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Topic: Dumpster Drive: File-sharing among strangers

stickybuns !bENfolDsOU started this discussion 15 years ago #6,551

http://dumpsterdrive.com/

Essentially, you download it and put things you don't want in the folder for it. You empty it out, and it puts it in the community dumpster where it's up for grabs by another person.

It's currently Mac only (because people hat buy Macs are total dumpster divers, amirite?), but there's shit available for ports.

What do you think of this? Virus trap? Interesting method of finding new content? Should I download it?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 54 seconds later[^] [v] #114,280

No.

Falco !PZmcClOUDk joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 10 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,299

seems like a neat idea.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 18 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,330

So it's like bittorrent except you actually lose your copy of the file.

Voice of !WisdomHsuU joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,341

LOL synthetic rivalry for digital goods

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Anonymous D replied with this 15 years ago, 7 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,346

@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)

> synthetic rivalry

Forced scarcity, you mean?

Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 16 minutes later, 58 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,371

@previous (D)
Data is already scarce, but lacks rivalry.

Anonymous D replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 59 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #114,373

@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Could you explain it to me? And data is post-scarcity.

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Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #114,378

@previous (D)
Rivalry of goods means people have to compete to get that good. Data is not post-scarcity, as data storage is still finite.

Anonymous D replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #114,384

@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)

Ok, thanks.

> Data is not post-scarcity, as data storage is still finite.

But that just means that data storage is not post scarcity. Data itself is post-scarcity - an .avi file can be theoretically replicated infinite times.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 25 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #114,397

@previous (D)
In the case of Dumpster Drive, the data is scarce (can only be downloaded once) and the is rivalry (people grabbing data they may find interesting before anyone else can).

Anonymous D replied with this 15 years ago, 13 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #114,405

@previous (F)

> In the case of Dumpster Drive, the data is scarce (can only be downloaded once)

Oh yes, of course in the case of Dumpster Drive, but this validates the point I made above (that this is forced scarcity). Data, as a whole, is no longer scarce.

mountainman !4EB6xd.Oos joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 8 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #114,820

Interesting conversation about scarcity.
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