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Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by yieldcrv »

endisneigh wrote: post #20

Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

theft involves removing something from its place, so you prosecute the person that takes it

piracy involves the item still being in the same place, so you have to prosecute the person that copied and gave it to someone else

Re: Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked

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Post by [deleted] »

endisneigh wrote: post #35
wkat4242 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really justify. I just pirate because I can. I don't really care about the moral discussion at all. YMMV of course. I did share a Netflix account before the clampdown but now I pirate again. I just take the road of least resistance. Like water.

Indeed, and those who take items from the aisle at Target and walk out the door are also taking the road of least resistance. Such a hassle to go and check out, after all.

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Post by peyton »

yard2010 wrote: post #55
awaythrow42 wrote: post #14

I always felt blocking such sites meant even worse for the users. If you google a pirate or ahem porn right now, it will just send you even more shady sites because all legit ones are blocked. Even searching "websitename bla bla" will send you to a copy of websitename that looks like it but it is with more adware and possible malware

Imho that's because of the recent google enshitification.. make sure to add keywords such as "reddit" to get recommendations from real ppl. It's quite ironic that up until recently we could use technology to get recommendations but now we need real people.

Unfortunately marketing agencies (and now LLMs) are incredible at generating Reddit content.

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Post by yieldcrv »

When I got back into piracy this year, I found out my projector had both Wifi, storage, DLNA sharing and a whole modified Android OS on it

it’s really good! I’ve gone weeks without even using any of the devices connected via HDMI and a lot of the video quality is way better than what the streaming services would send, or what the stability of my internet connection would show, or what that devices version of the streaming app would show

4k rips with latest compression formats are nice

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Post by slothtrop »

somenameforme wrote: post #18

One ironic thing is that one of the easiest ways to find good 'pirate' sites is to simply search for the takedowns. One indirect way to do this search Google for some term like [movie_name torrent] and then go to the links in the inevitable "In response to multiple complaints that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 results from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA co…

If I do this (and I'm not saying I do) I tend to avoid torrents because I don't want to deal with a VPN to avoid being harrassed. I find a low-quality stream with adblock/noscript on.

Because I'm lazy in the last year I've mostly checked very old movies on archive.org

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

endisneigh wrote: post #60
yard2010 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calm down satan. Until you manage to manufacture physical products for free (one time cost then get inf copies, as digital content) retail theft !== digital pirating

Digital content cannot be reproduced infinitely for free. Anyone who suggests otherwise has never visited a data center. So, your assertion in practice is to say that you believe items below a certain reproduction cost should be free. This is just the sort of mental gymnastics I’m talking about.

I have a billionth of a data center in my “home office” that I sometimes use to copy data. No, not absolutely free but effectively so for my uses. I’m certainly not charging people money if I seed a torrent.

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Post by dfxm12 »

yard2010 wrote: post #40
rhino369 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet the amount of pirating of Netflix content is up since password sharing is being clamped down on—not that Netflix cares. If an unpaid user falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound? But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing. Pirates lo…

Justifications or not, when I can't easily pay for something and get it, I will torrent it. The ball is in their court like ever. The tao of piracy

How easy is easily? It seems like you would either be able to buy something or not...

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Post by Nicksil »

endisneigh wrote: post #20

Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

>I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

lol, what a silly comment. We have plenty of nice things.

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Post by _chu1 »

hn8305823 wrote: post #63

Every time piracy rises to the level where it becomes a problem, the root cause is always poor product/market fit by the content owners. Every. Single. Time.

100% agree. I don't want to rent access to my music or rent access to TV/movies/anime through whatever people use now and have it able to be taken away from me or altered. Motley Crue's music is like 30 year old and was getting taken off and put back up in different compilation albums multiple times in 2019-2021. I want to own and keep forever, and it's extremely difficult to buy a copy of any of that stuff so I just go on rutracker with Firefox's translate tool and get what I want.
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