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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 philistine »

brokenmachine wrote: post #389
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…

>I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop). I absolutely love that Robocop is the specific movie that you felt needed to be mentioned. :)

IT'S THE PERFECT FILM!

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

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Post by philistine »

nunez wrote: post #330
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…

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…

Music is meant to be played endlessly. Go and get those records and spin them as much as possible.

Just don't start hoarding terabytes of music you don't enjoy.

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

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Post by gaurangagg »

Same goes with downloading youtube videos - which gets deleted randomly by the owner. I used to have YouTube playlists and after 3 years 4 out of 10 videos were gone.

Downloading content helps if you want to revisit them without the fear of them getting deleted.

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

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Post by philistine »

ben174 wrote: post #381
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…

You are exactly me. Right down to (Robocop). But I still haven't figured out how to hit that delete button. As much as I know I need to. I'm sitting on 30TB now of stuff I'll never ever ever watch again. But I just can't delete it.

Don't delete it. Just disconnect the drives and shove them in a cupboard. Do it slowly. Move from everything is in my library all the time to I move movies to drives I keep disconnected.

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

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Post by fomine3 »

imtringued wrote: post #338
voisin wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you want a particularly uncommon variant of some pirate content (like an obscure movie in any quality, or a somewhat popular movie in original BD format), you better grab it when it's available, as further down the line getting the exact same such content may be more and more difficult. The constant availability of the pirated content is a big driver of the cost here. For some of the obscure stuff, this could be…

Amazon Glacier assumes that you only retrieve a fraction of the data.

So it's for hoarding?

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

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Post by nybble41 »

jgillich wrote: post #260
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…

Not sure where you're from, but for the most part it's not governments who are to blame (France is an exception). Copyright and rights management on a global scale is challenging, but the music industry made it work. It's up to the TV industry to do the same.

The governments are the only ones to blame. They created copyright privileges, and they have the power to revoke them but thus far have failed to do so. Everything negatively impacted by copyright is their fault.

Though in the case of the comment you're replying to, the tone suggests that the barrier to content being available legally is government censorship, not copyright or rights management.

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

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Post by PaywallBuster »

nickthegreek wrote: post #24
PaywallBuster wrote: post #10

Dump the movies on a backup service, why do you need a full copy locally Golden rule of data: "90% of it is not accessed after 3 months"

Wouldnt this just cost even more?

Could use personal plan from Backblaze for 7$ a month

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html

I'm sure there's alternatives

https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box

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

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Post by exadeci »

honkdaddy wrote: post #11

Why not just pay $5/mo for a Plex share with tens of thousands of the most popular movies and TV shows? I haven't torrented or paid for content in years. If I want to watch something and it's not on the server, I message the admin in Bangalore and he adds it. Sure I don't "have" the content in the sense it's not sitting on spinning disks, but I don't care. Life is too short to try to collect widely available digital…

Some servers allow you to sync the content on your devices as it's possible with Plex you often just need to ask them.

Very helpful when flying for 30h

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

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Post by winternett »

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…

People used to keep racks of CD and DVDs years ago and it wasn't a syndrome at all... They're still great for when Internet goes down.

With bandwidth becoming a metered utility and cost of streaming becoming a ridiculously overpriced fiasco, it's more important than ever to be able to be able to buy and own content. Even cloud storage is now yet another costly monthly service set to rise over time, and that's why device makers are reducing the storage capabilities on phones and computers while prices still rise. We need to fight this trend by spending more carefully on devices and services, they often add no new value when updated besides new revenue streams for the companies.

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