Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I'm already a pirate on PC. I use Steamunlocked, but I'm wondering if there's a website or app like that but for the Mac version of the game.

Hey all. I'm a pirate already for PC games. I mostly use Steamunlocked.com, but I'm wondering if there's a site like that for Mac versions of games.

Hello just making a poll, which one do you prefer? personally I prefer x265 but since the rarbg falldown i've seen that almost all 1080p rips are in x264, what do you think about that, and do you recommend any place to find more x265 content beside those in the megathread?

Is there a site that has full criterion blu rays? Cinemaz and PrivateHD don't have what I'm looking for and PTP seems impossible to get in. Are there any sites that upload the full blu rays?

Is uTorrent still a viable option? Or is there something else you'd recommend?

Looking for something compact to keep saving my movies as most of my files are rargb 1080p x265

Working link for Z-Lib: https://zlibrary-asia.se/

There're books I'm searching for that haven't been uploaded to the mainstream ebook sites (libgen, z-lib, AA, etc.) mainly lifestyle magazines and non-fiction books. I checked the links in the megathread and those sites don't have them either. So where do you all go when all else fails?

I'd love to learn how to pirate books on my own, since my only exposure is ripping books from The Internet Archive with Calibre. I've made book requests to Z-Library, but who knows when an uploader may get to it. VK used to be one of my go-to sources for magazines and novels, but it's harder to find legitimate links and many of the older uploaders seemed to have disappeared. Twirpx doesn't seem to get uploads frequently enough, so I've really only used it to upload new books myself or download outdated texts.

Today I saw someone had some sort of attack in the middle of the street, no one knew what to do and everyone was staring, incluiding me. I dont want to feel useless again in a situation like that so i decided to do a first aid course, i saw that red course has some courses partially online but they are quite expensive for me. I also cannot find them pirated anywhere, if you know where to find the red cross or any other first aid course for free please let me know :)

Used to sail the high seas in the days of TPB and Demonoid (when they were still good). Started again recently with a servarr stack with Deluge on docker but didn't realize it wasn't seeding properly and now my torrentleech ratio is in grave danger.

What might I be missing in my network config? Docker has all ports exposed and Deluge has uPnP enabled. Downloads work just fine and torrents periodically connect to peers but nothing ever actually uploads.

I do use BitTorrent, but it's never going to beat the convenience of just searching for a file and getting it when p2p networks first came out.

For niche stuff like 1930s movies sometimes I need to start a few torrents to make sure at least one of them has seeds.

I have had success with soulseek for music, but what do you guys use for other types of files?

In the past, most software I used was paid and proprietary and would have some sort of limitation that I would try to get around by any means possible. Sometimes that would be resetting the clock on my computer, disabling the internet, and other times downloading a patch.

But in the past few years I've stopped using those things and have focused only on free and open source software (FOSS) to fulfill my needs. I hardly have to worry about privacy problems or trying to lock down a program that calls home. I might be missing out on some things that commercial software delivers, but I'm hardly aware of what they are anymore. It seems like the trend is for commercial software providers to migrate toward online or service models that have the company doing all the computing. I'm opposed to that, since they can take away your service at any time.

What do you do?

After working pretty well for several years suddenly NordVPN is returning an AUTH_FAILURE via OpenVPN, despite the same username/password working to login on their website. Has anyone else suddenly experienced this? Any clues? (other than stop using NordVPN [wink]/-sigh-) Thank you! UPDATE: NordVPN is (apparently) reading as down via https://downdetector.com/status/nord-vpn/map/

UPDATE2: It is starting to indicate a generalized failure of accepting authorization from OpenVPN as one can see from the comments down the page linked above. Has NordVPN quietly pulled a reddit against 'third party' agents? (if so, i want some money back - hah, fat chance -sigh-)

Been able to retrieve dead torrent content for myself, see if I can do it in other categories. Just send me your longing torrent/magnet link/btdig link. I checked, its not against the community rule

I want to sign up under this instance and host communites, but privacy is important to me.

Privacy drove me off reddit, I looked around for these answers but not sure where to come across them.

1)Am I sharing my IP address/ location with my host instance? 2)is there a log of my view history 3)i know that this instance has a heavy Piracy base, what is the risk of joining this? 4) are there general privacy concerns that I am not thinking of?

I know these may be dumb questions but as a user and not necessarily the most tech savvy, any education would help!

I do not want to be in a position where a Government creates an instance, and allows them to monitor.

Greetings,

When downloading books from zlibrary, the top option is the format which is stated in the description, with "basic format" added in the end. The rest of the options may include the same format without the "basic format" tag in the end and they are slightly bigger.

What's their difference? Is it the same document re-formated to the same format thus making it slightly bigger or does it have anything extra?

Like, supposing there's a book which is a pdf. The options may be:

• pdf basic format 1.2mb
• pdf 1.25mb
• epub 1mb

What's the difference between the first two?

PS. My first post on lemmy!🙃

I've created a community that I thought may be useful to some of you /c/pcreleases It's currently locked and contains a post per day containing any Windows/Mac/Linux releases as a roundup along with some repacker releases.

It'd be great to get some feedback or ideas on making these more useful to the community at large? Or if its even something that is needed or not :)

I have finally found an indexer with a lot of German releases, but sadly Germans are so bad in naming things that Sonarr keeps overriding wrong episodes (pokemin for example, wehre the new netflix episodes are counted as pokemon reisen s01e01) Now I thought, maybe I can help / get help from others with German releases etc.

In the world of file sharing, BitTorrent has long been hailed as the go-to protocol for its efficient initial distribution capabilities. However, when it comes to maintaining availability and ensuring the longevity of shared files, BitTorrent falls short. There are several alternative platforms that make it much easier to share files, allowing the seeder to reorganize the files to their hearts' content without losing the ability to keep seeding to a torrent. Fopnu, eMule, DC++, and Nicotine+ are some of the better alternatives that make sharing a breeze.

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I'm sure everyone lately has noticed there's a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last

I personally am loving the Lemmy community but I feel as though keeping the piracy subreddit in it's current state is making users of it quite hostile to change since they believe they are being forced to move

This will honestly make them refuse to ever use Kbin/Lemmy since in their eyes it's the moderators and users here that have killed r/Piracy (obviously wrong of the stick it's Reddit that's killing it's own communities with it's policies)

So I guess it's a question of should we as a community hand over the subreddit to a new moderation team or some other change since I don't feel like it's doing us any favours

Hoping to use this post as a sort of discussion about people's opinions

Let's start a thread with scripts that remove metadata from files.

I will start by sharing some that use ffmpeg for mp4 files

Bash

for file in /path/to/folder/*.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy "/path/to/folder/$(basename "$file")"; done

Replace /path/to/folder with the actual path to the folder containing the input files. This command will iterate over all mp4 files in the folder and execute the ffmpeg command with the same input and output filenames.

Emacs Lisp

(defun batch-process-mp4-files (folder)
  (interactive "DSelect folder: ")
  (async-shell-command
   (format "for file in %s/*.mp4; do ffmpeg -i \"$file\" -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy \"%s/$(basename \"$file\")\"; done"
           folder folder)))

Same as the above bash command, but you can just put the folder path interactively, and since it's async-shell-command you can run multiple of them with ease.

What do you use?

Anyone here got any recommendations for paid cloud storage options? Given where we are I’m looking for piracy friendly options.

@piracy Federation problems? I cannot see any posts newer than 2 days