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The Big [Censored] Theory

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1444 points feross | 4 comments | 29 Aug 22 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cercatrova ◴[30 Aug 22 00:12 UTC] No.32645175[source]▶
The solution to this is, of course, piracy. I'm glad people like those on /r/DataHoarder preserve media in their complete forms so I don't have to watch them censored.

A recent example is Community which has an episode of a character dressing as a dark elf, and the joke is that another character assumes it's blackface, even though it's not. Well, networks and streaming services now removed it and unless you have the original discs, you simply can't watch that episode.

Unless, of course, you pirate it, which is how I watched it.

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wodenokoto ◴[30 Aug 22 03:52 UTC] No.32646432[source]▶
Anyone in China? Do they still have those dvd carts on the streets? Or did they lose out to streaming?

What about torrents and such? Have they been blocked by the firewall or is pirated movies still readily available online?

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1. est ◴[30 Aug 22 05:49 UTC] No.32647039[source]▶
No DVD carts, but NAS is somewhat popular. Xunlei or BaiduPan is insanely popular.
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2. wodenokoto ◴[31 Aug 22 08:42 UTC] No.32659836[source]▶
I’m assuming NAS is a local server with a hard drive.

What is is Xunlei and BaiduPan?

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3. physicles ◴[31 Aug 22 08:43 UTC] No.32659840[source]▶
In fact, you can paste a .torrent file into your baidu drive and it’ll download the torrent for you right into your drive. If someone else has already downloaded the same torrent then it basically appears instantly.

The catch is that the only fast way to download files from your baidu drive is to install the client on your computer, which I’d only do inside a VM.

4. est ◴[01 Sep 22 05:36 UTC] No.32672405[source]▶
> What is is Xunlei and BaiduPan?

downloader software and storage service.