Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Used to sail the high seas in the days of TPB and Demonoid (when they were still good). Started again recently with a servarr stack with Deluge on docker but didn't realize it wasn't seeding properly and now my torrentleech ratio is in grave danger.

What might I be missing in my network config? Docker has all ports exposed and Deluge has uPnP enabled. Downloads work just fine and torrents periodically connect to peers but nothing ever actually uploads.

I do use BitTorrent, but it's never going to beat the convenience of just searching for a file and getting it when p2p networks first came out.

For niche stuff like 1930s movies sometimes I need to start a few torrents to make sure at least one of them has seeds.

I have had success with soulseek for music, but what do you guys use for other types of files?

In the past, most software I used was paid and proprietary and would have some sort of limitation that I would try to get around by any means possible. Sometimes that would be resetting the clock on my computer, disabling the internet, and other times downloading a patch.

But in the past few years I've stopped using those things and have focused only on free and open source software (FOSS) to fulfill my needs. I hardly have to worry about privacy problems or trying to lock down a program that calls home. I might be missing out on some things that commercial software delivers, but I'm hardly aware of what they are anymore. It seems like the trend is for commercial software providers to migrate toward online or service models that have the company doing all the computing. I'm opposed to that, since they can take away your service at any time.

What do you do?

After working pretty well for several years suddenly NordVPN is returning an AUTH_FAILURE via OpenVPN, despite the same username/password working to login on their website. Has anyone else suddenly experienced this? Any clues? (other than stop using NordVPN [wink]/-sigh-) Thank you! UPDATE: NordVPN is (apparently) reading as down via https://downdetector.com/status/nord-vpn/map/

UPDATE2: It is starting to indicate a generalized failure of accepting authorization from OpenVPN as one can see from the comments down the page linked above. Has NordVPN quietly pulled a reddit against 'third party' agents? (if so, i want some money back - hah, fat chance -sigh-)

Been able to retrieve dead torrent content for myself, see if I can do it in other categories. Just send me your longing torrent/magnet link/btdig link. I checked, its not against the community rule

I want to sign up under this instance and host communites, but privacy is important to me.

Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.

1)Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance? 2)is there a log of my view history 3)i know that this instance has a heavy Piracy base, what is the risk of joining this? 4) are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?

I know these may be dumb questions but as a user and not necessarily the most tech savvy, any education would help!

I do not want to be in a position where a Government creates an instance, and allows them to monitor.

Greetings,

When downloading books from zlibrary, the top option is the format which is stated in the description, with "basic format" added in the end. The rest of the options may include the same format without the "basic format" tag in the end and they are slightly bigger.

What's their difference? Is it the same document re-formated to the same format thus making it slightly bigger or does it have anything extra?

Like, supposing there's a book which is a pdf. The options may be:

• pdf basic format 1.2mb
• pdf 1.25mb
• epub 1mb

What's the difference between the first two?

PS. My first post on lemmy!🙃

I've created a community that I thought may be useful to some of you /c/pcreleases It's currently locked and contains a post per day containing any Windows/Mac/Linux releases as a roundup along with some repacker releases.

It'd be great to get some feedback or ideas on making these more useful to the community at large? Or if its even something that is needed or not :)

I have finally found an indexer with a lot of German releases, but sadly Germans are so bad in naming things that Sonarr keeps overriding wrong episodes (pokemin for example, wehre the new netflix episodes are counted as pokemon reisen s01e01) Now I thought, maybe I can help / get help from others with German releases etc.

In the world of file sharing, BitTorrent has long been hailed as the go-to protocol for its efficient initial distribution capabilities. However, when it comes to maintaining availability and ensuring the longevity of shared files, BitTorrent falls short. There are several alternative platforms that make it much easier to share files, allowing the seeder to reorganize the files to their hearts' content without losing the ability to keep seeding to a torrent. Fopnu, eMule, DC++, and Nicotine+ are some of the better alternatives that make sharing a breeze.

Related:

• Where is the True Successor to Emule

I'm sure everyone lately has noticed there's a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last

I personally am loving the Lemmy community but I feel as though keeping the piracy subreddit in it's current state is making users of it quite hostile to change since they believe they are being forced to move

This will honestly make them refuse to ever use Kbin/Lemmy since in their eyes it's the moderators and users here that have killed r/Piracy (obviously wrong of the stick it's Reddit that's killing it's own communities with it's policies)

So I guess it's a question of should we as a community hand over the subreddit to a new moderation team or some other change since I don't feel like it's doing us any favours

Hoping to use this post as a sort of discussion about people's opinions

Let's start a thread with scripts that remove metadata from files.

