The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
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Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#21,2,5 strike me as by far the most impactful. Legal alternatives are much more prevalent and convenient than ever before. By the same token, people used to streaming from YouTube or Netflix look for the same experience in their piracy, and pirate streams offer that. For people who want a collection of files to pore over, a VPN is a cheap and reasonable service most in that demo will be familiar with.
Finally, a lot of piracy around the world took the form of downloading files and burning them onto discs form physical distro, which has also changed for the most part.
Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#3Putting Kodi under "Streaming Piracy" is pretty inflamitory. Kodi isn't there to enable streaming piracy. (There are non-offical plugins that do that, but they've made many announcements about Kodi's stance on Piracy)
Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#4do we have a mirror? Its down for me.
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#5do we have a mirror? Its down for me.
How coincidental that a website about the decline of a P2P technology went down under heavy load
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#6Seems to be down. Their CDN (distil[0]), which bills itself as a "Bot mitigation" company, shows a CAPTCHA to the Wayback Machine archiver[1], effectively making it useless.
[0]: https://www.distilnetworks.com/
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180212161645/https://www.plagi...
Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#7do we have a mirror? Its down for me.
Google text-only is a start: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NEG32gT...
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#8Putting Kodi under "Streaming Piracy" is pretty inflamitory. Kodi isn't there to enable streaming piracy. (There are non-offical plugins that do that, but they've made many announcements about Kodi's stance on Piracy)
But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content. Otherwise, I'm not sure where everyone is getting all these non DRM digital downloads.
And most aren't using special plugins with Kodi, they just use Kodi to play their content they get from torrents and Usenet.
Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#9Saving movies to disk doesn't make much sense. The files are huge, and rewatching is not that common. BitTorrent is great for music, sadly we lost what.cd to law enforcement.
Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
#10Putting Kodi under "Streaming Piracy" is pretty inflamitory. Kodi isn't there to enable streaming piracy. (There are non-offical plugins that do that, but they've made many announcements about Kodi's stance on Piracy)
But let's be honest, 99.99% of Kodi and Plex use is purely for pirated content. Otherwise, I'm not sure where everyone is getting all these non DRM digital downloads. And most aren't using special plugins with Kodi, they just use Kodi to play their content they get from torrents and Usenet.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I only use Plex for format-shifting DVDs I've purchased. While this may be a violation of the DMCA's prohibition against breaking copy protection, it is not piracy or even actionable copyright infringement.