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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 jasonfarnon »

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'…

One possible exception, do you consider youtube an "intended method"? (A legit question for those of us who remember what a legal gray area they were in, in the 2000s.) Because the convenience of youtube replaced downloading music torrents, for me at least (who don't really care much audio quality). I only wish they would let me hear the music when I turn my phone's screen off.

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

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Post by merge_software »

jasonfarnon wrote: post #261
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'…

One possible exception, do you consider youtube an "intended method"? (A legit question for those of us who remember what a legal gray area they were in, in the 2000s.) Because the convenience of youtube replaced downloading music torrents, for me at least (who don't really care much audio quality). I only wish they would let me hear the music when I turn my phone's screen off.

Same here. Most of what I want to listen to is on youtube. I use the brave browser on my phone which both blocks adds and allows me to listen with the phone locked.

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

dkga wrote: post #244
jjulius wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to go off on a complete tangent, but... >... like the infamous Duff Beer joke being out of frame in The Simpsons. My collection of The Simpsons, seasons 1-13, are all TV rips from waaaaayyyyy back in the 00's. Sure, it's not super high-quality, but at least they don't look like the ugly remasters (on some of the ones I've tried watching on Disney+, they look like someone's drawn over the old cells), the aspect ra…

What MJ episode?!

The one where Homer wears a pink shirt to work, gets send to a hospital, meets a fat bloke that claims to be Michael Jackson, voiced by Michael Jackson except for the singing parts, which were sung by a Michael Jackson impersonator and all of it credited to some made up name.

Has the “Lisa it’s your birthday”-song.

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

uxjw wrote: post #166
kobieps wrote: post #61

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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.

> I guess they lost the license and I'm supposed to download all purchases and manually copy between devices.

That actually sounds very much like what you are supposed to do with a owned digital asset.

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

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Post by swat535 »

Unai wrote: post #207
Levitating wrote: post #132

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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…

You can take that a step further and integrate it with Jackett: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

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

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Post by Fnoord »

worble wrote: post #89
RajT88 wrote: post #68

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I had no idea! As much as I appreciate TPB, their ads are cursed.

You browse torrent sites without uBlock Origin?

This a good point but, do you browse torrent sites? There are much better tools available these days, than torrent sites. I mean, it was always the case that Usenet was quicker but even with that, there's options available such as the *Arr stack.

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

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Post by mistyvales »

jjulius wrote: post #41
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'…

Not to go off on a complete tangent, but... >... like the infamous Duff Beer joke being out of frame in The Simpsons. My collection of The Simpsons, seasons 1-13, are all TV rips from waaaaayyyyy back in the 00's. Sure, it's not super high-quality, but at least they don't look like the ugly remasters (on some of the ones I've tried watching on Disney+, they look like someone's drawn over the old cells), the aspect ra…

Disney has the 1.33 OAR Simpsons now, but you have to select the option. I don't watch it on there because it looks too clean and waxy for my tastes.
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