- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
- technology@lemmy.ml
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
- technology@lemmy.ml
- technology@lemmy.world
Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.
Honestly, yes it has been. It’s not too bad, but it used to be easier.
Explain
P2P (eMule/Limewire/etc.)
DDL (Megaupload, Rapidshare, etc.)
Just these two were easier.
In addition, pirated physical media used to be an easy way for non techy people to acquire media in developing countries.
Literally everything was easy about it 5-10 years ago. Even 20yrs ago starting with Napster. Shit was the wild west you could pretty much do whatever you want. Apart from the various rogue virus laden crap. Torrent trackers got good about reporting bad ones though.
My usenet provider used to have EVERYTHING. Now they don’t.
It also used to have free indexers
I would argue it’s easier just in significantly different ways - the Arr stack of applications take more effort to learn and setup initially, but once you have it’s absolutely effortless.
The what now
https://wiki.servarr.com/