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I find it hilarious how despite endless bad press the giant data pump that is bittorrent just keeps on grinding without anyone behind the wheel, no updates, no

I find it hilarious how despite endless bad press the giant data pump that is bittorrent just keeps on grinding without anyone behind the wheel, no updates, no bug fixes, and no interruption. People can scream, ball their fists and stomp their foot on the ground but daddy's money cant shut it down. We should all feel very embarresed such a thing is possible. You can apparently write software and/or create protocols that measure their success in moaning about revenue loss.

sulandor 2y ago
maybe because bittorrent is genuinely useful and far from abandoned as most shops that regularly distribute large blobs use it. the political kerfuffle because drm/dmca really has nothing to do with it but i can't shake the feeling that you are involved at this level. god bless
- theendisney4 2y ago
  It has something to do with it. The internet enables control over what you talk about and share even with those close to you. We seem to like controlling others where we can. It doesnt seem al that bad but our benevolent corporate overlord dont represent the true madness of our kind. They havent categorized an untermensh nor refer to people as animals, we get to complaint about and mock our leaders. We have an elaborate system of law. One day people will no doubt wake up and it is all gone or it will gradually errode away. Laws that require changing our entire civilisation and culture are not your friend. You dont want to search everones house to check if they own a radio or tv. If that happens depends on who is asking. It isnt a static group. It might begin with heroic crime fighters but we can expand or replace the effort with new business logic. First we need to prevent you from reading a harry potter registered in someone elses name, then we need to be able to take your music purchases away from you until eventually we need to lock you up for subscribing to the wrong youtube channel 30 years ago. It isnt actually as absurd as not having video on websites in an afordable way. All those people working at youtube and all of those giant servers. It takes a truly monumental effort to use the wrong technology. I have to watch ads to pay for it? Advertisers have to influence content to pay for it? Our best men to keep the eyeballs on ads to pay for it? I have over a thousand yt subs to deleted channels for a laundry list of resons. There use to be threaded discussions and video replies. It all had to go to pay for it? All the horrors of central planning without the nice things the communists prommised us? All that to make sure some people get paid for things other people did 70 years ago? If that is what it costs they should not be paid. I hope little jimmy downloads all of their movies, every tv show, all the video games, all of their music, all of their books and all of their published papers. They wanted little jimmy to pay for singing happy birthday on video. Imagine the money they lost that day. All of those birthdays! We could have had birthday inspection squad teams. Fight the crime at the source.
  - sulandor 2y ago
    > I have over a thousand yt subs that sounds a lot
    - theendisney4 2y ago
      I think i got to 2500ish of which about 1000 vanished. The trick is to look for things not discovered by the masses. The reason (i wont call it a mistake) is almost always not publishing frequently enough. (Not that i dont watch popular things or everything in between.) Infrequent publishers dont get very noisy.
Bluestein 2y ago
> protocols that measure their success in moaning about revenue loss. Yeah. The so-called "Net Vicarious Loss" (NVL) protocols :)
ClumsyPilot 2y ago
But people will tell you that software cannot be expected to work reliably and cannot function without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates. Even the ‘Bible’ app requires constant updates, I thought the final version was released quite some time ago
- Bluestein 2y ago
  > without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates ... even when, sometimes, it is those very updates that bring the software down.-

sulandor 2y ago

maybe because bittorrent is genuinely useful and far from abandoned as most shops that regularly distribute large blobs use it. the political kerfuffle because drm/dmca really has nothing to do with it but i can't shake the feeling that you are involved at this level. god bless

theendisney4 2y ago
It has something to do with it. The internet enables control over what you talk about and share even with those close to you. We seem to like controlling others where we can. It doesnt seem al that bad but our benevolent corporate overlord dont represent the true madness of our kind. They havent categorized an untermensh nor refer to people as animals, we get to complaint about and mock our leaders. We have an elaborate system of law. One day people will no doubt wake up and it is all gone or it will gradually errode away. Laws that require changing our entire civilisation and culture are not your friend. You dont want to search everones house to check if they own a radio or tv. If that happens depends on who is asking. It isnt a static group. It might begin with heroic crime fighters but we can expand or replace the effort with new business logic. First we need to prevent you from reading a harry potter registered in someone elses name, then we need to be able to take your music purchases away from you until eventually we need to lock you up for subscribing to the wrong youtube channel 30 years ago. It isnt actually as absurd as not having video on websites in an afordable way. All those people working at youtube and all of those giant servers. It takes a truly monumental effort to use the wrong technology. I have to watch ads to pay for it? Advertisers have to influence content to pay for it? Our best men to keep the eyeballs on ads to pay for it? I have over a thousand yt subs to deleted channels for a laundry list of resons. There use to be threaded discussions and video replies. It all had to go to pay for it? All the horrors of central planning without the nice things the communists prommised us? All that to make sure some people get paid for things other people did 70 years ago? If that is what it costs they should not be paid. I hope little jimmy downloads all of their movies, every tv show, all the video games, all of their music, all of their books and all of their published papers. They wanted little jimmy to pay for singing happy birthday on video. Imagine the money they lost that day. All of those birthdays! We could have had birthday inspection squad teams. Fight the crime at the source.
- sulandor 2y ago
  > I have over a thousand yt subs that sounds a lot
  - theendisney4 2y ago
    I think i got to 2500ish of which about 1000 vanished. The trick is to look for things not discovered by the masses. The reason (i wont call it a mistake) is almost always not publishing frequently enough. (Not that i dont watch popular things or everything in between.) Infrequent publishers dont get very noisy.

Bluestein 2y ago

> protocols that measure their success in moaning about revenue loss. Yeah. The so-called "Net Vicarious Loss" (NVL) protocols :)

ClumsyPilot 2y ago

But people will tell you that software cannot be expected to work reliably and cannot function without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates. Even the ‘Bible’ app requires constant updates, I thought the final version was released quite some time ago

Bluestein 2y ago
> without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates ... even when, sometimes, it is those very updates that bring the software down.-