A curated list of warez and piracy links

Post by 300bps » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

honkdaddy wrote: post #112

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…

If you do end up deciding to pull the plug on your streaming subscriptions (I did last year), an illegal but largely safe alternative is to pay for a Plex share. I pay about $3/mo for access to a fellow's server with another few dozen people and have access to hundreds of thousands of TV shows and movies. It's all a fairly manual process, and it takes some digging (I found mine on /r/plexshares), but when it works, i…

Post by jethro_tell » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:52 PM UTC

lawl wrote: post #88

strobe999 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Uploading isn't legal, but neither is collecting the IPs of people who upload from torrent swarms, so enforcing that is... Uh... Difficult. Edit: Source (german) https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei... Machine translation (deepl): > According to today's ruling by the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne, IP addresses are clearly personal data, which means they fall under the Data Protection Act.…

Post by Bjartr » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 4:06 PM UTC

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?

Post by TheFreim » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

vukgr wrote: post #83

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?

As someone who works on mods for games with no mod api, so using dll injection, hooking, code editing, etc... (basically very similar to what cracks do), it's very easy to get flagged for doing stuff like that. But even doing simple stuff like compiling with winsock, or with the wrong(!?) compile flags will trigger most AV. We almost always have to just report the dlls as false positive and pray microsoft actually ad…

Post by throw7 » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

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…