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Lucida.to seems to be down. Does anyone know a comparable website that doesn't compress Spotify files down even further than the ogg format they're already in?
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I'm not usually into 50 Cent but I wanted to download the song to spam it in game voice chats after the God Emperor won.
 
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What's the state of Usenet these days? I used to use it for piracy back in the day, but I let all my subscriptions lapse because I could never find complete archives of anything older than a couple months even on very long retention servers, and I am just not interested in the slop that is made nowadays. Is Usenet piracy any more resilient against the "DMCA just enough to make it impossible to rebuild the archive with the .par files" tactic, or am I wasting my time?
 
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What's the state of Usenet these days? I used to use it for piracy back in the day, but I let all my subscriptions lapse because I could never find complete archives of anything older than a couple months even on very long retention servers, and I am just not interested in the slop that is made nowadays. Is Usenet piracy any more resilient against the "DMCA just enough to make it impossible to rebuild the archive with the .par files" tactic, or am I wasting my time?
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It's good for finding recent TV shows and movies and also shows and movies that are old and really, really popular like Star Wars or something. It's not good for finding obscure shit more than a few years old in my experience.

Honestly though, a lot of old and more obscure shit is on Roku, Tubi and Pluto TV for free nowadays and you can just straight up download it with YT-DLP.
 
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What's the state of Usenet these days? I used to use it for piracy back in the day, but I let all my subscriptions lapse because I could never find complete archives of anything older than a couple months even on very long retention servers, and I am just not interested in the slop that is made nowadays. Is Usenet piracy any more resilient against the "DMCA just enough to make it impossible to rebuild the archive with the .par files" tactic, or am I wasting my time?
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I found a lot of older stuff on the Internet Archive
 
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The Evil Midnight Bomber said:
Lucida.to seems to be down. Does anyone know a comparable website that doesn't compress Spotify files down even further than the ogg format they're already in?
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I'm not usually into 50 Cent but I wanted to download the song to spam it in game voice chats after the God Emperor won.
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You would be wise to join their Telegram to stay up to date
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Also literally just use another service like Deezer or Qobuz instead of Spotify
Or get yourself Deemix and ARLs
 
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What's the state of Usenet these days? I used to use it for piracy back in the day, but I let all my subscriptions lapse because I could never find complete archives of anything older than a couple months even on very long retention servers, and I am just not interested in the slop that is made nowadays. Is Usenet piracy any more resilient against the "DMCA just enough to make it impossible to rebuild the archive with the .par files" tactic, or am I wasting my time?
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I used to be in TV-Vault, and they had absolutely everything. I run a jellyfin server with radarr and sonarr connected to a couple usenet trackers, and basically any show/movie I want to see, it will automatically search and find it on one of them. From the searching to the organizing it's all automatic and I can just use the local graphic interface or SSH into the server to add new movies/shows, and it's there the next day. I have like, 16 TB of material. Never gotten a DMCA strike, 10/10 recommend, never doing anything else.

That being said, my server is old as shit, so when my grandfather puts on a hallmark movie at the same time I'm listening to music I hear ol bessie go brrrrr in the background.
 
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I used to be in TV-Vault, and they had absolutely everything. I run a jellyfin server with radarr and sonarr connected to a couple usenet trackers, and basically any show/movie I want to see, it will automatically search and find it on one of them. From the searching to the organizing it's all automatic and I can just use the local graphic interface or SSH into the server to add new movies/shows, and it's there the next day. I have like, 16 TB of material. Never gotten a DMCA strike, 10/10 recommend, never doing anything else.

That being said, my server is old as shit, so when my grandfather puts on a hallmark movie at the same time I'm listening to music I hear ol bessie go brrrrr in the background.
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Oh yeah jellyfin with Sonarr and radarr is awesome. I ended up getting a cheap Intel Arc GPU to handle transcoding and it works great.
 
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RIP what.cd
RED and OPS are both good.
OPS is easier to get in but RED has the variety that what.cd once had.
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Any idea what happened to RED? No DNS records at all in any of the root nameservers.
 
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Any idea what happened to RED? No DNS records at all in any of the root nameservers.
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The current info floating around is that someone forgot to renew the domain. The site was still accessible from the IP address until a "down for maintenance" screen was put up. Not sure if there's an ETA on the domain issue being resolved.
 
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Can anyone recommend a Linux distro for running pirated games? I have some programs that are supposed to help, but it's roulette if they work or not. A lot of my pirated games use a cracked steam launcher.

My current distro is a fork of Ubuntu.
 
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Can anyone recommend a Linux distro for running pirated games? I have some programs that are supposed to help, but it's roulette if they work or not. A lot of my pirated games use a cracked steam launcher.

My current distro is a fork of Ubuntu.
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Have you been trying Steam's Proton? You can use it with non-steam games, and even just random programs. I've got it to run drawing programs and the like. It's really amazing, and there are online resources to find which version of it runs the game you're playing the best.
 
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