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flora_explora, to piracy in Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US

Haven’t watched on fmovies before, thanks for the suggestion I guess :)

Fleppensteijn,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

FYI It seems like at least the US government doesn’t want you to go there. So if Fmoviesz is down or something, you should be careful to avoid alternatives such as sflix.to, lookmovie2.to, flixtorz.to, sflix.to, movieuniverse.se, soap2dayto.day.

flora_explora,

I’m not in the US, so no problem! But thanks for letting me know what else to look out for :)

pifroproth,

i will definetely not go there anymore winks

Kevnyon,
@Kevnyon@kbin.social avatar

Oh my God, thanks for the heads up! As a European, I would most definitely want to avoid visiting these sites, as I obviously respect copyright law to its full extent! Now I can add them to my (block) list!

Vampire, to piracy in Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US
@Vampire@hexbear.net avatar

Vote Pirate Party

Apollo2323,

Is there a Pirate party in the US?

Morgikan,
@Morgikan@lemm.ee avatar

Every day is a pirate party in the US.

pastermil,

AARRRR

Saoirse,
@Saoirse@hexbear.net avatar

Ha, no, we don’t have the kind of political system which would make such small parties useful. Anyone who isn’t in one of the big two is essentially disenfranchised.

kreynen,
@kreynen@kbin.social avatar

we don’t have the kind of political system YET...

Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions — from small cities to states — have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, according to tracking by the advocacy group FairVote, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024.

Advocates say ranked choice voting could help take some of the toxicity out of American politics while giving voters access to a broader swath of ideas.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/13/1214199019/ranked-choice-voting-explainer

Assian_Candor, to piracy in Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US
@Assian_Candor@hexbear.net avatar

Cool so we are going to nationalize the film industry? Force consolidation of streaming services? Treat entertainment like a utility and fix their rates with a tariff? No? Then fuck off

lemann,

Mic drop

aodhsishaj, to piracy in Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US

Goddammit Ted Lieu, you are for encryption and data privacy but you’re against media sharing?

Blacksheep,

He’s for whoever pays him money… bunch of dirty greedy fuckwads who have zero concept of how the average person lives. Piracy wouldn’t be a problem if companies were providing easy access for a low price. It had dropped quite a bit when netflix was the only option and they weren’t charging extortion fees and raising them every couple months.

aodhsishaj,

Yes, he’s making that pretty obvious

DebatableRaccoon,

Not to mention the insane amount of exclusivity going on now and even the stupidity of certain features of the service not being available in certain areas. I stopped paying for Netflix when I got it from a rep that because I was living in a non-English-speaking country that I couldn’t have access to the English voice track of a show I wanted to watch.

Subscriptions are the next iteration of the console wars. They bank on exclusives instead of designing the best user experience and selling themselves on merit alone.

BolexForSoup, (edited ) to piracy in DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

I am under no illusion that 99% of people who pirate, movies, music, games, etc. are doing it for purely selfish reasons and a lot of sites exist to enable it. But the simple fact of the matter is court battles over piracy have been one of the strongest bulwarks for consumer protection/ownership and protecting an open internet over the last 20 years. So yeah, a lot of folks are going to make some drivel up about how they’re preserving history or whatever as they don’t even adhere to basic archive standards and their entire collection is coincidentally only stuff they like lol, but hey, I still like seeing the wins!

density,
@density@kbin.social avatar

a lot of folks are going to make some drivel up about how they’re preserving history or whatever as they don’t even adhere to basic archive standards and their entire collection is coincidentally only stuff they like lol

history will never forget joe rogan, the family guy, nirvana, playboy magazine, zelda, 4chan etc thanks to these heroic amateur archivists... lol not exactly representative of the plurality of human creativity

around the edges of the amateurs and within institutions they support like archive.org there is more room to value the diversity of human creation. I hope there would be more infusion of democracy and valuing of materials not of interest to white men.

teichflamme,

Africans and Asians pirate a shit ton of stuff, so I don’t know why you had to bring race into this

BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

You ignored like 90% of the comment.

teichflamme,

And? I could have cited the entirety of the comment and my argument would still stand

BolexForSoup, (edited )
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

So whining about “reverse racism” or whatever you call it these days qualifies as an argument now?

snownyte, (edited )
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

I'll take those downvotes as admission of guilt, thank you.

You're very much on point. I see it all of the time, people are just holding out their hands more for free stuff than giving a single shit about the cause of piracy. "Plz give me link to download photoshop" or "plz give me seeds to download torrent of this AAA game, plz" almost all of the time. They decorate it through many guises of reasons but the bottom line is still the same - "I just want free shit".

And this year alone has seen a lot of awful losses for the pirating community as a whole. RARBG is gone, Uloz is gone (from what it once was anyways), 13DL is gone, Webtoon will soon be gone, Fmoviesto is gone. These are very huge sources of all of the pirated media we've taken for granted over the years. And when they all went down, one by one, the sentiment wasn't "awww, I'm going to miss them" in sincerity. It's more like "aww, now where will I get my free shit now?" and they offer absolutely no resolutions except for the more savvy folks.

