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Anyone know where I can find a Japanese version of the Pokemon anime? I've tried a couple different sites I know, but they all only have the English version.
 
2K Games has started rolling out a change to Denuvo for their games that makes the activation tokens automatically expire after a period of time (around 2 weeks). / Archive

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Changing things like running Windows Updates or changing graphics settings would count as a Denuvo activation for the 5 per day restriction, but this change makes it that you need to have an internet connection to renew the token, even if you don't make computer changes to trigger the activation limit.
 
Thiletonomics said:
2K Games has started rolling out a change to Denuvo for their games that makes the activation tokens automatically expire after a period of time (around 2 weeks). / Archive

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Changing things like running Windows Updates or changing graphics settings would count as a Denuvo activation for the 5 per day restriction, but this change makes it that you need to have an internet connection to renew the token, even if you don't make computer changes to trigger the activation limit.
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just following Playstation's lead, not a fan.
 
Thiletonomics said:
2K Games has started rolling out a change to Denuvo for their games that makes the activation tokens automatically expire after a period of time (around 2 weeks).
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I truly wonder what else goes on in the mind of the average corporate goon who wakes up each morning and starts his workday thinking up shit like this in response to the only question it could have possibly answered, namely: "gosh I hate my customers, how can I fuck them up harder today?"

There's an ancient 4th-season Simpsons episode ("Kamp Krusty") where some random corporate stooge is running the titular summer camp into the ground in such a comically over-the-top evil fashion that at one point he's shown sitting in his cushy, well-appointed cabin with the bully counselors he hired, sharing wine with them and toasting, "Gentlemen, to evil!"

You see that kind of shit and laugh because of how absurdly retarded it is and how absurd the idea is of somebody actually being that comically evil. But then you read shit like this, which can only possibly be thought up by a person on a concerted mission to be the biggest fucking asshole he possibly can be to the people paying his salary. There's no non-malicious motivation for this kind of design. You don't need to continuously prove over and over and over that you've bought a product. If you bought it, and they've verified you bought it, that's the end of it. There's no "un-buying" it.

You don't suddenly "not own" your car if you don't check in with the dealership every two weeks. And even from a legal perspective, with that bullshit "oh you're paying for a non-perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the software, you're not actually buying the software" argument in play, it still doesn't work. You didn't pay for a byzantine mechanism by which a new license is automatically granted to you every two weeks out of the goodness of the vendor's heart -- you paid for a fucking license. If the vendor is repeatedly issuing you shitty self-destructing licenses, he's being an asshole and his system sucks.

This is like Walmart demanding to re-inspect your receipt every two weeks for that TV you bought there three Black Fridays ago or they'll disable it remotely.

Agreed though that the best way to fix this shit is to just stop buying, pirating and playing their games. Not hard to accomplish these days. It's mostly dogshit anyway.
 
I fully admit I may be a retard, but can someone explain this phenomenon to me?

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I seed a fair number of torrents that look like this with a very high number of peers and comparatively few seeds. These aren't brand-new torrents where it would make sense for there to be a very low seed to peer ratio - some of them are 10+ years old. It seems like anyone who wants it has long since downloaded it, so the seed to peer ratio ought to be extremely high as anybody connected for any length of time becomes a seed and people newly adding the torrent slows to a relative trickle.

What is a client like Qbittorrent actually looking at when it displays the number of seeds and peers? Is it based in reality at all? Because a lot of the numbers just don't pass a simple sanity check.
 
moocow said:
Agreed though that the best way to fix this shit is to just stop buying, pirating and playing their games. Not hard to accomplish these days. It's mostly dogshit anyway.
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The actual best way to fix it is an act of congress (r8 me :optimistic:) clarifying what ownership of software is and how companies can license that software to you (what they have to disclose upfront or limit what they can change after the fact). Blame this actually retarded court case; of course software license law in the US is based off of 2 retards trying to do phone scams instead of something that affects the average person.
 
