The only effort it takes to join private trackers is usually in the quick application you have to do. After that, there’s no more effort than normal.

12ft works, if you really need to. But in general, I just don’t read any publications that paywall their content. Mass media is all owned by one or two billionaires, if they need money they can get it from them.

“Surprisingly the court obliged”

Of course they did. Israel says jump, the US says “yes sir, may I kiss the ground you walk upon as well, sir?”

Why would anyone need to justify their piracy?

I mean, it’s still true. AI is just a tool. Everything is a tool. But the only thing governments use tools for is to degrade society.

That won’t make much of a dent in climate change. The main cause of climate change is pollution on a massive scale by corporations. They far outstrip the pollution caused by individuals, even collectively.

Or do most people not put movies in actuall collection folders such as movies/Star Wars/Star Wars Episode One file

No, I don’t think most people do that. I would wager that most people don’t even have multiple root folders. I do, but that’s only because I sort things into anime and non-anime, because I use different profiles with different custom formats to fetch each type of media.

The usual way to store media in Sonarr/Radarr is: /root folder/movie name/movie file. You can get more complicated than that, but why would you? There’s not really any practical benefit to it, unless you’re navigating the folders by hand when you want to play something, and have a lot of media. For example, Radarr doesn’t care if you have 100 movies in individual folders in the root. It’s not a human, so it has no problem telling you which movies you are missing from each series on the Collections tab, and can fetch the remaining movies automatically.

Be a real shame if everyone just downloaded all their books from a friendly mouse-themed private tracker.