I blame loud-mouth, entitled and selfish pirates for why these services get shut down. I blame them because they're the ones going around online just yapping and yapping, eventually it'll catch the interests of undesired people or people who are morally conflicted on piracy. They take action, for however long it takes, the service is shut down and everyone is shit out of luck.

They're the same idiots who storm to pirate communities all like "WHUT DU I DU? I GUT A LETTRH FROM MUH ISP AND I JUST DUWNLUDED SHIT" and 9 times out of 10, people have to spell it out for them that the reason they get caught is because of no VPN or mistrusting the wrong VPN services or not watching their fucking backs.

Now on the other hand, I will not jeer for the times pirating has it's victories, like this one. Because it'd be dismissive and ignorant to ignore the elephant in the room that the core reason why piracy still continues is become of the stomping of consumer rights and the draconian practices of the entertainment industry that not a lot of people are holding accountable for why shit is the way it is.

BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

It is shocking how many people don’t know how to use a VPN when proton is like $5 and takes all of 10 seconds to set up.

It seems I pissed a few people off with my comment, but hey, if you feel I’m talking about you maybe you should think about it folks!

Let me also be clear that I am not against pirating. I am against covering it with window dressing and pretending we aren’t all doing what we know we’re doing.

docious,

It seems I pissed a few people off with my comment

I think you overestimate the downvote button.

BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

“A few” is an over estimation?

docious,

“Pissed off”

Wow.

BolexForSoup, (edited )
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

You’re being far more irritating than any of them. You’re seriously picking a fight over “pissed off a few people”? Reevaluate how you spend your time man. I’m done personally.

docious,

Picking a fight

Wow

snownyte, (edited )
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

Especially with how much it holds your hand in understanding how it works. I'd know, because I've used the damn thing.

I think the people getting stung by the commentary here, are really people who I've personally called out in my comment alone. They also don't like the truth of what's being told in general as well.

I've pirated for over 16 years myself and I know my end goal was always to get free shit, but it became more than that where I've started to pay attention about the scope of pirating. I got better and understood better as I went along. In other words, I'm more of a wary pirate these days than stupidly bumbling myself around and relying on all of these services to stay up forever, for my leisure.

The worst I've ever gotten in my entire history of pirating was just an ISP letter. A single letter. I didn't get fined, arrested, raided, dragged to court or anything. Done it all in America, the place where it was a hotbed where a lot of that was going on with other people caught downloading and uploading.

And I side with all of the pirates who're fighting a good fight by keeping the practice alive and duping the entertainment industry at every turn. I side with other wary pirates who'd scoff and cold shoulder the idiots who refuse to learn, hell that's why some places are fucking invite only, for christ sake! They don't want stupid scrubs coming into their turf and fucking things up for the rest of them and asking a hundred dumb questions they've don't got the time to answer. Especially when they've been answered as much as it's been asked!

Gallardo994, to piracy in Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions

And Kagi just lists it as the first result when searching for “tpb”. Hope they’re not jumping on the train any time soon

zaknenou,
@zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I need to pirate their service somehow (Kagi)

Morgikan, to piracy in "Mission Impossible" Leak with Chinese Connection Floods Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
@Morgikan@lemm.ee avatar

Ethical piracy is not watching Tom Cruise movies.

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

Laughs uncontrollably

bulwark, to piracy in Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions

I haven’t used Google search in years. Their monopoly on the Internet is really trash.

ImminentOrbit,

Which search engine do you prefer? I’ve been looking to switch because the results are not as good as they used to be in my opinion, but I’m not sure which of these other ones are better?

Burn_The_Right,

Duckduckgo has been my default for a couple years. It’s excellent.

Kolgeirr,

I like SearXNG

mandelbrotvurst,

I’ve been very happy with duckduckgo.

bulwark,

Kagi. It’s a subscription but it has a lot of good features and no advertised.

AncientFutureNow,

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  • jvrava9,
    @jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I suggest using SearXNG and Startpage

    TurdMongler,

    Setup a Whoogle instance!

    BilboBargains,

    Nice

    SchizoDenji,

    Honestly, duckduckgo isnt as bad and easier to switch to.

    juli, to piracy in DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony

    It’s a DNS provider from the police, it would be bad for them if the couldn’t resolve those domains

    orsetto,

    Why do you say it’s from the police?

    juli,

    Quad9 is from global cyber alliance and that is, among others, from the police of london (www.cityoflondon.police.uk). they are listed among the partners on following site. I can’t find another source right now. www.globalcyberalliance.org/become-a-partner/

    LunchEnjoyer,
    @LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

    Lol this wins the most absurd conspiracy of the day.

    AtmaJnana,

    That’s a super tenuous connection. Having their name listed as a partner of a cyber alliance doesnt mean much.

    Quad9 is entirely subject to Swiss privacy law, and the Swiss government extends that protection of the law to Quad9’s users throughout the world, regardless of citizenship or country of residence

    They are not at all subject to City of London laws.

