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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
last week's shutdown of Dramacool has apparently led to a surge in usage in Tribler
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That brings back some memories. Between people claiming of having been raided because of easily you could turn yourself into a Tor exit node (you'd be asked on startup, without any proper explanation of the possible consequences) and the fact the software itself had a long way to go before being considered safe enough to touch Tor-anything (link to a mailing list discussion on the topic), its infamy, justified or not, stuck around for a while. But the project is still going and the developer seems active on other platforms. Unfortunately, it's not a particularly good way to share anything online and many Tor community members expressed their annoyance at people attempting to use it for BitTorrent and "just" piracy unauthorized copying, let alone the entire approach of stacking networks one on top of another.
 
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Combustion Engine said:
That brings back some memories. Between people claiming of having been raided because of easily you could turn yourself into a Tor exit node (you'd be asked on startup, without any proper explanation of the possible consequences) and the fact the software itself had a long way to go before being considered safe enough to touch Tor-anything (link to a mailing list discussion on the topic), its infamy, justified or not, stuck around for a while. But the project is still going and the developer seems active on other platforms. Unfortunately, it's not a particularly good way to share anything online and many Tor community members expressed their annoyance at people attempting to use it for BitTorrent and "just" piracy unauthorized copying, let alone the entire approach of stacking networks one on top of another.
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The disclaimer they put up in 2014 is still there:
Do not put yourself in danger. Our anonymity is not yet mature.

Tribler does not protect you against spooks and government agencies. We are a torrent client and aim to protect you against lawyer-based attacks and censorship. With help from many volunteers we are continuously evolving and improving.
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But a good reason not to use it right this second in 2024 is this bug:
Maybe check it out whenever they reach 8.1.0 and close that one.
 
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Real chads dont use a VPN when streaming pirated content, I have a mirad backlog of copyright strikes from my ISP and I still do it lol, I live in canada where a majority of jeets are and they all do it too so they are probably too busy dealing with their pirating schemes en masse, case in point: lollo.PNG
 
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Lucida has been running like complete shit lately. Are there any other sites that let you download albums?
 
Jang Joo said:
The closest I've come to this, though it ended up not happening, was borrowing an old book on Internet Archive with their borrow function and then screencap every page. That would've been tedious to figure out, but I ended up finding the book on Anna's Archive, so moot point.
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A lot of the stuff from archive.org on Annas Archive is low-quality stuff, the filesize is lower but it's highly compressed, with colors getting washed out.
 
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Jang Joo said:
The closest I've come to this, though it ended up not happening, was borrowing an old book on Internet Archive with their borrow function and then screencap every page. That would've been tedious to figure out, but I ended up finding the book on Anna's Archive, so moot point.
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The JPEGs of the pages get loaded into the web browser's cache as you turn the pages (yeah, you have to click through the whole book), and they can pulled out and saved as files, maybe a little faster than screencapping. It would be tedious and generally insane to do this manually, but it sounds like there is software to automate it, such as "JDownloader". Internet Archive is also switching out Adobe encrypted files for LCP, but I think that only applies to a small proportion of books in the borrowing program.

 
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Betonhaus said:
so far the best solution i found was to use youtube-dl to download songs from youtube
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Too bad because there was a podcast on Spotify that I wanted to grab MP3 versions of but I can't figure out how to yet. The way Spotify seems to do it is loading in minute-long chunks, so no big complete file to get.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Too bad because there was a podcast on Spotify that I wanted to grab MP3 versions of but I can't figure out how to yet. The way Spotify seems to do it is loading in minute-long chunks, so no big complete file to get.
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For downloading those podcast episodes, you could try AntennaPod and download the episodes there if that show is listed on there (I've found most of my Spotify podcasts on there). It saves the MP3 file into the following directory on Android:
storage/emulated/0/Android/data/de.danoeh.antennapod/files
 
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Officer Barbrady said:
For downloading those podcast episodes, you could try AntennaPod and download the episodes there if that show is listed on there (I've found most of my Spotify podcasts on there). It saves the MP3 file into the following directory on Android:
storage/emulated/0/Android/data/de.danoeh.antennapod/files
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I guess I could get an Android emulator (Bluestacks?) and see if that works. That seems like an extremely hacky and convoluted way to download podcasts but I guess it'll have to do.
 
Betonhaus said:
Do you have to pay or seed a certain amount? I'd be interested
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New members have to seed torrents for 10 days I think. It's easy to earn a decent ratio by seeding and getting bonus points. TL is one of the better general torrent sites.
 
Betonhaus said:
Oof my upload speed is shit.
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That doesn’t matter as long as you keep the torrent active. I’ve just been following etiquette since I signed up, and I’m now a ”super user” with four invites and I only need to seed for a week.
Higher upload speed means you get more surplus credit (seeding past 1:1 ratio), which you can use to clear a torrent prematurely, but you might as well just wait out the timer. I rarely bother deleting any of my torrents, and the ones I do have often run for over a month so I’m well past the timer anyway.
 
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