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.
Thanks, I hate goodreads and hadn't known about BookWyrm ... which is ironic since I am currently reading a series that has a dragon-creature that is literally called a book wyrm (Divine Apostasy)
Most of the alternates that I looked at, tend not to have basic info (obv it should have author/title but also i like it to have series info like book # in a series, when it was released, and category/theme tags) or else the sites would have a lot less book coverage (especially in niche genres) so I always seem to end up back on GR which I hate. Will see if some of the bigger BW instances do a better job
some games won’t run this way for one reason or another even though they’ll run if you own them (usually, I assume, because of Steam Deck specific tweaks or install stuff that are only used when you’re running them on the Deck via the normal method.)
A lot of this is just easier to do from legit steam setup, not impossible. I don't usually pirate games (I want to support devs making things playable on Linux when I buy from Steam or making DRM-free stuff when I buy from Gog). But I do have a lot of stuff that I run outside of steam in plain old wine without proton or wine-wrapper tools like lutris. I haven't come across many games that I have on Gog that you can't run in wine itself but I will agree that it is sometimes a lot more work. I'm also on a desktop PC using Linux, so not completely the same as a steam deck but runtime-wise it should be pretty darn close.
want to also add that people using ublock origin would probably benefit from enabling more than just the default filters.
if you go into your extension prefs for UB, there's a lot of other stuff in there. I usually select everything except the other languages. I occasionally come across a site that has a 'we see youre using an adblocker' type message but its not very often. and even then, most of the ones that I have seen let me dismiss the message and still view the content.
i don't use any social media except lemmy/reddit and the like tho, so no clue how it works on facebook and other trash like that.
As I was reading the OP, I was wondering if there would be other comments along the lines of this. I love all the work Valve has done getting stuff to work on Linux and pretty much don't pirate games bc I want to support them with my wallet whenever I can afford to.
Partly, this is me not wanting to deal with malware. But honestly, I'm well versed enough with security containers and virtual machinesthat I feel like if I put in a little effort, I could probably even run a game that I know has malware in a sandbox without much risk. So I think the fact that they put in an effort to support my platform is the much bigger factor. That said, I also really love GOG's lack of DRM and downloadable offline installers. So if it's something I'm confident will work outside of steam, I will buy there instead. But everything else, I get on steam.
Funny thing is... you can still find it with duckduckgo, search.brave.com, qwant, searx..
plus even on google, you can click any of the first several links - including wikipedia - and the link is easy to find. sadly 'reddit pirate bay' is easy to find TPB link from but 'lemmy pirate bay' doesn't have TPB link without more searching (and even more sad, the first result isn't dbzer0 but a community on the ml instance)
Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…
There was no licensing, just files to download.
I think some kind of licensing was tehcnicall there, it was just easy to ignore back then bc they weren't pushing it in our faces every second (like i remember warnings on beginning of movies even before 2000s). I kinda remember one of my friends getting music off amzaon a long time ago but for stuff like that i assume it was just a EULA that they could click once and be done with (no clue how it works present day). Maybe it depends on exactly what we're talking about, but just saying I'm confident that greedy bastards would have some kind of legal something tied to it, even in 2000s before you could download. I just don't care - don't let em know you real info and fuck em 😀
I think legally, rights holders have always been asshats. I remember something called a V-C-R and when media was on magnetic tapes... even back then, there were warnings at the beginning of films. That was back before there were stream content and you had to physical drive or walk to buildings that contained the videos and pay for a rental... and a lot of poeple would make their own copies.
I think the big things that have changed is:
That said, I hate big companies and even if it is morally untenable, I will still continue to pirate, bc fuck em. If I could download a car or a barrel of whiskey, I'd pirate those too
If you only make a copy, then you're good 😜
Raubmordkopie
Robbery murder copy? (at least thats' what google is telling me 'mord' means?)
TBF, he said "an" leader not "the" leader
IMO Piracy is completely justified regardless...
But that said, wouldn't it be the content owner rather than Sony (who is a third party platform) who is to blame for justifying it in this particular case? (based on the iamge here which seems to imply that the content owner is the one pulling the content rather than sony itself).
