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WarmApplePieShrek, to piracy in BitTorrent Pirates Won’t Receive ISP Warnings (It Will Be Something Worse)

BREIN. There’s an evil villain name if I ever saw one.

Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

If fact, I think the bad guy from Half-Life 2 had that name.

jose1324,

Breen

Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

Sounds the same, i never played with subtitles. XD

Captainvaqina, to piracy in BitTorrent Pirates Won’t Receive ISP Warnings (It Will Be Something Worse)

Fuck this group with an engorged cactus. Pieces of shit.

Imprint9816, to piracy in ACE Shuts Down Huge Football Piracy Ring, Total Destruction TBC

And here i thought my local hardware store had defeated some huge piracy ring…

pastermil,

my same exact thought lmao

GarytheSnail,
@GarytheSnail@programming.dev avatar

It’s real to me, dammit!

Facebones,

Mrow

Auli,

Maybe they pissed off an ex CIA agent who now works there.

mako,

And he knows how many seconds it’ll take to kill a room of armed thugs

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.

    EntropyPure, (edited ) to piracy in DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony

    That win is important, but Sony already sued Quad9 in Italy just this week. It’s one battle won, but not the war.

    In Italy they demand the same, blocking certain sites used for torrenting.

    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

    pelikan, to piracy in Russia Piracy Takedowns Up By 100%, “Western Rightsholders to Blame”
    @pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    The title of the article is a bit misleading, as upon reading it you may came to conclusion that Russian pirate infrastructure is actively hunted by goverment. That’s not really true and the article itself adds some significant nuances.

    Long story short: Piracy in Russia over last two years has greatly increased overall (in both demand and supply) due to sanctions making legal options unavailable. Number of piracy takedown requests has also increased, but only reason for that is local streaming services hunting for local content. This effectively means that it’s enough for siteop to remove some Russian titles from the library (or hide them for Russian IPs) to keep operating without any significant legal problems.

    So pirates worldwide are benefiting from more pirate services with more content and better speeds that their Russian fellows keep bringing them.

    MyRumIsVodka, to piracy in Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked
    @MyRumIsVodka@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    There have also been several reports suggesting that traffic to domains decreased after blockades were implemented. This seems logical since blocked sites should be harder to reach. However, new research […] suggests that’s not always true.

    Perhaps Streisand effect? “They’re blocking it, so it’s probably good. I can find stuff there.”

    The report doesn’t offer any hard conclusions, but MUSO informs TorrentFreak that if these traffic trends say anything about the success of site blocking, Russia and Korea are the most effective.

    Perhaps availability? I’ve seen plenty pirate sites in Russian, even not actively looking for them; to the point that it made learning Cyrillic useful for me.

    Spectacle8011, to piracy in Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak
    @Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

    In case anyone was wondering what TorrentFreak thinks of this whole thing: torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries…

    Public libraries started appearing in the mid-1800s. At the time, publishers went absolutely berserk: they had been lobbying for the lending of books to become illegal, as reading a book without paying anything first was “stealing”, they argued. As a consequence, they considered private libraries at the time to be hotbeds of crime and robbery. (Those libraries were so-called “subscription libraries”, so they were argued to be for-profit, too.)

    British Parliament at the time, unlike today’s politicians, wisely disagreed with the publishing industry lobby – the copyright industry of the time. Instead, they saw the economic value in an educated and cultural populace, and passed a law allowing free public libraries in 1850, so that local libraries were built throughout Britain, where the public could take part of knowledge and culture for free.

    density,
    @density@kbin.social avatar

    In the US context, the founding of public libraries were most famously and substantially supported by Carnegie. A man of "crime and robbery" if there ever was one. When you hear "philanthropist" think "tax evasion". Not to mention how he came into possession of all that loot in the first place.

    I agree with the author's point broadly but it's not well made.

    Blackmist,

    He gave grants around the world. The library in my small UK town was funded by him nearly a hundred years ago.

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

    Lesson: either get a seedbox, get a VPN in Amsterdam, or live in South/South-east Asia.

    myofficialaccount,

    Is there a way to get and pay seedboxes anonymously? Otherwise the feds could “just” get your information from them. Like with every VPN service you got to trust the the service and their confidentiality (not keeping logs etc) I guess?

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    Even if you do pay them anonymously, your IP will be recorded when you access/download from them. Case in point: Mullvad was forced to shut off port-forwarding because of torrent traffic on their network. Mullvad allows you to pay with Monero.

    Don’t do it for the privacy, do it because having the server in a different country like the Netherlands makes it easier to pirate. For all they know, you’re just accessing random IPs in the Netherlands and all they see is HTTPS traffic.

    myofficialaccount,

    That’s the thing, you’d have to connect to the seedbox via VPN anyways.

    I’m using usenet anyway, always have, always will ;⁠-⁠)

    Buck,

    How do you find good things on Usenet now? So much of it is uploaded encrypted

    Vendetta9076,
    @Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That’s what the indexer is for, no? Gives you the keys and a map.

    Buck,

    What indexer?

    myofficialaccount,

    Take a look at www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/ for starters

    Buck,

    Most of the good ones are either invite only or pay for, and even then you’ll only get access to some of the keys needed.

