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Steal This Comic
- indrax 5y agoMirror: https://imgur.com/OPVQstH https://imgur.com/OPVQstH
- fao_ 5y agoWhy would you want a mirror, and especially why would you want a mirror on an ephemeral image hosting site? The XKCD site has been online since '06 and is already archived on archive.is and web.archive.org, imgur has been online for less than that time and certainly can't boast the same amount of uptime.
- ur-whale 5y agoBecause: a) sites go down and disappear b) sites get censored / taken down by random acts of god https://archive.vn/PNckg/c44096661a31c0014373b451c5ee308ecc0c6b7b.png https://archive.vn/PNckg/c44096661a31c0014373b451c5ee308ecc0...
- fao_ 5y agoYes but surely imgur is more prone to that, given its more lucrative surface area? And either way, wouldn't archive.is or web.archive.org be a better choice, given that both have big infrastructural systems that are very literally designed from the ground up to avoid data loss?
- frodetb 5y agoThe title of the comic also kind of encourages it.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoMaybe they were trying to prevent a HN hug of death? XKCD handles those surprisingly well.
- aspyct 5y agoNot sure when this xkcd was released, but music is now drm-free on iTunes. You can just copy it around and it'll still play.
- prophesi 5y agoNow the trick is to get users on your music streaming platform to keep anyone from actually owning anything when things change.
- aspyct 5y agoI was using Spotify before, until they ruined my playlists by pulling most of the musics on them...
- YungMoolah 5y agoIt's an XKCD with a URL ending in only 3 digits, so it must be very old. Not sure why it's on the front page.
- blakesterz 5y agoThis was from October of 2008.
- abbub 5y agoIs this really still an issue? I have a feeling that 'collecting music' (with the intent to listen to it) is probably something that only Boomers, Gen-Xers (myself), and older millenials still do. (The (strange) exception being vinyl, and I suspect that a fair amount of the albums that get purchased don't actually get played. The records are really more 'collectables' than an actual means to listen to music for many people...audio funko pops, if you will...) I've got a hard drive full of FLAC rips of my CD collection, which I listen to when I'm at the computer working. (I think I have about 600 discs.) I have plex serving the FLAC files, so I can listen to my music collection on my devices, but other than at the computer while working, I never do. In the car and away from the computer listening is almost entirely music streaming services, with titles downloaded to my phone when I know I'm going to be somewhere with spotty internet. My wife is 100% Spotify. My daughter (12) uses streaming services or youtube (!) to listen to music.
- weare138 5y agoStreaming music services like Spotify are a little different. The issue is really with services like Amazon Prime and Apple Music where you're paying for each song but don't really 'own' it. With the older paid music services when I bought a song I got a regular .mp3 that I could use anywhere I wanted and owned for life. With these new services we're not buying a song, we're just renting it for the same price.
- pornel 5y agoSongs quietly disappear from Spotify and YouTube all the time. I guess it's "solved" by never owning the songs in the first place, and accepting they're ephemeral.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoThis. If you have a long playlist on Spotify, check out how many of your favorite songs are gray because reasons. I don't understand why they can't sell rights globally to every streamer and be done with it.
- abbub 5y ago
- drcongo 5y agoNeeds 2008 in the title.
- Cycl0ps 5y agoFor me it's becoming less about owning something and more about just finding it. Streaming services have fragmented and they each have some flagship show or series locked to their platform. At this point we're back to premium cable channels all over again. If I want to watch an old episode of something like South Park I don't know which services would have it, but I know of a torrenting site that will.
- junon 5y agoSouth Park is a bad example. They're available for free without a subscription - all of them.
- NathanielK 5y agoNot in Canada. Here CTV (owned by Bell) has the license rights, and you need a bell TV subscription to watch.
- HWR_14 5y agoAlmost all of them. Some have been removed, like the Super Best Friends episode.
- ncmncm 5y agoWhat was in the Super Best Friends episode?
- simcop2387 5y agoThe prophet mohammed. there's another 2 parter about him that's also unavailable iirc too.
- inshadows 5y agoI set up Audible accounts, because my favourite podcasts had ads for it. Their pricing model is basically "get as much money out of you as possible". Monthly subscription payment, and when you stop, you'll lose all your audiobooks. Before I stopped supporting this usury I downloaded all the books via some scripts I found on Internets. The books are still DRM protected and I will have to use some other scripts to decrypt them. Fuck Amazon.
- jpalomaki 5y agoI had an Audible plan where I got credits each month and was able to exchange them for books. The books I got back then are still available for me even though I stopped paying.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoI had that plan too for a while. When I wanted to cancel, they said all unspent credits would vanish, which felt pretty evil. I'd bet the other commenter is talking about the stuff available under "unlimited" or whatever it's called.
- stolenmerch 5y agoI honestly don't understand. I stopped my Audible subscription years ago and I have access to my library of audiobooks purchased with credits.
- gjvnq 5y agoFor audiobooks, you can play them and use an external audio recorder. If you are into VMs, you can probably get a near perfect recording.
- nynx 5y agoI often buy an ebook to support the author, but then pirate the book in an epub format, which ends up being more user-friendly since I can read it on multiple different computers and in the ebook software that works best for me.