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

Holy fudge i didn’t expect this but it’s great. I suggest everybody to try it. And yes, ed2k is as alive as ever, especially for it, es, fr comtent

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 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.

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

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?

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.

saw this yesterday with my relevant other. Very enjoyable even if a crop. The movie is dogshit though