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

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Post by surcap526 »

tuna74 wrote: post #28
diggan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

"Forgot another point that became very annoying, the show is available but not with the subtitles I want and/or need. For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. But if I use Swedish Netflix, it would work, but technically breaking Netflix's ToS. Content rights have completely fucked up the user experience." I think you can set which subs (and audio tr…

geolocking content is violating human rights.

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Post by vetinari »

RajT88 wrote: post #70
thisislife2 wrote: post #3

I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).

Side question: there is an undocumented and free Google Translate API. Is there a similar one for transcription? I have one I made which you feed a video file and uses a paid transcribe/Translate service to spit out subtitles, but I would love a free one, even if crappier...

Any reason why not running transcription locally? Whisper is pretty nice and can spit out timestamped srt or vtt.

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

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

0x38B wrote: post #6

It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.

There used to be a better one, I believe called rutor many years ago. Disappeared last time I checked.

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

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

changing1999 wrote: post #42
conradfr wrote: post #27

Before reading the article I thought it would be because of the name, like when it was hard to find the (great) album "The Music" by the band "The Music" in the early 2000s.

Reminds me of the joke from Peep show about naming their band "Various Artists".

I'm just a normal functioning member of human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

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Post by tuna74 »

deaddodo wrote: post #48
tuna74 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Forgot another point that became very annoying, the show is available but not with the subtitles I want and/or need. For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. But if I use Swedish Netflix, it would work, but technically breaking Netflix's ToS. Content rights have completely fucked up the user experience." I think you can set which subs (and audio tr…

No, Netflix/Max/Etc literally limit the options available to you. They want to try to dissuade people from purchasing those services at a discount in lower CoL regions, and don't want to deal with multi-region licensing for dubs/specific media/etc. The only regions that give you carte blanche (in general) language options are the anglophone countries and some EU regions. But they're also geocoded (presumably, for tra…

"No, Netflix/Max/Etc literally limit the options available to you. They want to try to dissuade people from purchasing those services at a discount in lower CoL regions, and don't want to deal with multi-region licensing for dubs/specific media/etc."

Have you actually tried to do what I have described? If you want to test, try with a studio Ghibli movie on Netflix, they have dubs and subs for a lot of languages.

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Post by tuna74 »

diggan wrote: post #32
tuna74 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Forgot another point that became very annoying, the show is available but not with the subtitles I want and/or need. For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. But if I use Swedish Netflix, it would work, but technically breaking Netflix's ToS. Content rights have completely fucked up the user experience." I think you can set which subs (and audio tr…

> I think you can set which subs (and audio tracks) should be available in you Netflix profile. I can get chinese voice and subs for a lot of stuff in Sweden. It's a geo-content restriction of some sorts. I'm guessing some of the subtitles Netflix is leasing/renting/whatever, they only lease for specific regions. I'm 100% sure I've watched shows in the past on Netflix where if I use a VPN to set my location to Sweden…

"I'm 100% sure I've watched shows in the past on Netflix where if I use a VPN to set my location to Sweden, I could get English or Swedish subtitles, but if I use it without VPN (so Spanish location), it would refuse to allow me the English subtitles and instead allows Spanish or Swedish subtitles.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable knows exactly why that is."

If you are in Sweden Netflix algorithms give you Swedish as a language option. But you can add this in your profile as well when you are not in Sweden.

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

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Post by deaddodo »

tuna74 wrote: post #85
deaddodo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, Netflix/Max/Etc literally limit the options available to you. They want to try to dissuade people from purchasing those services at a discount in lower CoL regions, and don't want to deal with multi-region licensing for dubs/specific media/etc. The only regions that give you carte blanche (in general) language options are the anglophone countries and some EU regions. But they're also geocoded (presumably, for tra…

"No, Netflix/Max/Etc literally limit the options available to you. They want to try to dissuade people from purchasing those services at a discount in lower CoL regions, and don't want to deal with multi-region licensing for dubs/specific media/etc." Have you actually tried to do what I have described? If you want to test, try with a studio Ghibli movie on Netflix, they have dubs and subs for a lot of languages.

Did you actually read what I wrote and what you even quoted?

Go buy a Netflix/Max/Prime/etc account in Mexico/El Salvador/Indonesia/etc. It'll be 1/3 the price and you'll be limited to "original" (usually English) and Spanish for dubbing/subbing. In some cases you won't even have the original options. I've lived in a few of those low CoL regions, that's literally how it works.

As I said in the following paragraph (which you probably also didn't read), those limits do not exist for most accounts originating from English-speaking regions (especially North America) and some Western European nations. So if you're using your American/British/Canadian/etc account to try to disprove a point I never made, it's already been addressed.

Just....read.

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Post by jasonm23 »

deaddodo wrote: post #29
thisislife2 wrote: post #3

I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).

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.

The author is writing a promo piece, which is, if you can read subtext, instructing you to do what you just did.

Let me break it down.

1. Tell the internet via the #1 torrent/free-info news site, that it's really difficult to find this show.

2. Let the internet do what it does. i.e. find the show, spread the show.

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Post by Suppafly »

karaterobot wrote: post #63
Suppafly wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks I always forget the name of that site, just searching on google works so-so, sometimes the AI thing that structures the results now pops up a useful list and sometimes you just links to sketchier versions of justwatch.

It's not a great name. I always have to look up what it's called by going into Letterboxd and seeing the co-branding mark on a specific page. But, a neat service nonetheless!

I literally just came back to this comment to remind myself what the site was called, lol.

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Post by aqwdd »

deaddodo wrote: post #44
meowster wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not ignorant. Definitely overpedantic. The Pirate Bay is known for its championing piracy, in general. Those streaming sites are piracy. They also usually use the same source videos as those found on torrent sites; if not outright acting as a thin media player on top of torrents, in some cases.

I live in sweden. I can download it with subtitles and just google translate it to english. I have done it on the first episode. Link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98u9ie
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