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I've always bought my games on steam or OFFICIAL key resellers (GMG) since I was an adult, but sometimes it has got really expensive.

Do you consider 'cracked games' safe for your PC, your data, and finally your privacy?

You should always support developers, but it's not always possible.

I've been following the instructions of a bunch of posts I found online but nothing works :( I've heard that there is a way to crack the latest versions but I really don't know how since I'm not that knowledgeable about this kind of stuff

For context I use a Samsung Galaxy tab lite 10

If anyone decides to give me a hang I'll be super thankful

I ripped a lot of xhtml files from a crappy ebook reader online, how do combine these into a pdf?

Specificially https://en.z-lib.gs/

I downloaded some pdfs from there and according to virustotal and some pdf online scanner i tried, they have something possibly malicious going on in them. I already deleted them but i opened them in firefox pdf reader. I dont have acrobat installed.

Scanning my system with malwarebytes now, but nothing is finding anything wrong and I havent seen any suspicious activity.

Here is the analysis itself.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f3140c932ab57256a8438eba31d18e4baee1413e7ec23d93b1c1f5194b6dea95/behavior

I'm starting to panic, please help if you have any advice

Thank you all, you are wonderful people

Is there a method to see which domains were seized, when 3 letter agencies seize them due to piracy.

Within the past month or two, Europol et al seized ~100 IPTV domains. I'm curious to know what these domains were. I've Googled but my Googlefuu isn't good enough.

And I'm curious in general for all piracy related domain seizes.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/24139791

Cory recommends a response for Canada to the USA's promised tariffs: break ranks on oppressive IP laws and build a local right-to-repair economy.

Edit: Corrected link. Sorry about that!

There is a substack I want to see

https://substack.com/@unsettledscience

FMHY doesn't have anything for substack listed, what are the substack content options?

I was working on a comment to a general post asking how to start pirating games. I tried to submit it but then soon realized that the post was deleted by the moderators while I was working on the comment. So, here you go:

Yarr welcome to the ship. Three rules you must always follow, lest the empire tracks u and sinks ur ship. Penalties for piracy vary by region (in the US if the ISP receives letters from copyright lawyers too many times about your file sharing behavior, they can suspend your internet)

First thing is a bittorrent client. There is really only one true bittorent client, which is qBittorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org/). Stay away from uTorrent, they aren't good anymore. Others like Transmission are good as well.

Second is a VPN. My personal favorite is hide.me, since they have a Wireguard VPN (see https://hide.me/en/wireguard-vpn) and port forwarding. A very important thing to do is to choose one with port forwarding.

Port forwarding is the ability to open ports through your VPN. Basically, it allows you to be seen by Seeders even with closed ports, so they can establish a connection with you. This usually dramatically increases your download rate initially (because seeders can sometimes connect with you even if they have closed ports, it'll just take a while). Also, it's good for seeding as well and it helps the swarm! Here is a more complete explanation: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35669790

Another very pro tip is to bind your VPN to your torrent client. In qBittorrent, simply change Preferences -> Advanced -> Network Interface. (To know which one, go to your terminal and type "ifconfig" if you're on Linux or "ipconfig" if Windows. It will show you a list of all your network interfaces. Type this command two times, one with your VPN off and one with your VPN on, and whichever interface appears should be it)

Thirdly, come to a pirate site. There's fitgirl-repacks.site, or there's dodi-repacks.site. Download the installation folder and run the installation file.

Is piracy from reddit allowed? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/p6h7em/answered_why_you_do_need_portforwarding_for/

Many people look for a VPN with the primary goal of running Bittorrent. Sadly nearly equally many people have no idea what's important there and recommend a random popular VPN without port-forwarding. They know no better. These misguided 'recommendations' are all over this sub and r/piracy too. Explanation

> But it has been running fine without any port-forwarding for me!

If you are OK with your downloads failing in 10% of cases then continue as usual. If you don't want to miss a chance, here's a short explanation:

Bittorrent relies on your connection working both ways: to accept incoming and outgoing connections. Without port-forwarding: you may will see slower speeds, slower speed ramp up and if a torrent has very few online seeders you may run into a situation where you cannot connect to anybody at all - no download! Seeding is very hard without port-forwarding.

Normally home users cannot accept incoming connections due to NAT. This is always the case for proxies and VPNs, but some VPNs allow the assignment of a port that will always lead to your connected device (and to your client). Making outgoing connections is always technically possible but then you rely on the seed/peer to have their ports open! At least one side must be open. There's no way around.

A detailed explanation would be too long but you can ask in comments.

Is it safe (privacy-wise)? Decide for yourself, discussions also in comments

Opinion & TLDR: If a VPN tracked/logged you, they don't need port-forwarding to find you. On the other hand, it is possible that the no-log VPN is forced to disclose which account currently (at the time of request) has the port in question configured. So far without known precedents. I believe it's worth it, without seeding torrents would die. How to

Pick a VPN provider that supports port-forwarding. Here's a list I compiled last month.

Pick a client and force it to only ever use the VPN connection in settings (see screenshots). This is called IP/interface binding

In client settings set the "incoming port" to match the forwarded port from your VPN provider (also referred to as "local port")

    Disable UPnP and other automatic configuration unless your VPN provider explicitly only works with UPnP.

You are set. Bon voyage at the calm seas!

Sometimes you also need to allow incoming connections to the client application in your firewall. EDIT: Examples

Explicit examples where port-forwarding will help establishing a connection:

Downloader, closed port <--- ---> Seeder, closed port: Tough luck!

