I think overall that piracy is good.
It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.
But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don’t know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?
I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.
That’s something I very much agree with.
I often find myself just looking for more things and noting it down on my wishlist.
But actually when I think of something or see something I should just download it and try it and if it’s not good just delete it and be fine with it.
My 36TB NAS is almost full and almost everything I’ve seen. Stuff I’ll definitely not going to watch again I throw away, stuff I don’t like I throw away. I download everything automatically with Radarr and Sonarr using usenet. Hoarding data you never use is just, a waste of space. Upgrading storage space isn’t fun anymore with the prices of drives all fucked up due to AI. I can find anything I want, I only preserve really old stuff as it might get harder to find over time.
I was saving up for an extra NAS with drives adding up to ~100TB, to make a less protected media stream for friends. It first was 2200 euros. When I had the money I checked, 3 months later, it was suddenly 4400 euros. 2 weeks later 6800. I don’t even want to know how much it is right now. So we’re back to when I was young, when you had to be responsible and selective with managing stored data. Sigh.
I think eventually the prices of memory will still drop down though. We just have to get through this AI and data-centric crisis.
Memory might actually go down in price as China prepares to flood the market. Storage however, is a different story. Last thing I heard was that they expected to have the market return to normal in about 10 years or so. But those are just guesses on the current situation, everything can change.
Yeah, it’s not looking that great at the moment, but I think that also will push people to innovate and maybe find different technologies or ways, better ways of compression, something will change.
Or start to burn down data centers as we are all fed up with that bullshit. Guillotine for all AI and tech giant CEO’s.
Wow, i would never be able to actually watch or use 36 terabytes of media.
I do like keeping older things around because nowadays it seems like more and more things are getting lost somehow. Movies or games disappearing altogether from platforms.
Well, it depends on the quality of course. You could download movies of 120GB, it will fill up really fast that way. Not that I do that lol. For me it’s just years and years of collecting, while also having had loads of time at work to watch stuff (like 5 months naval deployments). Now I enjoy my military disability pension, so now I have too much free time to get through.
Hope you can enjoy your pension as much as possible.
I generally don’t download that large sizes because I don’t really have a fancy monitor or anything, but I tend to watch it once and then actually if I want to keep it, I re-encode it or compress it to something that stores well.
Honestly, I have a 4k beamer but 1080p is good enough imo. The higher the resolution, the more details which looks fake. Why would a movie look more sharp than real life. I miss the productions like Band of Brothers. Rough, no/barely cgi. Looks real. Also the details you see with 4k porn are the details I don’t want to see. But that’s just my opinion.
Also, do you actually see any difference between a movie of 12gb and 120gb? I do not.