Piracy

I really hope this is a belated April Fools joke...

I just saw the huge list of sites that yt-dl supports, and it's ... well staggering. I've been playing around with it a bit more, and I'm writing custom aliases for ease of downloading. For example I made:

alias bandcamp-dl="youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata -o '~/Music/%(artist)s/%(album)s/%(track_number)02d - %(track)s.%(ext)s'"

That alias allows me to do bandcamp-dl <http://some-album.url>, and then it creates the proper artist and album directories in my music library, adds the tracks as mp3s with formatted file names, and sets their metadata so my music app can pick it up.

Anyone else have some handy aliases or yt-dl commands that do something cool?

Puting this here incase the redidt one gets banned.

Hi. I'm downloading a torrent using BiglyBT, and it says I have no seeds for my torrent. Is there a way to find more seeds for my torrent? I was using i2p to download, but my download kept getting stalled, so I decided to switch over to BiglyBT.

Government officials look on as pirated publications, including DVDs, CDs, etc., are placed on the ground before being destroyed during a campaign against piracy in Taiyuan, Shanxi province on April 20, 2015. (picture Reuters/Jon Woo)

Lionel Mapleson was the Metropolitan Operaʼs librarian from the 1890s until he died in 1937. In 1900, he purchased an Edison “Home” Cylinder Phonograph, smuggled the gadget into the prompter’s box, and started recording excerpts from Metropolitan performances. In 1904, Mapleson’s piratical activities came to an end, but by then he had amassed an extraordinary collection that has been called one of the most valuable legacies in the history of recorded sound.

If I want to read https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/post-american-world-is-now-full-display/, I have to use archive.vn which allows me to go past the paywall (https://archive.vn/yTP0x). However, archive.vn is still proprietary so I installed ArchiveBox which is free software but does not go past the paywall. Does anyone have any solutions?

https://fossbytes.com/kickass-proxy-list-torrents-kat/

Another one of my projects.