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

you are literally just posting buzzwords. You can be lean with mysql, you can write bloaty programs with rust. I would argue most rust webservices are shittier than java ones

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?

Back to the point of money and piracy, like I said, one “pays” for media in one way or another.

While I agree with you on everything this point is not 100% true. I am paying thousand of $CURRENCY on disks and other hardware every few years but I feel that for every side of the coin, there is a minimum situation (let’s call it a floor situation) on which less privileged people may find themselves.

For example if you are a bachelor already struggling to pay to be in college or a child that has only access to their parent’s computer, piracy is literally free and you can reach to it without paying anything on top of what you have already. On the other hand, netflix is always $CURRENT_PRICE regardless of your situation.

Btw, thank you for making articulate posts. This is why I am on lemmy.

Fantastic Four Batgirl (I can dream 😂)

can you explain more?

My point: if you’re getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I don’t know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.

I would say that your self inflicted punishment is using windows. Switch to debian and thank me in six months

are you jelly? this is totally my experience and the experience of people in my circle

nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don’t you download packs that contain the entire season?

For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet

As another commenter said, please do it.

In Italy between the movies were screening in the cinemas and dvd releases there was a wait time of 3 months. Exactly three months. The most common way of piracy was streaming websites (like cineblog nowadays) pestered with ads. Before the age of WEBDL most people who couldn’t pay for the cinemas and everybody who wanted to have lots to talk about pop arts and trends was watching cam rips. The quality of cam rips were ever increasing every year with specialized forums discussing hardware to do it. I remember you could find everything from low quality phone cams (we are talking 2006 phone cameras) rips to tv quality cameras pointed to the screen from inside the cinemas with tripods.

Project X was such a hyped up movie in Italy that I personally witnessed a bunch of people recording it in the cinemas and everybody at school was sharing the phones on which the movie was recorded during lessons.

To be honest camrips started to disappear during and after covid, but even now for very famous movies like Barbie and Hoppeneimer of Marvel stuff people are still downloading those.

For reference:

• avg ticket price in italy: 6.25 euro in 2022, 5.75 euro in 2016. If you count inflation, price basically decreased over the years
• most cinemas do many cheap ticket nights like for students or young people aimed at 2-5 euro range for tickets once a week or once a month
• more realistically, most cinemas have tickets for 8 or 9 euros, 10 to 12 euros in big cities
• around 60% of people earn less than 1300 euro net per month. That is an hourly pay of ~5 euros. You can understand how much a movie night for a family with popcorns and various extra may cost for a family.

then you need to provide more info:

• torrent name
• vpn provider
• opened ports, how did you check
• linux or windows
• general pc specs
• client settings and version

change vpn provider

check with a very popular torrent

Commonsense 2023

Bitsearch and Solidtorrents’ Login and Sign Up buttons don’t work at all for me, even with extensions disabled (Firefox, Chromium)

you can just upload the torrent hash or magnet, so it should work: https://bitsearch.to/add-torrent

/t/

Guys, downvotes are not the DISLIKE button, let’s not become reddit please

I had various degree of success by posting my torrent on 4chan and the various torrent caches like itorrents and btcache

I think the signup is broken