I just watch online. Few movies and TV shows are worth hoarding anyway.
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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Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#363I download content against copyright law - specifically Strange New Worlds
Paramount literally won’t sell it to me, thus I have no moral objections to it.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
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That is true. But if say Spotify costs $9.99 / month and you buy tracks for $0.99 or album $8.99 (average ~12 tracks, maybe $0.60). After three years you have a pretty big collection, like 600 songs. And it would just get bigger. I have sirius xm in my car, which is how I learn about new things. But you could hear new stuff via FM or YouTube. The truth is I don't spent $9.99 a month on average so maybe it is not that…
Where can you buy an album at $8.99? Spotify, if I were a customer, would cost me ~$4 / month. Music streaming at current prices isn't profitable. It makes sense for the average dude to subscribe to Spotify.
Lots of albums on bandcamp are in this price range[1]. Some are even "pay what you want."
[1] Example: https://rubberoh.bandcamp.com
If what spotify is doing isn't profitable then it isn't sustainable, so why sink your time into it? When they go belly up what happens to all the time you invested in it?
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#365> and it's probably costing me around $45 per month in power where do you live that I don't move there ? I rarely ever paid more than 20-25€ / month for electricity for my whole appartment, with multiple computers running 24/7 lol
In some North/West European countries paying above 0.30€/kWh has been the norm for years. Anecdotally: In Germany I pay about 100€/month for an apartment (with normal homeoffice PC usage). 3500-4000 kWh/year.
wild... here it's hovering around .17€/kWh
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not complaining about the costs associated with this. I'm living well within my means. If I was concerned about the money I could probably spend more of my time to find the content on sketchy streaming sites like putlocker. I'm not sure why so many of the replies in this article are trying to interpret my post as some kind of call for help. My point was that piracy is a service problem.
Again.. You are obviously free to do whatever you want, but hoarding data and then associating the source of the data with the cost of your data hoarding is totally illogical. Your personal expenses for hoarding data, or the practice of hoarding data, have nil correlation to piracy itself. To add to this at this point, > Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed. This connec…
> This connection is irrational as well - the name "streaming services" already implies that content is being streamed for viewing and not downloaded for storage.
I remember all the way back to the late 90s, when we were already ridiculing the people who thought "streaming" was some radical new concept that was different/better than downloading. I remember a VC or some other exec hotshot coming to visit a startup I was involved in, insisting he was interested in investing in media streaming, not media downloading. Everyone on the eng team just held their chuckles until he left. There's really no technical difference between streaming and downloading, besides that streaming has an extra deletion step. It's all just transferring bits from one computer to another. "Streaming" is just downloading dressed up in a business suit.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#367What 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…
data hoarding is hoarding, but it might be a better way to get the dopamine hit one gets from hoarding in a way that doesn't take over and ruin one's life.
imagine this same person was someone who in the past might have hoarded VHS recordings or newspapers. How much space would that take up. A significant amount, to the point where we see the houses of hoarders and the hoarding has really damaged their ability to live. While data hoarding does take time and money, it doesn't have to take over one's physical space in the same manner.
So, while hoarding can be a problem, it really depends on the damage its doing to one's life. If one spends hours a day searching for content, neglecting one's life/family/job and putting them at risk, that's bad. If one has things automated, and its just a question of money they spend on it, then its just a question can they afford it. If they can, its just a hobby, not a sickness, as its not damaging to one's life.
Now, even with what I said, it can be hard for the person themselves to understand the effect it might be having on their life, perhaps until its too late (you think you are on top of things, but things unravel quickly).
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
* 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
> Mediafire and Megaupload, both of which are no longer around.
Mediafire is still up https://www.mediafire.com/
> piratebay might still point to trackers that have copies, but bittorrent isn't as popular as it was in the past
Most music pirates have moved on to using Soulseek (a P2P network) it seems. Releases not found on bittorrent can most likely be found on SLSK.
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#369Reasons (TV/Movie) piracy is better than any paid service: * All in one place/App/UI. Be it Plex/Jellyfin/Emby/Kodi/etc, you only have 1 app UI/UX to deal with. No more wondering "What network was that on?", "Wait, it's on 2 services but which one has my watched status?", "What does clicking forward/back do in this App?", "How do I turn on subtitles?", etc * Local playback. You never have to wait on your internet or…
Amen
Re: Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
* 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
(Just to clarify, those were interesting links at the time I posted them.)