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DHS/HSI Assist Korea to Arrest Operator of "World's Largest Manga & Webtoon" (torrentfreak.com)

FearNoPeer (A private tracker) is open for signups (fearnopeer.com)

I decided to share this here too since sailors don’t seem to visit !opensignups and the murky waters of the orange sea should be seldom visited anymore....

I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉 (feddit.it)

Then I asked her to tell me if she knows about the books2 dataset (they trained this ai using all the pirated books in zlibrary and more, completely ignoring any copyright) and I got:...

Tachiyomi Manga Reader: Threats Motivate Pirates & Boost Engagement * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Extensions list removed for Tachiyomi (tachiyomi.org)

it looks like implications of Kakao dispute is getting harder

Tachiyomi War begins (twitter.com)

When /some/ YT videos get special download-resistent treatment but not others (fedia.io)

For example, this invidious instance offers a download option for a YoutTube video, as that instance does for all YT videos:...

Picking the Widevine (L3) locks (web.archive.org)

Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)

From the article:...

target seed ratio = max{1, 1/current ratio} (kbin.social)

For example if your total ratio is 0.60, set the target ratio to 1.67.

After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts (www.gamesradar.com)

Article about a recent revelation by the Youtube Channel Modern Vintage Gaming: The game “Alien Resurrection” by Argonaut contains a code which allows to run burned CD copies of Playstation 1 games.

2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map (news.ycombinator.com)

Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. (variety.com)

Avistaz open to register (avistaz.to)

AvistaZ (AsiaTorrents) is a Private Torrent Tracker for ASIAN MOVIES / TV / GENERAL...

I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier (gitlab.com)

The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv....

Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub (torrentfreak.com)

GitHub has removed the popular pirate streaming app VancedFlix from its servers in response to a takedown notice sent by Sky Italia. The request targets a similarly named repository on the developer platform, as well as the app’s APK file that’s linked under the download button on the official site VancedFlix.

RDCCDX: The Digital Pirates of Dark Water Saga: Ep. 2 (yt.artemislena.eu)

Canonical YouTube link...

Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified (yt.artemislena.eu)

Canonical YouTube link

Premier League Targets Dozens of Illegal Streaming Sites in U.S. Court (torrentfreak.com)

Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

I2P 2.4.0 Release with Congestion and NetDB Security improvements - Blog - I2P (geti2p.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9756896...

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

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