Piracy General

[CEO of Autism]

I don't know what the fuck is going on with rutracker lately but every time I try to download a torrent from them, the speeds are just awful even if there are many seeders.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I don't know what the fuck is going on with rutracker lately but every time I try to download a torrent from them, the speeds are just awful even if there are many seeders.

When did you notice this? I only started using RT a couple of months ago and their torrents were significantly better than on any other public tracker I've seen in years. I think I may have experienced some issues a few days ago, I honestly can't remember. Maybe they said something on their forums...

 

[CEO of Autism]

When did you notice this?

Has been the case for some weeks, maybe over a month. I use to download well-known movies from there to avoid wasting my ratio on private trackers, but now I'm just hit with 18-24 hours of wait for well-seeded (according to the site stats) 1080p rips that are around 10gbs of size. Started going with the 1337x route just to get the damned movie quickly.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

To anyone who warned me against StreamFab, thank you for stopping me from wasting my money. I used up the trial downloads and now I can't fucking uninstall the program. Every time I try, it opens StreamFab and says I can't uninstall the program while it's open. I can't close StreamFab without closing the uninstaller. I didn't waste my money, but now I have software I can't uninstall.

eta: WinX MediaTrans is being an ass.

 

[Teeth That Tear]

To anyone who warned me against StreamFab, thank you for stopping me from wasting my money. I used up the trial downloads and now I can't fucking uninstall the program. Every time I try, it opens StreamFab and says I can't uninstall the program while it's open. I can't close StreamFab without closing the uninstaller. I didn't waste my money, but now I have software I can't uninstall.

A couple of things I'd try: use Task Manager before opening the uninstaller to make absolutely certain there aren't any Streamfab processes hiding in the background, try uninstalling it with the PC in Safe Mode, try a 3rd party uninstaller. Good luck!

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

A couple of things I'd try: use Task Manager before opening the uninstaller to make absolutely certain there aren't any Streamfab processes hiding in the background, try uninstalling it with the PC in Safe Mode, try a 3rd party uninstaller. Good luck!

I actually need Task Manager to close StreamFab after the uninstaller opens it. No other way to close the program. Even clicking the X that pops up when you hover over the taskbar icon does nothing. Closing the program also closes the uninstaller. Think I'm gonna need a 3rd party uninstaller. Did some Googling and pretty much everyone says that's the best way. Any recommendations?

I'm so tired of installing and uninstalling software just to get DRM-free copies of a decade-old Disney Channel show. Installed WinX MediaTrans. Had to install iTunes to use WinX MediaTrans. For some fucking reason, WinX MediaTrans won't work with iTunes software from the Microsoft Store. Uninstall iTunes. Get .exe file from Apple website. Install iTunes. Try to remove DRM from an episode. WinX Media Trans says my "device is busy". I want to scream. Am at work. Guests are sleeping.

I am 1000000000000% permaseeding this shit when I'm done so no one else has to jump through all these fucking hoops.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

To anyone who warned me against StreamFab, thank you for stopping me from wasting my money. I used up the trial downloads and now I can't fucking uninstall the program. Every time I try, it opens StreamFab and says I can't uninstall the program while it's open. I can't close StreamFab without closing the uninstaller. I didn't waste my money, but now I have software I can't uninstall.

https://www.bcuninstaller.com/

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

https://www.bcuninstaller.com/

Thank you greatly, my friend. That name gave me a chuckle.

eta: fromWinX support:

That's $40 down the drain. I got the program for the sole purpose of removing DRM from iTunes. Looking into getting a refund.

edit 2: Refund acquired. Took less than an hour. I am pleasantly surprised.

 

[seri0us]

I keep seeing memes like this one from millennials who want to feel special for being old.

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

lmao "90s era nostalgia" about software from the early 2000s. and the boy appears to be using a 486 which couldn't have run them anyway

 

[Taser Confetti]

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I keep seeing memes like this one from millennials who want to feel special for being old.

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

lmao "90s era nostalgia" about software from the early 2000s. and the boy appears to be using a 486 which couldn't have run them anyway

Couldn’t tell you - I never messed with Limewire because a friend steered me in the right direction with μTorrent and the Pirate Bay. Even fucking with vidya and those keygens never managed to pozz my computer.

 

[Civillian 18]

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

It was almost entirely 'LiNkIn_PaRk_-_NuMb_xX.mp3.exe' with a padded file size.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

Couldn’t tell you - I never messed with Limewire because a friend steered me in the right direction with μTorrent and the Pirate Bay. Even fucking with vidya and those keygens never managed to pozz my computer.

