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I think overall that piracy is good.

It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.

But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don't know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?

I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.

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[–] AloneDownUnder@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hope you can enjoy your pension as much as possible.

I generally don't download that large sizes because I don't really have a fancy monitor or anything, but I tend to watch it once and then actually if I want to keep it, I re-encode it or compress it to something that stores well.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I have a 4k beamer but 1080p is good enough imo. The higher the resolution, the more details which looks fake. Why would a movie look more sharp than real life. I miss the productions like Band of Brothers. Rough, no/barely cgi. Looks real. Also the details you see with 4k porn are the details I don't want to see. But that's just my opinion.

Also, do you actually see any difference between a movie of 12gb and 120gb? I do not.