I don't see any free leech information in their announcement forums, and the news page is empty (looks broken).

MusicBee has Tools -> Manage Duplicates

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They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

So very ironic when it's the opposite between them.

mkv is not a file archive format.

It's a media container format. Like mp4.

Both can include [file] resources, but that's different from a file archive having and extracting to files.

… new pirate sites appeared. Cost to the industry: $800m per month.

oh, because they're hosting those illegal sites? /s

There are website services where you both stay online and transfer directly.

There could be direct peer to peer transfer tools that are more robust.

If you want to go through a file transfer/hoster

• no limit https://gofile.io/
• 300 GB limit https://1fichier.com/

There's some more, those are the top two in my bookmarks.

You'd do good of encrypting/7z-passwording if you don't want others to see the content, just to make sure not to have to trust the hoster.

Dunno about Germany. It had a big move to the right. The second strongest party is now right, passing two other traditional established parties.

In 2021, YouTube announced that it had invested "hundreds of millions of dollars" to create content management tools, of which Content ID quickly emerged as the platform's go-to solution to detect and remove copyrighted materials.

Content ID was introduced in 2021? Only 3 years ago? I thought it was significantly older.

Wikipedia says 2007.

Dunno if they meant something different or typoed the year.

But at the point where you actually become a good landlord, it’s more of a public service than something you actually make money on.

Why is that a but? They're still a landlord, right? I really don't get the attempt of separation of the same thing.

I'm confused. Are you saying people shouldn't have to pay for housing? For food? For electricity?

They're providing/enabling the human right. Why do you describe it as if they were making money off of necessity without trade and giving?

will never be a reliable way to truly archive something

I think they're doing a damn fine job archiving something, and in reliable ways too

Citing the username alone should be enough. The email address is explicitly named for this use case only.