Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

im starting to learn and search about torrent and piracy in general, do I need a VPN even if my country does not care at all about piracy?

I was planning on using either the one by kannagi0303 from github or stacher.

update: I have setup the one from github, seems to do the job. Still can't figure out downloading subtitles using gui and using the yt-dlp terminal version for that. Link for what I am using: https://github.com/kannagi0303/yt-dlp-gui

The only things missing from the Github repo are the game assets (kinda like half-life), but those can be obtained by buying the game on steam.

My best list of free ChatGPT and other models. Required - no signups.

Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.

Every now and then, when I'm connected to a torrent a peer will connect that has a reference to "Swarm Merging" in their name. What is swarm merging?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1330512

Below are direct quotes from the filings.

OpenAI

As noted in Paragraph 32, supra, the OpenAI Books2 dataset can be estimated to contain about 294,000 titles. The only “internet-based books corpora” that have ever offered that much material are notorious “shadow library” websites like Library Genesis (aka LibGen), Z-Library (aka B-4ok), Sci-Hub, and Bibliotik. The books aggregated by these websites have also been available in bulk via torrent systems. These flagrantly illegal shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI-training community: for instance, an AI training dataset published in December 2020 by EleutherAI called “Books3” includes a recreation of the Bibliotik collection and contains nearly 200,000 books. On information and belief, the OpenAI Books2 dataset includes books copied from these “shadow libraries,” because those are the most sources of trainable books most similar in nature and size to OpenAI’s description of Books2.

Meta

Bibliotik is one of a number of notorious “shadow library” websites that also includes Library Genesis (aka LibGen), Z-Library (aka B-ok), and Sci-Hub. The books and other materials aggregated by these websites have also been available in bulk via torrent systems. These shadow libraries have long been of interest to the AI-training community because of the large quantity of copyrighted material they host. For that reason, these shadow libraries are also flagrantly illegal.

This article from Ars Tecnica covers a few more details. Filings are viewable at the law firm's site here.

I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

I can only find websites where you need a subscription or pay for each music sheet.

I have gta pirated on mobile is it possible to run it on linux. I am new to linux and can't find anything useful yet on this topic

Curious as to how many others do this, or if I am just crazy. Anyone else buy physical copies of games and movies and play/watch a pirated version to keep the original product sealed? Do you have a different method or do something similar?

So Lemmy.World got hacked/hijacked today. I was wondering if our community was affected by it as well.

Do we need to change password/email to be certain or not needed?

Is there somewhere that regularly uploads the ebook bundles from Humble Bundle?

Pirates, I need opinions running streamio with real-debrid on Firestick 4k. I want to strem 4k movies with HDR or Dolby Vision. Do you think the Firestick 4k is powerful enough for this? Or should I get the 4k Max or the cube? Is them worth it?

I will use in an LG A2 Oled tv. Through a Denon-X1700H receiver

Thank you

Hi. I'm looking for websites where I can download artbooks. I've already checked out Z Library, but unfortunately, I couldn't find what I was looking for there. Thank you in advance for your suggestions

Is there really no definitive way to safely use IDM pirated version? Like a script or safe pre-cracked file? Everytime I download them from any sites, it's another virus.

Can you guys recommend a site to download IDM?

Hi, I posted this recently in a separate piracy community but I didn't realize that this one became the main one. I want to configure sonarr to work with i2p torrents and only torrent over i2p. qBittorrent seems to be the only foss torrent client with both i2p and sonarr support, but I can't get i2p set up with it. Does anyone here know how to set up i2p with qB or any other clients I could use? Please include detail, I am an idiot.

I looked through the wiki and only found audio bay as a resource for audio books, which seemed limited. I'm mainly looking for non-fiction, especially of the "self help" and psychology variety. Books about dealing with mental illness or trauma to listen to while doing chores. Anxiously Attached is the main title I've been looking for, as an example.

The only version i see on 1337x is 4 years old.

Edit: TL;DR: I want to be a streamer and don't know where to stream to

I'm not entirely sure that's the right community for this question, but a recent post about how we're in the "golden age of sports streaming" reminded me of the time I used to post and stream matches on reddit. It was fun, sometimes stressful when things went wrong trying to get it back up as quickly as possible, but overall enjoyable.

I've thought about going back to it, but I wouldn't know even where to begin to host a stream. When I was doing it, there used to be platforms you could use to stream at (like ssh101 or streamup), of course avoiding youtube and twitch like the plague, but what about today? What site could one use today without it being taken down every 5 minutes to even start streaming sports events? It seems like it's a lot harder today than it used to be years ago.

Sure, finding games on the high seas is easy enough on my windows machine, but if I'm on my linux partition and want to play a game that would otherwise work if I bought it in Steam with proton, how would I go about getting the game to run?

According to /r/trackers. Staff say they're working on it, so no indication of LE issues. I was actually a bit worried there.

I've been using Clipgrab (macOS) to download music (mp3s) from YouTube. I've seen some mentions that the quality (real bitrate as opposed to what the file states) is bad to begin with on YouTube and that downloaders might make it worse. How bad is the quality of what I'm downloading? Any better downloaders or does the quality suck to begin with?