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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by floatboth »

dijit wrote: post #177
masklinn wrote: post #152

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> PS: Mostly thanks to Bandcamp.com music torrenting is completely dead for me. Seconded. My music search these days is Find interesting band + | v not sure I can Is on bandcamp? +-no-> be arsed to even + check torrents | yes | v buy entire discography on bandcamp

I was this way with iTunes for a long time. iTunes successfully turned me off pirating music, why would I do it when I can pay 99p for a song and have all the metadata correct, including album art, perfectly synced to all my devices in perpetuity? And no DRM means I can play them on my non-apple/iTunes devices and media players.. great! Well, unfortunately I want to own my music, so I don't like to use streaming serv…

> all the metadata correct, including album art

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

I even… buy music on iTunes… and overwrite all of their metadata with MusicBrainz's.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by floatboth »

merb wrote: post #293
ehsankia wrote: post #182

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Oh the other hand, if it's on iTunes it's almost an instant piracy. Not only you can't buy it without installing a huge application, you can't even preview it either.

well to be fair iTunes isn't as bad as it is on windows. granted it was better when I started using a mac. around ~10.9 but I regulary buy music there. it's simple and iTunes is fast on mac and I like how it organizes music. but yeah I never liked it/like it on windows.

I never had an issue with it on Windows. Recently, they even added HiDPI support!

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by floatboth »

cornholio wrote: post #160
petre wrote: post #121

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What if the author is a company? Like Disney.

Then they should get copyright for 14 years since publication, like in the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne. There is no benefit for society to extent copyright past that point, since it does not induce creative corporations to publish more works: profits 20, 50 years into the future are not relevant to current business decisions. The original idea was that copyright is a compromise that maximizes the social…

Even 14 years is an eternity in our fast-moving world… how about 4 years.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by empthought »

twothamendment wrote: post #432
empthought wrote: post #10

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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.

I knew I wasn't the only one. Once I have a disc in hand I'm going to handle it once, get it on the NAS and watch it on any device in my house without thinking about the media that it was purchased on. Throw an old laptop SSD, a raspberry pi and a USB wifi into the mix and you can stream your collection while driving across the country.

I have little kids who can't be trusted to keep physical media from being damaged. :-D

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by floatboth »

leetcrew wrote: post #232
RankingMember wrote: post #119

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I suspect you're referring to μTorrent, which has been descending into awful spam-infested garbage for a long time now. As another user suggested, give qbittorrent a go.

qbittorrent is the best out there for windows imo. my only complaint is that it seems to have no dpi awareness whatsoever.

Check out PicoTorrent. It's very very lightweight and simple. And DPI aware.

https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by nkrisc »

kbenson wrote: post #208
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #153

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Netflix seems to be pretty opinionated about subtitles. Try watching Narcos without subs, you can't. "Off" means the Spanish parts are subbed, and switching it to Spanish means the English parts are subbed! Netflix, a Californian company, simply couldn't fathom that some people might understand English and Spanish.

> Netflix, a Californian company, simply couldn't fathom that some people might understand English and Spanish. Or they just decided the path that serves the most people without complicating matters is to assume you want subtitles for any language not selected as the primary audio language. I think the relevant question here is how would you design a control panel that allowed you to define which of the many language…

If the show or movie has both Spanish and English subtitles, when you go to turn subtitles on/off just show each language with its own toggle. There could also be master toggle to show turn all on/off. I doubt most shows would have more than two, if at all.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by floatboth »

blt wrote: post #9

Saving 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.

I like having a personal archive. I even download most of the YouTube videos I watch to make sure they're not lost forever.

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by sp332 »

jjeaff wrote: post #446
sp332 wrote: post #21

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I do, because I only have to find the disk once to rip it. From then on I don't have to get off the couch!

Except that is a DMCA violation and just as illegal as downloading from a torrent site. Although, I would say, a morally superior option.

People who get busted for torrents are charged with commercial-scale distribution, because torrents upload as well as download. It's not at all the same thing as ripping your own disc.

Edit: I mean yes, it's technically illegal but I've never heard of anyone being charged for personal use. And if it did happen the penalty would be a lot smaller because the damage done would be the price of a new blu-ray.

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Post by kahnpro »

amaterasu wrote: post #422
cat199 wrote: post #404

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> if you habitually use a VPN depends on the VPN... if you mean 'commercial vpn service', then probably yes. if you mean 'routing it through some other machine you own', 'your access to ' then probably no.. vpn != commercial vpn service

I was running my own Netflix VPN service (admittedly on a low cost VPS), and was blocked within a day when Netflix introduced their new policy.

Yeah, they are blocking most VPS providers. You'll need an obscure VPS host or a residential IP

Re: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

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Post by ForRealsies »

r00fus wrote: post #202
blibble wrote: post #156

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> With the EU in accession and the US in decline on the global stage you're kidding right? after brexit the EU has lost 70 million citizens, its second biggest economy, its largest city (which also happens to be the world's financial capital), and its main military/cultural power whereas Trump will be gone in a few years

Great Britain wasn't ever really with the EU on most things. The joke was that UK were the US's mole in the EU/world stage everyone knew it (e.g. lapdog jab in "Love Actually"). Brexit took that rent and tore it open, but if/when Scotland secedes from the UK and rejoins the EU, that might affect things. Trump being gone doesn't necessarily mean the US is going to suddenly regain it's former prominence. This discussio…

You're delirious if you think: Scotland will actually secede from the UK, and that the EU would accept another member with such a small economic base.
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