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Movie & Music Piracy Acceptable to a Growing Number of U.S. Households

https://torrentfreak.com/movie-music-piracy-acceptable-to-a-growing-number-of-u-s-households-220922

I'm of that 25%.

Honestly my reasons for supporting Piracy on all fronts have actually shifted over time to the point where I do have a moral defense of my position.

It's short, Content in it's official form is often deliberately under produced in order to harness the benefits of Artifical scarcity. Even though it could be produced at wider and expected scale Greed gets in the way- This is all well and good for awhile honestly but the ramifications end up biting Society in the ass in the long run. Piracy is a moral good because it has a perservative unintended consequence but still this is good.



What do I mean? All of our Storage mediums including HDD and Solid State Drives experience decay.

If nothing else what Piracy has done so far by digitizing so much is make it very difficult to scrub from the internet, The oldeest torrents are now over 20 years old and are still running and stil seeded.

In fact there was a number of years ago a huge activist push to reseed a lot of old content in order to bring the health of Older torrents back up.

In essence I might be in violation of Copyright law, but I am a Librarian of sorts, and an Archivist.

Occasionally this means I have to resplace an HDD, because they will fail eventually.

i'm now a voice in defense of Copyright Infringement. Very vocally. I run apologetics for it.
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There is fuck all on torrent sites these days
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz Movies have gone to shit, Don't blame us. In fact you know what? we're part of the solution. Hollywood wants to get paid for it's lazy bad writing? Well fuck them.
@PDXNative1986 Man you used to be able to get everything even ebooks. None of that shit is there anymore.
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz use IRC for ebooks.
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz sorry for the uncompassionate response though. If you don't know how to use it I don't know what books to point you to directly but https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/2oftbu/guide_the_idiot_proof_guide_to_downloading_ebooks/

I could be an elitist and be like don't use mIRC it's the client for IRC n00bs but Honestly I've found the command line tools are only good for chatting file transfers on the Command line clients?! LOL.

plus As much as I jist about being 1337 it's a fucking joke.

I have just enough wisdom to say use IRC and stop complaining but not enough to actually be like "THIS BOOK IS THE BEST BOOK TO LEARN HOW THE FUCK TO"
@PDXNative1986 Not at all, it didnt come across that way. b-ok.cc is what I use these days for books
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz I promise you b-ok.cc might be useful but IRC is always going to be better and more complete.

Always.

Just think like it's still 1997 because practically nothing on the software side of things has really changed over what it was back then and the old internet backbone is still miles ahead of the more modern infrastructure.

So Usenet + IRC. I first learned about IRC back then and the reason was because the knowledge crowd told me the mp3 collections were wider on IRC.

They were right.
@PDXNative1986 I dont think I have used IRC since 1998 lol. I will have a look at it. Thanks buddy!
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz Fuck Napster. Napster was for the Idiots who couldn't Fucking figure out how to IRC. Along with all of it's fucking replacements. Shit might have changed but not necessarily for the better.
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz I think watering pcs down to make them accesssible to tech illiterate morons with an IQ of 70 was a mistake. Tech Illiterate idiots create Career's it's true but They 're also a Security risk.
@PDXNative1986 Harsh 😂
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz [media=https://youtu.be/S8s9uzPIqQ4] I'd be annoyed by her at first but in the end hail her as my hero.