• yeehaw
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      01 year ago

      How is that relevant though? Are they only monitoring what’s occurring in Canada?

      If it’s global, then it wouldn’t matter. BitTorrent traffic doesn’t care what IP it egresses out of.

      • DaGeek247
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        41 year ago

        It’s not just limited to Canada, it’s limited to a single ISP in Canada posting their traffic stats.

  • @leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    41 year ago

    "New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that cloud storage, YouTube, and other apps have taken over. "

    • @UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com
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      61 year ago

      I don’t have infinity storage space, and if the intention is to erase after watching then why not just stream on stremio?

      I’m saying this as someone with 70TB usable storage in nas

      • @matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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        41 year ago

        How are you complaining about having to delete with 70TB? I have 5 TB drive and I haven’t had to delete anything yet.

        Download is usually higher quality, more customizable (subtitles, video player client, audio refinement, etc), and is more censorship proof model in the grand scheme.

        • @UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com
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          41 year ago

          I didn’t complain. And I don’t need to hoard anything that I’m not going to watch again.

          I get all of what you’re describing with stremio/premiuimize. I watch 4K high bitrate HDR content flawlessly. All I do is open the app, select a stream and it plays.

          • @Alfiegerner@lemm.ee
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            21 year ago

            Same, real debrid or premiumize on kodi makes downloading mostly unnecessary. Occasionally I get something a bit niche I need to hunt down on torrent or Usenet, very rarely.

            • @Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              21 year ago

              Yeah been using real-debrid and kodi for almost a decade only thing I have issues with is foreign content. 99% of the time it’s super practical vs maintaining a library or buying storage. I also always stream 4k bluray remuxes which is not what I would want to store anyway

        • RachelRodent
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          11 year ago

          stremio is the perfect mix in my opinion. You can pick any torrent and it gets deleted after you finish watching

    • kratoz29
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      31 year ago

      Well, it is more convenient, but do you know what is even more convenient? Using a service that has all the catalogue of all paid streaming sites together, with no ads whatsoever, I’m talking about Stremio or Kodi along with a debrid account.

      In a nutshell Stremio turned the hoarding me into a streaming guy.

  • @aCosmicWave@lemm.ee
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    11 year ago

    Information wants to be fast and free. Corporations want information paywalled. It’s a fact that streaming is faster and more convenient than downloading and storing. Until we live in a society where anything is accessible to anyone at any time… both methods will need to exist, otherwise information will be lost.

  • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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    01 year ago

    On an unrelated note, I fucked up and used my limited 1.5 tb data for the month in 2 weeks because of torrent and buying extension packs for the rest of the month. At least it probably helped someone else out there.

      • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        01 year ago

        150 Mbps and 1500 GB limit, I would like something a little better but roommates hardly use it so didn’t wanna ask them to pay more.

        • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          01 year ago

          How much does the next step up cost? Also do you have any alternative options? I’m on 1GB up/down with unlimited data for 70USD monthly, but when I moved to where I live that wasn’t available. It randomly just popped up and I was all-too-happy to switch.

          • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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            11 year ago

            Data isn’t that much around here, it is cheap but it’s still my roommates having to pay more than they use when they spend all day in office and have unlimited 5G. The 1GBps plan is also available with my ISP which is like triple of what I an posting rn. I am also not from us btw.

            • @antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              11 year ago

              If you really wanted it, you could just upgrade and pay the entire difference between the cheaper and the faster subscription plan yourself, to let your roommate keep their original price. If the prices increase, calculate again

              Like this:

              $99 / 2 = $49.50 (his price)

              $129 - $99 = $30 (the total difference to cover)

              $49.50 + $30 = $79.50 (your price)

              • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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                11 year ago

                I already proposed doing 2:1:1 split but they weren’t comfortable with it. And 150 Mbps is more than enough for most case except downloads so I don’t see a need to upgrade for thrice the price. They did consider upgrading to unlimited because of my fuck up but since it’s my fuck up I didn’t wanna cause anymore trouble so that’s a thought for future.