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AnOminous said:
I wonder.

Has anyone on this thread NEVER committted piracy of any sort?
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When my family first got internet it was under the one condition that I work out how to get my dad music for free. The hardest part was getting him to understand that a 128kb/s mp3 of a 4 minute song couldn’t possibly be 100kb and that it was in fact a virus.
He loves his lidarr setup I arranged for him a few Christmases ago. It’s almost cycled out/retagged all his old limewire library.
This is the same dad that bought me an IDE DVDRW back when they were still quite expensive as well as letting me repurpose the family PC (which stopped being used when I got my own and my parents laptops of their own) into a dedicated torrenting and DVD encoding machine so I could pirate movies for him.

I never really stood a chance.
 
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Almighty Space Duck said:
When my family first got internet it was under the one condition that I work out how to get my dad music for free. The hardest part was getting him to understand that a 128kb/s mp3 of a 4 minute song couldn’t possibly be 100kb and that it was in fact a virus.
He loves his lidarr setup I arranged for him a few Christmases ago. It’s almost cycled out/retagged all his old limewire library.
This is the same dad that bought me an IDE DVDRW back when they were still quite expensive as well as letting me repurpose the family PC (which stopped being used when I got my own and my parents laptops of their own) into a dedicated torrenting and DVD encoding machine so I could pirate movies for him.

I never really stood a chance.
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I remember my late grandfather had a bunch of floppy disks that all had games and software on them, all meticulously labeled, but never any manuals or boxes to go with them. Turns out they were all pirated from the local Macintosh User Group. Needless to say, my mother wasn't a big fan of this, but it's in my blood.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I remember my late grandfather had a bunch of floppy disks that all had games and software on them, all meticulously labeled, but never any manuals or boxes to go with them. Turns out they were all pirated from the local Macintosh User Group. Needless to say, my mother wasn't a big fan of this, but it's in my blood.
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I'm the pirate of my family, and I'll find whatever thing they're looking for and send em a link. Textbook, research paper, movie, tv show, sport event stream, audiobook, ebook, sheet music. If I can find it I give to them.
 
Almighty Space Duck said:
When my family first got internet it was under the one condition that I work out how to get my dad music for free. The hardest part was getting him to understand that a 128kb/s mp3 of a 4 minute song couldn’t possibly be 100kb and that it was in fact a virus.
He loves his lidarr setup I arranged for him a few Christmases ago. It’s almost cycled out/retagged all his old limewire library.
This is the same dad that bought me an IDE DVDRW back when they were still quite expensive as well as letting me repurpose the family PC (which stopped being used when I got my own and my parents laptops of their own) into a dedicated torrenting and DVD encoding machine so I could pirate movies for him.

I never really stood a chance.
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I need someone to explain Lidarr and Sonarr to me. I keep seeing them mentioned in other places when Jellyfin/Plex are mentioned but I'm not quite sure what it's use case(s) is/are.
 
plgfarts said:
I need someone to explain Lidarr and Sonarr to me. I keep seeing them mentioned in other places when Jellyfin/Plex are mentioned but I'm not quite sure what it's use case(s) is/are.
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Sonarr is an automation platform that will periodically scan indexers (or Usenet if you set it up) and grab torrents matching your quality profiles and automatically feed them to your download client. Works for completed shows (but not for multi season packs for some dumb fuck reason) and for shows that are currently airing. Basically it just does the 'check your filtered RSS feed once a day for what you want to watch tomorrow' but does it every x minutes and will not (usually) fuck up and grab a 720p version instead of 1080p.
Lidarr is similar to this but for music, never used it myself.
 
plgfarts said:
I need someone to explain Lidarr and Sonarr to me. I keep seeing them mentioned in other places when Jellyfin/Plex are mentioned but I'm not quite sure what it's use case(s) is/are.
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Radarr - movies
Sonarr - TV shows
Lidarr - music

They're media collection managers that can scan existing collections, scrape online databases for things like posters, album art, tags, descriptions, icons, thumbnails, etc., that can also search whatever indexers you configure to go grab new stuff. Set them up with what you have, then tell them what you want, and they make it so. They support an assortment of download clients, from torrents (including seedboxes) to Usenet to soulseek.

Jellyfin and Plex can both integrate with them so they know what to show on your TV or handheld when you're browsing for stuff to watch or listen to.
 
