The internet - what's good?

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This is a good one I was looking at last night:

www.inaturalist.org

iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
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iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature.

It's also a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users.
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dilbert1

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One time a guy heard one of my mixes I posted to r/jungle and unlocked a bunch of stuff for me, not like he had anything super inaccessible so refrained from expressing my conscience about his hoarding. I’m not against gatekeeping per se but some people are just evil pieces of shit on there
 
william_kent

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I dropped off slsk when rapidshare and megaupload and "mp3 blogs" became a 'thing' - there was no one to judge me for my downloads, etc

there's probably some of my hi-fi rips of Jah Shaka Sound System tapes still knocking about on soulseek, but I can't be arsed to sign up again, the user base is too elitist for my taste

now I only buy physical copies, because countless hard drive crashes, etc.,

I might be a hoarder but at least I can take the vinyl down a shop and trade it in for cash, unlike those digital dicks on slsk banning me for attempting to download "midnight marauders", so precious to them in a 196 kb rip

I had most of the tunes in 360 ish mp3 anyway, they were my GTA3 soundtrack ( along with Jeff Mills, acid Mothers temple, UR, etc., I used to drive crazy through the city streets )
 
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william_kent said:
I dropped off slsk when rapidshare and megaupload and "mp3 blogs" became a 'thing' - there was no one to judge me for my downloads, etc
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Yeah, I never got on the P2P stuff. When I was downloading music I was using search engine audio results, blogs, YouTube rippers and Warez-BB.
 
william_kent

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I had an incredible ratio on karagarga ( for films ) but I lost my internet connection for six months or so and my account was suspended and all the people I had given invites to cocked it up and had rubbish ratios so they couldn't invite me back and I never got my account back

it was one of the best private torrent sites for non-mainstream media ( probably still is, but I'm locked out )

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I just grabbed a book on 'The Scene' and piracy the other night. It's by this guy that runs an open-access lit. journal on American writers and the PDF's free.

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy – punctum books

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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites”) in the mid- to late-1990s. “The Scene,” as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez” itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software.” Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures of an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy.
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Dusty

Dusty

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william_kent said:
I've worked with a few guys who had links to 'top sites"
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I am one of those people with links to the 'top sites'. It feels dirty, but also satisfying to have access to pretty much everything. Those are the sites where I spend a lot of my time online. Closed-off communities of people dedicated to one specific passion. The internet needs more of them. In a positive way (books, films, music). Not in a dark web way (drugs, murder, porn).
 
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