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Council of Clermont
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Piracy never went away, but it did drop for a while. Torrentfreak published an article in 2022 and another last year about the decline of BitTorrent traffic, which was steadily being supplanted by traffic to social media sites and streaming. And even before then, I remember there was a lot of speculation in the late 2010s that streaming services would be the end of piracy.
Then of course, the media companies fucked it all up by making streaming services shittier, charging more and more for it, putting out dogshit movies and TV shows, and deleting or editing the old content people were actually paying to get access to. So people are turning back to piracy to get what they want and avoiding the headaches. I'm guessing new piracy is mostly in the form of pirate streaming, but I'm only guessing that because downloading shit from The Pirate Bay on your home computer in 2025 would be beyond retarded.
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I get so sick of the dinosaur media doing shit like this. Most people are basically "take my money please I just want to watch movies" and these dumb fucks take what people want offline and offer them Netflix original dogshit in return, then wail about how piracy is destroying them.
Bitch, Gaben taught the world if you give people what they want plus convenience they'll give you their money willingly. If you are such a fucking idiot you make it easier to steal your content without giving you a dime, they're going to shout yee-arr and hoist the Jolly Roger.
>Games: 1 TB
>Other software: 1 TB
>Data backups: 3 TB
>Gay porn: 63 TB
>Utilities: 2 TB
>Someone who is good with storage help me my RAID array is dying
Store less gay porn.
>No
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In all honesty, I was brought up with the notion that "Using they/them" when you know someone's gender is rude and insulting. A common childhood phrase my mom would say to me would be "Who's they? The cat's mother?"
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I too have a size problem. I first wrote some code to dedup even compressed files in my retro computer/console collection, it would open all zip/rar/7z/chd and hash the internal files. That only got me about 2T out of 20T.
Now I'm on to taking the part of my media collection that I don't care if it's still in the original format and moving it to HEVC.
That seems like the media should prune a decent amount, but it's going to take quite a while. But at least the computers running the conversions will keep my house warm.
Where is my 1TB per $1 Blu-Ray and 1000 disc changer?
Now I'm on to taking the part of my media collection that I don't care if it's still in the original format and moving it to HEVC.
That seems like the media should prune a decent amount, but it's going to take quite a while. But at least the computers running the conversions will keep my house warm.
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14G orig/notporn.mp4
6.2G hevc/notporn.mkvWhere is my 1TB per $1 Blu-Ray and 1000 disc changer?
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It is, but not the way we think of it. They're referring to people using illegal streams moreso than downloading things.
Dr. Charles Forbin
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I report all streaming sites to the glowies and Mossad for hosting anti-Jooish content so that the normalfags need to learn how to use a damn computer and torrent
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It's funny how much my usual private torrent site pushes their affiliated IPTV offering, I guess so they get recurring revenue. I do kick them a few bucks from time to time but I'm not 'proper' recurring revenue.
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If you're talking about TorrentDay or any other IPTorrent site don't bother giving them cash, they're probably money laundering schemes for Eastern European organized crime rings.
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I give them money, they give me torrents... I'm not seeing a problem here.
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Giving money to Ivan Ivanovich from Eslovenia is much better than paying for Netflix, since you actually get 4K movies and shows in return.
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Or you signed up in 2011 when TorrentDay still had open signups and use bonus points to keep your ratio above 3. Paying to pirate is kinda stupid.
In 2012 I had Netflix and Hulu with no ads and was paying $20 a month which gave me access to almost every TV show or movie I wanted to watch unless I wanted something really obscure. I had been pirating since the 90s and was barely torrenting. Then the studios got greedy and I went back to torrenting after cancelling Netflix and Hulu.
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My seedbox costs far more than the few bucks I kick their way from time to time.
Ghost88
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Wait I download most things that can't be streamed store them on 3 20tb harddrives I keep live at all times and index it all to PLEX and sometimes move onto a 1tb Sandisk flash drive, am I retarded?
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You're paying for power for your server. Or for your drives you store everything on. A Seedbox? Perhaps the costs of accessing Usenet, or a debrid service.
You're generally paying for piracy in some way or another. Almost always less than a handful of streaming subscriptions but not nothing. You can probably pay close to nothing if you are just using pirate stream sites but that's very limiting, in terms of what you can actually watch and what quality you can watch anything in.
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Is choosing to use one's money in the most efficient and self-beneficial way supposed to be a bad thing or an "own" here? I bet my pirate media library exceeds your legit library in content and at least equals it in quality.
Oh, those stupid pirates, amirite? What a bunch of suckers and losers! Hah! Dummies!
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Oh no don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying there is a cost.
I'm perfectly happy with the amount I pay for my pirating (as I imagine most of us are?) because it's more on my terms. I'll pay for a debrid service every now and again so I can grab documentaries I enjoy but can't find anywhere else, including streaming services. And I'm planning to spend some hundreds of dollars soon to buy more storage space because 4k remuxes are fucking beautiful and I want to hoard more of them.
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Fair enough, forgive my autistic ackshually'ing. Still, it does feel a bit of an obvious argument, to be honest, insofar as everything having a cost somewhere.
A far better use of your dollars, to be sure.
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Yeah no that's fair lol. You're right in that it is an obvious thing but especially for people newer to the realms of piracy, I feel like there's this idealised vision of EVERYTHING FREE EVER FOREVER. Which in reality, is not really the case. I pretty much just view my spending on piracy as a hobby cost these days.