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Hentai-Semitism said:
How's Usenet? Can you find really obscure shit there?
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Usenet comes down to two things: indexers and providers. Indexers give you the .nzb (think .torrent but not exactly) which points you to the files. Providers host the servers that the content is stored on.
Your access is only as good as your indexers provide you and then the files still have to be present on the provider for you to download them. Providers will adhere to either DMCA or NTD when it comes to copyright claims. What usually happens is that a copyright holder will claim one or multiple parts of the split archive that constitutes a complete download on a given provider, having multiple provides split over different backbones allows you to have the best chance at being able to grab those missing parts. What's gone on one may still be present on another.
Coming from someone with a pretty healthy coverage of indexers and provider/backbone access (there are really only a handful of true provides, most companies just sell access to one or the other - https://usenet.rexum.space/tree )
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usenet is not the be all and end all of obscure piracy access. Don't get me wrong, it is brilliant, but not perfect. It excels at movies/tv/music. It struggles with discographies and you'll usually have to get albums one by one, but that's where torrenting/private trackers come in. I cannot speak to how good soulseek is as I have never used nor had need to use it.
If you want access to very specific things there are usually private trackers dedicated to those particular niches. If you aren't already on a private tracker or two drop me a DM, I do have a spare iptorrents invite to hand.
 
Almighty Space Duck said:
I cannot speak to how good soulseek is as I have never used nor had need to use it.
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As someone who has never bothered with usenet, Soulseek is servicable for finding specific albums/shows that I can't find torrents or ODs for, especially older folk or regional music. The only real downside is that it hinges on individual users hosting entire files who hopefully have decent internet connections, but otherwise it's a good P2P platform.
 
Officer Barbrady said:
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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A few years back, my aunt passed away and we had to clear out her house. She was a hoarder, so there was a lot to dig through. We found multiple copies of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and one copy of Life of Brian. I'd already seen Holy Grail, but my dad was really excited to show me Life of Brian. After popping it in the DVD player, we discovered it was a cam recording. Decent quality, but we had to crank the volume up to hear anything. Dad was a bit disappointed, but we had a good time. That was my introduction to bootlegs and I don't remember much of the movie beyond just being quality father-daughter time.

eta: Richard Harmon has me on something of a wild goose chase trying to find a 2018 title called The Clinic. Every site I check is coming up with a 2010 movie with the same name. Can't even find a DVD copy.
 
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GreenTips said:
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.
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kek, i think i watched "Crank" in that form long, long ago.
I Know 孤独のせい said:
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
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Once i discovered manga and comic scans were a thing my already high levels of pirating increased tenfold.
 
The Feline Solution 2 said:
Once i discovered manga and comic scans were a thing my already high levels of pirating increased tenfold.
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I spent the longest time using YouTube to MP3 sites before I discovered MP3Skull back in middle school. At one point, I was really into unreleased/leaked tracks. Found my favorite Big Time Rush song "Intermission" that way. Somewhere, I have a handful of covers/demos from Ariana Grande that she uploaded to YouTube before she blew up.
 
How do I set up streamio to play shows like 911 or anime and such? I'm revoking access to my server to someone and the least I can do is get an alternative mostly set up for them.
 
Betonhaus said:
How do I set up streamio to play shows like 911 or anime and such? I'm revoking access to my server to someone and the least I can do is get an alternative mostly set up for them.
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If you have a Debrid service like Real Debrid then using that with Torrentio is pretty easy to set up. There's more all-in-one bundle options out there that configure categories and features for you (I don't use them but r/StremioAddons brings them up constantly) but Torrentio is fine to use. It has had a few outages recently though so I'd recommend adding a backup option like Comet too just in case.
 
Friendly reminder that pirating is absolutely right and moral. Everything regarding knowledge and technology -- music, games and books -- should be accessible for free by everyone, everytime, at their own will. Patents, trademarks and copyright should be extinguished: information is the raw material of human progress, and restricting access to it is equivalent to restricting society’s ability to evolve.

That being said any thought on Youtube Music substitutes? I've been using Metrolist for quite some time now but their recommendation system is terrible.
 
Weird Glitched said:
Friendly reminder that pirating is absolutely right and moral. Everything regarding knowledge and technology -- music, games and books -- should be accessible for free by everyone, everytime, at their own will. Patents, trademarks and copyright should be extinguished: information is the raw material of human progress, and restricting access to it is equivalent to restricting society’s ability to evolve.
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I don't think that companies should hold copyrights for a century or have restrictions on how you operate and use media you paid for or funded by your taxes but this is a load of shit.

I need to get back into piracy myself but currently have to use someone else's my wi-fi and don't want to trip anything like an IP nastygram, so right now it's all low-level, low-size stuff like anime.
 
Weird Glitched said:
Friendly reminder that pirating is absolutely right and moral. Everything regarding knowledge and technology -- music, games and books -- should be accessible for free by everyone, everytime, at their own will. Patents, trademarks and copyright should be extinguished: information is the raw material of human progress, and restricting access to it is equivalent to restricting society’s ability to evolve.

That being said any thought on Youtube Music substitutes? I've been using Metrolist for quite some time now but their recommendation system is terrible.
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Ferryman said:
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I just wanna watch 1000 Ways to Die and piracy is the only way to watch the whole series.

Is anyone familiar with TunesKit? It looks like it'll be easier to remove DRM from iTunes than Amazon Prime and that's the top software recommendation I'm seeing.

Just any fyi for XPrime users like myself:
It's been buggy as hell lately, jumping forward sporadically. Put on an episode of Kevin Can Fuck Himself and it jumped to the middle of the episode. Same issue with I Know What You Did Last Summer, but with shorter jumps of only a few minutes. It's a pain in the ass to use right now because you have to keep moving the timeline thing back to see what it skipped.
 
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Weird Glitched said:
Friendly reminder that pirating is absolutely right and moral. Everything regarding knowledge and technology -- music, games and books -- should be accessible for free by everyone, everytime, at their own will. Patents, trademarks and copyright should be extinguished: information is the raw material of human progress, and restricting access to it is equivalent to restricting society’s ability to evolve.
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I think patent law as it currently is works well. It provides some incentive to innovate, but patents expire after 20 years or so. Copyright should work the same way. You got 15 or 20 years to make your money and then it enters public domain. If anyone still cares about it after 20 years, you've already made millions upon millions of dollars, if they don't, you aren't making money off it anymore anyway.

The common retort is, "Well, what give your the right to get something someone else created for free?" I would respond with, "Is it reasonable to expect society to police the copying of something someone created in perpetuity?" Nobody is saying the thing you create doesn't belong to you after 20 years or that you still can't still sell it or that new works you create in the same series won't be copyrighted, just that there's a point where literally putting people in jail for distributing something that came out years ago is unreasonable. It's also bad for society because it encourages big corporations to just trade valuable IP back and forth instead of creating anything new worth watching.
 
Never Scored said:
Copyright should work the same way. You got 15 or 20 years to make your money and then it enters public domain.
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I think this is how copyright was originally supposed to work. It also introduces churn which is good to stimulate the market of ideas. Being able to monopolize something for a century or more only creates stagnation and preempts novel invention.
 
XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
Who cares how it's "supposed to" work?
The purpose of a system is what it does, and the purpose of copyright is to invade real property rights
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If the modern rendition of copyright has taught us anything it’s that real property rights don’t matter if you have enough money to do whatever you want and bribe the right people to let you do it.

So in a way you’re right. It is the system working exactly as intended.
 
i'd be fine with just lowering the copyright term limits to about 40-60 years after publication. at worst, you still get movies from the 60s being mostly usable
 
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