countertrolling's Journal: Piracy

is <wiping out the movie industry>

What?

[webmistressrachel]

You want us to discuss piracy? What do you want to know? My current d/l speed is 700Kbytes/s. My hard drive is full. So no piracy for the time being...

Is that OK? :>

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[countertrolling]

Though there's nothing new about this subject, I thought a change of scenery would be nice..

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[grub]

You need some leeting up: Seedbox, RSS, rsync, auto-unrar, NAS, PopcornHour.

Doesn't help your lack of disk space but it's nearly video-on-demand.

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[webmistressrachel]

Sounds like fun. However, I don't do video-on-demand. I'm usually happy to d/l what I want to watch the next day from my fave site. Doctor Who is a fave of mine, when it's on, and not much "popular" stuff "does it" for me.

Oh, and bandwidth is a costly commodity for me at the moment, so I like to keep what i download. I'm currently working on the laborious task of making backups of my external IDE drive (350Gb, Star Trek, X-Files) and machine's internal drive so I can d/l more.

What's this NAS? I know, I coul

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[grub]

We're using FreeNAS [freenas.org] as our disk storage and have a couple of PopcornHour boxes [popcornhour.com] which stream from the NAS to the TVs. They play virtually everything up to 1080p.

When I said 'video on demand', I meant the stuff that is regex'd out of the RSS feeds. Doctor Who (I'm a fan as well), Game of Thrones, Mythbusters, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated (for the 5 year old), etc.

I have a cronjob that watches a local directory and one on Dropbox for .torrent files. When some are there it shoots it off to the seedbox for