> Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was. Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

It seems like having a NAS full of music and movies is starting to become “Grandpa Technology.” To people who have become utterly reliant on streaming, I’d ask: what happens when the pirate stream is taken down, or the (legit) Netflix removes it from their library, or your Internet goes down, or any other event that causes a denial of access? To me, “files on disk” is still the simplest and most reliable way to collect/consume media. The apocalypse could come, and as long as I have a power source, I’ll have access to my 80’s New Wave Hits playlist.

It seems so weird to voluntarily replace that with something as fragile and inter-dependent as streaming, but maybe I’m just an old man set in his ways.