    Got anything concrete or…?

    dangblingus,

    Quad9 is operated by the Quad9 Foundation, a Swiss public-benefit, not-for-profit foundation with the purpose of improving the privacy and cybersecurity of Internet users, headquartered in Zurich. It is the only global public resolver which is operated not-for-profit, in the public benefit.

    dangblingus, to piracy in Premier League Targets Dozens of Illegal Streaming Sites in U.S. Court

    Sports is the final frontier for piracy. Live events, blackouts, and the general shadiness of pirate sports streaming sites make for one hell of a challenge. If sports content providers could just provide an all-in-one streaming solution at a fair price, it would definitely solve the “service problem” aspect of pirating sports.

    beto, to piracy in Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak
    @beto@lemmy.studio avatar

    Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period.

    So sad that we solved the problem of knowledge scarcity, and because of greed we need to add it back artificially.

    uriel238, to piracy in Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak
    @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    The public has been forgotten in our intellectual property system. The intent of copyright and patents in the US Constitution is to develop a robust public domain, but it’s taken this long for Steamboat Willie (Mickey Mouse, 1928) to finally be free to use. (I say that as if nothing is going to stop it before January 1st, 2024).

    Copyright is rent-seeking. It’s worse than theft. Its closer to extortion. But because it is done by the owner class, it is condoned or celebrated by the state. A state that has forgotten its people.

    zaknenou, to piracy in India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls
    @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    VPN time for indians

    sorter_plainview,

    Oh fun fact, Govt also issued an order stating that VPN providers who won’t log information of users, can’t function in India.

    radioactiveradio,

    I thought it was just for servers tho?

    jabjoe,
    @jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

    Bet they love Tor then…

    Though maybe faster to have a VPS somewhere else. Maybe do a VPN from there.

    They aren’t going to block ssh.

    zaknenou,
    @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Hey do you know of a good ssh client? I’d like to spoof SNI using one but I don’t know how it is done with ssh/ssl

    jabjoe, (edited )
    @jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

    Not sure exactly what you are after, but would stunnel4 do? You can use it to hide SSH with SSL and then use SNI so that a specific website name is SSH and others something else. You can probably do it with Apache or NGINX to if there is real websites too.

    Client wise, just normal ssh, but with a custom config for that host with:

    ProxyCommand openssl s_client -connect %h:%p

    Edit: NGINX : nginx.org/…/ngx_stream_ssl_preread_module.html

    Edit: Apache : trofi.github.io/posts/295-ssh-over-https.html

    zaknenou,
    @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    umm, I got confused. Let tell you exactly about the use case. so on a site like this " sshocean.com/ssh-ssl " I create an account, and I get something like this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/4c8dc917-b86b-47c1-af22-8681ccce5a83.pngwhere do I insert this payload (what client for windows or Ubuntu)? and how do I insert the desired SNI that I want to be in front of my ISP? I know of http injector with whom the trick works on android, I mean ssh/ssl stunnel.

    jabjoe,
    @jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

    In your .ssh/config you want something like:

    Host my-ssh-ssl Hostname us01.ssh0.net User sshocean-p1r4t2br Password myparrot2 Port 443 ProxyCommand ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh %h %p

    Then you have a ~/.ssh/https-tunnel.sh something like:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash { printf “GET /HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:$1\r\nUpgrade:websocket\r\n”; cat } | openssl s_client -connect $1:$2 -servername $1

    That last bit, -servername is the SNI bit, if you need it. BUT I think that payload might be for port 2083. I think 443 might be just the OpenSSL connect directly.

    zaknenou,
    @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    then I initiate this using stunnel from terminal ?(Ubuntu OS)

    jabjoe,
    @jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

    No, stunnel is go othere end. If you doing only the client end, you.don’t need it.

    gila,

    That statement just screams “I don’t understand how the internet works”

    WarmApplePieShrek,

    They understand exactly how it works. If you’re a VPN provider in india, you either keep logs, or you go to jail.

    gila, (edited )

    Oh, so they’re aware the stated actions would have no impact on VPN accessibility beyond potentially restricting India endpoints?

    Either that or they’re planning to play server whack-a-mole with overseas private companies whom themselves have no control over access from India

    Edit: or it’s just a non-statement to misdirect

    GrindingGears, to piracy in Operation 404: USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL & More Target Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak

    Until there’s no more oppression, human trafficking, etc in the world, the USDOJ and other police forces need to get their priorities straight. You’ve got streets full of people OD’ing during a world wide opioid crisis, and this is how the USDOJ decides to allocate their resources. As a population, we need to do a better job of holding these orgs to account to this, through our voting and decision making. God damn do we need to stop allowing our legal systems and enforcement being glorified butlers to these mega corp media combines.

    WarmApplePieShrek,

    They know their priorities. Profits > People.

    trackcharlie,

    The police, regulators and politicians all work for corporations now. The people are only a means to power, nothing more.

    silmarine, to piracy in Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown * TorrentFreak

    Were these people that were arrested not using a VPN?

    drunkensailor,
    @drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    yea, never understood this.

    i use a very thoroughly tested no-logs vpn for everyday casual stuff but this isn’t the first time i’ve seen people doing encodes get caught. i’m not a genius but i know how to read shit online, ask questions, and test my setup… you’d think people doing sketchier stuff would lean into the same a bit harder than I have.

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