pirate-Loo6uoDu

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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
>Your personal expenses for hoarding data have nil correlation to piracy itself. Yes, that's true. My point was that I'm already spending a lot of money to pirate, and that I would be spending that money to support the creators
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I'm not complaining about the costs associated with this. I'm living well within my means. If I was concerned about the money I could probably spend more of my time to find the content on sketchy streaming sites like putlocker. I&
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I've already downloaded all the books. Now the challenge is indexing and sorting them.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
Depends on the content. For popular crap that I'm probably going to delete later I generally go for the 10-15GB option as finding a decent rip at a lower file size can be annoying (Latest marvel movies, etc). If something is sufficient
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I already run archiveteam-warrior. I've actually contributed some code to a few things on that list.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I have already downloaded all of the books. Text compresses very well.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
My copy of wikipedia is less than 100GB at the moment.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I've got one, but it's being used for other stuff.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
My regular account is pretty closely related to me professionally. My current country does not activity prosecute piracy but there's no telling what the future will bring career wise. It's not only prosecution that I'd be wor
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
My estimate is that it's idling at ~250w. I'm admittedly fudging the details a bit, right now archive-team-warrior is using a lot of CPU because it's archiving telegram, and that's pushing the number up. Calculating it a
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
Maybe there are better usenet services that don't get holes punched in their collections as much, but generally on usenet you get missing episodes over time.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
How long do you think that's going to last?
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I have a decent rip of The Expanse and an amazon prime account!
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I don't disagree with that point, you could probably find everything I've got on sketchy streaming sites if you spent enough time.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
That server does a lot of other stuff. Controls zigbee devices, runs a small intranet search, handles internet archiving workloads... The hard drives are the main power cost though.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
It's not, I'm living well within my means. If I was concerned about the money I could probably spend more of my time to find the content on sketchy streaming sites like putlocker.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
Ahh, fair enough. I meant it more as just a turn of phrase, implying that it's a sordid affair. A little bit implying that I was going again church heterodoxy, that there were pressures to feel guilty. More "gay in the 70's&q
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
Yep, I'm subscribed. I also do some digital archiving work (I don't want to get into specifics for anonymity sake), but since that's text it only takes up about 12TB right now. If I run out of space I delete some video.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
While I appreciate the concern, I've got a fair bit of free time, and to be clear I'm not actually worried about the financial cost. I'm living well within my means. Tomorrow I'm going to build a chicken coop. The setup
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
It's not actually a problem, by any means. I live quite comfortably. The point I'm really trying to make here is that I would pay for things if it was convenient to do so. I'm already spending more money to do this myself,
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
It's not a justification, just an explanation of what needs to change if people want me to pay for that content. Like I say I pretty much never pirate things if they're on steam, I've probably paid tens of thousands out to st
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
I got a pretty nice case too. The computer was my old desktop when I upgraded, so I'm only sort of counting it. It wasn't a budget build.
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by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago
Hard drive prices fluctuate a lot. I put this together in early 2018. In early 2018 an 8TB seagate drive cost ~$200 according to https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm . I'm also counting usable storage, not snapraid or anyth
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Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
302 points by pirate-Loo6uoDu 4y ago|396 comments