It’s a sad day. E.g. former MEP Felix Reda did incredible work around the time of the 2017 EU copyright reform and helped the protests through transparency.
Now with the risk of badly written laws enabling (atm. restricted) surveillance, we’d have needed them more than ever. Luckily there’s still MEPs from the Czech Republic in the EU parliament.
Torrents are based on the idea that everyone using them pays for it with their bandwidth and hardware cost. Except for those leechers who don’t share.
I’m paying more for my seedbox than for my usenet subscription. If I used my own hardware I’d pay with stress on my hardware, e.g. the disks aging and failing earlier because of seeding. The power consumption is also not negligeble, altough the server is also used for other purposes.
With private trackers this idea of an equal exchange is more obvious because of ratio requirements.
Edit: I’d say it’s similar to open source in that no single individual has to pay for it, but someone does have to, for it to exist. Most often with their (valuable) time and knowledge. If no one helps out and does their part (through money or time+knowledge), a project won’t survive for long. Same is true for torrents.
I will be surprised if Spotify won’t announce a new more expensive HIFI subscription with their support for lossless audio. Imo this still makes it less interesting than Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz since it’ll still be impossible to permanently download music from Spotify.
Nonetheless it’s great that Spotify will provide lossless audio for those who want it.
What happens if you start the torrent client without the VPN already running?
Bind your torrent client to the VPN interface, then you won’t even need a killswitch.
Sadly I find myself opening up Stealth (open source reddit client without any login) more than I’d like. There’s just more content for some topics. No longer supporting reddit by commenting is largely good enough for me, but it makes me understand how most people never left reddit.
At the same time I spent more time on social media than I should, like typing this comment.
The dowloaded files can’t be played and testing .flacs with flac -t throws errors.
If that’s the case, streamrip still works fine with Tidal. Deezer support is currently broken.
How much will you be paying for a 25Gbps connection? And where do you live for these speeds to be available? Where I live 1Gbps is the max since a few years ago and costs 80€.
Can’t help you with private trackers except recommending taking the invite for RED/OPS. TL sometimes does open signups and is solid for english content. MAM has a friendly and active community, so I definitly recommend joining them (if you’re interested in books/audiobooks).
You’re right, media could still be wiped. Other data owned by users would be protected (e.g. configs).
Running everything under a single user is possible, but it also means an issue with a single app could wipe everything. It’s better practice to add each user to a media group, and set *arr and qbittorrent to use this group and allow write permissions for users in the same group (e.g. 775 instead of 755). This means all users (plex, qbit, *arr) in the group media can access and modify files owned by media (or use the GID).
Someone pedantic: It’s source-available, because it doesn’t grant the necessary freedoms to e.g. redistribute and modify the code.
I was oblivious to some context in the thread.
Agreed, a single physical copy can easily be lost.
Making physical copies often requires cracking/piracy. E.g. in my jurisdiction it’s illegal to circumvent “functional” copy protection, even though the right for a private copy is written in law. The problem is courts consider DVD’s long broken copy protections functional.
This is why in my opinion physical copies and piracy/cracking go hand in hand. The former isn’t possible without the latter.
E.g. I bought Lego Star: TCS again on Steam, because it was less work than getting rid of the copy protection on the disk.
Like any media/data you want to store indefinitely: build/buy a NAS with enough storage.
Luckily Steam will keep Duck Game in my library, but I dread the moment Valve leadership changes. Steam has existed for 20 years, and I naively hope I’ll still be able to play my games in 40 years on my Steck Deck.
Torrents are pretty much perfect, but are held back by peoples slow internet connections. If ISPs provided symmetrical connections (e.g. 100MBit/s down and up) P2P file sharing would be everywhere.
Sadly most providers in Germany heavily favor download speed. E.g. a friend of mine has fiber optics 250MBit/s down and 50MBit/s up. That’s a 5:1 ratio!
PS: Symmetrical connections would also be great for other use cases. E.g. simple, e2e encrypted P2P video conferences.
Currently in video calls with more than a few people, a device sends it’s video stream to a server which then sends it to all other participants. This increases cost for Zoom/Teams which then get passed to it’s users.
The better solution would be for each device to send it’s video stream to all other participants directly (p2p). This would result in video stream bandwidth times the amount of participants (e.g. 5mbit x 10 participants = 50mbit/s up).
I’ve enabled auto redirect from twitter to nitter and never bothered to disable the no longer working redirect. Hopefully people switch to some platform with open API access (or rather, a federated platform)
Manually configuring wireguard might work and protonvpn provides config files [1]. It’s unrelated to the issue, but wireguard additionally supports port forwarding which increases download speeds for torrents.
I’ve no idea why the network isn’t showing up.
The movie-web addon needs quite a bit of permissions. [1]
Edit: If it actually needs access to many websites/domains it’s better to set the permissions explicitly for each of them like MALSync does. [2]
This add-on needs to:
- Block content on any page
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for all websites
This add-on may also ask to:
- Access your data for all websites
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movie-web-extension/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mal-sync/
It’s less of a problem to link to solutions to a more general problem than specific shows/movies. Copyright holders are more likely to take action if they find their content directly mentioned and linked to.
That’s the problem right there. SD card storage is so cheap, but the manufacturers don’t include a slot for it.