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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Semaphor on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:29PM (#16360697)
> I mostly use streaming sites instead of BT these days.

Why? You have to get through tons of ads, have to hope they are of decent quality, etc. With BT I download, and in about 5 minutes I have the whole thing in HD.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by jimminy on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:34PM (#16360749)
Netflix and Amazon rarely show ads, normally just a short 30 second recommendation at that.

All streaming in HD in about 5 seconds.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Semaphor on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:36PM (#16360774)
I think he wasn't talking about legal streaming sites as that was kinda the point of my original post.

> All streaming in HD in about 5 seconds.

Yeah, until it's not. I mean sure, 20 seconds of low quality is not the end of the world. But there is no reason it should be that crappy. And they are competing against easy and free, having only "moral high ground" as the competitive advantage. So at the very least, they shouldn't be worse.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by danieldk on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:58PM (#16360978)
Yeah, until it's not. I mean sure, 20 seconds of low quality is not the end of the world.

I literally never have 20 seconds of low quality on Netflix et al. It is sharp HD from the moment that I start streaming (UnityMedia with 200 MBit/s downstream).

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Semaphor on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:06PM (#16361045)
200 Mbit down as well and I had 20s one time yesterday with Amazon Prime Video binging Bosch
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by TaylorAlexander on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:22PM (#16361718)
“A short 30 second recommendation” sounds like an ad to me.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by bitwize on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:01PM (#16361002)
It's also illegal, and this isn't the 90s or early 2000s -- copyright laws are being enforced.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by pmarreck on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:12PM (#16361112)
Ah, if only there was a 1:1 correspondence between what is "legal" and what is "ethical/fair"...
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by lghh on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:25PM (#16361222)
Regardless if it's "ethical/fair" or not (and it's really concerning that you're conflating the two words) it's still illegal and you can get hit pretty hard for it. Saying it's ethical doesn't get you out of court or a hefty fine.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by pmarreck on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:07PM (#16361575)
Give me an example of something that is ethical but unfair, or fair but unethical
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by scentoni on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:35PM (#16361830)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon is unethical but could be considered fair (with respect to the putative mothers, if not the baby).
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by pmarreck on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:06PM (#16369778)
A fascinating story!
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by freehunter on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:09PM (#16361586)
Feel free to use ethics as your legal defense when you get sued... as for me, I'll stick with a solution that's both ethical and legal.
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