private trackers are the only way to go nowadays I think. I've stopped using TPB for 11 years now since I joined private trackers. safer, less dead torrents, higher quality
Can you give examples?
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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#323Earlier 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 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…
> The solution is: make purchasing legitimate copies an easier and better experience than piracy.
They didn't.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean in the end this is still theft. Someone spent time and effort working on this. And you took a shit on that effort because it was inconvenient not to. Like the creators of said content you stole would not approve of what you did. I totally get it. I'm a thief as well. But I guess the difference is, I don't need to rationalize everything into some sort of twisted sense justice. I steal because I don't care what…
> I mean in the end this is still theft. Claiming you have 4k resolution when you upscale (damn, those DS9 episodes looked really terrible on Netflix) and claiming sound quality when you have none, is still theft.
For DS9, the best quality "available" is probably the Vertag 1080p AI upscale release. Kinda wild.
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#325For us from poor country that can't really afford the online price of movies and games . Pirate bay is like the Google search . . . Thanks for existing.
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#326Every 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'…
The Mad Men AI upscale was such trash. You could see cameras, crew, equipment, etc. total mess that showed no care for the material.
Wasn't this a remaster, not an ai upscale? And I thought that the incomplete effect situation has been resolved.
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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…
That's considered a feature in the community. Burning subs on the video trace is considered bad, but most video player will not automatically show any subtitle track.
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#328Earlier 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…
There was an episode in one of the earlier seasons where Homer falls asleep while driving with a dreamlike montage and when it aired it had this nice little guitar melody, but the song was replaced in all later inatances. I still get that original melody stuck in my head because I must have watched the original dizens of times from VHS, but I've never been able to find it again.
Does it sort of sound like the DreamWorks theme song, did the moon and stars help put Homer to bed even while he was "driving"?
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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 in…
Seems like the opposite to me. We don't like theft because the victim loses something. If stealing a car spawned a new car for you while the "victim" kept his, would it be a problem? So I don't really get the murder analogy. It's more like if the government had defined some act as murder even though nobody died.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
That's considered a feature in the community. Burning subs on the video trace is considered bad, but most video player will not automatically show any subtitle track.
Are there standards for a video to declare a default subtitle track to use?