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Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

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Re: Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

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Post by defrost »

zxilly wrote: post #31
diggan wrote: post #25

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> Never use public trackers ... if you live in a country where the police don't have better things to do. There are plenty of countries where literally nothing happen no matter how much you download/upload, even when using public trackers. Police there tend to focus on people do the initial uploading, if anything.

Mostly the police don't care about this, it's the owners of the copyrights who care , they might send an email to your ISP and then you'll have to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet...

They tried that in Australia and struck out three times in evey level of the Court system.

ISP's owned by media interests might pass that stuff on, ISP's don't have to and many don't.

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Post by freedomben »

themadturk wrote: post #65
freedomben wrote: post #39

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I would naturally tend to agree with you, and when it comes to DRM-free things (like most music) I totally agree, but I genuinely think financially supporting companies using DRM is unethical. I used to buy (and still would buy) a ton of ebooks and a fair amount of movies/shows, but at this point I refuse to. The only exception is Audible. I still buy a ton of audiobooks from Audible (unless I can find them on Downpo…

Are you familiar with libro.fm?

Ah yes, I should have mentioned them! I did have a really good experience there, and I appreciated being able to download an m4b file. Thanks!

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Post by tim333 »

meowster wrote: post #36
deaddodo wrote: post #29

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I literally found it in two seconds on one of the most popular non-legit streaming sites. Checked two others, and it's there as well. The article author has no idea what they're talking about.

I may be ignorant, but streaming is not the same as torrenting, and The Pirate Bay is known for the latter.

They are technically different. I also found The Pirate Bay on a torrent site straight away (1337x).

Streaming plays straight away like youtube. Torrents you generally have to download first using bittorrent like software. Though it blurs a bit with software like Popcorn Time.

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

freedomben wrote: post #39
karaterobot wrote: post #21

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As someone who pirates a lot of movies and TV, I think it's hard to justify based on ethical arguments against the industry. At a certain point, it feels like a wobbly justification to say we like using something but refuse to pay for it, and that's actually fighting the good fight. Personally, I don't like some of what these companies do, but I like other parts—like the movies and shows their dark malevolence provid…

I would naturally tend to agree with you, and when it comes to DRM-free things (like most music) I totally agree, but I genuinely think financially supporting companies using DRM is unethical. I used to buy (and still would buy) a ton of ebooks and a fair amount of movies/shows, but at this point I refuse to. The only exception is Audible. I still buy a ton of audiobooks from Audible (unless I can find them on Downpo…

I'm not sure I see the ethics argument re: how the limitations affect your ability to back up / consume / multi-device. Those things might make it not worth your time and money, they might make it a bad deal, but it's not unethical to accept a bad deal.

For me, the ethical dimension comes from how the DRM will be abused. By paying somebody who develops DRM, you're complicit in building something that may later pivot from protecting content to silencing dissent or preventing local-manual override in a hazardous way, and that's unethical. Maybe it's not right up there with biological weapons, but it's still one of those things that we should not tolerate.

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

bazoom42 wrote: post #12
rightbyte wrote: post #10

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A big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.

How about just not consume their products then?

If the objection is that their claim to ownership is not legitimate due to harms done along the way, then refusing to access the media on those grounds would mean participating in the very thing you're trying to object to.

That's no way to disobey.

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Post by elphinstone »

Sakos wrote: post #56
js2 wrote: post #11

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I sometimes pay for things and then pirate them anyway because I can adjust the subtitle position on the pirated version. Or I can rely on being able to play them offline. Or a dozen other reasons where the pirated version offers a better UX.

There are games I own on Steam where I'll prefer the cracked version because of asinine publisher decisions like forcing a third party launcher that often gets an update which breaks it on the Steam Deck.

This is EA's top priority, apparently. Their broken garbage launcher doesn't work.

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Post by seba_dos1 »

miki123211 wrote: post #62
throwup238 wrote: post #52

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Not every element: most pirated media lacks the extra content of DVD/BluRay like commentary tracks. It’s relatively rare to find shows with commentary audio tracks alongside the main audio. Most people don’t care about that though.

And audio description[1] tracks. there are specialized pirate sources that cater to this niche specifically, but most of them only have the AD tracks as MP3 files, without the actual video. If you're watching with friends and your audience is a mix of fully sighted and visually impaired people, and you want both AD and video on the screen, you're in for a world of pain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_descrip…

mpv file.mkv --external-file=file.mp3 ?

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Post by RobMurray »

amtc80 wrote: post #61
bena wrote: post #20

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Right? "I don't like what you stand for or your views on certain topics, but I do want to enjoy the product you make, so I feel justified in not compensating you for partaking in the services you provide." Can I stiff my Uber driver if I don't agree with their politics? If I don't like their car? Can my boss not pay me for developing software if I didn't laugh enough at his jokes? We find it easy to say "no" in those…

> Can I stiff my Uber driver if I don't agree with their politics? That would be an example of the opposite. Uber is pretty much a tracker (peer-to-peer platform) for unlicensed taxis.

Actually, at least in the UK, Ubers are licensed by local councils. They have all sorts of stupid restrictions like if they drive someone to another city they cannot pick up any passengers there so they have to drive back empty even if a customer could have booked the journey. This is Enforced, DRM style, by the app. The same rule exists for local private hire companies but they can ignore it when it makes sense to.

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Post by navane »

rightbyte wrote: post #10
diggan wrote: post #7

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> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot anothe…

A big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.

I know this one is a stretch, but one of my argument is: if they're paying to put up a billboard which I cannot ignore because it's out in the real world where I walk with my eyes open, they force a craving inside me. They literally payed money to instill a want in me that I never asked for. This is not a secondary effect, it's why they put the Billboard there.

In that case it's ethical to resolve this want by consuming the content without paying. Sorry if I'm not Monk McMonkface and deny this want with mental fortitude, but they have a whole marketing agency and I'm just trying to get by.

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