My go-to was MP3Skull.

On a completely different note: the first game I ever tried to pirate was Hello Neighbor and whatever .exe I downloaded installed Avast Antivirus on my PC.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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I keep seeing memes like this one from millennials who want to feel special for being old.

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

lmao "90s era nostalgia" about software from the early 2000s. and the boy appears to be using a 486 which couldn't have run them anyway

I never executed suspicious exes, disguised as other filetypes or otherwise. Before Windows Defender got much better every rational person used a decent antivirus anyway. As for filesharing software - I think I maye have heard about bogus sites with modified installers and that's it. Filesharing networks usually support more than one client. For instance, I used iMesh instead of Kazaa to connect to FastTrack.

 

[lowkeyl0ki]

unrar, I usually use 7zip to handle them

i'm confused, why do pirate groups do that?
my best guess is that if you downloaded 99/100 parts successfully, and couldn't get ahold of the 100th one, you could dig in the deep corners of the internet to find some old ass 4shared upload of the 100th part, completing your hunt.

Thank you greatly, my friend. That name gave me a chuckle.

eta: fromWinX support:
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That's $40 down the drain. I got the program for the sole purpose of removing DRM from iTunes. Looking into getting a refund.

edit 2: Refund acquired. Took less than an hour. I am pleasantly surprised.

i have zero clue how to explain this but i've always had suspicions that WinX is straight ass.

edit: i think i know why.
i may be misremembering but i think the slew of shitposts they made of common problems people had when ripping shit, offering a "fix", when in reality it was all just to plug their stupid software. that REALLY set me off giving me heavy narcissism vibes.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

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I keep seeing memes like this one from millennials who want to feel special for being old.

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

lmao "90s era nostalgia" about software from the early 2000s. and the boy appears to be using a 486 which couldn't have run them anyway

Most of the malware came from the ads Limewire and Kazaa were running and not from Spiderman2.mpeg.exe. By 2005 only the most retarded niggerfaggots were still using any GNUttell clients that weren't eMule or KazaaLite.

 

[Never Scored]

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I deadass thought this was a picture of me as a child that had somehow become a meme before I clicked it.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

i'm confused, why do pirate groups do that?
my best guess is that if you downloaded 99/100 parts successfully, and couldn't get ahold of the 100th one, you could dig in the deep corners of the internet to find some old ass 4shared upload of the 100th part, completing your hunt.

I haven't seen multipart compressed archives in a long time and I pirate something almost every day. I don't think they're something you should be concerned with.

 

[JustSomeDong]

i'm confused, why do pirate groups do that?
my best guess is that if you downloaded 99/100 parts successfully, and couldn't get ahold of the 100th one, you could dig in the deep corners of the internet to find some old ass 4shared upload of the 100th part, completing your hunt.

It harkens back to the old days, before mass broadband, back in the days of BBSs, FTP topsites, and IRC.

Call it tradition, or maybe just cultural inertia.

 

[Susanna]

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I keep seeing memes like this one from millennials who want to feel special for being old.

I have a hunch it's as simple as retarded normies clicking on *.mp3.exe, but were infected music files and arbitrary code execution through media players actually commonplace, and if so how bad was it? Were the peer-to-peer programs of the era actually malware themselves?

lmao "90s era nostalgia" about software from the early 2000s. and the boy appears to be using a 486 which couldn't have run them anyway

I'm pretty sure an order of magnitude more computers were ruined by younger siblings installing "cute bunny mouse cursor.exe" or dads installing "aquarium.scr" than arbitrary code exploits in winamp.
.mp3.exe was super common though, and not at all helped by Microsoft's inane decision to hide extensions by default.

 

[Dr. Charles Forbin]

i'm confused, why do pirate groups do that?
my best guess is that if you downloaded 99/100 parts successfully, and couldn't get ahold of the 100th one, you could dig in the deep corners of the internet to find some old ass 4shared upload of the 100th part, completing your hunt.

There's actually a reason behind this. Scene groups still operate using the same infrastructure they've been using for decades, which means FTP topsites. When it comes to distributing that content, it gets around much faster if there's a bunch of small files rather than one large file because several racers can transfer different parts of it at the same time (getting credit for their upload), and if something gets corrupted along the way it's much quicker to redownload (or reupload) a 150MB file than a 12GB one

Basically it's scene rules stemming from a time when torrenting wasn't a thing. It is an archaic thing nowadays when the bittorrent protocol solves a lot of issues naturally, and rar'd releases conflict with a lot of automation tools. Most non-scene trackers enforce an unrar'd rule for convenience anyway and P2P groups don't rar their stuff