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Torrent sites also have the issue of being centralised by having a domain and servers at some place. Imo the reason torrent sites are targeted less is that they are more inconvenient and thus less of a focus for anti-piracy groups. They generally focus on the most prominent way to infringe on their copyright.
Given the increase in piracy services taken down lately, I wouldn't be surprised if a torrent site was hit at some point too. Unfortunately ;)
Football is not usually distributed over torrents and thus seedboxes. These IPTV providers restream the live feed with a few seconds delay - just like their legal counterparts. They usually cost around 5-20€/£ per month, depending on the subscription duration (and number if simultaneous streams).
That was the case, but now that they no longer support port forwarding thinking about alternatives is a good idea. For me, a VPN without port forwarding is not an option (since I use private trackers).
Sadly they've gone up in price over the last 6 months.
Mindfactory had 16TB for 160€ (10€/TB), but now they want 240€ for 18TB (13.3€/TB).
On eBay there's sellers like HMCW, which are now also more expensive. But returns/warranty are questionable to say the least.
Edit: I wanna punch myself because I didn't get one at the time.
Billboard ads can cost hundreds of thousands depending on the location and duration (e.g. Times Square, NY). TV ads, YT ads, streaming services ads, and search engine ads likely add up too. Big streamers will likely take quite a bit too. Maybe they'll do a press conference to promote their game, which can be incredibly expensive location-wise.
But I agree, I can't comprehend how it can be that expensive either.
Don't forget marketing: be it movies or games, marketing likes to cost as much as the production of the media itself.
Sadly it seems to be necessary as many people just won't know about some piece of media without it. Streamers play games they are paid to play, "reviewers" cover games they are paid to cover or know about through the hype generated by ads.
Yeah. There already are arbitrators by law: public courts.
Yes, even IPv4 was intended to give each device in the world their own IP, but the address space is too limited. IPv6 fixes that.
Actually, each device usually has multiple IPv6s, and only some/one are globally routable, i.e. it works outside of your home network. Finding out which one is global is a bit annoying sometimes, but it can be done.
Usually routers still block incoming traffic for security reasons, so you still have to open ports in your router.
If you go with IPv6, all your devices/servers have their own IP. These IPs are valid in your LAN as well a externally.
But it's still important to use a reverse proxy (e.g. for TLS).
Many places don't enforce those laws for simply torrenting.
Some countries (US) ask the ISP to send warning letters and might disable the internet. In other countries law firms get personal details from the ISP and send a costly letter of a thousand Euro for a single infraction like in Germany.
I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.
Unless you've downloaded remuxes (which I doubt), I'd seriously recommend redownloading instead of converting your existing files.
h.265 and especially AV1 take a long time to encode by CPU, and hardware encoding won't give you any space savings, unless you're okay with losing much details.
Redownloading is most definitely faster, will result in more space savings for the quality you'll get. PS: Unless you've got data volume limits, but even then I'd recommend slowly upgrading over time. It's quite simple with TRaSH guides and giving h.265 a higher score.
Unless they are taken down, it won't be an issue. Given they've existed for a good while it's unlikely to cause a problen. Even then, hopefully they delete your payment details after a few weeks/months.
If not, paying = assisting a criminal organisation could be a crime depending on your jurisdiction. But most of the time customers aren't prosecuted, but that can change at any point in time.