Brendan Carr being in charge of the FCC. What does that mean to pirates and going forward?
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.
Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.
Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?
I wouldn't expect anything different this time, either.
Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren't illegal to pirate.
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.
Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)
And it saves them on bandwidth costs!
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.
I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.
I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck
I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don't have the user mass to support it.
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.
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.
Excellent point! Yet another reason why Linux isos should always be torrented!
Reading the comment above yours made my hip and knee hurt.
Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there's Rule-34, I digress.
Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.
I looked at your post history and you're overwhelming negative on a very small platform that tends to be people interacting with their best interests at heart. Maybe you grew up on 4chan, maybe you're used to reddit griefing, either Lemmy doesn't seem like a good place for you.
NeoToasty being in charge of memes. What does that mean to shitposters and going forward?
Torrents aren't a piracy technology. A lot of Linux distros, especially non corp backed, are distributed via torrents since its more efficient.
it means the internet is a series of tubes again
Did this ever actually do anything. The only change I noticed was that shortly after it was repealed we could actually watch YouTube videos at my mother-in-law's hosue (I'm assuming they were paying HughesNet to be able to make their content go faster than the artificially throttled maximum).
With the caveat I'm technical not legal... Its largely kept data caps off domestic lines, but not entirely. Net neutrality has had a couple taking points and its a long fight at the FCC that's gotten weirder by the decade.
Net neutral meant Microsoft couldn't make the MSN dial up network prefer windows network traffic, over the years companies got smart and just opted to pay for peering instead of running the low profit access tunnel.
Google even drops boxes to cache stuff at tiny ISPs/WISPs, but doesn't deprioritize traffic to other end points.
There have been intermittent swings at labeling this the pay to play it is, but since the investment isn't spilling out of public works there's a decent case this is the fastest you could give out access to everyone.
Source: am former network closet guy who racked google cache devices, installed WISP equipment, legal layman.
It never affected domestic data caps. That's a separate policy issue.
That's industry talking!
"Net Neutrality policies are a national standard by which we ensure that broadband internet service is treated as an essential service. It prohibits internet service providers from blocking, throttling, or engaging in paid prioritization of lawful content. "
So if they block or throttle you when you hit a cap...
Seriously this is probably lost to time, but we were setting up for this battle in the DSLAM era because every provider over sold their bandwidth. It lays pretty much untested because nobody was worried about pennies in a gold rush and that's about the time fiber backbone started to make the problem irrelevant again.
Incorrect. Net Neutrality means broadband providers cannot block or throttle individual bits of content. It does not mean they cannot place overall caps on your data usage, merely that they must treat all lawful data equally.
Companies are going to be slow to adopt to these kind of changes when there's a possibility that they'll get changed back again in a few years