richmondez

If you are too young to have lived through the napster revolution it’s very much a throwback to that kind of sharing so you get to experience p2p like it’s the late 90s only with good network speeds. For an authentic experience limit your download to 56k.

As opposed to the “dunt werk on my machine” that was being replied to? To a bystander deciding to investigate Jellyfin for music themselves both points of view are useful are they not?

IMO these kinds of poor man’s automation scripts are only useful to novice sysadmins but those are exactly the kind of people who shouldn’t be running scripts they piped from the internet for both the fact that it’s risky behaviour and the fact they don’t then get the experience doing this manually for themselves to move on from being novice.

That said, let’s not gate keep. If novices don’t want to gain experience actually doing sysadmin work and level up their abilities and just want stuff that will probably work but that they’ll not be able to fix easily if it doesn’t, at least it’s a starting point and when things break some of them will look deeper.

I personally manage my services using ansible, I only set up the actual infrastructure, the virtual machines that run the services, with terraform/opentofu. Docker is one of those in the middle tech between infrastructure and software distribution and it makes more sense to me to treat a service as a role in ansible do I can deploy it (docker, podman package install or whatever), sort it’s networking and handle it’s configuration all in one place. I’m not saying the way you do it is wrong, but this is just a step down the automation rabbit hole.

It doesn’t appear your setup provisions the actual hosts for docker so I guess you are provisioning manually for that layer? That is another area you might want to leverage opentofu for?

Also congrats on actually documenting it in a consumable way for others to learn from.

Depends on jurisdiction and what you torrented. Is the US uniformally militant on torrents?

Triple A games are often over funded and under deliver in experience in my recent experience. A little less funding might tighten up some of waste and deliver better games.

And they invested knowing that piracy was a thing and figured that into their calculations regard to the risk vs potential return. If they didn’t get that right and end up with a loss, well, that’s capitalism for you.

Copyright is the antithesis of free market by allowing a monopoly on distribution and exploitation of some resource.

Some parts of the gaming industry did, the vast majority still won’t provide content drm free.

If they could figure a way to make you pay without providing any service at all they absolutely would.

Even if they would otherwise have subscribed, that money will be spent elsewhere in the economy, its potential revenue the streaming companies couldn’t secure, it’s not a loss to the economy unless it’s a foreign user.

Can’t see how it can, it’s not like if that money isn’t spent on entertainment then it’s just lost, it’s just spent on other goods and services or put in savings that the banks loan out to other people to generate economic activity. Unless people are literally burning the money or exclusively spending it on foreign goods and services it’s not costing the economy per se.

Copyright infringement for me but not for thee.

Won’t someone think of the billion dollar businesses?

Disappointed to see so many people picking and choosing what is and isn’t acceptable to pirate.

We don’t know the OP circumstance and it’s a big assumption that he can just pay and it not be an issue in some way.

Average people deserve to get paid but we aren’t talking about scamming some custom content out of them, they already made the material in question and it’s a sunk cost, selling copies is as much rent seeking behaviour as when it’s done by big companies.

Also, let’s not use emotive incorrect language like “stealing” as it’s not, it’s copyright infringement, no one is stealing anything.

How do you even start to quantify something like a TV show? Without piracy would you have had subscription services, seen it free when it came on local TV and/or bought a box set of it? Similar situations exist for other media too, which “full price” are we talking about?

It’s more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.

At a glance it looks like software to roll your own pirate bay equivalent? Not sure why you’d want to do that exactly when there is bitmagnet to sit on top of the torrent dht?

You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.

An iso is a dump of a kind of rom…