It is obvious that it is becoming easier and easier to acquire anything digital, no matter how obscure, yet I feel the need of keeping everything good I can downloaded illegally.
While I know this isn't gonna happen anytime soon, I always have this fear that the copyright age wasn't the anomaly - that instead the p2p age was the anomaly, and that the lobbies will eventually wise up and find real ways to destroy the internet.
Of course it's an irrational fear - I know perfectly well that in 20 years, absolutely every file that has ever existed will be incredibly easy to find and downloadable at ridiculously fast speeds.
But I still can't stop hoarding and backupping. I need to get it through my mind once and for all that if I was able to download it once, I will definitely be able to download it in 50 years.
Any fellow copyright infringer having the same problem?
The internet will become more and more free and then they'll block public access to it completely.
No, I don't have that problem at all, actually.
I'm a heavy pirate, too. It's been fucking ages since I've payed for music.
I would download movies, but honestly, I don't watch them that often. I've only downloaded one movie.
But I would gladly buy a copy of the DVD, if I could find one.
Downloading "pirated" movies may be illegal but it is not wrong. Just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong. Too bad we don't have to pay the gardeners money for looking at the beautiful flowers they plant in gardens. Think about how much they suffer because of the lack of your money. How is such a person supposed to make a living or raise his kids without your money? DO YOU HATE KIDS? In this day and age we can't simply allow the thieves and terrorists to destroy the flower planting industry!
Yeah, I hoard too. I have about 1.2TB at the moment and am considering buying a bigger hard disk.
>>4
No need to make that argument here of all places
>>7 is preaching to the converted
Hoarding means you can seed a torrent whenever you want. And as the volume of data keeps increasing, it'll be harder to find obscure things.
What are the odds of finding Season 2 of Knight Rider online and properly seeded? They may be OK now, but in two years it'll have the same competition plus another season of Lost and Battlestar Galactica, and two years of shitty Hollywood summer sequels.
>>9
But in 20 years, you won't ever leave the house without what would today be equivalent to a 20TB USB key. Technology is developing much faster than the amount of data to track increases.
>>3
*PAID.
Damn, a lot of people misspell that word.
>>10
Except for the technology to manage that data which appears to be moving slower.
>>12 is right. I know Moore's Law has been holding steady since the 60's, but does your computer really feel like it's 64 times faster than it was in 1998? Does it boot 64 times faster? Launch applications 64 times faster? Render web pages 64 times faster?
If all programs were free software or open source from the beginning and there were no algorithm patents we would have already cracked the DNA and be writing self-conscious software.
Whowowow, hold one a second... something is wrong here! When I think about all those poor programmers who wouldn't be able to pimp out their cars without our money I begin to feel sad. I take everything back. Never mind, you guys continue.
>>14
Majority of programmers don't earn anything past a measly amount of salary given to them by their outsourcing companies. It's like the music industry - you can "support" your artists as much as you like, but in the end the record companies are the ones making all the money.
Free / open source software doesn't have to equate to not getting paid anyway. I know a few guys working on Ubuntu who are actually getting paid to do that work. The problem is that the main OS on PCs is run by a company who doesn't realise the damage they're doing... or they realise it, which would probably be worse.
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But I'm into a lot of obscure stuff.
Also, some of it wasn't pirated, but was like legally free indie music where the band's site went down etc. Though there's some CDs I didn't snatch on OiNK that are probably a lost cause now.
Nah... I would keep hoarding. HD space is only going to get cheaper, but those things the OP says might be around later, really won't. Fads come and go, will you be able to find Iosys albums 20 years from now? I don't know, but somehow I doubt it.
Internets, and digital media in general, are far from permanent. You post your ads up on the post, and read them before the weather or disinterest destroy them.
>>18
Don't taint the Free Software Song with your dirty non-free codecs!
>>21
http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.ogg
Enjoy. Feel free to masturbate.
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I hoard porn, a lot of it. I have a seperate CD folder packed with it. This way I can watch what I want, whenever I want and never have to suffer a pixelated Redtube vid or the waiting for a poorly seeded torrent.
If the government ever does properly crack down on piracy there's always newsgroups.
"I always have this fear that the copyright age wasn't the anomaly - that instead the p2p age was the anomaly, and that the lobbies will eventually wise up and find real ways to destroy the Internet."
You were right, anon. You were right.
>>19
God, I still regret not downloading everything on peinto.org. The Internet is so transient.
Scouring newsgroups is super inefficient. Even ed2k is more efficient.
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The horrifying realization that you've hoarded so much niche and obscure stuff while neglecting the classics because of the classics' wide availability...
If a time comes when digital data becomes underground cyber currency I hope my rare data is enough to turn me into a datagarch.
Would anyone be interested in an anonymous FTP server -- anyone can upload, only admin can delete -- for us to collect our niche files? I used one posted on 4chan and 8chan a couple years ago, but it's down now, and given where it was advertised, few files had much value. I think it could be neat, I haven't enough saved from the bygone eras of the internet.
This threads needs more plants
Petunias are nice ones, don't you think?
>>35
that cat clearly does not think they're nice
>>31
It would be neat, but I don't think it would work. Everybody would be uploading their own files so either they would be small and unique (and a ton of them), or huge files like anime torrents. It's hard to sift through a shitload of unique files that have no meaning to anyone else, and it's expensive to maintain large amount of data.