It’s just the inevitable exploitation of any word that van be randomly put next to “economy”. It’s a bullshit con is why.

“Meme coin” 💀

That’s fair. Similar situations, different conclusions 🙂

I had similar plans, but I opted for a seedbox instead. It gives me some peace of mind not torrenting on my own IP.

They’re like Cylons

THERE ARE MANY COPIES

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

I didn’t bother clicking through, so grain of salt — wouldn’t torrent indexers and search sites also be included in this many site blocks? Streaming sites seems to be the lowest hanging fruit.

This. Any open website with the notification service described in OP is a potential anti-piracy honeypot. And if setting up RSS feeds is too complex, how is it any more so to wait for a ping and then manually download the film?

You tried 1234 and password already, right?

See, I’ll be fine.

You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?

I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!

Oh man, what a headache to maintain! If that’s the case I understand why the resource deprecated after 2020.

Agreed on the project’s impact and importance! Raising a small altar to Alexandra Elbakyan right here.

FFS, that whole hack has left the IA a shambles.

It’s not like sci-hub hosted anything, AFAIK. Didn’t it just circumvent paywalls?

If I’m right (and fucking Elsevier & co. didn’t patch the security holes) it should still work, but the sci-hub proxy sites are most likely defunct.

As those in the know can probably tell, I didn’t keep up with the whole takedown, but I do miss that easy access to research articles.

Very meta, good work 😄

Good discussions can arise from bad takes, and the idea of “failure” can often be an impediment — especially in a forum where users’ yay or nay to a post literally decide its currency and ranking.

Assuming that the poster in this case deleted their post out of “shame” for a “failed idea”, however, is a bit of an overreach without access to their thoughts and motivations. And trying to pass principles about what “we” should or shouldn’t do on that basis is equally flimsy.

I do agree that deleting a post with several replies can be damaging to a discussion — emphasis on the potential, not the actual value of any given Lemmy conversation — but becoming the target for criticism or even ridicule for an ill-considered post isn’t exactly pleasant either. And after a few decades online, I’m not faulting anybody for deleting one post or another, even though I probably don’t understand the reasoning for doing so.

In the end, everybody is on here for different reasons, and all of them are valid. It would be nice to make a noble agreement about what “should” and “shouldn’t” be done when you get massively downvoted, but if people want to curate their pseudonymous online presence to appear less daft than their worst — let 'em.

Pffft, killing football in Italy is as impossible as killing baseball in the US. Italians will go extinct before their favourite teams.

All the more reason to !degoogle your devices.

“The” RARbg, as opposed to the RARbg that closed last year? I’d be glad to hear that somebody picked up where the original site left off.