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Babylon5

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrap in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

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[–] Sakurai@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Me seeing the zoomers dependent on streaming

[–] teft@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It was the dawn of the third age of piratekind – ten years after the Napster-Limewire War. 

The Pirate Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and nerds can download their media peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for seeders, leechers, entrepreneurs, and youtubers. 

Humans and nerds, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand terabytes of spinning metal…all alone in the night. 

It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for streaming. 

This is the story of the last of the Piracy stations. The year is 2026. The name of the place is Babylon 5’s youtube channel.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

ten years after the Napster-Limewire War.

I have bad news for you. More like 20 years.

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Jellyfin seems to have it. Hasn't been taken down yet lol

[–] portifornia@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

I thought Jellyfin was just a self-hosted client/server for the media you already possess..? Are you just being tongue-in-cheek and I'm whooshing a ref to #SailingTheHighSeas, or am I missing something about Jellyfin?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

You don't have to sail the high seas to have jellyfin. You can legitimately backup your physical media to it.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

Just to be clear, you can (and many do) use jellyfin to just access the stuff you own. It's a convenient way to always have all your DVD/br available. And music library. And eBooks.

High seas need not be involved.

[–] impolitecarry@lemmy.wtf 8 points 6 hours ago

You aren't missing anything about jellyfin.

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I was just joking haha. Treating Jellyfin like a real streaming service because it is effectively that when you automate it.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] nix98@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

phew! Still available on my jellyfin too!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yep, all 5 are still there

[–] samburwell96@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Tubi has it, how i watched it last year

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Roku still has it for free here Has ads, but watch with a browser and uBlock and poof

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Oh, I’m sorry. 😞

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I bet the torrent trackers aren't geoblocked.

[–] Sakurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Very glad I have the media.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

Me too, I have the full DVD box

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

There are reasons why a 1tb flash drive and yt-dlp should be in everyone’s toolbox

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 41 minutes ago

Sure, but for this kind of thing it's better to go for Soulseek or torrents. Also, you're probably going to want a whole lot more than 1TiB.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's unfortunately a much more expensive proposition than it was even just six months ago.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not really. You can get 512GB of PNY for $38 that hasn’t changed much at all from last year

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Not the size in question.
  2. The price for that size should have come down even more by now.
[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
  1. 512gb + 512gb is 1Tb of storage (the exact storage amount one needs is always personal and has different costs and capabilities)

  2. why? Storage costs have been dragging since 2008 when 320GB of storage was available for $79.99. Due to governments buying up most of the stock for surveillance purposes.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 3 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Shortly before process spiked, I saw a 1TB one that had dropped to somewhere in the mid-40s, so I'd expect a noticable drop as well for half that capacity.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Only 3 episodes were uploaded and ep.2 was missing entirely.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Well better than nothing