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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With what? Most torrent I've seen sites have ratios. You can use a VPN to hide your origin but even Mullvad has dropped the ability to set incoming ports to seed so....

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ever singe Rarbg went down, I haven't torrented much, mainly Usenet which doesn't have ratios. The /t board can be good if you look past the dozens of porn threads, too.