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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 whywhywhywhy »

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'…

Ultimately history has proven that copyright owners can't be trusted to preserve their own IP and preservation should be entirely legal.

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

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Post by dizhn »

alex1138 wrote: post #17

So not to hijack this thread or anything but there's one good metric (if nothing else... the fact FB overwrote your email while Google seems to believe in data liberation, and fewer breaches) to tell apart the difference between those two companies Google had been asked to remove Pirate Bay in results. They didn't. On Google, and I don't really know how it changed over the years, but there'd be a notice about links r…

Try to use Yandex for some shady stuff and see what actually google blocks and doesn't.

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

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Post by mannanj »

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'…

Many times I purchase or rent a movie now, and immediately go to torrent it and feel guilt-free.

Torrent meets my needs better than official methods.

I don't feel guilty about it because I still paid. Now, if only, I could have a better way to filter out the garbage from the gold.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

Hoodedcrow wrote: post #138
RajT88 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

1337 is OK. Rarbg too. For movies, nothing beats YTS imo.

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

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Post by Unai »

Levitating wrote: post #132
Unai wrote: post #18

I haven't visited a torrent site since I found out I could search for them from within qBittorrent.

You can? Tell me how

You can turn it on in `View -> Search engine`. Then a new tab will appear next to the main transfers one. You can (have to?) add search plugins, which is done from the same search tab (look for a button in the bottom right). And I think to remember you need to have Python installed for the search tab to work, but qBittorrent should prompt you automatically for it.

I might be misremembering something, so ask again if something I said didn't work or wasn't where I said.

Free extra tip: did you know qBittorrent has support for themes? I got a pretty clean dark theme one, but no way I can remember the name or where I found it.

I love qBittorrent.

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

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Post by treis »

sneak wrote: post #150
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.

It says right in the TOS that it's licensed, not sold. Then the button says "Buy". It's intentionally misleading and contradictory.

I don't think it's really that misleading. You're buying a license and I'm hard pressed to think of some other interpretation of that.

That the license kind of sucks and comes with restrictions is the bigger problem than any inherent deception

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

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Post by Unai »

RajT88 wrote: post #206
Hoodedcrow wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

1337 is OK. Rarbg too. For movies, nothing beats YTS imo.

I might be misremembering, but wasn't YIFY/YTS known for their awful quality ultra compressed releases? I thought they closed down many years ago tho, so no idea if they are the same people or if they still focus on low-quality releases.

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

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Post by qingcharles »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #201
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'…

Ultimately history has proven that copyright owners can't be trusted to preserve their own IP and preservation should be entirely legal.

Those involved in the creation of the art can write a contract that stops it being ruined by future owners. When the Bobs sold their rights to Back to the Future they added terms to protect the brand. I know of one time where they intervened to stop a 3D conversion that Universal wanted. (Personally, I think 3D conversion can work well, e.g. Titanic, but other times it is monstrous, e.g. Star Wars Ep 1)
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