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Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by kebman »

5etho wrote: post #63
strobe999 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

and as a law student, it's stupid that torrent seeding is considered as releasing something to the internet. It is meant to be penal to be releaser or initial uploader - at least in polish(europe) criminal code, but non-technical judges just go with it, I hate it, but i'm not sure what polish equivalent of polish SCOTUS wrote about it to be honest as always lobbing by big companys is designed to screw over teenagers…

I bought my first pirated warez in Poland as a teen. I bought Atari ST games copied onto 3½-inch floppies at a shady market stall in Szczecin. Good times! (Not sure why the 3½-inch floppy disks are called floppy, because they ain't.) I mean, what was I supposed to do? They weren't available in my country!

Sharing culture was strong even without the internet back then. I still fondly remember when I got hold of what was probably the first audio cassette tape to go viral in Norway. It was of a really angry North Norwegian cursing and cursing and cursing because he couldn't fix his bloody washing machine. Very colourful!

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by latexr »

gbrindisi wrote: post #95
capableweb wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Private Internet Access (PIA) is involved in the whole Freenode fiasco, and has Mark Karpelès (of Mt Gox fame) as their CTO of the parent company. They also run ads all over the internet. Everything pointing towards just caring about the profits. Mullvad is a low-profile company based in Sweden (strong guarantees for privacy) where you can even sign up by sending cash in an envelope. It doesn't get more anonymous tha…

> Mullvad is a low-profile company based in Sweden (strong guarantees for privacy) What do you mean? Sweden is not at all a strong guarantee of privacy by EU standards. Did you mean Switzerland perhaps?

The address at the bottom of their website[1] confirms it’s Sweden.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by kristofferR »

maccard wrote: post #61

I subscribe to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon (although that's just a byproduct of prime), and am happy to continue paying ~£30/month (which is roughly what a basic Cable package would cost me), and even pay the occasional £20 one off for a digital purchase of a "cinema" movie (see: Disney+'s recent releases, new bond movie etc). However, when studios resort to pulling tricks like [0], artificially limiting content (joh…

Yeah, I usually pirate-stream movies using Seren, since even if they are exist in 4K HDR quality, they are just low quality SDR 1080p on the Netflix 4K plan.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by paulryanrogers »

charcircuit wrote: post #99
sorenjan wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video, you can use DaVinci Resolve instead of Adobe. The base version is free for non commercial use, and it's a very capable program. I think it makes sense, Adobe has benefited a lot by having their software pirated and becoming the de facto standard, but they like to pretend that they're against piracy of all kind.

DaVinci Resolve doesn't support mp4 files which makes it a poor option from the get go.

IME it does accept MP4, just not every variation and profile.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by throwaway64643 »

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?

"Cracked" softwares/games for myself and can confirm that modifying .exe can lead to false positivity from antivirus.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by sorenjan »

charcircuit wrote: post #99
sorenjan wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video, you can use DaVinci Resolve instead of Adobe. The base version is free for non commercial use, and it's a very capable program. I think it makes sense, Adobe has benefited a lot by having their software pirated and becoming the de facto standard, but they like to pretend that they're against piracy of all kind.

DaVinci Resolve doesn't support mp4 files which makes it a poor option from the get go.

I'm a very casual user, but I've only used it with mp4 files straight from my phone camera and Youtube downloads.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by antihero »

maccard wrote: post #61

I subscribe to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon (although that's just a byproduct of prime), and am happy to continue paying ~£30/month (which is roughly what a basic Cable package would cost me), and even pay the occasional £20 one off for a digital purchase of a "cinema" movie (see: Disney+'s recent releases, new bond movie etc). However, when studios resort to pulling tricks like [0], artificially limiting content (joh…

I find it extremely annoying that I pay money each month to both Amazon and Apple for their video products, but if I actually want to watch most movies they still want £3.49 to "rent" (which I sometimes do if it is the beginning of the month) it and £8.99 to "buy" it. Some TV series that are over ten years old are still £50+ to buy a "box set" like we are some old morons.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Thankfully I have infuse on my ATV, so if the price is too high, I pirate.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by woolion »

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…

I would like to share that far from sticking it to big companies, piracy hurt independent creators way more than big corporate interests. Sure, software behemoths would be even happier to squeeze out more pennies from individual purchases, but they make their big bucks at governmental and institutional levels. Meanwhile, _consumers_ compare free software to "free" cracked software. If the equation was "does this software bring me 300 CURRENCY of value, or can I get this value out of a free alternative?", the results would be quite different. Which means we would also deal with better financed alternatives...

Netflix etc are legal, but if you care about proper rewarding of creators and improving the situation, well.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by andrepd »

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…

My experience with Netflix: it told me to switch browsers, disable my VPN, and install spyware on my computer, so that I could have the privilege of viewing video in 720p while I had an Internet connection.

I just laughed, closed the browser, opened up tpb. In 5 minutes I was watching what I wanted in 4K. I don't need to jump through hoops, install spyware, surrender my privacy, and I have a .mkv I can play on whatever device I want. I'd gladly pay good money for this.

Not to mention: I have access to older/niche content, not just endlessly formulaic "Netflix original series", I can lend it to someone else (remember dvds?), I can archive a copy and not be dependent on the whims of my provider.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by 0x0000000 »

m_a_g wrote: post #27

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

Mullvad gets a lot of "grassroots" support in comments, I've noticed here.

I've had a subscription with them for a couple months, but I recently found out they intercept DNS requests[0] (supposedly to prevent against "DNS leaks"[1]).

For the "keeping me private while torrenting" use case, Mullvad is probably fine, but personally I'm planning to move back to a private VPS for tunneling out of my local ISP.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/invjgp/how_and_...

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-leaks/

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