I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production
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p2p ftw!!! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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.... And all those DRM'd titles rot into obscurity.
@span gabrielesvelto the pirate’s life for me
@span gabrielesvelto i pity the poor archivists who end up having to pour through this vapid nazi culture trying to figure out what happened
'oh thanks to the ancient heroes at internet archive, we can see how Young Sheldon Season 3 was the final straw for nazification-'
@span gabrielesvelto As someone that does digital archival work, the skills I learned ripping DVDs illegitimately and dealing with the panopoly of video codecs and formats in the early 00s have been invaluable.
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I thought you had it!
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"Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse"
Pirate copy of the paper
https://monoskop.org/images/f/f9/De_Kosnik_Abigail_2019_Piracy_Is_the_Future_of_Culture_Speculating_about_Media_Preservation_after_Collapse.pdf
