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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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qingcharles wrote: post #210
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #201

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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)

Copyright is a deal to encourage the creation of more information that society sees as valuable by granting limited time monopolies. If we don't all end up with the unmolested work in the end then it had no right to ever receive any copyright protections in the first place. The original creator isn't even the primary party being harmed here - they already got their paycheck out of the deal.

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

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Post by account42 »

marysol5 wrote: post #289
AgentME wrote: post #245

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Even for English speakers, the subtitle experience with pirated movies is often lacking. Movies with non-English-speaking characters are often meant to have subtitles for their dialog and not for English speakers by default, but many pirated versions don't do this. I recently saw discussions online of a lot of people saying they went an embarrassingly long time without knowing there were supposed to be subtitles for…

Lots of systems like Jellyfin/Emby/Plex etc will pull subtitles from a online repo. And yeah, exactly what you say will happen a lot of the time, and it's near imposable to work out which ones are correct. I watched an English language TV show, that had a load of German in it. And I got subs for all the English, nothing from the German, then I switched to another source, then it had the inverse, which was great. But…

> I think one even had the German words, in German....

Which is great if you are learning the language but not yet proficient enough to understand fast speech.

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

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Post by account42 »

radley wrote: post #97
doublerabbit wrote: post #54

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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 &…

"More efficient" implies that the result is equivalent but it's not.

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Post by alamortsubite »

skarz wrote: post #101
Geonode wrote: post #39

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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.

There's an easy fix for that if you use a player like VLC that has an audio compressor: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-qui...

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Post by justaman123 »

hbn wrote: post #70
doublerabbit wrote: post #38

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> 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. The licenses for the song tracks have also expired; so they removed these too. The main noticeable difference is being the intro sequence originally sung by There Might be Giants which has been replaced with a less-impressive cover that ruins the vib…

I have never seen an episode that had a cover of the theme song. Maybe that was a thing with the new reboot? I don't know because I heard nothing that made me want to watch it.

Yeah I'm pretty sure those kids were broken filming that show. There's a reason Dewey didn't want to come back.

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Post by jonnylynch1974 »

lobf wrote: post #158
ravenstine wrote: post #135

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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…

Yeah, I was a pirate as a kid. I said “give me a place where I can pay to have legal access to everything and I will.” Then Netflix came along and introduced streaming. I was happy. It began to fragment a bit, I could live with that. Now it’s 10 different platforms with rotating content, I need a 3rd party website to know where and when to watch a particular thing, it’s a mess. Not only that, unlike with cable they m…

I've went through the exact same cycle. Also, a year ago I thought I'd gift my elderly dad a Netflix subscription for a year. Just because it was easy for him to use on the TV. When I seen the price and checked the TV shows and movies on it I realised how much stuff was NOT on it! Anyway - I bought a NAS instead and start running a plex server. Everyone's a winner!

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Post by ChoGGi »

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

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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.

Rarbg was shutdown last year or sometime thereabouts.

Nothing beats yts for shitty compression

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Hoodedcrow wrote: post #24
Unai wrote: post #18

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

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

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Post by ChoGGi »

einsteinx2 wrote: post #197
pirta wrote: post #57

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I was looking for this european movie from 10 years ago only last month, could not find it anywhere on line, streaming or torrent. I'm pretty confident there is still a lot of stuff missing. hey there's a project idea: a "todo list" for rippers that scrapes imdb and checks what's not in pirate bay (and then looks for dvd's on ebay / libraries)

What movie was it? There’s a good chance I can find it. If you’re in Reddit, there’s also a subreddit dedicated specifically to this kind of thing (requests for stuff that is no longer available) called /r/DHExchange

How about a non-vhs rip of Einstein's brain?

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

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

system2 wrote: post #186
yieldcrv wrote: post #94

All the best stuff doesn’t get licensed by streaming services at all Entire generations of people have no idea something exists

Yandex is the best search engine. Sites like Fmovies or moviesjoy include nearly everything. I couldn't find the Monty Python series, but Yandex's first results were ready to play it for me in seconds.

Also any ebook I’ve ever wanted to preview before purchasing has been available from the first results page.
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