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Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

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Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

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Post by Hamuko »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #102
Hamuko wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes you can't even buy (or rent) the content because of georestrictions. At least I often encounter TV shows and movies that are available in some US streaming service, but are not available in our version of the same service, or the entire service is not available.

You can purchase abroad and ship to your country. Amazon for example has country local stuff. Use the .xy for whichever country you want to search in (.com for US, .de for Germany, etc) and see if they have what you want. They may also ship to you internationally.

The problem with Amazon is that my nearest Amazon, and the one that actually reliably ships to me, is Amazon.de. And the media on Amazon.de is usually German media, if there is even any media available. And I'm not German.

Just looking at a couple of shows that I watched a year ago, I couldn't actually find any of them on Amazon.de. And actually, only found one on Amazon.com, where it was unavailable. Also, the Chinese version for some reason?

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Post by pyhtel »

zinodaur wrote: post #202
philistine wrote: post #103

What you’re describing is data hoarding. I pirate a ton too, but you know what I do with a movie or TV show after I’ve watched it? I delete it. Poof, gone. But it’s still in the most important dataset I have. My memory. To help with the metadata of my own memory, I write down a list of the films I’ve seen. I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop). That TV show I just finished that was great…

Good thing you have all those "data hoarders" to leech off of when you wanna download something tho...

He's using usenet, I highly doubt he's seeding the data he holds

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Post by ask_b123 »

pirate-Loo6uoDu wrote: post #151
hotpotamus wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You started the post with "I have a confession". I felt that guilt was implied.

Ahh, fair enough. I meant it more as just a turn of phrase, implying that it's a sordid affair. A little bit implying that I was going again church heterodoxy, that there were pressures to feel guilty. More "gay in the 70's" than "burn down an orphanage".

* against church orthodoxy

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Post by 72deluxe »

fy20 wrote: post #177
trh0awayman wrote: post #88

At least where I live in Europe, it's almost impossible to not pirate. The government has strict controls on media and so it's impossible to even get access to most movies. Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming sites have been completely neutered. HBO Go, Criterion, etc. are completely inaccessible. In the US, it's a different story. Everything outside of Karagarga is available to be streamed, or at least purchas…

Same with me. I watched the first seasons of Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix, but this year their contract ended. There is no service available in my country where I can legally watch it. On the other hand nobody cares about torrents here, so at least I don't need to pay for usenet access to get it :-)

You're not missing much if you can't get series 2 onwards! The crew of all Star Trek ships now appear to need to have a group hug and good cry every episode and tell each staff member how important and unique they are rather than just solving problems in an interesting way.

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Post by bluefirebrand »

nkrisc wrote: post #147
l33t2328 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what sense is data hoarding a problem? I’ve only ever heard the term used in jest, at least partially, and in particular not ever with the same severity that actual hoarding receives.

Like all "problems", it's only a problem if it has negative consequences for you. Drinking alcohol isn't a problem until it is. Collecting old newspapers isn't a problem until it is. Hoarding data isn't a problem until it is. This post seems a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if it's costing the OP more money than they'd like to spend on it, then it is a problem. Or maybe it's not.

I would say it would have to be costing enough money or time to be negatively impacting OP's life before we could accurately call it a problem.

It's one thing to be over budget for it, but the budget just may not be realistic for the project and cost expectations have to be adjusted or the project downscaled. That's not a problem really it's just a normal part of budgeting.

The problem comes in if OP were missing work to work on this thing, or neglecting personal relationships. Or so over budget it was putting them financially in the red, leading to risky loans to pay for or borrowing from friends/family or whatever else.

Problems are things that have real negative externalities, imo.

Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

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Post by [deleted] »

pirate-Loo6uoDu wrote: post #157
colinmhayes wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it's costing this guy $45 a month apparently.

That server does a lot of other stuff. Controls zigbee devices, runs a small intranet search, handles internet archiving workloads... The hard drives are the main power cost though.

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Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

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Post by Mo3 »

zinodaur wrote: post #202
philistine wrote: post #103

What you’re describing is data hoarding. I pirate a ton too, but you know what I do with a movie or TV show after I’ve watched it? I delete it. Poof, gone. But it’s still in the most important dataset I have. My memory. To help with the metadata of my own memory, I write down a list of the films I’ve seen. I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop). That TV show I just finished that was great…

Good thing you have all those "data hoarders" to leech off of when you wanna download something tho...

He's on usenet, not torrenting. No need to keep or seed anything. OP is hoarding and attributing negative consequences of his own decision to a concept itself.
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