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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 lucaspiller »

kobieps wrote: post #61
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'…

A recent experience I had was : 1. buy movie on iTunes 2. have kids that can't do long distance drives 3. obtain dvd players for car 4. realized I can't play films that I "bought" on DVD players It feels like the "Buy" button on iTunes/Apple TV is misleading, and should be renamed to "License to watch on Apple devices". Obvious in hindsight, but this type of DRM severely restricts use cases.

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disconnect, don't need wifi. Same message, "This content is not available in your location".

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

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Post by hbn »

jjulius wrote: post #41
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 ra…

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

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Post by TitaRusell »

pirta wrote: post #57
saganus wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?)

I was looking for this european movie from 10 years ago only last month, could not find it anywhere on line, streaming or torrent. I'm pretty confident there is still a lot of stuff missing. hey there's a project idea: a "todo list" for rippers that scrapes imdb and checks what's not in pirate bay (and then looks for dvd's on ebay / libraries)

Piracy is and always has been the only way for more obscure stuff.

Personally I do not feel guilty pirating a decades old TV show or movie. And I really doubt the industry cares much either.

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

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Post by hbn »

someguyiguess wrote: post #76
hbn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't a surround sound system, we were watching on the built-in app on a Fire TV from the TV's speakers. Also just Google "malcolm in the middle missing audio" and you'll find a ton of people with the issue https://www.reddit.com/r/malcolminthemiddle/comments/1kggg7d... This also reminded me of another issue - the show was filmed to be broadcast in 4:3 but apparently someone along the line decided 16:9 is inheren…

Yup. That’s your issue. Disney+ outputting Dolby 5.1 and your speakers are stereo.

Well it's still their fault for not making sure their audio works on a normal, non-surround setup

Also worth noting that we switched the audio track to Spanish and you can hear it just fine.

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

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Post by IanCal »

cheeze wrote: post #64
kobieps wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A recent experience I had was : 1. buy movie on iTunes 2. have kids that can't do long distance drives 3. obtain dvd players for car 4. realized I can't play films that I "bought" on DVD players It feels like the "Buy" button on iTunes/Apple TV is misleading, and should be renamed to "License to watch on Apple devices". Obvious in hindsight, but this type of DRM severely restricts use cases.

While I agree with you in spirit... were you expecting that you could... burn the film to a DVD or something? Of course buying a movie on itunes means you can only watch it on capable devices. You can't play a youtube video on a VHS player either.

While I agree it seems obvious you can’t do that, based on how these platforms have limited things for a long time… but that really should be something you can do.

Why can’t I get the file and put it on another device? Why can’t I burn it to a dvd? It makes sense that Apple aren’t required to make more software for random devices, but why can’t I have the file and do what I want with it?

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

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Post by radlad »

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?)

Regarding seed ratio, generally by perma seeding. Many private sites either use seed time requirements instead of ratio or offer bonus points for seed time which can be exchanged for ratio. But also as new editions and formats are released, the library has a bit more turnaround than your music sites of yesteryear.

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

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Post by ranger_danger »

moi2388 wrote: post #9
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 use Stremio with pirate bay torrents. There literally isn’t anything that came out and isn’t on there.

Tons of Japanese shows and movies are not there at all.

Not a single Utaban episode is there, even though there's many on youtube.

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

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Post by lenerdenator »

blablabla123 wrote: post #73

It's very strange to think about this in the current context. Anything P2P used to be the Anti Christ of the Software Industry. The lengths Microsoft and game vendors went to prevent copying is insane. Installing Windows as well as various Higher End software is a huge pain because of this. On the other hand Microsoft is very much leading with OpenAI in vacuuming any content, stripping effectively copyright claims. T…

They're organizations run by people who may or may not have something that could be described as narcissistic personality disorder.

It's not particularly strange; the rationale for organizations like Microsoft and OpenAI is to be immune to any and all rules that could possibly foreseeably impact shareholder value. If you're not paying for their wares, you're impacting shareholder value. If you're asking them to actually license out content that they're training an AI on, you're impacting shareholder value.

Rules for thee, not for me, especially when it makes me - the special person who charitably graces society with my presence - a rich person.

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

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Post by worble »

RajT88 wrote: post #68
squigz wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After a certain point, you get a sense of which release groups to trust or not. Not to mention you can just open the download page from within qBittorrent.

I had no idea! As much as I appreciate TPB, their ads are cursed.

You browse torrent sites without uBlock Origin?
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