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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 justaman123 »

mojo74 wrote: post #58
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'…

This is the first year I have cancelled all my subs. Used to be a TPB regular around the time it took off. Years later I tried to go legit and have had subs with all the major streamers (netflix, disney, amazon etc) But the way you get squeezed year on year for what was standard before e.g. 4K or no ads to be gradually offered worse terms and degraded output quality just bites after a while. I can't justify spending…

Yeah all the streaming services have gotten so bad and they are adding ads and they are lowering quality and they are getting too expensive. Arghgg I say

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

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Post by hollow-moe »

tsss wrote: post #116
ronsor wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The software industry mostly gave up when they saw it wasn't working. Even the music industry (of all of them!) mostly gave up. Only Hollywood and the wider film/TV industry is so stubborn.

The software industry certainly didn't give up. Most smaller game studios outsource their copy protection to Steam. Larger studios use Denuvo which works better than ever. Some Denuvo games stay uncracked for years. Non-entertainment software mostly moved to SaaS with a subscription model which is essentially uncrackable or, where that was not feasible (CAD and video editing), use extremely invasive copy protection m…

Oh wow that's really smart of them, now you have a reason to send your hacked version along the cad file so the user on the other side can escape from their spyware :D

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

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Post by rkagerer »

doublerabbit wrote: post #54
triceratops wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's because the license for the tracks expired They're talking about pieces of dialogue in the show, not licensed music.

I know. And I am commenting on that the licensed music within the series has been replaced due to expired licensing for which that itself is ridiculous.

Hah! How soon 'till some MBA comes up with a scheme to start licensing movies one word at a time?

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

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Post by ProjectArcturis »

jstummbillig wrote: post #114

It's kind of cool but also kind of spooky: A legally targeted site just staying online for 20 years, not because of obscurity, but simply because it can't be taken down. Are our institutions this incapable?

I'm astounded that they've been able to keep that domain name.

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Post by stevenwoo »

Retr0id wrote: post #27
dmos62 wrote: post #21

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Where do you find those? I use 1337 and dht search engines. Can't be bothered to fiddle with private trackers. Wondering if you found something better.

RARBG used to be the way to go, until they shut down. I'm not aware of a good public replacement.

thepiratebay is fine they just don’t run indexes often so searches often fail for stuff just uploaded within last hour or two. Limetorrents updates indices frequently but uses ad providers that try to hijack your clicks and presses so it takes three or four clicks to get one click that isn’t hijacked. There is a bit of non overlap between those two sites.

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Post by cycomanic »

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

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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.

That's not what the link says. In fact it is specifically saying it should be working in stereo but tdolby surround has missing channels.

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

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Post by razakel »

boramalper wrote: post #34

From "The Pirate Bay down, forever?" (2014) > TPB has become an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to take the technology further. The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design. It never changed except for one thing – the ads. More and more ads was filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up even worse. > As…

> As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up.

For anyone who doesn't know, the KLF took a million pounds in cash, and set it on fire. For no obvious reason.

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

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Post by MajorTakeaway »

ffsm8 wrote: post #28
dmos62 wrote: post #25

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

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U.S. population pyramid graph is sobering enough.
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