we need to bring em back. kids these days don't even know how to use bittorrent. they don't know the pleasures of downloading a complete collection of a sitcom from the 80s. they're content with ad-riddled streaming sites that cut out at random called like watch4free.tv
I regularly get frustrated by how clunky the file navigator on android is lol
If they let you find it at all. I had to download one for my earlier phones
oh yeah, i've read that article and i do think it's extrapolating a bit from a limited number of anecdotes, but i guess it could be true
I remember the argument during the early smartphone years that kids raised on them would become mini engineers because they'd be raised on tech. Even back then I knew that wasn't going to happen.
Becoming an Informatics school teacher just so you can teach the kids how to torrent
I use those sites because I'm terrified of getting letters from the copyright police
okay reasonable.
i will say that, across multiple ISPs, i've literally never had a warning letter result in any effect on service
i do occasionally torrent stuff but I stay away from anything too mainstream. Haven't had threatening letters so far
The only time I’ve gotten letters was for torrenting Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley, both HBO shows. They did actually shut off my internet for a minute until I pinky swore not to do it again and so I bought a vpn
Nothing wrong with those sites if you use Ublock Origin. But it's also good to learn to use bittorrent for games.
They usually look really bad quality wise, which I’m not super precious about but some people are. Stremi/torrentkng looks as clear as if you’re watching it on Netflix or Hulu or whatever
I use fmovies.to and it's literally just as good quality as a real streaming service on the default server (which is sometimes down tbf). I've had to torrent some hard to find movies so I get where you're coming from, but it's rarely an issue.
Yes that's actually completely true. I recall now that some action scenes have suffered because of this. It's definitely a compromise for the convenience though, maybe I'd still torrent for watching something like 2001 A Space Odyssey to get those crisp effects but no way I'm gonna spend 2 hours downloading a movie on my trash internet when I could just stream it at like 15% worse quality.
This is what i do. But my internet is really slow 100kbs on a good day. So i wait for a week or 2.
I'd have to be a much more organized person to do that. Sometimes I'm just like "dang I kinda could go for a foreign movie right now" and by the time I'm out of the shower the impulse is gone. Different strokes for different folks though.
get the best of both worlds with Stremio
uses torrent network to stream, with a nice netflix-esque interface
We’re not too far from being able to download a car!
Not that you would.
i didn't do drugs until i was like a big adult, but the anti-drug programming we had in school and on TV as a kid were hilarious. first off, every arcade game had the "WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS - WILLIAM S. SESSIONS" with the FBI seal on it that would show for like 30 seconds across the cabinets.
all the commercials, from the "this is your brain on drugs" where the guy fries an egg to authoritatively explain drugs to this incredible piece of shit where a father demonstrates exacty how not to talk to your child about literally anything . even us kids who believed that drugs were bad and evil made fun of that one and the kid's abruptly earnest confession.
in fifth grade, when my entire world was playing nintendo and nuturing dreams of growing up to be a ninja turtle, i had to write a "report" about the epidemic of babies born addicted to crack cocaine and how doing drugs even one time would make you die in agony, using some government pamphlet we were handed and instructed to read silently at our desks for 20 minutes as my only source. i had to stand up in front of a bunch of other kids and read this "report" i wrote, then sit through 30 more just like it.
**edit: my point being, when you let absolute losers from planet squaresville direct your PSAs, you are asking for pushback.
I will use this opportunity to post a video which isn't that good but a personal favorite of mine
"What about those ads that say you wouldn't download a car?"
"It turns out that---given the chance---I would!"
Me too.
I wouldnt steal a car because it belongs to someone else and gives her use value. I would magically copy a car if i could since it creayes use vale without detractig from the value the owner of the copied car us getting.
fyi the ad stopped being played officially because they didnt license the music for it lmao :sicko-fem:
I'm always down for joining new trackers. I'll take it !
Though if you have few invites wait for others that might need it more.
is there any good way to watch streams of sports online? im thinking of getting into watching basketball. searching that stuff seems to come up with the (extremely common) result that theres a fuckload of sketchy and almost identical websites that SEO their way to the top
https://v2.sportsurge.net/ list several sites with sports streams, find one that works best and bookmark for future use.
https://crackstreams.nu/ is my current goto atm.
these http streams are full of ads, but you can block them with an ad blocker and/or script blockers.
Anti-smoking ads would always trigger a desire to smoke a cigarette in me. I feel like that one was on purpose though
They were funded by Philip Morris, now Altria (sp?) as part of the settlement in the 90s.
