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| Thread ID: 113882 | 2010-11-08 06:26:00 | Life as a non-pirate | jareemon (5207) | PC World Chat |
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| 1151072 | 2010-11-08 06:26:00 | I was expecting it to be hard to keep this up, but it hasn't been so bad. However, with 450GB of empty HDD space, an empty 16GB flash drive, and 30 leftover blank dvds, I'm beginning to wonder what to do with all this empty space. After realising how much of a mission it was going to be removing EVERYTHING that was pirated, I decided to just do a factory reformat back to win7hp (the OS I was using was pirated too, anyway). For the first time in a long time, I now find myself wondering what's on TV. I have never watched so many youtube videos in a single week. I looked at tvnz ondemand, but it's crap. Having absolutely no music on my computer, I now have a desktop internet radio gadget, with hundreds of different radio stations available. It's currently on a classic piano station, playing André Watts' Sonata in B Minor. It displays the song and album information including an album cover image, and some stations are a generous 128k. Being on an unlimited broadband plan, I can leave it on all day. I got openoffice and have not used it one bit on account of it's just ugly compared to ms office 2010. Meantime I've been editing my personal documents with windows live skydrive's online ms office suite. It lags a little, but I like it. With all these compensations, I don't feel like I'm missing out, but I do feel like I have no use for 450GB of HDD space anymore. Maybe partition and backup a system partition image so that when I reformat next time I don't have to manually remove all the bloatware... Any ideas? |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1151073 | 2010-11-08 06:32:00 | If you're missing TV episodes, get a USA-based VPN and watch stuff via Hulu and other US-only (legal) streaming sites. | somebody (208) | ||
| 1151074 | 2010-11-08 06:37:00 | If you're missing TV episodes, get a USA-based VPN and watch stuff via Hulu and other US-only (legal) streaming sites. That would defeat the purpose of not pirating videos, because sites like Hulu have disabled international streaming because of copyright laws. The copyright owners of the videos have not given permission for them to be viewed overseas from these sites, so using a vpn to watch them would still be illegal, I think. |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1151075 | 2010-11-08 06:43:00 | You give me the spare drive that is empty I have hundreds of photo's and need more space | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1151076 | 2010-11-08 06:44:00 | However, with 450GB of empty HDD space, an empty 16GB flash drive, and 30 leftover blank dvds, I'm beginning to wonder what to do with all this empty space. You could rip your own DVDs to your hard drive. Ripping your own DVDs for personal use is considered fair use under US law (but not sure about here). *runs from mods* |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1151077 | 2010-11-08 06:48:00 | my.... own... dvds...? | jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1151078 | 2010-11-08 06:51:00 | I don't own any dvds... I have a VHS tape of a dragon ball z episode i taped years ago... oh wait... that's illegal too :p | jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1151079 | 2010-11-08 06:58:00 | Meanwhile over the weekend I ripped over 50GB worth of my own DVDs onto an external hard drive :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1151080 | 2010-11-08 07:19:00 | I do feel like I have no use for 450GB of HDD space anymore. Sell it and get a smaller drive. I have a 250GB in mine, has some games installed, maybe about 20 songs (bought ones) and the rest is O/S, app or business related. It's got plenty of room. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1151081 | 2010-11-08 08:56:00 | Sell it and get a smaller drive. :lol: and profit $50, not really worthwhile... unless i get a ssd... |
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