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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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hbn wrote: post #66
iooi wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But you'd have no idea because they somehow completely deleted the neighbour's dialogue from the audio This sounds pretty unlikely. It's more likely that there's an issue with your surround system, and that audio "should" be coming from your rear speakers but for some reason it's not.

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…

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

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Post by Levitating »

TFNA wrote: post #16

When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, because obviously that data doesn't have to pass through TPB's own servers.

Are you sure what you're looking for isn't on TPB as well? Just lower down the list.

I torrent TPB because it's what people know. I don't care for private trackers, I just want to support the common torrenters.

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

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Post by goolz »

elar_verole wrote: post #51

Sometimes feel like I'm the only one still using it around me, but the service is still great and functional

Ya I still have mad love for TPB. My ISP was blocking my private tracker recently and while I would usually just run things through a seedbox it made me happy I could still turn to my trusty ol' friend.

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

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Post by ravenstine »

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…

Plus I've found "legit" to be a moving goal post. One day a show is on one platform, the next it's on another, or it becomes unavailable except for [insert random foreign country here]. Even HD is a ripoff sometimes when half the episode comes in all compressed looking. They'll blame my bandwidth except I have no problem streaming an episode without adaptive compression over Bittorrent.

People can say what they want about piracy, but it continues to be what I consider a necessity against culturally important media being further tainted by rent seekers looking to make another buck in any way they can.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

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.

American troops have been granted full immunity against Swedish law when they are in Sweden, according to the most recent military treaties. I don't know if you consider such a deal to be soft power or hard power. But it is a lot more than any server room raid.

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

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Post by throw-the-towel »

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'…

> you have to endlessly manage subscriptions and switch between different apps with better or worse players just to watch a single series.

Obligatory classic joke:

Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

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

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

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.

I only used Rutracker and Rarbg (rip), TPB felt sketchier. I wonder what's the "prime" English-language public tracker now? 1337?

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

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Post by somenameforme »

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…

Steam's DRM is completely symbolic. There are widespread cracks available and Steam is AFAIK not even bothering with the cat and mouse game, and Denuvo games released this year are being cracked in I would never underestimate the lengths people are willing to go to to 'crack' games. Countless online-only games have been cracked with users reverse engineering the network protocol and writing their own servers. LLMs will probably greatly ease that process as well.
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