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Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by jsmith99 »

wruza wrote: post #35
ogogmad wrote: post #3

How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free? The current status quo is that we have two methods of obtaining a film: - Via file sharing. You have to wait for the whole film to finish downloading before you can watch it. This is inconvenient. - Via streaming services. You can watch a film before it's finished downloading. The latter costs money, but is more convenient. While certainly some of that…

You have to wait for the whole film to finish downloading before you can watch it. This is inconvenient. I've heard from a friend of mine that torrent clients have streaming mode as well. I.e. packets arrive not randomly, but in order, and as long as your DL speed exceeds 1 second per second, you are fine.

I've also heard from a friend that qbitorrent supports this (sequential download).

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by Asooka »

mikaelsouza wrote: post #45

I remember most if not all cracked games used to have virus on their executables. People always said that you shouldn’t care about what the antivirus said, but now I am wondering, why the antivirus alerted about viruses? Does anyone know? Were they really safe or not?

I never ran into that. In fact, I never got a virus from any pirate website or pirated software. I know that you can get infected, but it always seemed obvious when you're offered an actual release or one that has been tampered with.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by smnscu »

m_a_g wrote: post #27

I can't decide between mullvad and private internet access. Any suggestions?

Someone's recommended AzireVPN to me as a WireGuard-friendly VPN a few years ago and I've been using it without any issues since. I wouldn't use any of the big guys tbh, not going to contribute to the millions they spend on advertising. Here's a random review https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/azirevpn/

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by hwers »

underlines wrote: post #46

I grew up in the late 90ies with internet in Switzerland, and as a broke pre-teen and teenager I was used to getting EVERYTHING pirated and this habit sticked with me, even though when in later years I was working as a software developer. Torrenting, sharing with friends and family is still completely legal in Switzerland. Only after pay services like spotify became a thing and were more convenient than managing and…

Really? It's legal? Would that mean someone running a torrent site should move their operation to switzerland to avoid getting prison time?

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by anakaine »

mikaelsouza wrote: post #45

I remember most if not all cracked games used to have virus on their executables. People always said that you shouldn’t care about what the antivirus said, but now I am wondering, why the antivirus alerted about viruses? Does anyone know? Were they really safe or not?

They generally were false positives if you were getting the downloads from decent release channels. The reason the false positives show up is because of the packers used to make the executable files. Cracks in particular show as infected because they are both packed, but also attempt to access other files with executable code at specific byte locations and modify them.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by chiheisen »

hwers wrote: post #54
underlines wrote: post #46

I grew up in the late 90ies with internet in Switzerland, and as a broke pre-teen and teenager I was used to getting EVERYTHING pirated and this habit sticked with me, even though when in later years I was working as a software developer. Torrenting, sharing with friends and family is still completely legal in Switzerland. Only after pay services like spotify became a thing and were more convenient than managing and…

Really? It's legal? Would that mean someone running a torrent site should move their operation to switzerland to avoid getting prison time?

Leeching is. Seeding is not. Its also more of a legal grayzone rather than a blanket "this is allowed".

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by strobe999 »

hwers wrote: post #54
underlines wrote: post #46

I grew up in the late 90ies with internet in Switzerland, and as a broke pre-teen and teenager I was used to getting EVERYTHING pirated and this habit sticked with me, even though when in later years I was working as a software developer. Torrenting, sharing with friends and family is still completely legal in Switzerland. Only after pay services like spotify became a thing and were more convenient than managing and…

Really? It's legal? Would that mean someone running a torrent site should move their operation to switzerland to avoid getting prison time?

OP couldve been a bit more precise in their statement. Downloading is legal, uploading isnt.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by LaunchAway1 »

underlines wrote: post #46

I grew up in the late 90ies with internet in Switzerland, and as a broke pre-teen and teenager I was used to getting EVERYTHING pirated and this habit sticked with me, even though when in later years I was working as a software developer. Torrenting, sharing with friends and family is still completely legal in Switzerland. Only after pay services like spotify became a thing and were more convenient than managing and…

When I was young I pirated everything but now I have paid the few proprietary programs I use. I prefer to spend some hundred on licenses, maybe a thousand in total if I sum videogames and have some hygiene on the computers I use to access my bank, private information and social networks accounts.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by yellowapple »

ogogmad wrote: post #3

How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free? The current status quo is that we have two methods of obtaining a film: - Via file sharing. You have to wait for the whole film to finish downloading before you can watch it. This is inconvenient. - Via streaming services. You can watch a film before it's finished downloading. The latter costs money, but is more convenient. While certainly some of that…

> How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free?

Film "success" is still measured primarily in box office revenues, indicating - to me at least - that a successful theatrical release is where the money's at. There are certainly some people out there who would rather watch some shaky camcorder recording of a theater screen for free than actually go to a movie theater, but it doesn't seem like that's had much of an impact on the box office bottom line - even with COVID affecting theater attendance - probably because of the theater experience itself still ostensibly having some dollar value.

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