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🏴‍☠️ AHOY fellow pirates and welcome to the state of global piracy for August 2024! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I'll see if I can make it happen.

Enjoy the numbers!

• What is "The Scene"?
• What is a "PreDB"?
• What does "Nuked" mean?

TOTAL SCENE RELEASES BY SECTION

I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview. Numbers in braces are the values from the previous month.

Total: 53.238 (55.266)

TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

TOP 5 GROUPS FOR MUSIC, TV, MOVIES, GAMES, APPS

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above. We have

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

• What does "Nuked" mean?

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR August 2024

From the 53.238 scene releases, only 38.115 (72%) of them had file + size information.

They total to: 59.30 TB (62.175.979 MB) in 643 thousand files (642.850).

No idea about the size of the missing information, so the real value should be much higher.

NOTES

• Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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I couldn't find any Hebrew subtitles for "Only murders in the building". I tried multiple releases by different release groups (on public torrent trackers) but couldn't find the subtitles I was looking for. I know it exists on OpenSubtitles, but it would be easier to find a release group that also includes subtitles for Hebrew instead of waiting for someone to upload them. I know that the Hebrew subtitles are available on Disney+Hotstar because this is the version in Israel, but I can't find them on releases from it either. Is there any way to get the subtitles without the need of private Israeli torrent trackers?

I used to have an account on the PB many years ago, but my credentials are no good anymore. I'd like to post some movie and TV show dumps somewhere, particularly that'll be indexed by Torrentio and searchable to debrid users, but I'm having trouble finding anywhere with open signups. I'm specifically uploading English media.

Many users bought Resident evil for iOS because it was working offline. Perfect for long trips. But a new update adds a mandatory DRM online check at start-up.

I wrote bought, but actually the word is rented. One day Capcom stops updating the games (and this is 100% guaranteed) and a few years later the "owner" gets "This app needs to be updated to run on this iPhone"

Meanwhile, people who pirated a cracked ipa, don't get any issue in playing the game offline. DRM exclusively hurts the paying customers.

If youve used Prowlarr, you might have experienced cloudflare blocking access to certain trackers.

There's a docker-based solution called cloudsolverr which automatically bypasses these cloudflare challenges by spinning up a headless chromium browser.

Main issue is it's heavy on resources (I have an rpi4b) and doesn't have an easy native setup (I've not had time to practice with docker stuff yet).

Is there a manual way for me to resolve these cloudflare challenges so I can add the trackers? It's mainly for public shit like 1337x just to fill out my access to TV shows where my other trackers fail or get rate-limited.

I'm not sure it's the "best" way, but it's a solid alternative, and receives rapid updates when YouTube moves to break things.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/15571129

I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

You know what I mean, the FLAC and MP3 releases that are the majority of the releases on any site that allows them. Does anyone use these? Instead of soulseek and premium app downloaders?

edit: How are you guys in piracy lemmy and don't know what "the scene" is? FFS. It is NOT the demo scene. It means FLAC bundles and MP3 bundles with names like Zatox-Overdrive_(Original_Mix)-(ITAL044D)-SINGLE-WEB-2024-AOV

Since Russia started to use DPI to block YouTube and other stuff, there arised a couple of solutions to fuck with it. I've come around this repository or, even better, the end of it's page for many cross-platform tools that may let you avoid DPI, and I've used some of them to prove they are working.

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

They don't work for resources that are explicitely banned, it only undoes this one layer of blocking. As Russia didn't block YT (like Twitter) that's enough for that one usecase. It's no private VPN or something, but it may become useful in the future.

https://torrentgalaxy.to

I don't want to jump the gun here, they had outages for maintenance recently that were misconstrued as a possible takedown. After Fmovies went down I guess I'm just a little antsy.

Joke's on me if the site is up again minutes after I press "send" 😬

Update: TorrentFreak picked up on the outage as well

I have a MIG Switch and a few pirated games, though I'm afraid it will ban my account, including games I've bought.

I don't use Switch anymore due to philosophical reasons, so it's probably not a huge deal, but it would probably still piss me off, because I spent some money there.

Do you think it could be mitigated by resetting the switch to the factory settings and never logging in?

