Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I don't want to spam the community but I can't for the life of me find a way to search within communities. If anyone knows a way, it'd be greatly appreciated.

I'm basically looking for the fastest way to get music on my old ipods (nano and classic 5th gen). I once used a de-drm tool to import my Spotify playlists but it took days. Are music torrents mostly private trackers now, or do y'all know a better way to get my stuff on an ipod?

Can anybody lead me down the right path on this...?

I run a jellyfin server and I'd like to utilize a raspberry pi as the equivalent of a roku box / fire stick but for my jellyfin server.

I'm setting this up for a friend as a gift. He isn't very tech savvy so I wanted to make it user-friendly. I'm looking into buying a usb remote control as well.

I love the jellyin UI so it would be cool to stick with that.

What are my options? It would be ideal if the pi boots up right into the browser/player app and can be accessed/controlled via the remote like roku or similar.

I finally started connecting my TV to my desktop PC and I've been recommended this app to use the mouse remotely from my bed, rathen than getting up and going to click on the mouse all the time.

My room is small so I can't really fit in an extra table with a wireless mouse.

Unified remote is great and I'd recommend it to anyone, except my phone battery is unusually draining way too fast.

For instance I've used my phone just a little today and tonight is at 15%, it never happened before. I haven't even used Unified Remote but I'm wondering if the server is running in background all the time (or if it's connected all the time).

Sorry, I'm not a big expert, so I'd like to ask you guys, what's your experience with Unifed remote?

I don't want to spam the community but I can't for the life of me find a way to search within communities. If anyone knows a way, it'd be greatly appreciated.

I'm basically looking for the fastest way to get music on my old ipods (nano and classic 5th gen). I once used a de-drm tool to import my Spotify playlists but it took days. Are music torrents mostly private trackers now, or do y'all know a better way to get my stuff on an ipod?

The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/

The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/

To complement this post:

[Poll] All useful tools to download and organize media.

Please write a single answer per comment to clearly see the most popular tools. Vote on the ones you like.

There were too many options in this post and I want to see what are the really interesting ones.

To complement this post:

What file-sharing and media organizing software do you wish that existed?

After searching around online, it seems REPACK (for TV Shows and Movies) means something different when used by Scene groups vs P2P groups.

From what I've gathered:

• Scene REPACK means something was wrong with the original (non-REPACK) upload. The original Scene release group then releases a fixed version and labels it as a REPACK.

All I've been able to find on P2P REPACK's is that it means something different than it does for Scene. Does anyone have any additional context on what REPACK means when used on P2P releases of TV Shows/Movies?

I am such a huge horror junkie, I know you will say everything is on those two sites, but that is not the case for me. Where can I go to find good quality encodes of obscure titles?

Yet another argument in favour of piracy…

I have a paid Usenet account with good retention and I download through sabnzbd. I've only ever used nzbindex.com as an indexer.

For a long time it was easy to find TV/movies but in recent years it's become almost impossible. Has Usenet become a bad option because of takedowns or am I missing a modern way of using it?

I see there are lots of binaries posted with cryptic or random string names. Are these supposed to be regular TV/movies etc. with obfuscated names so they can't be found and taken down?

Do better/private indexers give access to these files or otherwise solve not being to find anything? Is it still supposed to be possible to find reliable new release shows and movies?

Are Sonarr/Radarr are what I need, do they solve the problem of not being able to find files, or do they just provide more convenience for the same files I can already find?

I have premier, after effects, etc running just fine. Lightroom is giving me a ton of trouble, and on most of the megathread sites, the version is a year or more old. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hey fellow pirates, new to the fediverse but I thought I would share a torrent of the complete RARBG database in txt format that I downloaded from https://github.com/2004content/rarbg on 6/4 about a week before the github page got taken down:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:69ffcaa45d6fdc112832dd6c158fdca7e1eee912&dn=Github_RARBG_db.7z

To download, copy and paste that link into your client where it says add torrent link.

This is the most complete database I've seen, with 3,459,526 magnet links, and it is easy use because it is formatted as a single 395 mb text file. Just open with notepad++ or notepad2 and search. (just make sure to use periods instead of spaces when searching titles)

I'm always seeing a lot of incomplete versions of this database floating around, along with that old sqlite one from r/piratedgames that this one is based on, so I thought I'd make an account just to share this awesome work by 2004content.

Enjoy, and happy seeding!

Edit: See my comment below for the link with trackers added if you have trouble downloading trackerless torrents (the database itself contains trackerless links, so you will have to add trackers manually for those if needed.)

As of today I've noticed a few posts on the old Piracy sub talking about the megathread being replaced. I'm aware of the recent mod team changes

The general changes seem to be that someone had write access to the megathread and changed it to talk poorly about the new mod team (of the old sub) though personally I can't see any such messages on the usual megathread

I know we're not really meant to bring up the old sub however I'm unsure if the megathread changes are something we also need to implement here or if this is more just mod drama?

My main question is

1. Did the original megathread actually get changed to talk badly about the mod team
2. Which Megathread should we be using from now on?

Edit: The new pinned megathread on r/Piracy that was discussing this change has now been removed just to add to the confusion

I've heard that tigole is the best, but i've also seen Silence, SAMPA, etc. Is there really any difference? Should I avoid any of them?

I'm curious who your favorite torrent uploaders are (sorted by quality) e.g. QxR, UTR, etc.

Looks like the website was suddenly changed to new owners. Odd that it happened without notice to the mod team. Lot of things seem to be broken, more than just a change of domain and website colour. Videos are not being allowed to play in brave, just firefox and chrome. Only two video sources now.

Was my go to for checking out new anime quickly before I commit to downloading it on my server.

Thought it was interesting :)

Hello - I need some help understanding something. I'm looking at two WEB-DL files from reputable groups that are identical in nearly all ways (see details below), except one file is noticeably larger than the other (2.8GB vs 3.47GB, for example). I thought WEB-DL's should be the same size if they're from the same source (AMZN in this instance), so I'm a little confused as to why there's such a disparity in size when all else appears equal.

Any idea's what could explain the difference in file size here? I'm assuming the FLUX file is older based on when it was first uploaded vs the NTb one. Could this have something to do with it?

Bonus question: Which file would you choose in this situation?

(1) 1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-NTb

• FileSize......: 2.80 GiB
• Duration......: 42 min 35 s
• Video.........: High@L4 | 1920x1080 @ 9 197 kb/s
• Audio.........: English Dolby Digital Plus | 2 CH @ 224 kb/s
• Subtitle......: English / English.

(2) 1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP.2.0.H.264-FLUX

• FileSize......: 3.47 GiB
• Duration......: 42 min 12 s
• Video.........: High@L4 | 1920x1080 @ 11.3 Mb/s
• Audio.........: English Dolby Digital Plus | 2 CH @ 224 kb/s
• Subtitle......: English.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies! For anyone who stumbles upon this later on with a similar question, there's some really great replies in the comments below worth checking out. In my case, the file size difference was due to the difference in bitrate, where the bitrate differential is likely due to either (A) the region where the AMZN WEB-DL occurred (with different regions having different bitrates), or (B) the release group modifying the bitrate to fit a specific need (like limiting the file size). Knowing both release groups here tend to prioritize quality, I'm guessing the region is likely the main driver in the difference in bitrate size.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1005176

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