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18 days agoDoes that matter? Your ability to game an only roughly accurate algorithm only indicates that the value of your time is less than other potential buyers. They’ll be happy to let you pay less, as they’re making a killing selling to uninformed or lazier people who have inelastic demand.
I dunno. I have access to nearly every piece of digital media ever created and I pay no one, and yet, everyone else goes throughout the world and pays oodles on monthly services, all to avoid the “cost” of learning what soulseek is, what mutorrent is.
I guess I didn’t read your final sentence in your OP, and maybe we’re saying the same thing, but this just doesn’t need to matter to most people here-- but yes, it continues as a means to squeeze money from the unresourceful.