5 ms·
Couldn't the intern have paid for his own bare bones VPS and done it from there? Or used a different paid VPN service, which cost roughly the same ~$5? Seems li
by jjice 6y ago
Couldn't the intern have paid for his own bare bones VPS and done it from there? Or used a different paid VPN service, which cost roughly the same ~$5? Seems like the cost of a VPN compared to the value of his internship wouldn't even compare. All for some campus clout.
- NullPrefix 6y agoDepends, was it a paid internship?
- jjice 6y agoEven if it wasn't, I bet the experience of the internship would be worth more than the cost of a personal VPN. Unless the internship didn't really provide much value.
- elcomet 6y agoIf you have no money, it doesn't matter what's the value of the internship.
- make3 6y agowhat does that have to do with anything. If the opportunity was good enough for you to take the internship, then they were good enough for you not to risk it by torrenting on their material. He likely got sacked mid summer. He now can't even have that internship on his resume. So much wasted time, so mindless.
- loktarogar 6y agonot getting paid often leads to not having much money
- make3 6y agothe solution is not to use your work equipment was my point
- loktarogar 6y ago$5 can be the difference between eating that day or going without food for some.
- make3 6y agoyes but you can survive without watching shows, which is my point
- kohtatsu 6y agoDigitalOcean bills per hour.
- jjice 6y agoBut their lowest tier of VPS caps out at $5 a month https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
- iNeal 6y agoI believe they meant you only need it for a couple hours max so with the hourly rate it'd only be less than $0.02
- efreak 6y agoIIRC they have a minimum payment. You need to put $5 in your account. Not sure what they do if you pay by subscription and only use a few hours, but when I was using DO, you needed to fund your account with $5 even if you were using the $100 free credit from GitHub education.
- kohtatsu 6y agoThis is the case for PayPal and Visa debits, but not credit cards IIRC.
- TallGuyShort 6y agoIt's potentially less anonymous to the people who might prosecute you. Probably didn't realize how anonymous it wasn't to the employer and didn't factor that cost in to the decision. But if you're willing to $5 to get a show, you're probably less likely to pirate it anyway (or at least be the seed).
- wongarsu 6y agoThat guy pirated for the glory of being the first to share it with his peers. I wouldn't be surprised if he was willing to pay for that.
- jimmydorry 6y agoAs far as I recall, $20 wouldn't even get you a single GoT episode in Australia. As a consequence, Australia had one of the highest piracy rates on GoT / HBO shows.
- aussieguy1234 6y agoThe Foxtel monopoly has got to go, one way or another. They pay for the rights to all of the best shows, then charge huge sums for subscriptions. I'd pay for Netflix, HBO online etc if only it were possible here for a reasonable, non inflated price without content restrictions.
- throwawaywrench 6y agoI was recently surprised to discover that Foxtel still exists. Even living in Australia it had been years since I had heard or seen anything to do with the company. Personally, I dont feel like Foxtel is a problem so much as the business model of locking up a show within a paid streaming service. There are so many of them. If a show or movie isnt on the streaming services I already have access to I immediately just discard the idea of ever watching it. Its unlikely to even be worth the bother to find a way to watch it.
- throwaheyy 6y agoIf you could even download it at any price. At some point people would give up on waiting 6 months for the release, say “fuck it” and just pirate it.
- djsumdog 6y agoThis was what a seedbox is. You can get seedboxes really cheap (usually under 15euro/month).
- megablast 6y agoYeah, interns have so much money.