I'll start: it wasn't too long ago that one wasn't expected to pay out of one's coked up nose for programs (apps). One used to be able to buy a thing and then own the thing. Vacuum cleaners. Video games. Photoshops. Now one has to sign up for it, enter one's credit card info and fucking pay monthly for some harebrained "service."

And I blame all of you. Probably 9/10ths of you are on apple products and/or are locked into absolutely insane digital ecosystems and you all laid down and took it. All of you fucking libs. You took it, you normalized it, and fuck all of you.

  • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Huh! Good point, not really. Pirated games are pretty individual things, like back in the CD days.

    iTunes afaik still works with pirated content haha, and it gives you that nice ‘flipping through albums’ UX. Or something like VLC that offers a ‘media library’ UI. VLC and iTunes work for both audio files and video files, and I’m sure there’s better options that I’m not thinking of. There are lots of options for music, but less that I can think of for video

    Once you find a program with a good UI, it’s just about setting your torrent program’s download folder to the same location as your media player’s library. Otherwise... set your download folder to tile mode and just scroll through it? Haha

    That’s a great point though, there’s nothing quite equivalent to Netflix/Spotify in terms of library presentation, or even Steam for that matter, afaik. Even if you get a UX going, there’s not gonna be a browse function with integrated trailers, synopses, and interest-based sorting. Pirating is a little hacky haha ‘browsing’ becomes more about scrolling through new torrent uploads and reading titles for ones that interest you/sound familiar

    I hope to hear from someone in this thread who knows about a cool media library program!