My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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    I remember going by file size.

    A movie is 42 kb? Yeah, I don’t think so. Movie had to be 300 MB or higher to make me believe it might be legit. And then I started going by reviews, when available because that got to no longer be reliable on some files.

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      A couple times I downloaded a “video file” on my Mac which, when played in VLC, just showed an image saying “Open this file in Windows Media Player”.

      Yep, that would be malware looking to attack WMP and Internet Explorer.