Its not a piracy problem its a hoarding problem. You probably do this with other stuff in your life as well.
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Only download what you want to watch. Don't download stuff you'll never gonna see/read/play. Download the first 3 episodes of a new show, download the rest if you like it. If not, throw it away. Useless data is just useless.
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.
This problem is isn't only about piracy. Also having too much choices isn't a bad thing, variety is good. you can always find your way.
This is the answer, OP. Curating your tastes and learning to seek out art based on your values is a skillset that algorithms are attempting to destroy.
You are not a product, engage with art meaningfully like how a person should
This is something that I learned after having kids. There are more things I want to do than I have time to do them. I needed to learn the skill of being selective because time is a zero sum game, unfortunately.
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Also having too much choices isn’t a bad thing
Meh. It's not all good.
Back in ye olden days, when you had to buy physical media, you'd usually play the album you bought on repeat because it was the only new music you had. Some albums, repeated listening does truly improve your enjoyment and appreciation of them. Same thing for movies, there was nothing else, so you were forced to keep watching, and often learnt to appreciate something you'd have stopped watching now.
Same thing for dating, tbh. People find someone, but then they go on the apps and find someone who might be a bit better, date them for a bit, find someone who might be a bit better, etc. etc. End result; they never get to know one person on a deeper level and miss out on that arguably more rewarding experience.
Or you'd end up wasting your time watching/listening to/ dating something/someone horrible because there wasn't anything else yet.
Maybe I'm just terrible at making choices/decisions
I do find I have this problem even without piracy
Not sure how to practice becoming better at this though.
Usually even when I made a choice, I end up doubting and eventually trying something else instead, never committing to anything.
Lists, my guy. Figure out what games you want to play, movies to watch, etc...
You don't need to hoard everything. You can go around and look as your tastes develop, that's part of being human after all.
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It's not because everything is avaible that you must take everything. Carefully select and make list of what you want/have/"consumed"
Had a friend recently try to send me this "arr-stack" that automatically grabbed the top new movie/tv releases of every month. Since he heard I was "doing it the old way".
When I told him the VAST majority of shit coming out isn't stuff I'm interested in watching he tried to convince I could just blacklist those things...So almost everything your bot grabs? instead of just grabbing what I actually want?
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Watch top 10 lists, 5* reviewed, or cult classics only. Don't watch what's new or being heavily promoted, watch the best of the best. Why drink bud light when you can drink champagne for free?
As someone who also downloads books and audiobooks, I can totally relate though.
That was my problem. 20 years ago when I discovered torrent I watched every list of best movies you can think of. After that, everything I watched felt average at best.
Are you me? LOL.
Yeah, you become a complete snob. On the other hand, once you've watched enough, perhaps read a few books or watched a few documentaries, you recognise references and techniques much more, and that becomes enjoyable in its own way.
It's a bit like kids watching classic The Simpsons and enjoying it without getting the references, compared to old people watching classic Simpsons because they get or vaguely recognise most of if not all of the references.
And I find you start to enjoy movies which are different, even if they are a bit shit, because they manage to do certain things in different ways and still surprise you.
I can't say I don't have this problem, but the reality is that really is a non-issue regarding piracy.
It comes down to two things actually: procrastination and unnecessary use of your resources. Meaning, you should just start what actually gets you interested, and move on. And instead of data hoarding tons of media, try to consume what you have first instead.
I guess I feel this sense of urgency when playing one game, because there are other things I want to try afterwards so I don't want to take too long on one thing.
But that feeling is also reducing the enjoyment of the actually game I'm playing at that moment.
Better discovery systems would be nice, with the huge amount of media out there I've never heard of, there has to be a large subset of it that I would love but just isn't on my radar
Exactly. Even if you would be able to filter only those things you would love, there is probably still a massive amount of things that would fit.
I first had this when I was a kid and got an R4 DS cart. I used go get a handful of games a year and play them to death. Since getting the cart I barely finished any games.
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"Unsanctioned copying" gives me a big pile to choose from, but in reality I still have nothing. For example I like computer games, but I use Linux, so 2/3 of titles are unplayable. 90% of rest are things that are completely not interesting to me. I am lucky if I can find something playable once or twice per month.
I really don't feel your problem.
2/3 is a little low. Around 90% of Windows games are playable on Linux using Proton.
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In all the years I've been using Linux, there's been maybe 2 games I couldn't play, and that was because the developers deliberately blocked Linux users from starting the game, not for any inherent technical reason.
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