• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    People who create and upload torrents

    I mean sure it’s illegal, but it’s a hell of a lot of unpaid work for an uncaring and often ungrateful consumers. You have to rip the Blu-ray, compress it to a standardized size, package it with file lists in some cases, put the appropriate metadata in the torrent and filename, then seed it for years at great personal risk.

    I know much of that can be automated, but still…