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Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by cma »

ogogmad wrote: post #21
Youden wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak for others but I generally turn to piracy when legal options are unavailable or unviable. For example it's basically impossible to legally watch anime with English subtitles in my region, so I have no alternative to piracy. It's the same story for more mainstream content. There was no legal way to stream Game of Thrones in English when it was being aired. There's no way legal way to stream Star Trek Dis…

> I can't speak for others but I generally turn to piracy when legal options are unavailable or unviable. I do this too. But I asked whether copyright enforcement was necessary for films to get adequately funded. I'm assuming that the problems you've described with region locking aren't there. I resort to piracy when I have no other options.

There is no need for artificial scarcity, the arts could be funded like Patreon stuff, with instead the government giving the money to individuals to spend on creators they like: https://www.cepr.net/report/the-artistic-freedom-voucher-int...

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by ruperp »

ignoramous wrote: post #30

This list has been all but abandoned, it'd seem. Pull requests and issues have gone unattended for over a year.

That's the beauty of hosting this on github. You can just look at the active forks and find a better list.

Though, it'd be nice if Github forks could all come together and vote on a new "primary" when the source repo gets abandoned.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by readbeard »

sorenjan wrote: post #73
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…

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 is free for non-commercial *and commercial* use and I would personally choose it over Premiere Pro (I switched from Premiere Pro to Resolve and later upgraded to Resolve Studio). The Studio version mostly adds stuff like realtime noise reduction—which is amazing, but it extends well beyond the functionality I expect from a professional NLE. Some codecs are not included or don't work as well with the free version so YMMV depending on source formats, OS, and hardware, but that wasn't an issue for me when I was using it.

As an aside, BMD just released a bunch of new training material for free on their website (no registration required):

* A series of books available as PDF downloads or purchase if you want a hard copy

* Videos available for streaming or download

* Project files and source media for following along

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by readbeard »

charcircuit wrote: post #111
paulryanrogers wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It seems to only be a problem on Linux. The paid version supports MP4(H.264), but not AAC.

Well to be fair, Premiere Pro doesn't support MP4 on Linux either. :-)

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by drjasonharrison »

ruperp wrote: post #162
ignoramous wrote: post #30

This list has been all but abandoned, it'd seem. Pull requests and issues have gone unattended for over a year.

That's the beauty of hosting this on github. You can just look at the active forks and find a better list. Though, it'd be nice if Github forks could all come together and vote on a new "primary" when the source repo gets abandoned.

Plus one for this. Especially for older code libraries.

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by mitchtbaum »

ruperp wrote: post #162
ignoramous wrote: post #30

This list has been all but abandoned, it'd seem. Pull requests and issues have gone unattended for over a year.

That's the beauty of hosting this on github. You can just look at the active forks and find a better list. Though, it'd be nice if Github forks could all come together and vote on a new "primary" when the source repo gets abandoned.

http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

sorting forks by stars would be a great feature to have built-in

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by HWR_14 »

woolion wrote: post #108
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 soft…

> I would like to share that far from sticking it to big companies, piracy hurt independent creators way more than big corporate interests.

Does someone remember the Bill Gates line about Windows piracy in China from the 1990s? Someone said something like "There are 300 million pirated copies of Windows in China" and Bill Gates responded "I'd rather they pirate Windows than use something else."

Re: A curated list of warez and piracy links

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Post by ryandrake »

XCabbage wrote: post #74
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? Let me pay money and download a DRM-free mp4 that I can keep forever and watch anywhere. I'd do it and so would a sizable percentage of existing pirates. > The latter costs money, but is more convenient. Not really. If my internet connection is fast, I can download a movie in a few minutes and watch it in VLC, which is more user-friendly than any web…

Remember Gabe Newell: "Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

Show me the online service that lets me purchase any TV show or movie ever produced, in the highest resolution the media was mastered in, and allow me to play it on whatever device I choose--and I will be a paying customer for life. The service simply doesn't exist outside of piracy.

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