Dn't get me wrong, not saying the situation is good. or that Sony is a good company. Only that they don't appear to be the ones instigating this move unless I am missing some other info. FWIW, I lost all hope in the idea of a pro-consumer way of doign streaming content ages ago and have been flying the black flag for years so I guess this just doesnt seem like aynthing new to me. I willntt even consiedr paying for netflix, prime, disnet, hbo, hulu, or whateve else. Maybe if they stop being greedy fuckwits and come up with a something fair for consumers I'll consider but until then, fuck the loto f them.
edit: fixed a tpyo
thanks a bunch. yeah, usenet is sounding a lot more up my alley than PT's. Might still look into some of the easier PT's if they're VPN-friendly but I think I'm going to put most of my time into looking into usenet.
Yup. Or hacked. Or a member of the team with access does something stupid. etc.
Hmmm... this response seems to imply that I have no idea what a PT even is. It's true that I haven't used them before, but talking about it like I don't understand that it's just a website or that things are automated seems like a talking down. I hope I am just misreading the tone.
I think from this part
It’s not Google with billions at its disposal to craft sophisticated surveillance level tech.
Your point might be something like "PT's are small time so no need to worry". If so, then I strongly disagree. I may not be personally familiar with private trackers, but I am fairly well educated on web infrastructure, security, tech, and programming.
If personal data - including IP address - is present - even just for registration - then it could be abused in scenarios such as disgruntled admins, data breaches, or server raids/seizures to name a few. There has even been at least one case where someone torrented a completely legal thing - a linux distro (and i mean actually a legit linux distro not like some people call downloading something illegal as a "linux distro" as joke that they aren't doing anything illegal) and got a dcma notice.
Point being that if you are ok with that risk, that's fine for you. But not everyone's security model or what they consider as an acceptable risk is the same. And IMO your response would have been much better if it was calling out the technical risks, clearly delineating what is a technical fact vs what is opinion, and then stating that in your opinion the risks weren't significant to you personally. (it sounds like we have different opinions but still if you thought I was a complete newbie, why leave things open to misunderstanding?).
Anyway since I specifically brought up my questions about PT's in the context of wanting to use a VPN, if the whole point of the reply was essentially to dismiss the need for VPNs with PT registration when I say it matters to me, then that's a bit weird..
thanks for that link, that is super helpful. only thing it is really missing for me is their stance on vpn but is very good for noting the ratio stuff
Thanks, man this was really helpful and I appreciate it
Usenet is great
In your own experiences, how does it stack up vs public torrent tracking sites in terms of available pirate content? I realize that depending on the content type and which indexer(s), it will probably vary a bit, but any rough idea is probably better than my total cluelessness on usenet content availability that I have now lol. Just looking for somebody's rough guess of general availability on usenet vs on sites like torrentgalaxy, eztv, tpb, 1337x, solidtorrents, etc if it tends to be better, worse, or about the same.
I’d recommend signing up for the NZBGeek
To test this out, would I also need to find a usenet provider that has a free trial or I can preview with the indexer only? I'm assuming I could just plug it into sonarr / qbittorrent feeds and search from those but if you use other (better?) tools for viewing/searching the index results, might I know what those are?
Maybe? Been awhile since I've messed with my setup and while I don't like slow, I prioritize security over speed so my settings might not be what you want anyway. so I'd recommend just looking up a guide; it is an extremely popular torrent client and there should be tons of guides out there. Or if you not sure which guide to use, just create a new post here - lot of people use it and probably have set it up from scratch more recently than me. I know some people say to open ports on the router but i've never liked the idea (I view it as less secure) but some people swear by it.
I can recommend that you test the following:
edit: just searched on dbzer0 and wasn't seeing much on this. I did find a reddit post and a makeuseof guide that both mention stuff about improving speed. For the reddit one, I think the patched exe they are talking about is likely a dev build and since that was from a few years ago, whatever fix is probably already merged in and no longer needed. will compare the other settings vs mine and post back
edit2: are are the differences i have from the guide:
ipconfig /alland look for something that is NOT disconnected and probably hasTAP-Windows Adapter Vxif using OpenVPN-Protocol (most VPNs) but might be different for wireguard. For Linux users, to show network interfaces runip -4 -o -br addr- usually in linux ethernet interfaces start with anEand wifi interfaces start with aW,lois localhost, and 99% of the time the vpn interface will be namedtun0if you are using a VPN with OpenVPN-protocol (most of them) but might be something different for wireguard or if you have customized things.