I will start by sharing some that use ffmpeg for mp4 files

Bash

for file in /path/to/folder/*.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy "/path/to/folder/$(basename "$file")"; done

Replace /path/to/folder with the actual path to the folder containing the input files. This command will iterate over all mp4 files in the folder and execute the ffmpeg command with the same input and output filenames.

Emacs Lisp

(defun batch-process-mp4-files (folder)
  (interactive "DSelect folder: ")
  (async-shell-command
   (format "for file in %s/*.mp4; do ffmpeg -i \"$file\" -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy \"%s/$(basename \"$file\")\"; done"
           folder folder)))

Same as the above bash command, but you can just put the folder path interactively, and since it's async-shell-command you can run multiple of them with ease.

What do you use?

Anyone here got any recommendations for paid cloud storage options? Given where we are I’m looking for piracy friendly options.

@piracy Federation problems? I cannot see any posts newer than 2 days

For too long imo, piracy had become a "grab it all" environment. The old "Caring is Sharing" mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14knc6t/got_r4d_for_pirating_someone_elses_john_oliver_so/

Pirates want to stay on Reddit? This is the last group I had expected to have such a reaction, but here we are. Yes, the mod could have worded it better, but these people actually want to stick around on Reddit.

I personally find Lemmy to be a perfectly viable alternative to Reddit for such subs. I wonder about the reasons why these people still don't want to move.

@db0 @piracy isn't federating?

A story stolen and written by chatGPT

"Advocate Piracy" showed up as one of the responsibilities and i almost choked when i saw it lol

sorry if the images are messed up this is my first time posting here :D

There's way too much hype over VPN Providers, but do not forget, you are routing all your traffic through their servers

As a general advice, if a VPN provider keeps logs of your activity, does not allow you to pay with crypto, and generally spends way too much on youtube ads is probably not an ideal choice.

Do not follow any advice/recommendation blindly, do your own research on which one offers the best service for your own needs.

TorrentFreak Q&A with VPN Providers

Howdy pirates! I created a community to discuss One Piece! I know this is slightly OT but 1. IT'S ABOUT PIRATES AHAH CHECKMATE 2. I read One Piece on scans which is itself an act of piracy.. So if anybody wants to join here'ya gooo

crosspostato da: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/220093

This is a queer and anarchist space where we can talk about one of the greatest and most successful literary work of the XXI century that is literally about pirates, revolutions and taking down the government (among other things..): One Piece.

This community aims to be at least two things:

• a bigotry-free space to talk about everything One Piece related
• a place to discuss One Piece through a political point of view

Also this is a spoiler zone as we'll be discussing the new chapter as soon as they come out.

Everything else will be decided as the community grows!

Hello!

I'm currently based in EU but am planning to go to eastern europe contry to visit my familiy and vacation. I always wanted to seed 24/7 but the electricity bills, plus many other stuff doesn't allow me to host a server here.

I'm thinking to during my time in that country to build a small compact seeder server. Any reccomendations? I'm planning as to not use VPN on the server as I don't think it will be needed.

My plan is to use an old computer with about 10 tbs of storage attached to it. All parts will be used as to not blow my budget.

Any reccomendations as how should I safely access that server and through what programm?(preferably free or non subscribtion based)?

Also any critique of the idea or any other reccomendations for the project?

Hello! I'm currently based in EU but am planning to go to eastern europe contry to visit my familiy and vacation. I always wanted to seed 24/7 but the electricity bills, plus many other stuff doesn't allow me to host a server here. I'm thinking to during my time in that country to build a small compact seeder server. Any reccomendations? I'm planning as to not use VPN on the server as I don't think it will be needed. My plan is to use an old computer with about 10 tbs of storage attached to it. All parts will be used as to not blow my budget. Any reccomendations as how should I safely access that server and through what programm?(preferably free or non subscribtion based)? Also any critique of the idea or any other reccomendations for the project?

So I just saw Asteroid City and I definitely wanna read the screenplay for it but it’s not on any of the usual sites. Anyone know where I’d find something like that?