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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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Post by toyg »

Waterluvian wrote: post #113
toyg wrote: post #78

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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.

No I don’t think that’s what I’m going for. To me content often implies a kind of volume of work. Always be posting. Don’t miss a few days or your viewers go elsewhere. Lots and lots of content! The concerns of a product are the salability. Is has to fit perfectly into a 22 mins slot. It can’t upset the wrong people. It has to fit the mood and culture that our advertisers want. Etc.

Of course it implies volume - shipped volume. Which is what you worry about when you think about posting every day: viewers going elsewhere is a commercial worry about your product, it has nothing to do with the quality of your art. When you think in terms of content, art quality becomes an optional byproduct of commercial worries about having product.

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Post by girvo »

jiggawatts wrote: post #236
kobieps wrote: post #193

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Whaaat... oh wow that's bleak. I guess Apple do whatever they want.

I’ve had Apple delete my music from my devices. As in, I had a physical CD I had purchased, ripped to MP3, and loaded onto my iPhone. iTunes recognised it, linked it to the matching official entry in their music store, they lost the licence and deleted all customer copies including mine.

Yes. I’ve got so many greyed out songs in my library due to this :(

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Post by einsteinx2 »

ChoGGi wrote: post #309
einsteinx2 wrote: post #197

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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?

I did some searching. I assume you mean “Relics: Einstein's Brain (1994)”? If so, it doesn’t look like it was ever released on anything but VHS, so I only found a TV recording and a VHS recording.

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Post by squigz »

marysol5 wrote: post #292
squigz wrote: post #53

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After a certain point, you get a sense of which release groups to trust or not. Not to mention you can just open the download page from within qBittorrent.

But how are you trusting that it's actually that group

When it comes to movies/shows, I generally just trust the listing; there's no real risk, particularly as I'm not a quality whore.

For games/programs, I'll mostly just check the download page to ensure it's from a verified, trustworthy group.

Mostly though, I've never felt the need to be as paranoid as some people suggest one must be when torrenting; despite doing this for 20+ years, I've not had any incidents since I was about 12 years old.

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Post by brianwawok »

lucaspiller wrote: post #81
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.

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disconnect, don't need wifi. Same message, "This content is not available in your location".

FWIW this is why I travel with a OpenWRT router runnning a Tailscale pipe to my basement. Get to travel with US media access.

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Post by merpkz »

marysol5 wrote: post #294
lobf wrote: post #241

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Here you go: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-runs-on-21-raid-proo...

That always read as a load of nonsense, because you still have an ingress point of failure. Which is why so many trackers shift through TLD's all the time.

Isn't that just Cloudflare? thepiratebay.org resolves to CF IPs at the moment.

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Post by vitally3643 »

tsss wrote: post #116
ronsor wrote: post #93

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The software industry mostly gave up when they saw it wasn't working. Even the music industry (of all of them!) mostly gave up. Only Hollywood and the wider film/TV industry is so stubborn.

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 effectively solved game piracy as far as I can tell.

The solution is: make purchasing legitimate copies an easier and better experience than piracy. That's it. That's all you need to do. There will, of course, always be piracy by those who can't afford to purchase the software or have other ideological goals, but for the vast majority of users, making it easy and pleasant to fork over cash for goods is how you stop them from stealing.

Meanwhile music, movies, and TV have decided to sprint in the exact opposite direction. It's now so onerous and expensive to even find let alone watch something that normal users are flocking to piracy. Not because it's cheaper, but because the experience is better in every conceivable way. To most people, the fact that you now own a real copy forever is merely a bonus. The real killer feature is that if you want to watch something it is always available. You can search for anything and get a result. Torrents don't usually go away on a rotating weekly basis. If you want something, it's available, and nobody gets in your way (if you do it right).

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Post by drunx »

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 used to pay for "all of them". Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, HBO Max, Mubi, Prime Video and occasional rents on Youtube movies.

And I made myself believe that I'm doing it THE RIGHT WAY hence they will do good by me.

- price hikes - shows moved between services or different seasons available on different services - some movies are just NOWHERE - sometimes there was no English language (YouTube movies in the none English speaking region like Germany - happened a lot)

So many times we would end up on a treasure hunt through the services to watch what we wanted, only to then end up just watching some Netflix vanilla stuff as we just give up.

I am all for doing the right thing, but my god, my, customer needs, are not on any priority lists.

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Post by threethirtytwo »

account42 wrote: post #300
marysol5 wrote: post #287

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Just because people do buy the product the legitimate way, and provide the creators with revenue, doesn't negate that /you/ are committing a theft. A loss of a sale, is still a loss of a sale. It's vastly different to /not/ selling something.

There is nothing to negate because there was never a theft in the first place. Consult the laws of your country before making wild assertions and ask a lawyer if you cannot understand them yourself.

It’s like saying the death penalty isn’t murder because the law says it’s not.

I guess in your mind hitler isn’t a mass murderer because what he was doing was technically legal under his regime. To each their own if that’s how you want to logically frame your moral logic.

Personally imo, if I create something and that something is MY work of art and what I put my own blood sweat and tears into, and I want it to be inconvenient to watch because that’s my prerogative, that doesn’t give you the fucking right to watch it. I don’t want someone like you watching it.

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Post by piltdownman »

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'…

Even worse, the MBAs at the top of the pile in Netflix and other streaming services refusing to license the music for TV series' they have bought out and geolocked.

This isn't just swapping like-for-like with stock music, it's a pervasive form of Stalinist Revisionism - with certains edits and scenes altered or completely removed when they relied on the track in question.

As a fastcompany article notes, "...streaming is also changing the way music works in new titles, with easier, safer, cheaper song choices being added to TV shows in lieu of anything interesting." The logical end-game being the relegation of musical backing in TV to AI generated muzak and genre 'sound-a-likes', like we've already seen in the lowest echelons of the advertisement and backing-track industry.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91109690/why-streaming-platforms...

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