I've amassed a sizeable hoard, nearly all encoded h264 or h265.

The space savings made by AV1 are attractive, but I don't want to move on it until after I've acquired hardware capable of AV1 GPU accelerated decode.

Even then, the cost of reacquiring some works has to be weighed. Storage space gets freed; but how often do I actually revisit some cherished items?

Anybody else having to make similar evaluations?

"To download is human, to share is divine." - anonymous

I've been looking and I couldn't find any sites for ps4 games. Could somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks alot

The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"

• https://fmovie-s.to/

• https://www.fmovies.hn/

• https://fmoviesto.cc/

• https://fmovies.ps/

• many more

verified up and working today

I paid a one-time fee years ago for Adobe Premiere Pro, but when they moved to subscription-based service I lost access to my old edition of Premiere. It's like pulling teeth, I get so close but I'm so far.

Howdy maties, what seedbox providers do you use and what should be avoided when looking for one?

I want to get rid of my vps and get a dedicated seedbox, they seem to come nowadays with one click installs and the sorts, a vpn would be nice to have if needed, what do you look for when choosing a provider?

Hi, I recently discovered a post that finally allowed me to run the known repacks on Linux, so I decided to summarize everything and share it with you here on Lemmy; let me know if you would improve some steps to make the procedure even easier to follow.

Requirements

lutris, protonup-qt, wine-staging

Set Up Lutris

1. Open Lutris > Preferences > Global Options
2. Enable "Show advanced options"
3. "Disable Lutris Runtime" (off)
4. "Disable Desktop effects" (on)
5. "Disable Screen Saver" (on)
6. "Enable Feral GameMode" (on)
7. Save

Wine Versions Management

1. Open ProtonUp-Qt > choose Lutris > Add version
2. Choose and Install (ignore -LoL versions; Wine-GE suggested)
3. Restart Lutris

Install Windows Repacks

1. Open Lutris > + > Add locally installed game
2. Type the name of your game
3. Select Wine as Runner
4. Go to "Game options" tab
5. In "Wine prefix" create "/home/user/Games/your-game"
6. Go to "Runner options" tab
7. On "Wine version" select the version you prefer
8. Save
    8-1. (If FitGirl Repack)
    8-2. Click on the game your just added
    8-3. On the botton panel click the "Up" icon near the "Platform: Windows" text
    8-4. Run EXE inside Wine prefix
    8-5. Open the .bat file inside the FitGirl repack
    8-6. Wait then "Install"
    8-7. Wait the "Checking fg-01.bin" window and "All files OK"
    8-8. Close the window
9. Click on the game your just added
10. On the botton panel click the "Up" icon near the "Platform: Windows" text
11. Run EXE inside Wine prefix
12. Open the "setup.exe" file inside your repack
13. Wait; click "Install" if any installation prompt appears
14. Follow the DODI/FitGirl installer
    14-1. Use "C:\" as destination
    14-2. Don't create a desktop icon or a start menu entry
    14-3. Deselect every option that starts with "Update" for eg: "Update DirectX"
15. After the installation > right click on the game > Configure
16. Go to "Game Options" tab
17. In "Executable" put "/home/user/Games/your-game/drive_c/Your Game/your_game.exe"
18. Save
19. (optional) Right click on your game > Create desktop shortcut

Credits

Jack000999, SolarPunker

Based on (https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCrackSupport/comments/yqfirv/how_to_install_fitgirl_or_dodi_windows_repacks_in/)

I'm new to Soulseek, just downloaded a bunch of music I like. I want to not be a leach and give back to the community by sharing the things I downloaded, however Mullvad doesn't allow port forwarding. Is it possible to share files on Soulseek without having open ports? Does everyone who shares stuff on Soulseek use no VPN/a VPN with port forwarding?

Since the Plex announcement that their integration with tidal is ending, I'm considering what my options are. I'm aware the the *arrs but is there anything that will recommend music?

What do all you die hard pirates do to discover new bands?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/17313841

• https://annas-archive.org/
• https://www.myanonamouse.net/
• https://www.smartquantai.com/
• https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/
• https://unpaywall.org/

I hope that I'm doing my bit