Pirating is going to become a thing again.
Do you use spotify?
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Has it ever stopped being a thing?
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Napster come back
It declined when streaming services were cheap, easy, and made at least a little bit of an attempt to be convenient.
I agree with that. I never found every movie I wanted even having more than 2 video streaming services.
Is convenient at times… to say the least.
That's what is was for me. Then it started encroaching and I went back to mp3s and created my own movie/show library 🏴☠️
Never again will I return to streaming services.
I live on the high seas 🏴☠️
I don't see the point of this, to be honest.
What's home assistant? 👀
I got to the point of setting an IoT subnet. But I trust no home assistant other than myself.
Oh geez... If you don't know, I hesitate to mention it since it is an awful black hole...
An open source home automation system. If you don't have time, don't look it up.
I'm not big on making my home smart, even if I do control the whole stack. But I'll keep it in mind 🫡
It always was a thing. Some just lost their way
Look at me 👀
I am the home assistant 😂
Do I need to make the meme?
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Some of us already switched back.
Once upon a time the streaming services had better UX than piracy.
More ads, more ads, pay extra for ad free, now ad free has ads too just fewer but it costs the same, new ad free tier that costs more, new terms of service clarifies that the new ad free tier might sometimes include ads too. Fool me 6 times shame on me.
Please do 🙏
The perfect storm 🌪️
Some never abandon old ways 🏴☠️
When bitcoin hits 1 million we'll all be living on superyachts🛥
I won't. I could see getting a decent kayak... But that's it.
Long live Torrent, long live P2P 🤲
I am Herr for it.
Some of us never gave it up. 😅
Got rid of spotify years ago.
You can buy great CDs at yard sales for $1 a pop and rip them to your phone.
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I earn and spend, not a hodlr 🤷🏼♀️
Even if it hit a billion, I'll be the same as I am now.
Also, fuck a yacht. I'd build a log cabin on a remote island somewhere.
Yup...
Or the stuff they just straight up deleted forever for tax purposes.
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Going to need more cost cutting after any sane person cancels and pirates instead of paying them to delete the content you wanted to watch.
Nostr replacing The Pirate Bay
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Maybe, but... Why?
Censorship resistance
Has TPB ever been censored? (Successfully?)
You've got a point there, as TPB has resisted censorship along the years in several ways.
But the UX using it has also suffered, as you have to keep looking for operational TPB proxies, or other ways to access it.
Imo, the UX could be greatly improved using an dedicated nostr client and relays.
There are also improvements on trusting published torrents as nostr events allow for Web of Trust architecture.
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I high-key hate WoT. It's a stupid failure point.
Nostr for UX? Yes, please.
There is one aspect though. Big things are happening on big private trackers where they have strict rules bound to your profile (like seed ratio). All that needs to be "recreated" or the torrent community will never use nostr.
I honestly don't think that torrents needs to be on Nostr. At least not yet.
I think it'd be cool to advertise magnet links to nostr
That's not a bad idea!
That already exists!
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