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nikanj 47 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy...

I always thought FXP was a much more common tool, as you could move releases between beefy servers without having to download them first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

lm411 47 days ago [–]

I was in a small courier group way back when. FXP was definitely common. We could copy a lot of software in a small amount of time.

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