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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Paying for movies is legal and it owns

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lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I really love capitalism! A whole bunch!

Tyson Tomko
May 8, 2005

The Problem Solver.

Rutibex posted:

they are getting pretty big. 3TB drives are reasonably cheap now. I have 3 of them just for my movie collection (less than 10% porn)

streaming seems great now, but when the nuclear apocalypse comes I'll have the last laugh

The worst part about pirating in 2016 is everything is in such good quality. Back in the day I could get by with a realmedia version or <80mb rip of almost anything, but nowadays I'm spoiled and have to get everything in at least 720p even though I'm pretty sure I'm the only person that cares/notices. And yeah hard drives are cheap as poo poo now. Since I don't want to lose everything I've spent the last 18+++ years acquiring I've got it all backed up twice and thrice over, which still isn't too terribly tough to do when there are 3 4 and 5 tb drives out there for not too much.

Just last night I was going through an old backup and found my old "flv to avi" folder, which of course was when youtube first became a thing and not very many programs/devices supported flvs I'd use a few websites/programs to convert them to avis. I mean c'mon, how was I going to watch the Reading Rainbow intro or *insert intro theme from any other 80s/90s show* on my tv?

-- The one exception to the rule is with porn. There is so much streaming porn around (a friend told me so anyway) if you go to the effort of downloading porn you must either be extremely picky and want only 1080p bluray 3d rips, your internet isn't stable and who knows when you're going to beat it OR those titties are worth it. To each his own obviously, but moral of the story is yeah downloading stuff is still cool and thankfully it's back to being semi-private and secretive again since it's out of fashion. That being said I do have Netflix too yeah.

Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 29, 2016

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Sorry, I meant Communism.

ColoradoCleric
Dec 26, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I just download a bunch of tv shows and put XBMC on random who needs cable

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



genesplicer posted:

As an adult with a job, I can afford things like software and movies. So, yes, I've given up on filez.

why would you pay money for what you can get for free :confused:

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

The Goatfather posted:

why would you pay money for what you can get for free :confused:

agreed, why pay $10 to post on an internet forum when there are countless free ones

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
Running an ftp server off your computer with a folder in the top directory that's just your ICQ number and a 10/1 upload/download requirement for noobs who want poo poo in the requests folder. The smart ones will message you on ICQ to try and negotiate. All games come without cut scenes and music to save space. If you have porn movies of celebrities you can get literally anything else almost instantly in trade.

Kehveli
Apr 1, 2009

Push It Like You Push Your Girlfriend

paul_soccer10 posted:

netflix finally started caring about people who use proxies recently at least it detects my VPN

the companies who own the rights probably leaned p hard on them after they publicly said they don't care if you go hog wild with vpns etc

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Jesus Christ posted:

Download the Hola plugin for Chrome or Firefox and change your country to US.

Jesus gently caress does nobody even know how to look up how to do simple poo poo like that anymore?

I guess not, or you'd know that Hola is a really bad thing to use on you connection.

http://adios-hola.org/

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TheIllestVillain
Dec 27, 2011

Sal, Wyoming's not a country

Volcott posted:

Don't you guys have some ridiculously low monthly cap on your internet?

unlimited data plans are prety common here now but our speeds are still ridiculous

ive been on a 3mbps connection since 2007

plese help

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