to put them in the spokes of our bicycles when we'd ride down to the five-and-dime

wil421|3 years ago

When I was riding bikes to the store we had dialup and floppies were giving way to CDs.

It’s been over a decade since I’ve used BitTorrent and I didn’t know magnet links were still popular. I hate seeding and there was also a lot of malware hidden in public trackers.

Once I switched to Usenet I never looked back. P2P file sharing has never been a good experience for me.

adwww|3 years ago

I've not torrented in at least a decade, and I don't remember seeing magnet links inline in text like that.

Certainly don't miss those hours of waiting for an ISO to download only to find it's all corrupt, or a record label plant, or a handheld recording of a cinema screen...

pessimizer|3 years ago

They'll obviously have better luck with them than with BBC iPlayer, for which they would need the knowledge and ability to set up a British VPN.

dec0dedab0de|3 years ago

I thought you were right at first, but with commercial VPNs constantly be advertised as a way to get around content restrictions, I wouldn't be surprised if more people understood a VPN than a torrent these days. Assuming they're willing to pay that is.

toyg|3 years ago

And lie about holding a valid UK TV license.

davchana|3 years ago

Agree. I don't want to use a free VPN, and I don't want to oay for VPN. I also want to own my copy.

CalRobert|3 years ago

But a lot of them will be able to find out if they care to learn.

capableweb|3 years ago

That's true, but if they know/learn, they will be able to get it, one way or another, and they don't have to be in the UK :)

MobiusHorizons|3 years ago

They are pretty obviously magnet links, which are used for torrenting. I expect lots of people are familiar with them.

kinleyd|3 years ago

You'd be surprised.