Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.
Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?
I wouldn't expect anything different this time, either.
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Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren't illegal to pirate.
I gather that's a meme that's older than you are?
By linux ISOs I meant any content you're torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.
Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)
I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don't have the user mass to support it.
I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.
And it saves them on bandwidth costs!
Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it's corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.
I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck
Less that the meme is older than them, probably more so they don't realize why we torrent Linux iso's.
I can pull down an ISO in seconds over torrent, whole it takes minutes over https. Also it's nice to add some of the good stuff to the traffic, if only to pad all the illegal traffic with some legitimate stuff.
Torrents are always better because they don't cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.
Excellent point! Yet another reason why Linux isos should always be torrented!
Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there's Rule-34, I digress.
Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.
NeoToasty being in charge of memes. What does that mean to shitposters and going forward?
against the idea of Net Neutrality
Did this ever actually do anything. The only change I noticed was that shortly after it was repealed we could actually watch YouTube videos at my mother-in-law's hosue (I'm assuming they were paying HughesNet to be able to make their content go faster than the artificially throttled maximum).
With the caveat I'm technical not legal... Its largely kept data caps off domestic lines, but not entirely. Net neutrality has had a couple taking points and its a long fight at the FCC that's gotten weirder by the decade.
Net neutral meant Microsoft couldn't make the MSN dial up network prefer windows network traffic, over the years companies got smart and just opted to pay for peering instead of running the low profit access tunnel.
Google even drops boxes to cache stuff at tiny ISPs/WISPs, but doesn't deprioritize traffic to other end points.
There have been intermittent swings at labeling this the pay to play it is, but since the investment isn't spilling out of public works there's a decent case this is the fastest you could give out access to everyone.
Source: am former network closet guy who racked google cache devices, installed WISP equipment, legal layman.