That might be because I didn't set that flag on my profile, and the forum just defaulted.
It depends. While I'm downloading, I can't play games online. I can't watch youtube videos. I can't do anything because the torrent stream absolutely hammers my connection if I want it to be done in a reasonable amount of time. It's why I don't actually download much. I think the last thing was Eva 2.22, which I'll end up buying anyway because I'm that much of a fanboy. It's actually quite inconvenient for me to do. I still pay for the bandwidth, and for the actual time taken to download...
Not to mention that the quality of official releases is generally better anyway these days. I mean, I've got my Gunbuster DvD beside me, and compared to the torrent I have of the same show, not only is the video and audio quality better, not only are the translations clearer... but I get a really nice box, and a booklet to go with it with some interesting info inside, along with all the Science lessons. £40 sterling, my monthly internet connection is €50... with a 30GB data transfer cap. Assuming I seed 1:1, that uses up half of that bandwidth to download or more, and I don't get the nice touchy-feely things, nor a box to display proudly on my shelf.
There's a certain pride from having real things, after all. I wall of shelves filled with DvD's and manga looks far more impressive than a spinning HDD.
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Quote:This is because of the concept of Externalities. People think that scanlations, fansubs and so on are free because they don't pay for them. But someone pays for them, its just not you the end user. And the Externalities on such things do exist, its just the proponents of "post scarcity IP" don't want to admit they exist.
It depends. While I'm downloading, I can't play games online. I can't watch youtube videos. I can't do anything because the torrent stream absolutely hammers my connection if I want it to be done in a reasonable amount of time. It's why I don't actually download much. I think the last thing was Eva 2.22, which I'll end up buying anyway because I'm that much of a fanboy. It's actually quite inconvenient for me to do. I still pay for the bandwidth, and for the actual time taken to download...
Not to mention that the quality of official releases is generally better anyway these days. I mean, I've got my Gunbuster DvD beside me, and compared to the torrent I have of the same show, not only is the video and audio quality better, not only are the translations clearer... but I get a really nice box, and a booklet to go with it with some interesting info inside, along with all the Science lessons. £40 sterling, my monthly internet connection is €50... with a 30GB data transfer cap. Assuming I seed 1:1, that uses up half of that bandwidth to download or more, and I don't get the nice touchy-feely things, nor a box to display proudly on my shelf.
There's a certain pride from having real things, after all. I wall of shelves filled with DvD's and manga looks far more impressive than a spinning HDD.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?