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This reminds me of joker[1], with the benefit of not expecting you to feed it a torrent (or expecting you to know what a torrent is). I genuinely wonder, thoug

This reminds me of joker[1], with the benefit of not expecting you to feed it a torrent (or expecting you to know what a torrent is). I genuinely wonder, though, if these services are published just to annoy the copyright owners or for some benefit to the author that I sadly cannot see. edit: They also do not seem to serve ads. Maybe an experiment for a potential legal version? Who knows... [1]: currently out of service, used to be available at http://joker.org/ http://joker.org/ , discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8520954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8520954

verbin217 11y ago
Because fuck media conglomerates, that's why. Sorta like Google Chrome: because fuck Microsoft, that's why. When an entity achieves dominance they only innovate in order to keep it. The difference between this situation and the one I compared it to is that there's no way to legitimately compete. Even in the contrasting example it took an entity the size of Google to revive competition. In this one they control the content and dictate the platform. The most competitive platforms, in terms of user preference, can be starved of content and displaced by alternatives only the media conglomerates could desire. Do you honestly think we'd have gotten Netflix without torrents? The people who desire progress or otherwise to actually do things have two choices. They can either repress that desire or they can out-hack the regressive empire builders who desire only to have things.
- _lce0 11y ago
  yep, they are called _barrier to entry_[0], and those big conglomerates have huge barriers, being the current legislation the biggest.. the question is if they will be able to handle the economy of scale of the whole world trying to move forward --I hope not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry

verbin217 11y ago

Because fuck media conglomerates, that's why. Sorta like Google Chrome: because fuck Microsoft, that's why. When an entity achieves dominance they only innovate in order to keep it. The difference between this situation and the one I compared it to is that there's no way to legitimately compete. Even in the contrasting example it took an entity the size of Google to revive competition. In this one they control the content and dictate the platform. The most competitive platforms, in terms of user preference, can be starved of content and displaced by alternatives only the media conglomerates could desire. Do you honestly think we'd have gotten Netflix without torrents? The people who desire progress or otherwise to actually do things have two choices. They can either repress that desire or they can out-hack the regressive empire builders who desire only to have things.

_lce0 11y ago
yep, they are called _barrier to entry_[0], and those big conglomerates have huge barriers, being the current legislation the biggest.. the question is if they will be able to handle the economy of scale of the whole world trying to move forward --I hope not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry