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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by jjulius »

hbn wrote: post #29

Every once in a while I'll try to watch something through the Intended Method™ and it always proves itself to be a worse experience. Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes. Usually some kind of ADR, like someone talking off camera. There's an episode where Reese rents an apartment and there'…

Not to go off on a complete tangent, but...

>... like the infamous Duff Beer joke being out of frame in The Simpsons.

My collection of The Simpsons, seasons 1-13, are all TV rips from waaaaayyyyy back in the 00's. Sure, it's not super high-quality, but at least they don't look like the ugly remasters (on some of the ones I've tried watching on Disney+, they look like someone's drawn over the old cells), the aspect ratio is the original so nothing's missing and, as a personal bonus, they've got the old Q13 logo in the bottom (I grew up in western WA). They still look great on my newer TV.

Edit: Oh, and the Michael Jackson episode never suddenly disappeared from my library.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by dpoloncsak »

Pay08 wrote: post #35
Hoodedcrow wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

I've never seen a torrent site that had things marked.

Not those exact markings, but TPB does have user-markings displayed that can serve as a vouch for credibility.

- Normal User, no special status (No Skull) - Trusted (Pink Skull) - VIP (Green Skull) - Helper (Blue Skull, Legacy) - Moderator (Black MOD Tag) - Super Moderator (Red MOD Tag) - Administrator (Black ADMIN Tag)

https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-ThePirateBay-Want-Trusted-V...

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by Pay08 »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #3
palmotea wrote: post #2

> For now, the site remains online, twenty years after Hollywood thought it had seen the last of it. And whoever is in charge today, will likely do everything possible to keep it that way. I'm vaguely aware that other people than the original group are running it now. Also, I don't torrent much, but it seems pretty stagnant and dead. It's been occasionally useful to me to find older stuff that doesn't seem to be well…

I've never not found something that has been publicly released on it. Though, I don't typically stray too far from the mainstream path for the media I'm looking for.

For one, not every entry of the Stormlight Archives is on it.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

Pay08 wrote: post #35
Hoodedcrow wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

I've never seen a torrent site that had things marked.

Perhaps you could try visiting the famous one mentioned in the headline.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by Pay08 »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #42
Pay08 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen a torrent site that had things marked.

Not those exact markings, but TPB does have user-markings displayed that can serve as a vouch for credibility. - Normal User, no special status (No Skull) - Trusted (Pink Skull) - VIP (Green Skull) - Helper (Blue Skull, Legacy) - Moderator (Black MOD Tag) - Super Moderator (Red MOD Tag) - Administrator (Black ADMIN Tag) https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-ThePirateBay-Want-Trusted-V...

Weird, I don't think I have ever seen that. Granted, I'm not a frequent user of TPB.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by triceratops »

doublerabbit wrote: post #38
hbn wrote: post #29

Every once in a while I'll try to watch something through the Intended Method™ and it always proves itself to be a worse experience. Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes. Usually some kind of ADR, like someone talking off camera. There's an episode where Reese rents an apartment and there'…

> Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes. The licenses for the song tracks have also expired; so they removed these too. The main noticeable difference is being the intro sequence originally sung by There Might be Giants which has been replaced with a less-impressive cover that ruins the vib…

> That's because the license for the tracks expired

They're talking about pieces of dialogue in the show, not licensed music.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by gverrilla »

dmos62 wrote: post #25
tokai wrote: post #20

The pirate bay raid is a good example of the kind of soft power the US has lost with their recent behavior. Hard to imagine Stockholm police being as receptive nowadays. edit: I'm very sorry for making a relevant comment that extrapolate on the content of the shared article.

Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.

Speak for yourself.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by vuln »

saganus wrote: post #32
sporedro wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly wouldn’t bother with public trackers. They work great for debrid services with something like kodi or stremio but if you want to “own” or build your collection you have much better options 1. Private trackers - people seed, they have rules on uploads and actually moderate 2. Usenet is still alive and thriving for this. 3. Libraries still exist and you can rent and rip media there 4.Internet Archive is a gr…

How do you join private trackers from scratch? I used to do this kind of things decades ago, but there was also still a few things not ripped and uploaded you had _some_ chance of participating. Nowadays I imagine ~everything under the sun is already ripped, so how can you contribute to seed ratio? (or is that not even a thing anymore?)

use their RSS feed + a seed box to automatically grab stuff as it’s posted some sites have ratio free for large files to get them seeded faster. at least that’s what I did a decade plus ago.

Re: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by Cockbrand »

tayo42 wrote: post #45

For some reason I thought the pirate bay was like fake/scam urls now. Is that or was that not the case? I thought I was remember the URL constantly changing and it was hard to keep up.

It's been thepiratebay.org for ages now (or so I heard, not that I'd ever go there ever, of course).
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