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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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SlowTao ◴[24 Aug 25 21:19 UTC] No.45007881[source]▶
I suspect that in some places they might start requiring ID when purchasing large volumes of storage.

"Only a criminal would need 10 terabytes of storage!"

Something stupid like that.

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sneak ◴[25 Aug 25 01:44 UTC] No.45009434[source]▶
I got casually questioned by the clerk in Berlin Mitte last month when buying 20x 20TB drives for cash.

“Industrial-scale piracy” is what I told him, truthfully. I think he thought I was joking.

Pretty soon it’ll only be hyperscalers or large enterprises that have data storage. You’ll have the 4TB max in your phone or laptop and that’ll be it.

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1. Pxtl ◴[25 Aug 25 03:58 UTC] No.45010058[source]▶
I'm always disappointed that the geometric growth in spinning magnet disks slowed - if the growth curve from the '80s to 2010 had continued to today we'd have petabyte HDDs now.