• rmrf@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        I’m gonna take a shot and guess you’ve never run infrastructure in your life if you can’t differentiate between a product covered by a license and a service offered as a courtesy.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 days ago

        What? This isn’t about hiding the code and making it unavailable. It’s saying that they don’t need to pay for some very profitable corporation to use obscene amounts of their bandwidth.

        Basically it’s you get so many downloads before your throttled and deprioritized. Don’t download the same thing hundreds of times over and over everyday.