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Popcorn Time Is Back
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did that work? Did they monitor the swarms? Fingerprint the chunks?
You can query trackers and DHT for torrents, and they return a bunch of IPs that are seeding/downloading the torrent. And then, as an ISP, you can combine IPs to subscriptions. Check out this website that does the IP querying part for you: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
Wow! I never thought there were records of that.
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#73Given some of the people here might run their own servers, the self-hosted alternative is to have something like Sonarr PVR for newsgroups and torrents, alongside a tracker indexer like Jackett, and then Plex for the frontend. In this combination, you "subscribe" to TV shows and select movies on the Sonarr system, and then the downloading is taken care for you even when new episodes arrive. These will then appear on Plex which is refreshed by the pipeline automatically. The system integrates with private trackers and is capable of maintaining your seed-ratio if that's important.
I recently fell into this rabbit-hole while trying to organise my music. For music there is Lidarr, which also ID3 tags your music and reorganizes it into folder structures. This is convenient since organizing anything using Plex is a nightmare.
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#74This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.
If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.
...most IPS in most contries are just OK with piracy ...use proper VPNs for stuff that needs real security, enjoy your entertainment in peace (sure, if you're into weird kinds of pr0n). Most ppl who occasionally pirate also pay for content and have Netflix substrictions and stuff anyway (most artists do get payed - or at least some company gets paid for their work...), and those who don't would just pirate anyway, just switch ISP, so nothing gained by this.
(Side note: US seems like such a dystopian place nowaday... wasn't it "land of the free" or smth. And I'm comparing to like developed countries in Western Europe and Asia, not freakin Russia or Afganistan!)
You're just repeating the scaremongering that VPN providers use to sell their insecure s, please stop!
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#76Popcorn Time felt more web3 than all crypto combined.
Agreed!
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mullvand is the best I've found. It's a bit expensive though.
I'll second the Mullvad recommendation. I don't even care that much about torrents or geo-locked stuff, I just trust them more than my ISP. Setup was incredibly smooth and straightforward. IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.
> IIRC Mozilla also re-sells Mullvad's service under a name like (IIRC) FireFox VPN, which, last I'd heard, was still the only way to directly fund development of the browser.
Which is a nice thing but you can't forward ports, and forwarding ports is a big benefit Mullvad has especially for torrents.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if they weren't too lazy to, an IP doesn't and can't identify a person or even household. Must be my neighbors downloading movies on my open wifi network, I can't figure out these high tech router thingymajigs ;).
In France it's an offence to not configure securely your network if there's some illegal stuff happening on it. You are held responsible for any downloads on your own network.
How securely must it be secured?
If you put a trivially guessable password are you still liable? Are there still exploits for wireless encryption?
Kind of crazy that there isn't a huge burden of proof required by the accuser.
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#79This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.
If you're gonna do this stuff always always always use a VPN, and not a free VPN. Honestly I use a VPN for literally everyhing. My two mobile phones and 3 PCs and a home server. If I can't get to a site because they block VPNs then fuck them I'll spend my money somewhere else.
Would something like Private Relay be good enough, or should I just use Mullvad?
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#80Hooray! ∴ ∴∴∴∴∴ ∴ \∴∴∴∴∴∴∴∴∴/ \∴∴∴∴∴∴∴/ ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
this graphic-design technique (that uses computers) for presentation is known as ASCII art. I read somewhere it is sorted into almost 550 categories (in 1 collection online)!