85CentSoda said:
The actual best way to fix it is an act of congress (r8 me :optimistic:) clarifying what ownership of software is and how companies can license that software to you (what they have to disclose upfront or limit what they can change after the fact). Blame this actually retarded court case; of course software license law in the US is based off of 2 retards trying to do phone scams instead of something that affects the average person.
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On paper, yes, that's the best way. As demonstrated by your example (the only controversy over this shit that's ever gone to trial was between two faggots trying to scam people), a more practical method is necessary. We will never have a reliable declaration by any government on this fucking earth that "buying something means you own it," because the individuals in every government on Earth have been bought, sold and paid for and will only make declarations their handlers authorize.

Ergo the best practical way to kill this shit is to starve it. You can pull whatever retarded license faggotry you like, but if literally nobody's licencing your shit in the first place, you won't make it. No company can run at a loss forever.

Go look up DIVX if you want a real rage-inducing scam. The optical video disc format, not the now-deprecated video encoding standard. That was a dogshit product backed by lawyers, an entire fucking big-box tech retail chain (Circuit City), and a good chunk of Hollywood, with the goal of creating "DVD but pay-per-view with vicious restrictions." It failed because it fucking sucked and nobody bought it. Lots of people (myself included) trolled Circuit City stores to fuck with the sales drones to disrupt sales of those shitty players but ultimately no amount of pre-emptive warning hurt it as much as plain old word-of-mouth. "Hey man those DIVX players are shit. You have to keep paying over and over to watch discs you've already paid for, and plug the fucking thing into a phone line just so it'll work." DVD killed it by being a better product (cheaper, too).
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
I fully admit I may be a retard, but can someone explain this phenomenon to me?

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I seed a fair number of torrents that look like this with a very high number of peers and comparatively few seeds. These aren't brand-new torrents where it would make sense for there to be a very low seed to peer ratio - some of them are 10+ years old. It seems like anyone who wants it has long since downloaded it, so the seed to peer ratio ought to be extremely high as anybody connected for any length of time becomes a seed and people newly adding the torrent slows to a relative trickle.

What is a client like Qbittorrent actually looking at when it displays the number of seeds and peers? Is it based in reality at all? Because a lot of the numbers just don't pass a simple sanity check.
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Unless the torrent is misreporting the real seed/peer numbers the usual reason for this is that the permanent peers are people who only downloaded part of the torrent and just left it. They might have only downloaded certain albums from a discography, certain seasons from a TV show, just the movie and not the sample/screens.
 
lowkeyl0ki said:
For all you aussies, some legend uploaded The Craic in pretty good DVDRip quality:

Views seem to be broken so I have no clue how many it's got but it has a favorite, so maybe someone has already found it.
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Speaking of Australian films, have you heard of Angst? I watched it on VHS at a friends house about 20 years ago. Since then I've occasionally looked for a copy to download, but it was quite obscure and never had a DVD release. I found a VHS rip last year on Archive.org and late last year it received a DVD and streaming release. Can't find a DVD or webrip on torrent sites. Might have to purchase it.
 
guiltyspark85 said:
Speaking of Australian films, have you heard of Angst? I watched it on VHS at a friends house about 20 years ago. Since then I've occasionally looked for a copy to download, but it was quite obscure and never had a DVD release. I found a VHS rip last year on Archive.org and late last year it received a DVD and streaming release. Can't find a DVD or webrip on torrent sites. Might have to purchase it.
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I wonder if the team take requests, they have an email.

Also it's on Prime Video for only AUD$3-$7 if you rent or buy it:

Problem is it's pretty hard to rip it, haven't heard of anyone ripping this besides scene groups with crazy CLI tools.
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
I fully admit I may be a retard, but can someone explain this phenomenon to me?

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I seed a fair number of torrents that look like this with a very high number of peers and comparatively few seeds. These aren't brand-new torrents where it would make sense for there to be a very low seed to peer ratio - some of them are 10+ years old. It seems like anyone who wants it has long since downloaded it, so the seed to peer ratio ought to be extremely high as anybody connected for any length of time becomes a seed and people newly adding the torrent slows to a relative trickle.