    None of the free ones provide keys as far as I’ve been able to find.

    It seems rather messy and convoluted compared to how usenet used to be.

    spaceaape,

    IP alone isnt enough to convict someone in the states though. Since it only points to the local network and not the person on the network it could be anyone on that network. It was the issue the RIAA ran into when trying to take music downloaders to court.

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    How about Denmark?

    feddit,
    @feddit@feddit.de avatar

    I believe this is more about scene release groups. People that rip bluerays or retrieve copies of cinema movies

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    They should be using seedboxes to seed, and should be using VPNs in other countries to upload their content. Worst case scenario, torrenting completely moves to i2p, eradicating the problems being faced by these groups today

    brax,

    Seedbox

    I’ve admitted kinda taken a backseat to piracy for the last while, and I’ve seen this term come up a ton. Is it just a remote server that you download all of your shit on?

    prenatal_confusion,

    Yup. If you care about ratio then it has some proper speeds and ssd. But most people use it as a hop. I stopped and switched the arr to a docker network that only uses proton vpn. Best decision ever.

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    Yes

    spaceaape,

    Precisely but it doesn’t have to be remote. Some people self host locally but that requires a fast connection and a vpn. Most remote seedbox’s are basically virtual private servers. They usually have apps like Jellyfin or plex for streaming all your content locally. Which is what I do and it’s very automated and convenient. You can also use your seedbox as a vpn tunnel. If you’re a member or interested in private torrent trackers, a seedbox is recommended to help keep your ratio high.

    archomrade,

    Is this actually considered seedboxing? I always thought it was a remote thing for an extra layer of privacy

    FatTony,
    @FatTony@lemmy.world avatar

    Why Amsterdam specifically?

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    Plenty of data centres and the Netherlands are excellent in terms of government policy towards “sharing”

    interceder270,

    Good to know. I’ve been concerned about finding host nations that let us do what we want.

    buckykat, to piracy in Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak

    The publishers are not against libraries per se

    doubt

    wagesj45,
    @wagesj45@kbin.social avatar

    If they could force you to pay a royalty every time you so much as thought of a book you once read, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

    pelikan, (edited ) to piracy in ACE Shuts Down Huge Football Piracy Ring, Total Destruction TBC
    @pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Seizing domains is HUGE blow but never a “Total Destruction”. Such ring is not operated by single enthusiast, it’s runned by a team of professional pirate siteops who do this for pretty comfortable living and who foresee such risks and have a plan for this type of incident. And i’m sure they have another bunch of domains already registered and fed to google. There’s no significant difference between getting domain banned in the country from where 95% of traffic is coming (and this is frequent issue) and loosing this domain at all. Your traffic is gone, your money is gone. So seizing domains without busting servers and siteops is far from winning final battle.

    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!

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

    Considering TPB is garbage and shouldn’t be used anymore, I see this as an absolute win

    ram,
    @ram@bookwormstory.social avatar

    Ya, no pirate worth their salt would risk it at this point. It’s so infested with malware, with seemingly no moderation, and no meaningful original releases.

    Ellie_The_Nurse,

    Yeah, of course! Because we’re all using… 👀

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    Yeah! We’re all using that great platform! It’s called…

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

    OMG I love that new amazing tracker that everyone is currently using, named...

    JokeDeity,

    I’ve seen this theme on Lemmy several times. Tell people they shouldn’t be using something, but not what they should be.

    otp,

    Yup, it’s really great that we’re all so familiar with it that we don’t even need to mention its name, which is…

    Pixelologist,
    @Pixelologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar
    ultratiem,
    @ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

    And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.

    JJROKCZ, (edited )

    People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.

    And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage

    navi, (edited )

    FWIW common libraries like ffmpeg and what not can contain bugs which video files could potentially abuse and exploit.

    Is that a common risk? Probably not. But image libraries have been known to have such exploits.

    0x0,

    The fun thing is that it’s basically unquantifiable how large the risk is. We only know about vulnerabilities after we find them!

    BilboBargains,

    You want dat zero day shizzle, homie

    KSPAtlas,
    @KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Isnt there a popular PS2 hack method which is basically using a broken video?

    Digital_Prophet,
    @Digital_Prophet@kbin.social avatar

    The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You're much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you're doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.

    0x0,

    If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html

    umbrella,
    @umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

    it works pretty well for me.

    what are some better alternatives?

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

    Do you want to kill what tiny fanbase you already have in America? Because this is how you kill what tiny fanbase you already have in America. We already have MLS to not give a fuck about, but if you make it impossible for fans of a premier team to watch their team play then people will pivot to MLS or a new sport entirely. And somebody might chime in to point out that they have no reason to care about people who aren’t paying customers, except that these white whale fans absolutely are paying customers because they buy team merch and don’t shut the fuck up about how other people should also pay attention to their team, thus expanding interest in their team across the American market.

    I like the sport, but I can’t be bothered to give a shit about any team in particular. I just like the higher stakes games between high performance teams like in the world cup group stage and onward.

    Nugelz,

    Premier league by all accounts is growing in popularity in the U.S. Them going to court sort of shows how valuable it’s become. But I of course agree this will lead to much lower viewing in total.

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