My cravat doesn't flutter said:
I've seen he watching the shittiest cam recording of Deadpool & Wolverine on YouTube. By shitty, I mean the camera was constantly moving around and the screen was rarely more than 20% in-frame.
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This unlocked an old memory for me. My dad used to have a drawer full of bootleg copies of the latest movies that were exactly like this. We'd visit market stalls on the weekends and see guys flogging copies of the latest movies at their stalls and they were simply burned discs with camera-recorded footage of those films in some shitty plastic wrapping to try and look as legit as possible.

I remember watching some with him and they were awful quality. Shitty camera quality footage, silhouettes of people in the theatre moving up and down to go to the bathroom and you could hear those same people talking throughout the recording. But he was proud of his shitty collection.
 
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Officer Barbrady said:
I remember watching some with him and they were awful quality. Shitty camera quality footage, silhouettes of people in the theatre moving up and down to go to the bathroom and you could hear those same people talking throughout the recording. But he was proud of his shitty collection.
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Now dub the film over with a monotone voice recorded on a drive through headset microphone without lowering the volume of the original audio track and you'll have a decent idea what 90s film piracy in Russia was like.
 
AnOminous said:
I wonder.

Has anyone on this thread NEVER committted piracy of any sort?
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I got to be honest I don't know what you are expecting from a piracy thread.

Is Proton VPN good or is there a better one for torrents?
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I remember my late grandfather had a bunch of floppy disks that all had games and software on them, all meticulously labeled, but never any manuals or boxes to go with them.
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This was me and a dear family member with Apple II software.

AnOminous said:
Has anyone on this thread NEVER committted piracy of any sort?
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I have never broken the law, officer. Any readings of my posts to suggest otherwise are merely my attempts to protect the guilty.
 
Susanna said:
Now dub the film over with a monotone voice recorded on a drive through headset microphone without lowering the volume of the original audio track and you'll have a decent idea what 90s film piracy in Russia was like.
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Liberals hate Russia for invading Ukraine. I hate Russia for ruining every weird or obscure movie/TV show I want to download. We are not the same.
 
I find it funny how people who pirate everything are the most stingy about quality and codecs while normies who pay for everything don't even care if Netflix uses some shitty compressed 720p stream despite advertising 1080p.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Liberals hate Russia for invading Ukraine. I hate Russia for ruining every weird or obscure movie/TV show I want to download. We are not the same.
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Am I to take it you're upset that torrents you get from Russian trackers are subtitled in Russian? What is ingratitude?
 
Susanna said:
Am I to take it you're upset that torrents you get from Russian trackers are subtitled in Russian? What is ingratitude?
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He's probably complaining about voiceovers. Everything on Rutracker has them and the original audio tracks aren't always included.
 
Susanna said:
Am I to take it you're upset that torrents you get from Russian trackers are subtitled in Russian? What is ingratitude?
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I think all he's asking is that Pavel puts his monotone dub over for every character on a separate audio track. Non removable subtitles aren't the worst but when I have to listen to Sasha drone out the entire movie in Russian, hear the audio in the background in some other foreign language, and then read English, I feel like I'm giving myself a stroke.
 
Susanna said:
Now dub the film over with a monotone voice recorded on a drive through headset microphone without lowering the volume of the original audio track and you'll have a decent idea what 90s film piracy in Russia was like.
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Its a shared experience among all Slavs. Pirated cartoons in Serbia throughout the 2000s were pure kino, you'd pop the stall CD in then get your ears blown out by the Jagodica Bobica theme at 400% volume for a split second before it normalizes. Got all kinds of gems in the old CD pile, need to pull all that stuff out some day.
 
Danann said:
Not sure where to put this either in the Anime thread or here but the Japanese government published this anti-piracy video about wanting you to support the poor manga writers who made all these iconic heroes and animes!

What frightened me is that they are rather poorly-researched as, while it is primarily meant to be anti-manga piracy, it also shows a few anime clips and also mostly just displays the heroes and not the names of the IPs, nor even their authors. That is because they are shoved to the back of the video like they're footnotes, which shows this is definitely just a "fund bullshit practices" propaganda

It also suspiciously leaves out anime mentions too, which is what more of the anti-piracy seems to be targetting.
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I try to buy the manga that I read in most cases, which is also a result of me hating to read anything that is no a physical medium, but I am sure more people would be willing to spend money on manga if it was substantial cheaper, and we would get reprints and non translated material at a much quicker pace. Especially the release schedules are joke, SBR is still not available in its entirety in English as a physical copy even though the manga ended over 15 years ago. No wonder people rather pirate shit.

As for anime, it's just a hellscape of IP rights issues, (Legend of the Galactic Heroes lol), and outrages prices of Blu-ray's. Even someone like me sees no point in buying anime, to be honest.
 
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