There is still not enough people for niche topics.

It is the eternal struggle as more users come niche communities will improve or even exist, but general communities will get worse.

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

From cuttings.

It’s not even new. We had it from centuries.

What I mean is what is already happening in some countries, that is having laws that makes extra easy for copyright lawers to sue anyone using torrent for sharing their IP.

You use a vpn to other country without that ban. Once enough countries apply that ban. Where are you going to VPN to?

Ask Germany. Torrenting without VPN is almost imposible, you’ll get sued by copyright lawyers.

I do not avoid hoarding.

I’m like a dragon with a media treasure stored in high capacity industrial HDDs.

Someday the age of pirates may come to an end, and I want to be prepared.

Enough countries ban torrenting so you cannot even uses vpn to get around it.

It’s true that peer tube is the ugly duck of the fediverse right now. But I don’t think is about monetization.

On its core it’s true that is the most complex project as videos are resource heavy, and producing videos is time consuming.

I don’t think people does not make videos because lack of monetization but because lack of users. And there are little users because there are little content.

IMHO the UI and UX should be the smoothest of all fediverse because it need to put it as easy as it can to everyone to attract as many users or creators as possible.

Because, let’s be true, monetization (even you can already monetize if you want) is useless is there’s nobody watching anyway.

With caddy you can easily set up a local issued certificate for https. It would shine a nice warming on your browser unless you install the CA certificate on the computer you use to visit the site though.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#local-https

This is the easiest way I know how to do it. Caddy takes almost no configuration to get working.

TubeArchivist with a browser extension to easily download any interesting video I want to preserve.

I have pending to link TubeArchivist to jellyfin for a more convenient frontend for my videos.

Am I missing something with Wireguard? Isn’t it just a open source VPN software?

What’s wrong with it?

I’m from Spain.

But I know that in Latin America they also used to change the title of some media sometimes. Funny enough they used different titles than in Spain.

For instance, the movie “White Chicks” in Spain is “Dos rubias de pelo en pecho” and in Latin America is “¿Y donde están las rubias?”.

It’s also just two words. Spanish worlds tend to be longer than english ones.

“Muertos” is a direct translation of “dead”.

“Evil” would be “maligno”, but “terroríficamente” was used "which would be like “terrifying”.

Anyway spanish translations used to change a lot the titles of the movies back in the day, most famously “die hard” is “la jungla de cristal” (directly translated as: the glass jungle) here.

I’ve heard that they did this because direct translations or english titles didn’t work as well here, and a change in the title made more people want to watch the movie.

Nowadays this happens way less, most titles are direct translations or use their english title directly.

It works for me. But only for some movies.

For instance “terroríficamente muertos” is the spanish name for “evil dead”. And I can search both titles and jellyfin finds the movie.

I have jellyfin and metadata download set to spanish. It doesn’t seem to work with all movies though. Maybe some movies do include a secondary title in the metadata and that’s what’s being used?

Is there a p2p based equivalent?

I don’t even know how would that work, but seems something that would fit here.