The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by skarz » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

Geonode wrote: post #39

a1o wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On missing audio: usually I notice this when I watch with subtitles at night and then end up rewatching during the day with audio at much higher volume… And the thing that is said to be said is just… Not there?

The fact that they refuse to balance audio for standard stereo setups is a whole other nightmare.

Lately whenever I watch movies my remote stays in my hand so I can boost the volume during dialogue and turn it down during loud action scenes. I've had two different soundbars, one of them quite expensive, and it's an issue on both.

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

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Post by RobotToaster » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

someguyiguess wrote: post #75

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'…

Are you trying to listen in Dolby surround on a stereo setup? Disney+ defaults to surround sound and you’ll lose some audio channels if your speakers are stereo

That seems like a terrible default, aren't most people listening in stereo at best?

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

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Post by bronlund » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

efnx wrote: post #96

bronlund wrote: post #90

I think the site has been hosted by the police since them. They probably use it as a honeypot or something - except the site is so poorly managed that no one really comes :D

References for this claim?

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

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Post by smallstepforman » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

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.

In non free countries it wont show up since the ISP will block the domain (eg. Oz). Free countries show it …

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

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Post by cwillu » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #78

Waterluvian wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me it is the difference between art and product. A show like The Simpsons is both. The viewers care about the art, and we tolerate the product to get it. The creators are creating art, compromising with the corporation and broadcaster to make it enough of a product. But the corp/broadcaster only care about the product. The art is the chocolate around the advertising pill. So when the product-minded people control…

The terminology is art vs content . Anybody talking about "content", by definition, do not actually care about what that content is, just that it is contained into something they charge for.

This is a great example of when pulling out a dictionary implies that you've lost the argument, because if people were using the word in the same sense as the dictionary definition, you would have no need of the dictionary to “prove” the meaning.

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

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Post by shevy-java » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

We need to raid those lobbyists. How much money did the get from the USA?

So the real pirates was the swedish government. It's time to completely change the whole government. Back in 2006 they thought they targeted only few individuals. I am sure there are many more people who don't support what the swedish government did. Did they ever apologize for serving US corporations here? How much financial kickback did they get there?

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

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Post by cwillu » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

radley wrote: post #97

doublerabbit wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Re-licensing music is a two-fold challenge. Sometimes it's much more efficient to use substitute music, instead of negotiating for new rights. First, licensing arrangements for "all marketing channels" only account for the channels that exist at the time. When a new market channel opens up, such as streaming, music labels will require new licensing terms for that channel. If they don't, they might not get paid. (TV &…

And all that just strengthens the case for piracy: you actually get the original thing.

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

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Post by realo » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

anthonj wrote: post #77

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'…

I will add to the list that for some weird reason in my country original language is not always available for all movies, and the subtitle experience in genenal is lacking.

I am in the french-speaking part of Canada.

In some Netflix shows, they say words in the english audio that are translated in French with different words with a similar meaning, and with english close-caption words that are also different from the original english audio.

Quite amazing.

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

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Post by shevy-java » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

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'…

> Never had an issue like that with torrenting because the people providing it care about the quality, metadata

A friend once pointed that out. He pays a lot and gets low quality. That was what changed his mind. That was also almost twenty years ago.

Most people changed. US corporations trying to raid people in foreign countries is, in my opinion, no longer acceptable at all. The swedish government should be ashamed for acting as US proxies here (nowadays with Trump this is more clear, but even 20 years ago or 25 years ago, it should have been a no-brainer).

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

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Post by ramgine » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

skarz wrote: post #101

Geonode wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that they refuse to balance audio for standard stereo setups is a whole other nightmare.

Lately whenever I watch movies my remote stays in my hand so I can boost the volume during dialogue and turn it down during loud action scenes. I've had two different soundbars, one of them quite expensive, and it's an issue on both.

From my understanding it’s not which soundbar that’s the issue, it’s that you’re only using a soundbar for audio. The channels all get compressed into one device with a couple speakers instead of whatever it was originally created for, like five or seven speakers with a subwoofer