Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Some companies, most notably Google, have regional specific pricing for their products. So for example, YouTube will be significantly cheaper in India, let's say, than in the US because former's purchasing power is much lower.

However, not all companies do so and that is a prime motivator towards piracy, even for customers who want to go the legal route. There are many examples from niche ones like the streaming app History Hit to mainstream newspapers like New York Times.

I would like to focus on the latter. It's no secret that it's news app in moddable form is easily available though the games section is still off limits, I think. Still, I went to see how much their legit variant cost in my country, India. For first year, it was INR 1000, not bad, considering that rival newspapers in my country have a similar structure. The small thing is that after first year, it will jump eight fold. So, a subscription to a newspaper will cost annually more than any streaming service I can think of(and Atleast streaming services have to offload the Full HD streams from servers, news articles have a much lower bandwidth cost) and almost the price of an entry level smartphone per year.

It's almost as if NYT deserves to be pirated. It is almost as if they don't wish to take users money, even for those willing to pay. For a subscription, that is Twice more than Play Pass, YouTube Premium, Disney combined, it is almost laughable.

tried yt-dlp, with browser cookies. Tried the developer tools trick too (network serction). None has worked

Does anyone know what's up with that? Couldn't find anything via Google. Seems really fishy to me.

Edit: Got the official explanation from the dev on Reddit:

AutoClick Feature of JDownloader works as following. Open the browser and wait few seconds, then take screenshot and search for the Recaptcha click area and auto click on it. Screenshot is needed so JDownloader knows where to click. You can disable this feature, see https://support.jdownloader.org/de/knowledgebase/article/jd-opens-my-browser-to-display-captchas

On Linux, JDownloader creates screenshot to find out the color of tray area so it can try to find it's tray icon and calculate the correct background color for transparency. You see the JDownloader icon having white background. You can disable this via Settings->Advanced Settings->Tray.gnometrayicontransparentenabled

So I've been completely out of the waters for years but the way things are nowadays I have to sail again the high seas.

But to where?

Are there any general purpose torrent search engines like there used to be?

I have a seedbox with Ultra.CC. I've got Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr setup with IPTorrents as the indexer. It was working perfectly, however recently I've had lots of issues is connections being reset.

Here are a couple of the errors I'm seeing.

2025-01-29 00:02:03.5|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/1.1 [PUT] https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/sonarr/api/v3/indexer/5: 400.BadRequest (432 bytes)
[
  {
    "isWarning": false,
    "propertyName": "",
    "errorMessage": "Unable to connect to indexer: HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/prowlarr/6/api?t=tvsearch%5Cu0026cat%3D5000%2C5030%2C5040%2C5020%2C5010%2C5070%5Cu0026extended%3D1%5Cu0026apikey%25XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%5Cu0026offset%3D0%5Cu0026limit%3D100]. Check the log surrounding this error for details",
    "severity": "error"
  }
]

025-01-30 19:47:29.1|Warn|IPTorrents|Unable to connect to indexer, please check your DNS settings and ensure IPv6 is working or disabled. https://iptorrents.com/t?73=&26=&55=&78=&23=&24=&25=&66=&82=&65=&83=&79=&22=&5=&99=&4=&60=&q=%2B%28tt4445396%29%2C%2B%28S11E08%29&qf=all

[v1.30.2.4939] System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: The request was aborted.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Connection reset by peer.
 ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (104): Connection reset by peer

DNS is fine. I've tried putting query limits on the indexer in Prowlarr, but that hasn't helped.

I'm wondering if this is a common thing with IPTorrents? Is there anything anyone can suggest? I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I have FlareSolverr installed and applied to the indexer in Prowlarr.

Randomly in the middle of episodes, some if the ads just wont be deleted, will get like 3 ads in a row before its back to the show, I can ofc skip but when multitasking its a bit jarring to get ads on pirated content. Conspiracy theorist in me thinks they get paid off or avoid getting sued by keeping these ads. Just feels oddly lazy to miss some ads consistently like for amazon pharmacy when I've never seen this issue before.

