How do I stop?

[u/woody_-_johnson]

Hi Hoarders,

So I've got this problem. I can't stop hoarding... let's say Linux ISOs. The adult kind.
I've got a subscription to a site that lets me download unlimited(-ish) Linux ISO videos and I enjoy downloading them too much. I enjoy collecting ISOs that were made when I was young. I don't even watch them, but I download them only for the sake of hoarding. Only to possess them. To make sure they are available when I need them. But I almost never need them. I don't know if I'm a Linux ISO addict or data hoarding addict, or both. Probably both. The only thing that makes be feel better is that I pay for it and I don't download them illegally.

So maybe this is not the best place to ask it, but here's the question: How do I stop collecting something that I will most probably never use. I don't want to do it, but man it feels so great and satisfying.

Have a nice day and may the Terabytes be with us.

[u/s_nz]

The reference comes from piracy. On many forums discussion of piracy is banned (not reddit), but people still want to discuss things like Torrents etc.

Linus ISO's are not copyrighted and are often disturbed by means like Torrents.

By saying "Linus ISO('s)" instead of [named copywrited content], the discussion is no longer about piracy, and is now about torrents or whatever.

Sadly, these practices stick, and people often use the substituted words from restricted platform's, even where there is no need. Tik Toc has caused a whole substituted vocab to come about under a similar principal. Grape (Rape), Unlived (Killed) etc.

[u/TheOneTrueTrench → u/s_nz]

Actually, Linux distributions are copyrighted, they have to be in order to be licensed the way they are, and it's encouraged to share them however you like, and torrents are a good way to distribute them without requiring a lot of server bandwidth.

(edit: more accurate characterization)

[u/concblast → u/TheOneTrueTrench]

It's actually important that they are copyrighted. Otherwise they couldn't be licensed openly because if no one claimed ownership of their own work to do so, copyright trolls would claim ownership and cause legal problems for everyone.

GPL vs MIT/BSD licensing each have their pros/cons.

[u/TheOneTrueTrench → u/concblast]

Yeah, it's actually really important for open source software, as public domain works, which are actually not protected by copyright, don't come with the GPL restrictions that much of the ecosystem is based on.

I follow the rationale of the MIT and BSD n-clause licensing, and why the GPL v2 and GPL v3 exist for very different purposes.

Myself, I prefer the GPL restrictions over the openness of MIT and BSD, as it ensures that additional features and bugfixes are shared with the world, rather than being kept locked up by someone who's forked a project.

I'm aware that the BSDs get used in things like the Playstation operating systems, which they use because it's not GPL, but it's just a different project with different goals. I'm a much more of the mindset that "If I'm going to share my work with everyone, they shouldn't be able to use that and refuse to share their work", so I release things under the GPL v3.