Brendan Carr being in charge of the FCC. What does that mean to pirates and going forward? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Going to be interesting times, in a bad way. Everyone knows now in the US the newly appointed FCC chairman is going to be Brendan Carr, who is against the idea of Net Neutrality so we expect that to go away again similarly to how Ajit Pai got rid of it when he was around.

Should anyone be worried about what this guy can do? Will he carry on the fight for entertainment industry's interests?

Okay, can we focus on the subject matter instead of just devolving it into a stupid meme and treating this platform like it's reddit? Come on, grow up and I've blocked half of you already.

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[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 40 points 1 day ago

I gather that's a meme that's older than you are?

By linux ISOs I meant any content you're torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago

Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 6 points 16 hours ago

I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 19 hours ago

And it saves them on bandwidth costs!

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 21 hours ago

Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it's corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago

I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

Less that the meme is older than them, probably more so they don't realize why we torrent Linux iso's.

I can pull down an ISO in seconds over torrent, whole it takes minutes over https. Also it's nice to add some of the good stuff to the traffic, if only to pad all the illegal traffic with some legitimate stuff.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Torrents are always better because they don't cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.