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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 jjulius »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #246
jjulius wrote: post #41

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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…

For classic simpsons seasons, you can find DVDs on eBay for pretty cheap with the original crops and commentary tracks. I hear there are are rips of those available too.

Oh sure, and I've considered that move a few times. It's definitely something I'll do in the future if the quality of these rips begins to look worse on newer TVs.

I think the biggest thinking preventing me from pulling that trigger is the charm of the old TV station logo in the bottom of each episode that's from the same local station I grew up watching the show on. Even many of the end credits have a little side chyron pop out with the evening's programming schedule on it. It's super nostalgic for me, and it almost feels wrong to watch the show without any of that.

Edit: https://share.google/RGONMiVEStvc54fyM

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

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Post by iooi »

hbn wrote: post #66
iooi wrote: post #60

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> But you'd have no idea because they somehow completely deleted the neighbour's dialogue from the audio This sounds pretty unlikely. It's more likely that there's an issue with your surround system, and that audio "should" be coming from your rear speakers but for some reason it's not.

It wasn't a surround sound system, we were watching on the built-in app on a Fire TV from the TV's speakers. Also just Google "malcolm in the middle missing audio" and you'll find a ton of people with the issue https://www.reddit.com/r/malcolminthemiddle/comments/1kggg7d... This also reminded me of another issue - the show was filmed to be broadcast in 4:3 but apparently someone along the line decided 16:9 is inheren…

Ironic that the link you sent has a pretty detailed (albeit rude) answer that specifically mentions that this is an issue with surround :)

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

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Post by oxzidized »

crazygringo wrote: post #322
HDBaseT wrote: post #268

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and?

Did you read the question? It was an answer to the question.

Not to put words in their mouth, but my question would be: isn't that why movies are more expensive than an audio track? Not to mention that movies have "concerts" much more regularly and in many places at once where they make money, no? I don't really have an idea of the exact economics of it all, so these are genuine questions.

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

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #319
account42 wrote: post #300

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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…

Wow. Bringing up murder and hitler when talking about piracy. Some parts of the internet are truly eternal.

None of this is new. None of your ideas are unique. Stop attempting to draw moral equivalency to theft or anything else.

Back in the glory days of piracy, profits from entertainment kept going up? You know why? Those pirates were almost certainly not going to pay in the first place. No one lost money. It was university students, high schoolers, plain old poor people that were pirating.

Making it hard to watch your movie didn’t raise revenue, we all just did something else. Because we had no money.

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

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Post by Unai »

K0balt wrote: post #334
Unai wrote: post #18

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

I’ll have to check that out. Do you need tracker lists or something?

I think you can add add-ons for additional trackers, even private ones I think, but I've always just used the ones that qBittorrent comes with and I can find almost everything I look for.

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

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Post by asdfqwertzxcv »

joquarky wrote: post #272
jjulius wrote: post #41

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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.

Its Golden Slumbers by The Beatles done on an acoustic guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgw8MEwTVwM&t=51

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

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Post by 7jjjjjjj »

cheeze wrote: post #64
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.

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.

If you have a composite video adapter it's pretty easy to dub a YouTube video to VHS.

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

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Post by gamblor956 »

Jtarii wrote: post #237
gamblor956 wrote: post #222

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This is basically the issue. User error but blaming the service to make an ideological point. The dialog is just fine if you have a surround sound system or spend 5 seconds once to select stereo sound. Importantly, the dialog is still missing in the torrent versions taken from the surround sound stream because the same problem occurs. You only get the missing dialog in stereo if you download the stereo rip.

>User error but blaming the service to make an ideological point A streaming service incorrectly defaulting to surround sound is most certainly not a user error.

Sure it is.

Disney+ defaults to the sound settings passed to it by the user's TV or device. It doesn't default to surround sound unless the user sets their TV or Roku or other device to surround sound.

And either way...it's the programmers at fault here. Very hypocritical for tech bros to pirate someone else's content when it's their own brethren that created the problem they're using to justify their piracy.

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Post by Klaster_1 »

ur-whale wrote: post #142
Retr0id wrote: post #27

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RARBG used to be the way to go, until they shut down. I'm not aware of a good public replacement.

> RARBG used to be the way to go, until they shut down. I'm not aware of a good public replacement. https://therarbg.to/

Not a rarbg without daily scene music releases.
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