cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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    • MaggiWuerze
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      -42 years ago

      It’s basically a web based software that handles the download of torrents for you and then offers a download link for you to get it on your machine

      • @TiphaineRupa@feddit.de
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        Wait, aren’t seed boxes just VMs that run on the infrastructure of some internet hoster that doesn’t give a crap about the users utilizing it for torrenting? But AFAIK on most seed boxes the user needs to configure the VMs themselves to some degree. So it acts as some beefed up proxy server to torrent stuff without you compromising your own ip address + you have access to high bandwidths and some tb of storage to store your downloaded stuff