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Brendan Carr being in charge of the FCC. What does that mean to pirates and going forward? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren't illegal to pirate.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

And it saves them on bandwidth costs!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it's corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don't have the user mass to support it.

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