Have you considered a residential IP for VPN and just using the streaming services?
Slightly more expensive than normal VPN, and less likely to be blocked by the streaming services.
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
#352What 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...
Exactly, my favorite thing about torrents (and usenet) is the community of making requests for obscure content
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am 100% against hoarding, but data hoarding makes a lot more sense to me. I was looking for an album by a small punk band called Straighten Things Out called "Dawn Of A New Hope". Loved this album; listened to it all of the time on Apple Music (where I discovered it). Went on a walk one day and tried to load it...and it was gone. I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there! "Milo Goes To…
>> "Milo Goes To College" by The Descendants, a more well-known pop punk band, was removed as well. Randomly, without warning. Politically incorrect music tends to get sent down the memory hole.
...because of a few songs that were not politically-incorrect when recorded in 1982 and were later altered by the band themselves when they grew up and realized what they did.
it's still an important album that i like to listen to.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am 100% against hoarding, but data hoarding makes a lot more sense to me. I was looking for an album by a small punk band called Straighten Things Out called "Dawn Of A New Hope". Loved this album; listened to it all of the time on Apple Music (where I discovered it). Went on a walk one day and tried to load it...and it was gone. I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there! "Milo Goes To…
* Yells at Google for a good 15 minutes * ...I'm a tad surprised that worked as well as it did: 1. https://vk.com/wall-112927118?w=wall-112927118_185 ("Download") 2. http://metalbootlegs08.blogspot.com/2016/10/descendents-milo... ("Official Website") Oh, also - * hands you a vacuum cleaner that tends to eat things in case they disappear later * - maybe go wandering/exploring? These types of sites are incredibly fun y…
You can still find some downloads on OLD blogspot aggregators but many of those links point to archives on Mediafire and Megaupload, both of which are no longer around.
piratebay might still point to trackers that have copies, but bittorrent isn't as popular as it was in the past
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#355What 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…
I am 100% against hoarding, but data hoarding makes a lot more sense to me. I was looking for an album by a small punk band called Straighten Things Out called "Dawn Of A New Hope". Loved this album; listened to it all of the time on Apple Music (where I discovered it). Went on a walk one day and tried to load it...and it was gone. I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there! "Milo Goes To…
> I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!
i hope that discussing secondhand sales in the context of piracy might not be off-topic. if it is on topic, discogs.com is a decent source for most secondhand recordings. if you visit [1] you'll see there are two different sellers offering copies there, as well as price histories. i have not found many releases not listed on discogs.
[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6768123-Straighten-Things-Ou...
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#356Where are you paying 45$/month for power on a single computer. The moon?
making 30TB out of 5T drives would need 12 disks with mirroring. That's a bunch of power. It might also be a dual-socket Xeon, for that ECC
Who's going to mirror some low bitrate files they can download again off the internet.
If anything, assume something more reasonable like, 4x8 2x parity drives. 6 of those, that'd be $1200.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
$45 a month is a pretty cheap vice as far as things go, though. You could easily be spending $45 a month just on streaming services.
I have a much longer list of content that I want to watch on streaming services - and never care about rewatching - that I don’t even bother with pirating anymore. As far as $45. I spend less than that on streaming services. - Netflix $7 (T-mobile discount) - HBO Max - Free - bundled with AT&T fiber - Amazon Prime Video - I would have Amazon Prime anyway. But let’s attribute $6.00/month to it. - AppleTV+ - it’s part…
According to the numbers you just posted, you are spending 42 a month on streaming services which, while it is strictly less than 45, I wouldn't say it's meaningfully less than 45.
What point are you trying to make?
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#358Swedish author Wilderäng made a good move. First book of a Trilogy was on Pirate Bay. And then goddämn, I had to buy rest of those books with my own precious money, because it was important to know what happens to Sweden under zombie apocalypse.
In Japan, they also use this tactic to sell other media with anime. There's a certain IP in manga, light novel, or video game form, and it gets a season of anime which presents just a sliver of the full story.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a much longer list of content that I want to watch on streaming services - and never care about rewatching - that I don’t even bother with pirating anymore. As far as $45. I spend less than that on streaming services. - Netflix $7 (T-mobile discount) - HBO Max - Free - bundled with AT&T fiber - Amazon Prime Video - I would have Amazon Prime anyway. But let’s attribute $6.00/month to it. - AppleTV+ - it’s part…
According to the numbers you just posted, you are spending 42 a month on streaming services which, while it is strictly less than 45, I wouldn't say it's meaningfully less than 45. What point are you trying to make?
> Besides, I travel a lot and it’s much more convenient to use streaming (unlimited data) than trying to maintain hardware. My Plex server has been down for a year.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
> wasting your life watching all of those “must have shows” makes it sound like your brain has been co-opted by the content producers. >Maybe put down the remote and pick up a book? Isn't that the same thing?
Libraries are free so no. And, the selection is wider and better given the historical economics of literature vs streaming (steaming?) content production.
Don't sell your brain time to the lowest bidder.