• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Only if you’re OK with popularity surviving titles so that our media history becomes Thanos and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

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      31 seconds ago

      I found a bunch of obscure movies from the 1930s and 1940s when a friend asked for some. I’m still seeding them. And I do mean obscure, not like Citizen Kane or something that everyone knows.

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      5 hours ago

      Oh sweet child you have a rather myopic view of the weird shit pirates find and their willingness to data hoard.

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        6 minutes ago

        weird shit

        I once found a bunch of the old Disney Nazi propaganda cartoons, wonder if they are still out there

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        3 hours ago

        I once put a ton of effort into tracking down episodes and information of a random Spanish Telanovella I caught on the Spanish channel once. Including recording and digitizing episodes.

        I don’t even speak Spanish at all at the time, the show just seemed interesting.

        I’ve lso converted a bunch of old Zines from a UK school to PDF because a musician I like was involved and the only copies were behind some weird paywall magazine site. Bunch of print screens and a script to crop double pages to single pages then merge them together.

        Maybe I should try putting them somewhere like archive.org.

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        5 hours ago

        "What do you mean I should* remove data?? I might need this! " - definitely not me

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      Wat… The lone seeder is elevated to mythical status in torrent culture. People take great lengths to preserve old content - whether that’s by seedboxing, ripping physical content, or even the more backend stuff like trackers who have entire systems devoted to “reseed requests”.

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      4 hours ago

      The private tracker I use have random stuff like reality shows for Norway television, all the Olympics transmissions, and BlueRay rips of movies from the 30’s. There’s also the popular stuff, but you would be amazed by the random stuff people upload.

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        4 hours ago

        I know, I was joking. I’ve been a pirate since getting my first box of floppies for my trs-80. I got bit by young people being very literal in reading my comment.

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          I’m not completely wrong, it’s a joke! Isn’t it funny how I got all of my facts incorrect? Upvotes, please!

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          We’re not young people, your original comment is just wrong and makes no sense. Or tells us what YOU preserve.