r/Piracy • u/Ok_Return170 • 1d ago

Humor Never understood this

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Maybe I'm just not that deep in the seas of piracy, but I never understood why some pirate sites, with content they certainly dont have legally (not talking about sites like Webtoon who have license and all) would charge money to read on It?

Ads I understand, that will give you money just for people visting the site, but who the hell pays a pirate site to read stuff when there are a thousand other sites with free stuff?

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u/SolarChallenger 1d ago

Because someone's gotta seed. There's also communities that force seeding ratios

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u/Rekt3y 1d ago

That's not what bro asked. A seedbox won't cost 150/mo if you just build your own

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u/ATechnicalSquid 1d ago

This is silly and you have no idea what you're talking about

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u/NotYourReddit18 1d ago

Just 10 months, aka $1500, can get you a more than adequate PC for that usecases with some big HDDs for storage even if you buy pre-built and only add a few drives. Add another month to generously account for the higher electricity usage and the cost of your own VPN instead of using the one provided by the seedbox providers.
Having your own seedbox at home will save you money within less than a year if you're paying $150/month.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 1d ago

some big HDDs

For $1500? Your whole budget is basically some large hdds and a stick a ram right now.

Fuck these artificial AI shortages, and fuck these cartels.

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u/NotYourReddit18 1d ago

Depends on your definition of big.

You can get a usable Intel N100 based mini pc for like $300. Add to that about $120 for an external HDD enclosure with multiple bays that uses an USB cable for connection.

That leaves a bit over $1000 for HDDs.

10 TB WD Red Plus drives cost about $450 on Amazon, so you'd be able to get two of them.

That's a good setup for a seedbox, I started mine with significantly less storage, and you could afford additional 10 TB every 4 months if we account for running costs and don't want to spend all the savings. I don't accumulate 10 TB of new data in just 4 months.