Going to be interesting times, in a bad way. Everyone knows now in the US the newly appointed FCC chairman is going to be Brendan Carr, who is against the idea of Net Neutrality so we expect that to go away again similarly to how Ajit Pai got rid of it when he was around.

Should anyone be worried about what this guy can do? Will he carry on the fight for entertainment industry’s interests?

Okay, can we focus on the subject matter instead of just devolving it into a stupid meme and treating this platform like it’s reddit? Come on, grow up and I’ve blocked half of you already.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.

    Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?

    I wouldn’t expect anything different this time, either.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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        22 days ago

        I gather that’s a meme that’s older than you are?

        By linux ISOs I meant any content you’re torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.

        • DetachablePianist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs… often much faster than direct downloads from the devs’ websites. ;-)

        • NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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          22 days ago

          Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there’s Rule-34, I digress.

          Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.

          • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            22 days ago

            I looked at your post history and you’re overwhelming negative on a very small platform that tends to be people interacting with their best interests at heart. Maybe you grew up on 4chan, maybe you’re used to reddit griefing, either Lemmy doesn’t seem like a good place for you.

        • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Less that the meme is older than them, probably more so they don’t realize why we torrent Linux iso’s.

          I can pull down an ISO in seconds over torrent, whole it takes minutes over https. Also it’s nice to add some of the good stuff to the traffic, if only to pad all the illegal traffic with some legitimate stuff.

          • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            22 days ago

            Torrents are always better because they don’t cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.