Downloader, closed port ---> Seeder, open port: Instant!

Downloader, open port ---> Seeder, closed port: Bummer. Need to wait until Seed sees and connects back to you. Usually up to 30min (or tracker refresh time)

Downloader, open port <---> Seeder, open port: Instant! in either direction

I am writing these posts to form a complete guide for people to follow and set up everything. Next time I see someone recommending a trashy VPN, I'll send them here.

I know I'd need wine and proton but some more details would be nice on how it should work using bazzite with kde plasma if it help edit: tried heroic and it works, lutris got balatro working through it still not sure how but that's future me problem but for now it works

I want to install MAS to my clubhouse's computer so I can share MS Office with our member, but I wonder if it's really safe.

Some people on Reddit say that it's a trojan

https://www.reddit.com/r/pchelp/comments/1crolj9/reinstalled_windows_10_and_windows_security/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/16rdsc4/regret_using_microsoft_activation_scripts/

They say that I can check the source code since it's open sourced, but I'm not sure. It's too complex, and downloading several files inside a script. I haven't checked yet but it can be downloading some blobs, idk.

Also the domain of the official page sounds suspicious... "mass grave"??

Edit: I use Debian btw

I just saw that the github user bambanah seems to has started to continue the development of deemix!!

There's now a docker image you can use too.

Reddit link with more info about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114172700/https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1g5nar6/deezer_downloader_deemix_has_been_revived_on/

I see many posts about piracy services closing down, so maybe this post gives some hope:)

The support team will be applying a 50% time bonus to all Unlimited Accounts through January 19th.

I'd like input on how some of you store, consume & protect your media. I have a rather limited knowledge of hardware and also limited floor space & plugs in my surge protector. My current PC has 2 2TB internal hard drives and no Wi-Fi Card from when it was rebuilt 2yrs ago.

Basically, I want something I can store a LOT of video (let's say 10T+), stream it to my devices, have some type of backup of the material and protection from power failures.

I've heard many terms like Media Server, NAS, Raid, UPS & services like Sync.com, etc. and have tried sorting through various videos on YouTube but it just confuses me more.

Any positive responses would be most appreciated!

hello people, forgive my ignorance, im new to piracy and lately i was looking for a course i need, i looked in the megathread for the best website to download courses from but non of them have it. when i checked some others, i found it on bt4gprx.com and on btdigg, i don't know anything about these sites, i don't know if they provide safe piracy content, i know that no site is 100% safe but there is a minimum as u know, plus both only have the magnet downloading method, and i use direct download since i live in a third world country. so guys anyone here has experience with one of these site ? if not, what site you recommend me to download courses from ? specially the unpopular courses? sorry for the long writing ! tks in advance !!

I know, I know, the wisest thing to do is to abandon them, but today I came across a site that I simply couldn't bypass because it always blocked me with an extremely stupid "disable your adblock" video, that infuriated me so much... I would 100% migrate to torrents if I didn't find such unique catalogs on these sites.

Today I was trying to download Affinity Photo 2 from the websites listed on the megathread, as normally I do exactly that and everything goes just fine.

But when scanning the downloaded files. Windows Defender detected it as hacktool.win32.keygen and malwarebytes as Generic.Malware.AI.DDS.

In the case of Windows, I am guessing that it is not detecting a virus but the actual crack right? That's what that means as far as I'm aware. But what surprised me was malwarebytes, it has sometimes warned about cracks but it's not something it does often, and I don't recognize the detection code, but it seems to be using AI to detect malware now?

Is this something that is known to happen? Malwarebytes AI seems to be detecting cracks as malware... Or is this actually a virus?

I put it in quarantine just in case, but I am guessing this has to be false positives, as it happened with 2 different downloads from 2 different websites.

VirusTotal results also flagged it as "malware", but seems to be also detecting the crack. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/127540f7b3558a94f6e8a4ce9c695231e8715e20a17da4584d5df99035a79d49/detection

PrivTracker allows to share torrent files just with your friends, nobody else. Unlike public trackers, it shares peers only within a group which is using the same Announce URL. It really works like a private tracker, but can be generated with one click of a button.

Title. A particular game Ive been looking for for ages is dead in torrents/dl. Now its sequel is also out.

I found old reddit forums where you could request such games, but theyve been dead for 2+ years.

Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

In your opinion what is the must have search engine plugins?

is this website (https://tut4it.com/) safe to download courses from it? i found the course i want but i don't know if it's safe. anyone here have used before?

Veilid is a peer-to-peer network and application framework released by the Cult of the Dead Cow on August 11, 2023, at DEF CON 31. Seems more promising than I2P.

Hi! I'm trying to archive papers as soon as they appear in a scientific journal, and I've attempted to search for PDF links on each page using some regular web scraping.

The problem is that most of these journals will add their fancy PDF readers, and downloading the file is not as straight-forward as it seems. However, the Zotero Connector works flawlessly when you trigger the extension. Therefore, I attempted to set up a selenium instance with this extension to download the papers given a link, but I struggle to actually get the extension to trigger. I tried sending a Shift + Ctrl + S command, but that doesn't seem to get picked up. Similarly, I can't figure out how to call the extension from the console.

Did anyone else attempt such a workflow before? Am I doing something completely unnecessary, as there are better options available? Help a fellow sailor out. Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Libgen.li worked well.

Edit: someone in the comments says restored. I’m on mobile can’t link them