What is a client like Qbittorrent actually looking at when it displays the number of seeds and peers? Is it based in reality at all? Because a lot of the numbers just don't pass a simple sanity check.
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Do you use a VPN? Only some of them allow port forwarding, which is important if you want to connect to as many peers as possible. I use one and I often have serious trouble connecting to anyone, even if a public tracker like 1337x shows dozens of seeds and leeches.
 
Almighty Space Duck said:
Unless the torrent is misreporting the real seed/peer numbers the usual reason for this is that the permanent peers are people who only downloaded part of the torrent and just left it. They might have only downloaded certain albums from a discography, certain seasons from a TV show, just the movie and not the sample/screens.
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I suppose that could be the case, but a lot of these are installers for programs where every file contained is necessary to install it. There'd have to be 3000 people who said "I'm going to pull down part of this torrent, but not enough to actually let me use it". It's not impossible, but it would be very strange.

Hentai-Semitism said:
Do you use a VPN? Only some of them allow port forwarding, which is important if you want to connect to as many peers as possible. I use one and I often have serious trouble connecting to anyone, even if a public tracker like 1337x shows dozens of seeds and leeches.
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I am using a VPN, but I've got port forwarding enabled and configured correctly as far as I can tell. I don't have any trouble connecting (my upload speed is maxed out basically 24/7) - it's just that the numbers my client reports seem to defy common sense and I was curious why.
 
moocow said:
I truly wonder what else goes on in the mind of the average corporate goon who wakes up each morning and starts his workday thinking up shit like this in response to the only question it could have possibly answered, namely: "gosh I hate my customers, how can I fuck them up harder today?"
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The people in charge of the choices are not the ones doing that to be fair.

They hire people to investigate things, like sales and opportunities for increasing profits. Some guy comes in, and does a presentation on how much X game was pirated, and if they were converted into sales, it would be a large increase in profits. They then show how the use of some anti tamper shit like denovo, with their data, can increase sales by pushing some of the pirates back into paying for the game. They look at the cost, and the projected profit, and say "lets do it". It gets done.

Thats it. Same with most shit. Same with jamming in 20 gay niggers into some game, so they can cash the jewcheque and get some of that sweet sweet investor money, and how it will affect a small portion of buyers, and overall the money line will go up, and up is good! UP IS GOOD! LINE UP IS HAPPY!

(bit dramatic towards the end their, but its the tone of simple money games that I am driving it. Likely no malice, just cash)
 
StimulatedOrb said:
They hire people to investigate things, like sales and opportunities for increasing profits. Some guy comes in, and does a presentation on how much X game was pirated, and if they were converted into sales, it would be a large increase in profits. They then show how the use of some anti tamper shit like denovo, with their data, can increase sales by pushing some of the pirates back into paying for the game. They look at the cost, and the projected profit, and say "lets do it". It gets done.
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"Evil from ignorance" or "evil from compartmentalization." The Empire doesn't think it's being evil; its combination of policies and agents generate its evil actions spontaneously. A strong pleading. I like it.

The trouble is this excuse only works once. They don't live in complete bubbles. People do (especially now) post publicly to tell these dipshits why this stuff sucks and doesn't work. Execs can't even complain that "hey nobody told me" or "yeah I don't pay attention to whiny customers" anymore, because we have lots of evidence they do pay attention, both in their responses to questions about this shit from the press (when it can be bothered to ask them) and in executives actively and openly/directly arguing with complaining customers, insulting them for whining or exaggerating the complaints.

They know. There's no plausible deniability anymore. The bubbles have all been pierced.

It's anecdotal, I know, but as an example I once contracted at EA for a year under Mike Taramykin (EA Sports head). That dude knew he was being a prick. Literally everything was a conscious choice. There was no "oh I'm just chasing LINEGOZEUP I had no idea people hated us" posturing. It was literally "what makes us the most money" followed immediately by "fuck those assholes let's make it worse on purpose just to fuck with them."
 
how do you guys deal with media severs? i have fast enough internet where i could seed everything and run the media server simultaineously but my vpn provider automatically shuts off after a month of connection and the port changes every time it disconnects. do i really have to use a second computer to make this autonomous?
 
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