Preferably from 2020 onwards and without the need for a mandatory product key/Microsoft account, I've already had a lot of headaches because of these two "casualities"!

Hi, I'm looking for german SFDL/FTP or Torrent sites Thank you :)

The streaming sites listed on FMHY all seem to use the same title ID number in their page URL for a particular movie or tv show. I'd like to use the ID source for a search macro, but I've checked a few and they do not match IMDb or TheTVDB. What database do these IDs come from?

I have many Tbs I want to download & don't have the space plus I don't have the $ to invest in large amounts of storage so I've been trying to learn about Seedboxes here and around the net and it seems like it might be a solution to my needs but I have so many questions.

Is a seedbox just for remote torrenting and moving files to and from your computer?

Can you logon to a seedbox and direct download files from a website into the seedbox?

Can you create torrents in the seedbox for posting to torrent sites?

Are seedboxes mainly for keeping ratios up on private trackers or do they also accept open trackers as well?

Do you have to worry about DMCA notices with a seedbox?/Can seedboxes see what you transfer?

Can seedboxes be used with a VPN for optimum privacy or is there even a need?

What are some of the best seedboxes which leave a minimal, trackable footprint & preferably use US currency?

Any helpful guidance would be most appreciated. Thank You!

I want to study Oxford's "English Language and Literature" without going in debt for it. So far I've found a couple of PDFs which provide quite a reading list and the course's structure, but it's no course content. I'm really curious if there's a place for what I'm looking for.

Last year we saw Mickey Mouse going public domain and now every year more and more talkie movies are going public domain too. The talkies began in 1928, and I would say they got very close to what we have today in about 1934 or 35.

That means that every year people will have hundreds of "new" releases on public domain, making paying for watching new movies unnecessary. One thing is preferring the new movies when you have to pay both for new and old movies. Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.

I don't know about you, but I could spend the rest of my life watching public domain classics, no problem. For instance, I read a dozen books last year, only two of them were less than a 100 years old.

I would say Hollywood is in a pinch right now, something that will make them miss the days when their biggest enemy was piracy.

I've been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don't have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn't available. Can you recommend good places to get started?

CPI taken from https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

I fudged the CPI calculation a bit because I didn't do the compounding monthly, but I ensured that based on the CPI calculator, the starting value of $11.99 -> $16.43 from January 2013 -> December 2024.

To be fair, I think CPI is somewhat bullshit, but it was the easiest .gov source for inflation data that I knew about.

Data:

edit: fixed a calculation mistake (accidentally was using 2012->2025 inflation not 2013->2025) edit 2: zeroed y axis

Was looking at music torrents and noticed alot of them was uploaded by pmedia, sometimes i get music from them but was wondering y'alls thoughts on them, their stuff does sound high quality but i couldn't really tell

hope this isn't a dumb question, was just asking out of curiosity, thanks.

(Also wow.. it has been forever since i used lemmy, i think i'll use it again since i do miss using it)

I heard that gog-games(dot)to went private (or invite only) for a while some years back but I recently found out that they came back after some time. Does anyone know if they are still as good as they were? I only heard that they were trustworthy before and I can't seem to find any recent post that says otherwise. Thanks for the help!

God of war III (USA) (1.00) (BCUS98111) is not working on RPCS3. While the EU version works just fine.

(AFAIK, EU version is censored lot of scences, which I don't want)

I downloaded USA iso from Redump (myrient). I downloaded EU version from Gnarly Repacks.

I also updated the game to 1.03, still stops at cache compilation.

Can somebody help?

I can provide additional info if wanted and links if allowed.

Anyone here subscribe to 1ficher who could share their experience with them? I've been considering subscribing to them for a while now. I've seen countless files that have remained available on 1fichier where other hosts had removed them. I feel like they could be my go to file host to download from when available if they're worth giving money to.