There is another model proposed at the end of the 90s by a french professor.

Just tax my internet (it’s actually alrrady taxed) and monitor torrent / p2p shares (like it’s already being done). Then pay a proportion of the money gathered via taxes to the creators of the media. It’s a system that is already in place for some Television companies in Europe. Today, I would compare it to spotify. You still get the capitalist model where big budget peoductions make tons of money, but you live in a world where you are free to share and remix

Totally agree. This reflects my experience encoding with both formats for releases.

At similar bitrate, av1 also performs much much worse on grain and it is slower to encode

For most stuff i release, x265 objectively (vmaf and other metrics) and subjectively looks better than av1, especially for grainy stuff and older anime. I have had success only with some action movies.

Opus on the other hand… it’s great

I mean… do the math and you can figure out by yourself that it’s a fair price but in no way some sort of very convebient situation for the users. A 20tb hard drive goes for about 450€ and then you can consider the advantages that they have buying hdd at scale.

No, I can assure you russian people use torrents

How is the 3ds archive so big? SWIM’s archive is a few tens of GB and it’s every title listed in various game dbs

In the past I used airsonic. It has the best support for different music files and good support for albums ripped as single track, like most classical releases.

The problem with airsonic and its protocol is the lack of good android clients.

If you need to listen through the phone for most of the time, go with jellyfin + finamp. Otherwise try airsonic + its web ui.

For music acquisition:

• torrent for the mainstream stuff
• niche trackers for niche stuff
• nicotine+/soulseek for everything
• bandcamp to support the artists

Why is it taking so much space in compressed form? I think text compresses very well so you should be able to save tons of space compared to db tables

I started because I wanted to get around censorship in my country. I also wanted to view stuff in the original language and here we dub everything.

Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

yeah, I would redownload all of those instead of transcoding. They are all available with very good encodes publicly

Are those your own blurays? Then share them before compressing.

Transcoding is hard. There is no way that your transcoding settings are going to be a one size fits all. I am currently encoding the famous iKaos Dragonball release and I did 48 samples before deciding what configuration to use.

You are better off downloading stuff from torrent, especially for newer media. You’ll find a community that put 100x your time collectively on transcoding. That will also save from your tremendous electricity costs.

Also look into vmaf for quality metrics. Consider that switching to uncompressed 1080 might bring you close to your goal with very very low effort.

Btw, can you share the title list?

nope, can you resend?

could you link the article?

Can you give me more informations on Near and cyberbullying?

Fellow italian pirate here, using Gentoo for servers and laptop since 2014. Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Would love to have a chat someday

152 GB in my drives

qbit manage

that is an interesting advice. Regarding containers, they don’t fit my use case.

Your question is so generic that it is difficult to reply. I’ll tell you about my use case then so that you can try to figure out yours.

My goal is to be a respectful citizen. I divide my torrents in three categories:

• rare stuff: for example project 4k77 or the John Wick regrades or Rashomon
• italian stuff: it can be either popular stuff and also rare stuff; italian content is not seeded much so I need to do my part
• common/popular stuff: for example the barbie movie or every marvel stuff

I bought tons of space (recently converted to three drives, 20tb each) and use a virtual machine locked behind a vpn. Even if I forget to paid, the virtual machine is bind to the tunnel so that traffic doesn’t go out except for LAN, so no leaks.

The VM has two torrent client:

• qbittorrent: seed the torrents in the common / popular categories, speed capped to 1/3 of my bandwidth
• transmission (previously using rtorrent) for the other two categories

I tend to leave everything in transmission seeded forever, the stuff in qbittorrent seeded until 2.5 ratio or 4.0 depending on my mood.

At the moment I have 90.2 ration on transmission and many many many TB of uploaded stuff. That should be enough to feel like you are giving back

I don’t since I live in a third world country. Can seed at 1Gbps with no warnings whatsoever, 20€ monthly

I read

I don’t since I don’t live in a third world country.

Give your country more credit if you have a 1Gbps connection and it doesn’t enforce draconian idiotic laws. Just out of curiosity, can you name the country?