Meh, I pay for Usenet and donate to some of my favourite private trackers. My NAS, network switches, firewall, and drives cost probably more than 10 years of subscriptions to services I would otherwise use. I don’t pirate because I’m cheap, I pirate because I hate DRM.
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I mean, I can get most of any books I’m looking for from https://annas-archive.org/, and with the website is pretty clean from clutter.
Is the app even open-source?
Imagine paying to pirate
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Meh, I pay for Usenet and donate to some of my favourite private trackers. My NAS, network switches, firewall, and drives cost probably more than 10 years of subscriptions to services I would otherwise use. I don’t pirate because I’m cheap, I pirate because I hate DRM.
Those are some serious hard drive and firewall costs - how much storage do you have?
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Maybe that’s based on streaming prices from 10 years ago, when there was only Hulu and Netflix.
Large hard drives aren’t free of cost either.
I mean, I pay for Usenet access.
I pay for a VPN.
I absolutely love z library!