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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 Klaster_1 »

dmos62 wrote: post #21
TFNA wrote: post #16

When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, because obviously that data doesn't have to pass through TPB's own servers.

Where do you find those? I use 1337 and dht search engines. Can't be bothered to fiddle with private trackers. Wondering if you found something better.

rutracker.org is pretty good and is still going strong despite its age.

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

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

ChoGGi wrote: post #307
RajT88 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah, it did shut down :( Ever since, I haven't really found an English-speaking replacement. Rutracker has the absolute majority of what I need but doesn't have some newer American children's cartoons that I used to get from Rarbg. For example, one show had full seasons on Rarbg, but only individual episodes on 1337 (of which none are from the newest season), and Rutracker only has the first two seasons, only with a TV dub and in a horrific quality :/

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

kakacik wrote: post #169
TFNA wrote: post #16

When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, because obviously that data doesn't have to pass through TPB's own servers.

They are not popular because with meager 20 TB drive, you can either have entire movie collection of all movies you actually like (and then some more), and visit again, or you can have 20x less content without much visible gain of quality (if you see it its either rare too complex scene, bad reencode or you are simply sitting too close to TV). Same goes for audio, even 2GB rips have good 5.1 or 7.1 tracks. Its not ha…

That depends on how many movies you watch. I could probably fit every movie I've ever seen (and then some more), as bluray remux if available at that quality and DVD remux if not, into 20TB.

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

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Post by ab5tract »

razakel wrote: post #129
boramalper wrote: post #34

From "The Pirate Bay down, forever?" (2014) > TPB has become an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to take the technology further. The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design. It never changed except for one thing – the ads. More and more ads was filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up even worse. > As…

> As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up. For anyone who doesn't know, the KLF took a million pounds in cash, and set it on fire. For no obvious reason.

Making art for no obvious reason is the norm for making art.

KLF burned down a million pounds. Has anyone else in history done anything like this? Even if so, KLF’s in rarefied company because it’s not something that happens even remotely close to regularly.

And the amount of anger I see in people when discussing what KLF did with their own money means the art was significant enough to generate strong opinions.

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

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Post by anthonj »

AgentME wrote: post #330
anthonj wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Oh looks like there is. mkv does and looks like mpv and vlc will respect that flag. For other formats I'm not so sure

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

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Post by zftnb666 »

anthonj wrote: post #345
AgentME wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there standards for a video to declare a default subtitle track to use?

Oh looks like there is. mkv does and looks like mpv and vlc will respect that flag. For other formats I'm not so sure

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

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

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'…

This (one of the) reasons why sites like TPB are hard to die. The sheer convenience of a simple torrent compared to some piece of shit proprietary DRM overpriced subscription has no comparison. Not to mention the abundant catalogue and the convenience of using whatever player you find convenient.

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

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Post by allarm »

rascul wrote: post #323
vitally3643 wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But they did it. Buying, installing, and updating the game is incredibly easy. That’s exactly why I haven’t downloaded pirated games for at least 15 years.

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

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Post by threethirtytwo »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #335
threethirtytwo wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 un…

Logic and human nature becomes more apparent when you look at the extremes.

Flaws in logic and the darknesses of both become readily apparent because the paradoxes are exposed at the extremes.

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

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Post by dspillett »

marysol5 wrote: post #282
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'…

Eh? The whole "scene" is full of shitty re-encodes of video, with the audio or video spliced from another source. There's a whole cottage industry of squeezing content into smaller sizes.

It is easy enough to avoid those and make sure you get better encodes, if size is not at all a priority for you.

My main problem, even with the better encoders, is the lack of choice in audio tracks and subs when I'm pretty sure the source material had the ones I might want.

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