This. It's not like 3rd party anti-piracy firms can't get in if they want- which is why you still need to use a VPN on public trackers- but they exist to make money with the least amount of effort, just like every other corporation. They can trawl public trackers with almost no effort, and that's where the vast majority of users are anyway, so they're much more likely to go after the lower hanging fruit.
Orcs doing orc things.
This. The first time I saw one of those on the 'tube I thought "oh that's interesting and also alarmist?" All it took was watching that one video and then my recommendations got flooded with more of the same. I didn't know china doom was a whole ass genre on youtube.
They do have some weird fucking real estate shit going on, tho.
Any of those options would make me significantly more interested.
Whenever I see a story like this I always wonder why I'm not fleecing maga. It's mostly a question of infrastructure and laziness, I guess.
Ernest I can't read my memes this is an all hands on deck emergency
Yes yes, they're undesirables after all. Hopefully, they give them sweet factory-like jobs and maybe even stylish tattoos!
It depends on
- Where you are in the world.
- If you're talking about mobile or home internet (or both)
- What provider you have.
In the states, I've never hit a wall of any kind on my home internet. I'm on fiber now, but when I was on cable it was the same, in several different states. In general, as soon as one of the (usually only two, because USA broadband monopolies yay!) providers for the area tried to implement some kind of cap, everyone in the area just jumped onto the other provider and the cap eventually went away because they were hemorrhaging customers.
For mobile, its vastly different. There are only a couple cell providers in the whole united states that actually offer uncapped unlimited data, and both of those still come with stipulations, usually things like "During peak hours your bandwidth may be throttled" or something similar. They also cost $80 to $100+ per month. Most cell providers in the states throttle you hard when you go over a certain cap, usually 15-30gb depending on the provider, and what kind of contract you got. You can still connect, but you're now running at 256kbs or something terrible. So technically, its still unlimited, just useless until next month when your cap refreshes.
The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You're much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you're doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.
Yaaar, we had ourselves a good run goin' legit, mateys, but it looks like it be time to hoist the jolly roger again.
Digital_Prophet
joined 1 year ago
You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.