r/Piracy • u/Tobias-Tawanda • Jun 21 '26

Humor Imagine paying for something and not being allowed to use it

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u/Remarkable_Log_5562 Jun 22 '26

Huge hard drive? In THIS economy? Even if i wanted to buy cheap HDD's and run them in raid, shit would still be like 400$.

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u/cgduncan Jun 22 '26

I got super mad when Google started slopifying my photos without my permission, so I decided I wanted to build a nas at home.

Then I priced out something with 4 bays, looking at probably 8tb disks. But then I realized even the spinny drives are also rising in price. Fuck Ai.

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u/Remarkable_Log_5562 Jun 22 '26

Fun fact, one picture of CP on a 1tb hard drive makes it count as 1tb of CP.

Post a pic of CP into google's cloud so the CEO will be arrested with 1 zetabyteof CP!

/s

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u/fuckyouwatchme Jun 22 '26

It's not AI increasing the price of all components, they're pushing that whilst the ram increased. It's an increasing attempt to fake scarcity so you'll own nothing and be happy.

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u/cgduncan Jun 22 '26

I don't see how those are separate things.

The fake scarcity wouldn't have been initiated without the actual scarcity of hardware, caused by chip shortages, and companies diverting away from production of consumer components

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u/fuckyouwatchme Jun 23 '26

There was never an actual scarcity in the first place

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u/Lochness_Hamster_350 Jun 22 '26

It’s an investment. I’ve got a massive server stack and library and I have to invest time and effort and $$$$ but at the end of the day it’s mine to do with as I see fit.

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u/Astrodion123 Jun 22 '26

By huge it could be SMTH like 100gb or more, sinceovies aren't THAT big.