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Why do you use IRC?
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Well, personally I use IRC to steal media, but I realise that's not why you're asking.
I suppose the reason people might use it for chat is that it's been around a long time, so there's clients (with endless plugins) that do exactly what people want, and it's all simple, text-based often unencrypted stuff, so it's easy to write bots for (that might notify you of something, for example)
You can't steal, only copy digital things but I know what you mean ^__^
How do you steal media if its not encrypted? :\
Blatantly.