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Well, I would say bittorrent with a good vpn or, usenet with a good indexer and depending on how much you download, block account vs monthly.

Personally I top up all my block accounts whenever I see a sale. With priority set from cheapest per gig to most expensive (so the pricey ones are only used as fillers).

But that does involve paying some money, but then doesn’t really require a vpn. In the long term I don’t think I’m paying that much though.

Instructions unclear, VPN’d into my own home network.

If no-one pirated any Sony game do you think they would.

A) Lower the price of the game to maintain their existing profit margin.
B) Set a lower price that increases their margin.
C) Keep the higher price and just make a fuck ton more money.

Well, I run forgejo for my own stuff. So, let’s say I decided to host something that is subject to a copyright complaint. As soon as people start using your repo and their lawyers get a whiff of it, they’ll just take the IP of your server and DMCA the owner of the IP. Whether it be me, or the host. It’s an entity they can go after and will need to yield to appropriate law. The effect would be the same as the DMCA going to Github.

But on tor, it hides the entity operating and running the server. Making it a lot harder to find the person to even send the DMCA to, let alone start the legal wheels turning, if it were ignored.

I mean, not saying anyone should, because evading copyright is bad. But technically, you could run say forgejo as an onion service. Connecting git to clone from it would take some extra steps but, if hidden well it’d make it somewhat harder to take down.

I think there’s likely a lot of people still on slower links that benefit for sure.

But as gigabit and better Internet becomes more mainstream, it’s certainly less of a problem for those with that.

And a pizza party at the end of the year!

Note: Pizza will count as a taxable benefit in kind.

The constant growth aspect of capitalism means that profits are never obscene enough for any business.

Yep. The ISP doesn’t offer it any more. They stopped, I think when RIPE officially “ran out” of new net blocks. But I’ve moved address twice so far and have kept the allocation. Well, on the last move they messed up and gave new a new single IP. I complained, and they asked why it matters so much to have my old IP. I pointed out I had a netblock, and they fixed it up pretty quickly.

Pretty soon, full fibre will be in my area and available on the same ISP. So, hoping for a smooth transition to keep it for a bit longer.

And this is why I’m unlikely to change isp. I have a /29 ipv4 block and /48 ipv6 block. No extra charge. Grandfathered features from over a decade ago.

Tell you a weird thing. I activated with a £5 Windows 7 ultimate OEM key on my old system. I upgraded from Intel 9th gen to AMD ryzen 7 (AM5), new mobo, ram, CPU.

Still enabled and active. I fully expected to need to activate again.

I would laugh. I’d be surprised there isn’t a backup of old source control somewhere and the same backup if done well would have the assets too. But, I will preface this with. Non gaming software that no-one would ever want to use again. Maybe a museum would want it.

But I suspect the only surviving version (if it’s even on the drive) survives in the attic of my old house (family still live there, I didn’t just abandon it in a sold house). A very very old version of non gaming software on a hard drive of an old 90s unix system.

So, you know it’s not that surprising. Depending on how old the games are.

Ah, now see I’d have like to have it on tabs at the top of the screen. It’s a minor thing. It’s not a problem to run both. Just, I feel like it’d be nicer to have a movies/tv tab in one app.

I know, but I’m just surprised they’ve not been merged into a single project.

Oh, I had her docked and ready, just in case.

Sonarr + Radarr (really, they could roll these into one by now) + Sabnzbd. Hold the plex. I mean who is watching download bars these days? Just wait for it to email me it’s ready!