piracy

As I get more and more invites to private trackers, I’m finding that I find myself spending more and more time on public tracker websites....

For context, I want to run a small personal gig (offering stuff on Patreon). Nothing too fancy....

Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....

What the title says, and that’s pretty much it. Do you or don’t you?

My mom bought a used laptop absolutely riddled with spyware, linux isn’t an option

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I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

Does anyone have good site recommendations for lossless files such as flac’s specifically for music.

I wanted to try out Serato Sample’s new stem separation tool added in 2.0 so I downloaded a crack to see if it was worthwhile....

Hello scurvy dogs...

After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content...

So, i want to give a try to usenet world....

This may be a stupid question, but I just got back into pirating some shows and movies and realize that many of the QxR files are much smaller than what I downloaded in the past. Is it likely that I am sacrificing a noticeable amount of quality if I replace my files with the smaller QxR ones?...

I’d really like to get started with this stuff but finding the technical requirement exhausting....

So a bunch of people in this subreddit told me that uTorrent was trash and to switch to QBitTorrent....

So I am planning on buying an ipad, never owned one before. I have always been an android guy and from what I have heard Ipad os or ios is pretty restrictive in nature so I was wondering how much does it hamper the piracy experience. For example on android I can torrent files of any nature or size without any restrictions and...

so is it possible to watch pirated shows and movies together over the internet? me and my friends cant meet up because we’re hours away from eachother.

Looking for a way to get audiobooks to listen to. Preferably in a format compatible with Apple Books app.

If piracy is moral and ethical and enables us to share knowledge, why do private trackers gatekeep this knowledge? It goes against the principles of piracy. Do they do it just to feel superior about bring in a sekrit club?

For instance, say I search for “The Dark Knight” on my Usenet indexer. It returns to me a list of uploads and where to get them via my Usenet provider. I can then download them, stitch them together, and verify that it is, indeed, The Dark Knight. All of this costs only a few dollars a month for me....

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How do these work?

Figured I’d make a dedicated post this time instead of leaving it in a comment....

I am trying to finally move from entirely depending on Google Photos to a proper backup strategy. I have my photos and videos downloaded from Google which are a mess right now but as long they’re with me I am fine, at least for now....

Just found out the Switch I got a while back is a V1 model, meaning that it’s one of the Switches that’s able to be modified. I’m thinking of modifying it, but I’d like to know the upsides and issues first.