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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by afavour on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:17PM (#40549545)
Hoarding.

I’m half joking but all these tools to automatically download TVs and movies has absolutely led to this class of user that habitually downloads stuff just for the sake of doing it. Terabytes of movies they have no interest in. The psychology of it fascinates me.

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Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by hebocon on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:21PM (#40550613)
The answers for content for which I have interest revolve around cost, availability, quality, and convenience.

For everything else (a minority): an excuse to play with my servers, cosplaying as an archivist, and "number must go up" for NAS size :)

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