lol Mac only. Wants you to sign up for spam to “request” your OS. No thanks.

Just like everything else in life, it’s not a binary situation. You can’t say “either it is, or isn’t stealing! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” because circumstance always matter.

If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that’s not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say “well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it’s murder! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” That would be the answer of a child.

The argument of Piracy has never been one of “oh, well, it’s not theft.” Of course its theft. You’d have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It’s not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn’t fucking matter–no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you’re just a fuckin’ thief. And that’s not moral.

Reread my post. You didn’t do a good enough job the first time.

Reread my post. You didn’t do a good enough job the first time.

Piracy isn’t theft though.

Why would you reply without reading my entire post? Like why? What do you get out of it?

IIRC (could be wrong) the closet was unlocked. So can we really call that “breaking and entering?”

Yeah, I think he setup his laptop in a private server room to ensure that he had maximum speeds, so they called it criminal trespassing.

Such a fucked up incident.

Pretty much anyone outside the US will ignore the DMCA, since it’s solely American law.

This only applies for non-enterprise. There are hundreds of enterprise businesses who also do business in the US which are required to also follow US laws. So you could have a UK, or Sweden based business who has branches in the US, who also have to follow US law.

It’s not quite as cut and dry as you’re making it out to be.

Dockerization isn’t a big deal. You can create a docker server with a smaller SSD/M.2 drive within the same machine to simply run the docker (or portainer) frontend and create pools of like-sized HDDs for pool storage using docker volumes to store your data on your HDD array. The most important thing being that the drives are the same size. So if you start out with 20TB drives, you have to continue with them.

Once you create your pool, you can install more drives as needed and simply increase the size of the pool by the number of drives installed. Add your new drives to your machine, update fstab, add the new drive capacity to your array, and then balance your drives.

Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn’t like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.

Piracy, is a reaction to corpo greed. It challenges the notion that essential tools, education, and entertainment should be locked behind paywalls many can’t afford. It pushes back against monopolies that exploit consumers with inflated prices, restrictive DRM, and predatory subscription models. When corporations prioritize profits over people, piracy becomes a form of resistance–a way to reclaim access to what should be available to all regardless of economic background or means.

Piracy isn’t about harming small indie creators or stealing their work. To call it virtue signaling is to completely miss the point, lil bro. If that’s the way you think you’re not a Pirate you’re just a thief.

EDIT: The reading comprehension here seems incredibly low. Corporations aren’t people–piracy isn’t theft because you can’t steal IP from corporations. My post doesn’t remotely suggest that Piracy is theft from corporations. Piracy from indie creators, however, is theft because it harms a person, not a corporation.

It’s not a difficult concept.

I guess it depends on what you mean by “edited content.”

I know you can’t see my face but I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

His tech bubble is clearly going to keep growing so why not invest now versus buying a full size case and all these extra hard drives and then realizing in a year or two that you really wanted a rack amount to begin with so you can expand even more?

Probably just easier to nix the Prime subscription and just download scene releases… Most of them are h265 these days and are released same day as on Prime.

I just checked a list of “new to prime” and my tracker and they were all there. No reason to give money to Amazon.

If you’re dealing with this much storage, it’s time to upgrade to a rack. Don’t deal with having to shove 10 drives into a packed full-size.

Start scouring 2nd hand auction sites and buy one used. They’re pretty cheap as far as solutions go if you can grab them used. Something like this would be ideal: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/server-nas/RM22-312/