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You should be smarter going forward. There is ZERO chance this is the end. Film companies are going to keep trying this shit over and over again hoping to get a bite. And it seems with the splintering of streaming services coupled with price increases lots of previous pirates are returning to their old habits.

Ghost in the Wires

Just simple old rsync. The nas at the far-end is an old QNAP I had lying around.

Local backup to my Synology NAS every night which is then replicated to another NAS at my folks house through a secure VPN tunnel. Pretty simple and easy to deploy.

Seriously, the graveyard is pretty extensive: https://killedbygoogle.com/

I believe this is the article you were going to link: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

I’m of the “old fart” variety that recalls the days of IRC and totally agree. Back even before forums those communities run off servers in peoples basements were a treasure trove of knowledge and community. I have very fond memory of making real connections with people there. As you pointed out, that simply doesn’t exist on an article with comments.