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The lost joy of music piracy

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Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by sexy_seedbox »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #470
sexy_seedbox wrote: post #292

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I've been on OiNK, went through the waffles and w.cd era (which had the best forum community, collections, invite forums to other private trackers, Userscripts to enhance Gazelle), now on RED and OPN, it's just not the same, gets worse abd worse with each generation.

Been on Orpheus since it started, I loaded about 800GB of my music collection from what onto that site, but could never find an invite to RED, if you can share one I would love a chance to check it out.

Sorry, both sites currently over maximum allowed users.

Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by vjsrinivas »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #627
inigyou wrote: post #622

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YouTube has deleted many videos from many of my playlists.

Yes because youtube has a rule You cant uploading porn or isis video on youtube, it would be insta deleted or do you think no rule is a good thing ?????

Why would those be your two examples when there are numerous more realistic reasons why YouTube would take down a video?

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Post by Sammi »

dyauspitr wrote: post #508
eisa01 wrote: post #51

It's important to remember that to this day, streaming sites do not have a full archive of the music out there. There is still a need for music piracy Even albums mentioned in the Norwegian business magazine D2 can be impossible to find in legit channels. Your only option is to buy used CDs on Discogs for 50-100 USD, or know your way around the successors of these sites These CDs weren’t even on Oink or What (or did…

The one pirate site I miss more than anything is demonoid. I could find just about anything on there. Is there anything similar now? What happened to all their archives once they were taken offline.

I got access to the original closed demonoid and I could find anything I was looking for there. But I was never able to download anything as they required you to upload before you could download. I had nothing of value to share, so I was just stuck. How did people solve this?

Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by tonyhart7 »

vjsrinivas wrote: post #632
tonyhart7 wrote: post #627

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Yes because youtube has a rule You cant uploading porn or isis video on youtube, it would be insta deleted or do you think no rule is a good thing ?????

Why would those be your two examples when there are numerous more realistic reasons why YouTube would take down a video?

and no one those reason exist because its about YOU

it always about LAW

Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by nekooooo »

myself248 wrote: post #359
JohnBooty wrote: post #302

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My iPod would be the culmination of my friendships Hey! You can bring this back in 2026! In a fit of random inspiration (possibly inspired by a glass of wine or two) I began a new practice. If I'm hanging out with somebody who's passionate about music, I pull up Spotify (or Apple Music, whatever) and create a blank playlist. I hand them my phone and ask them to add some tracks for me. Here's the trick that makes it w…

I love this idea! Yeeeeears ago, I was in the middle of some late-night hacking session, hanging with friends on IRC, and I had shared my screen via VNC so they could watch/help. (ISTR I had found the UART port on some piece of embedded hardware and we were muddling our way through U-boot incantations or something.) At some point, I tabbed over to Winamp to change the music, which everyone saw, and one of the crew wa…

turntable.fm was this, but for normies

Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by itsmartapuntocm »

marysol5 wrote: post #577
ssl-3 wrote: post #337

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Perhaps so, but they were clueless: The PSP was so easy to mod and run pirated games and emulators with that I'm not sure if I've ever tried to run a UMD in the one I have.

Took a fair while for people to "jailbreak" the PSP. But then when they discovered that there was a factory bypass in the battery, it was game over

I was in the scene when the pandora's battery was discovered and to say it was huge was a understatement. After years of playing cat and mouse with Sony over exploits, not only was every PSP to date now forever hackable, but it also allowed previously bricked consoles to be brought back to life.

Re: The lost joy of music piracy

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Post by cobbzilla »

cobbzilla wrote: post #196
damienmeur wrote: post #193

I think what the article is missing is that main issue with streaming platform (for music and videos) is that it reshapes completely the business models of the music/movie industry. A CD or DVD was maybe a bad product, but it allows not "TOP" artists/production to still get ROI without needing to be viewed/watched by audience of billions. The music/movie industry is now way less diverse, because smaller actors cannot…

it’s only less diverse at the top. go down a couple of layers and various genres of music are experiencing renaissance’s like you would not believe. pop music has always (mostly) sucked [EDIT] Bring on the downvotes. You never bothered to explore. If you take what’s given to you by those who are selling, you’re in the seller’s market. Your downvotes are pride to me.

311 may have said it best ~33 years ago:

    I tell you what's wrong to me
    The industry's ability to manufacture stars
    They churn them out like Iwo Jima makes cars
    But the blame lies not with those suits for trying
    It's the sheep that keep on buying that soulless crap
    Whatever they put in front of ya
    The hysteria of America
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