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That's honestly really scary and I never thought of that.

There is a counter movement, for example, these guys place a significant role (and as far as I know primarily with a practical focus): https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

If everything I've paid for and supposedly own some right to access can be taken away from me by a wayward algorithm at a moment's notice with zero recourse, you bet your ass I'm going to "pirate" content, even if I still buy it first!

What a terribly inaccurate, sweeping generalization.

(Pretty sure it was just a joke reference to 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.)

This isn't going to be the best response of mine by HN standards, but:

Well, fuck me.

Ah, but you have heard of them!

(gotta do everything myself, but I can go to sleep now :D)

If it makes you feel better, I immediately spoke this line in my head after reading your post :-)

This is HN; best jokes are like apples - hard, but not too hard, and in moderation.

Well, shit, I apologize for calling your comment a "terribly inaccurate, sweeping generalization" (I can't edit my response, the option isn't there).

Well done here, I'm the asshole. :)

Post in the top 5 of the subreddit currently: "Is there a good self hosted, cross platform OneNote / SimpleNote like app out there ?"

Yep, scum of the earth. /s

>They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

They are. They don't even know how to pirate.

The best pirates would never use free open source solutions. They'd just take whatever corporate solution that's the flavor of the day and then use that with anxiety inducing cracks that will give your antivirus a heart attack.

I worked as an intern for an archive digitizing old letters among other things. Many aspects of key historical figures are available — letters, etc. You know what they were thinking because you can read some of their personal thoughts.

In this day and age, if you’re lucky emails exist, but due to discovery, etc many entities just purge everything. Bad news, this era will be a black hole for future generations to understand. Good news is that the idiocy of this era will be toned down.

Maybe Google's history department will make some money from their monopoly on the primary sources.

OTOH, if that sort of data is not purged, it could be far richer than any letter. Many people pretty much use their phones/devices as extensions of their minds, and phones are a very personal, private place.

Never heard of Amazon and Apple removing files from users' accounts? It was kinda big news. For a day.

It's not that, it's the risk of permanently losing culturally significant media because of it.

Not everyone is a techie that can switch from google's friendly UI, and transfer everything to another safer service that operates differently.

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