I mean, that can be even worse IMO, desperation can be just as bad as greed, even if the motives are very different

Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…

Mozilla and Firefox too…

Yea absolutely, people have ran it off Raspberry Pis and external USB drives lol

Those are dependent on the relevant torrent being available and seeded

Jellyfin/Plex and Radarr/Sonarr + Usenet, you’ll have said file once downloaded for as long as you want, but requires considerably more storage space and torrents suck for older, more obscure stuff. Usenet doesn’t depend on seeders, and the big boys have something like 15+ years retention and you’ll always download them at full speed (no tons of seeders but slow upload speeds to worry about either)

So it’s a matter of personal preference

Jellyfin (Or Plex if you have to deal with the “Spouse Factor”) + Radarr and Sonarr + Usenet

Perfection, no annoying physical media to worry about, but you still get to keep the data you…uhh…“acquired”