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Recommended something to a co-worker yesterday (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 year ago

Just give them a usb of the show for Christ's sake! Sneaker net that shit. Which show btw?

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 86 points 1 year ago

I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn't give back the USB. 🙁

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago

USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks

They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.

If they don't give one back nowadays so be it.

Back in the day it was a terrible loss though

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 95 points 1 year ago

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.

So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)

And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn't help but share the results of.

About $3.20.

Source

So yeah, about a dime a dozen... 111 years ago lol.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It's so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!

So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime's value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!

Words are fun.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago

I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Wrexham.

Not the kind of guy who'd watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I did this for a coworker not too long ago.

I think it was for Firefly....

They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win

[-] fin@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Isn’t that too risky though? That can be an evidence when argued in the court

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

If your coworkers are the level of douche bag that they might take you to court, then probably don't even talk about your favorite show with them

[-] fin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not necessarily deliberate. Your coworkers could be distributing the copy to someone else and police’s gonna find out where it comes from

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

I almost envy the place where this is the kind of shit police are able to worry about.

[-] fin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t know where you’re from but in my country, police are cyber-patrolling (lol) to hunt down ~~il~~legal contents.

Edit: I remember it’s a piracy community

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I would think that cyber ops would be more concerned with fraud, underage sexual content, sexual predators... That kind of stuff.

Usually the MPAA sues people for distributing video content, and in many places, they're not super aggressive about it.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If they are going after sneaker net distribution, this is the most inefficient use of resources ever! As a taxpayer I would be outraged to hear about something like this. I can't imagine this being an issue outside of N. Korea