When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.
Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.
Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
I've used this site for years, I originally found it off their subreddit. When they finally moved to a dedicated site it really improved the whole user experience from whatever reddit CSS was doing.
The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis.
Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.
Very cool. I have a similar side project for scraping youtube playlists and aggregating open source texts. Mainly materials for computer science, system design, and DSA (data structures and algorithms).
stremio + debrid had been nice for most things. after a bunch of random stremio plugin outages i built my own little app that just talks to apibay and the debrid back end and links it up to vlc a few months ago and have just used that.
After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything.
Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.
Bandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online
Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket.
These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies and the live music enjoyers seem to be the equalization payments.
Artists aren’t charging more for concerts because they are making less money on album sales. Concert tickets are priced based on supply and demand. If they could have been charging $750 back then, they would have, no matter how much they were making on album sales.
I do think you might be right, though, that there is a causal relationship between diminished album revenue and more expensive tickets, it just isn’t because the artists need the money. Since most people can now listen to all the music they want for a flat fee, music lovers can now spend more of their hobby money on concert tickets, which increases price very directly since supply is limited.
Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world.
When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad student stipend they are very confused. It’s because I was seeing music by local bands or up-and-coming acts that would charge $10 in the back of a dive bar. Those types of shows aren’t $10 any more, but they are still cheap. And those are the artists that are in the most need of your financial support with tickets and merch. Once an artist is big enough to book an arena… they ain’t struggling
I just bought a bluray drive and I've started ripping movies. The quality is fantastic on an HD bluray upscaled on a 4k tv, and even a DVD looks far better than I thought it would, and far better than it did 20 years ago when DVDs were current.
Vinegar syndrome has a couple UHD releases that are on 100GB BluRay. Storage available has been.. ahem, sparse. But you can get a real nice nearly-automated workflow for ripping with makemkv.
This is great, but I was wondering: Where can I get access to the work that you do? For free, I mean.
Don't get me wrong -- I think it's great if someone else wants to pay you for doing that work. It's good for you, and it's probably connected somehow to you doing that work in the first place. It's just that, for me personally, I'm not really into that whole side of it.
Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.
When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.
Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.
Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
This is a very interesting sub https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories
This reminds of FTP directories I used to download things from. There were FTP search engines (they are probably listed on this website already).
I've used this site for years, I originally found it off their subreddit. When they finally moved to a dedicated site it really improved the whole user experience from whatever reddit CSS was doing.
The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis.
Piracy is preservation.
Always has been.
Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.
We need to make all of this so much more popular again
Very cool. I have a similar side project for scraping youtube playlists and aggregating open source texts. Mainly materials for computer science, system design, and DSA (data structures and algorithms).
On GH as joshribakoff/leetdeeper
Too much free stuff already and anything new will eventually become free. I'd rather wait or direct money to the projects I support.
stremio + debrid had been nice for most things. after a bunch of random stremio plugin outages i built my own little app that just talks to apibay and the debrid back end and links it up to vlc a few months ago and have just used that.
Having some knowledge about 'how the sausage is made', the smoothness of a stremio + debrid setup feels pretty close to magic.
Which debrid service do you use?
This looks like a reasonably good page (there possibly are better ones) for general AI chatbots, rate limits and sign-in requirements:
https://fmhy.net/ai
Awesome site. Easy to remember as well.
I point to this resource to my friends and family when they want to get stuff for free.
A great resource as an alternative to hostile and expensive subscription based "services" that shouldn't be businesses.
The modern bible of online piracy.
We abandoned piracy too soon. We fell for the trap that enshittified everything. It is time to pirate again.
In the music space, piracy won.
After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything.
Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.
Bandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online
And the friction of storing stuff. I want to listen to music, not manage a collection.
Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket.
These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies and the live music enjoyers seem to be the equalization payments.
Artists aren’t charging more for concerts because they are making less money on album sales. Concert tickets are priced based on supply and demand. If they could have been charging $750 back then, they would have, no matter how much they were making on album sales.
I do think you might be right, though, that there is a causal relationship between diminished album revenue and more expensive tickets, it just isn’t because the artists need the money. Since most people can now listen to all the music they want for a flat fee, music lovers can now spend more of their hobby money on concert tickets, which increases price very directly since supply is limited.
$5 at the local Blues Jam Session. Some of the music is good.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/berowramonthlyjam/
$30 or "free" at Miss Celie's. If free, patrons are asked to buy a couple of drinks from the bar.
https://misscelies.com.au/
An import playing a stadium is eye-watering, but why bother?
jesus go to a basement it's like $15 at most and you can meet actual artists
Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world.
When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad student stipend they are very confused. It’s because I was seeing music by local bands or up-and-coming acts that would charge $10 in the back of a dive bar. Those types of shows aren’t $10 any more, but they are still cheap. And those are the artists that are in the most need of your financial support with tickets and merch. Once an artist is big enough to book an arena… they ain’t struggling
Lots of local metal shows are in the $15 range, so not too far off
Growing up the Pub Rock scene was pretty eclectic and cost less than buying a round for your friends.
The Old Greek Theatre staged some high Art at times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoODPQ4CTM
I just bought a bluray drive and I've started ripping movies. The quality is fantastic on an HD bluray upscaled on a 4k tv, and even a DVD looks far better than I thought it would, and far better than it did 20 years ago when DVDs were current.
Vinegar syndrome has a couple UHD releases that are on 100GB BluRay. Storage available has been.. ahem, sparse. But you can get a real nice nearly-automated workflow for ripping with makemkv.
This is great, but I was wondering: Where can I get access to the work that you do? For free, I mean.
Don't get me wrong -- I think it's great if someone else wants to pay you for doing that work. It's good for you, and it's probably connected somehow to you doing that work in the first place. It's just that, for me personally, I'm not really into that whole side of it.
For me personally, I just want the value.
You can find their work for free here: https://fmhy.net
Just keep it hush-hush.
Thanks, but I should have been clearer: I meant the work they use to pay for their groceries.
That's the good stuff.