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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] Cethin 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, yes it has been. It's not too bad, but it used to be easier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would argue it's easier just in significantly different ways - the Arr stack of applications take more effort to learn and setup initially, but once you have it's absolutely effortless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the Arr stack of applications

The what now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Explain

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

P2P (eMule/Limewire/etc.)

DDL (Megaupload, Rapidshare, etc.)

Just these two were easier.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In addition, pirated physical media used to be an easy way for non techy people to acquire media in developing countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to be? As late as 2011 I saw entire businesses dedicated to selling pirated movies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, 2011 was 12 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but this was in kandahar, I expect not much as changed....Except perhaps the selection.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Literally everything was easy about it 5-10 years ago. Even 20yrs ago starting with Napster. Shit was the wild west you could pretty much do whatever you want. Apart from the various rogue virus laden crap. Torrent trackers got good about reporting bad ones though.