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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 justsomehnguy »

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?)

> ~everything under the sun is already ripped

But good luck to see a live seed. I have a torrent from ~2010 which is stuck at 2%, so some seed did come online some years ago I was able to leech those meager bits from them - but not ever since.

Same for my own torrent on TPB from 2008, i tried to dload it in 2015 and wasn't sucessful in it despite it was 1st one for some years for that particular title.

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

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Post by gosub100 »

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.

The industry combats piracy by making fake websites that deliver scam URLs. But I've almost never had a problem finding the real TPB link.

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

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Post by B3L »

somenameforme wrote: post #139
tsss wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 wi…

The SteamDRM wrapper tool itself, freely distributed through the Stramworks SDK, used to straight up ship with a feature to strip the DRM from any exe.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

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'…

RAM is too expensive to waste on "streaming"

I have always prefered downloading

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

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Post by kakacik »

ignoramous wrote: post #152
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, etc. The thing with free is you will tend to be less demanding & most certainly more forgiving even if not less resentful. One reason why finding market fit for products built for free consumers is harder than for paid. The ones paying you will want their problems solved pronto, and if you're diligent enou…

It doesn't seem you understood we talk about movies and tv shows, not some customer app solving... problems?

Puzzling comment overall, will refrain from usual tropes and assume in good faith its 'lost in translation'.

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

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Post by uxjw »

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.

I've had movies I've "bought" disappear from the Apple account. I guess they lost the license and I'm supposed to download all purchases and manually copy between devices. I contacted Apple and they offered a free rental as compensation. "Buy" doesn't mean the same on these streaming platforms, its just a longer-term rental.

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

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Post by t-3 »

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.

Actually there were some DVD players back in the day that could play digital files burned to DVD or CD, and it was totally possible to burn DVDs that could play normally on most players from video files.

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

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Post by t-3 »

kobieps wrote: post #67
cheeze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not at all (hence saying "obvious in hindsight"). Simply pointing out that, at the time, my purchasing decision wasn't influenced by how many use cases it would restrict. Also, IIRC, there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes. edit: turns out music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free!

Haven't used iTunes in more than a decade, but it used to have options for converting files to different formats and burning playlists to disks and ripping CDs.

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

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Post by kakacik »

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.

They are not popular because with meager 20 TB drive, you can either have entire movie collection of all movies you actually like (and then some more), and visit again, or you can have 20x less content without much visible gain of quality (if you see it its either rare too complex scene, bad reencode or you are simply sitting too close to TV). Same goes for audio, even 2GB rips have good 5.1 or 7.1 tracks.

Its not hard to decide what to prefer. Even with 1GB/s optic fiber I just couldn't be bothered to download 20-40x larger files and then struggle to see any difference in 4k on 75" screen.

And lets be honest - apart from poor folks with OCD or similar trait, after 1 minute of watching I couldn't care less about audiovisual quality, heck I enjoy even 720p rip if its the only thing available.

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