It never, ever feels less violating. It's upsetting," said Siri Dahl, a popular adult film actress and advocate for performers' rights, when I interviewed her for my podcast. Early in her career, Dahl noticed behind-the-paywall selfies pop up in tube-site ads for "predatory, weird, fake dating sites." Adding insult to injury, one of the ads using her stolen photo was captioned "Frick hot old chubby MILFs right now." At the time, she had just turned 24.
My thief had made off with a huge archive of over three years' worth of content, mostly photos with a handful of videos. It was devastating to learn that the thief was one of my subscribers—they were supposed to be a fan, not a menace. I had a fox in my henhouse. I felt totally exposed.
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and download porn? 
I'm sure this sucks for her and piracy is a real problem for any kind of internet creator, but right-click is not exactly a shocking new online development.
My piracy experience took me back to 2008, when I was a frustrated actor who finally snagged a decent-paying gig teaching at a camp for med school–destined high school kids. I was doing a great job, the kids loved me—maybe too much, because they looked me up on the internet, and then I got fired for having my boobs on the internet. It wasn't even porn: It was topless screen grabs from an artsy independent film I'd starred in a few years prior.
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Darn I would love to go back to that age.
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Early 2000s GameFAQs message boards is when the internet peaked
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right before smart phones hit the market.
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I miss the days when 11% of the internet was sites about Star Trek made by Finnish nerds in HTML they wrote themselves.
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Every time I get on a Star Trek kick there's nothing like pulling up Ex Astris Scientia. A bit of light commentary, trivia, and review on every episode of Trek ever filmed.
StarDestroyer.net was mostly Star Wars focused and dunked on Trek a lot, but the creator still did some interesting analysis of Trek writing. Unfortunately he moved most of the old articles to a modern wiki, but you can still find some of them in the original format with a bit of Googling. Here's the essays page. I always liked the "Brain Bugs" article exploring how minor ideas from sci-fi take on lives of their own, and how having a sprawling franchise with dozens of writers can affect your canon.
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Never saw these until now.
It's about fricking time somebody other than me noticed this.
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But I won't be there
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Good
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