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Posting this in response to another Crunchyroll Update:
Crunchyroll's Shocking Mismanagement Of Popular Anime Titles Angers Toei, Toho, & Top Manga Publishers

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Usenet block deals (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

Usenet wiki (unfortunately we don't have one on Lemmy): https://reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq

Two 1 TB blocks on different backbones for $15: https://portal.usenetprime.com/cart.php?a=add&bid=37.

3 TB for $15 (4000+ retention): https://billing.blocknews.net/signup/blockfriday

6 TB for €15 (2800+ retention ): https://www.bulknews.eu/checkout?product_variation=43&locale=en%2F and use the code bf241. Bulknews is on Abavia backbone.

4 TB for $25 (4633+ retention): https://newsgroupdirect.com/member/billing/?plan=ce57&planid=233&yes_tracking=1

500 GB for 10.50 till January 3 (3000+ retention): https://usenet.farm/

The retention might not be accurate, probably larger.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

Easynews Unlimited plan with VPN - $1.99 USD/month (charged annually, $4/month thereafter)

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What are your thoughts on this?

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I believe that knowledge should be free, you should have access to knowledge even if you don't have the money to afford buying it. This uses IPFS.

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2 months old article, but the video explains well what and how Umu launcher works.

Essentially I think it replaces Steam's runtime environment, by doing kinda what this runtime does, but for all games (even non-steam ones). It has a database to match the games, so that umu knows what scripts to run the game (like setting environment variables, installing dependencies etc.).

Lutris now (if I understood well) uses umu when you choose the proton runner. You can enable it in Heroic launcher as well. You can also run umu "bare" through command line, by creating the wine prefix, feeding it a name to match it to the database and let it do its work (I think this is presented at around 01:30:00 mark). As time passes, more programs seem to adopt it.

It's a ~40mins presentation which starts about after the first hour in the video. Took me really long to understand how this works, hope it will help others (posting it here as cracked games tend to be installed out of steam).😅

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Shareisland (shareisland.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shimitar@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

Shareisland is open to registration.

Mostly Italian and multi language content.

Edit: seems broken at this time, but check on the next days as it will work sooner or later. There has been an official announcement that registrations will open soon for a brief window. No idea precisely when, i supposed they where already open at the time of the announcement.

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Its not available at the handful of streaming websites that i often visit .. where would you watch this type of content?

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Anybody got a clean link for this build?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

The two mainstream ones are out of development. I live under rocks, but not so many rocks that I don't know this.

I was hoping for either a backup of them as they were, or some fork(s) that continued development.

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Around 2016, sports streaming site Rojadirecta closed its doors to visitors from Spain after losing its legal battle with Mediapro. Despite the win, the broadcaster was disappointed that the court had found the company behind Rojadirecta liable, but not company owner Igor Seoane. After the Supreme Court held that Seoane could be held liable, last Friday a court confirmed total damages of $33 million, with Seoane and the company jointly liable for half of that amount.

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For context I am doing this because of EmuVR. It's a VR application that allows you to play retro games in an early 2000s bedroom on big CRT TVs. You can also use a VCR to watch movies. The problem I'm running into is a lot of movies/TV shows have been updated to be 16:9 which causes a lot of letterboxing on the 4:3 TVs.


I have tried searching around various torrent and DDL sites with minimal luck. Most of them seem to struggle with recognizing "4:3" as a search term. Adding the term "aspect ratio" seems to help but doesn't narrow it down completely and only provides a few results.

I am aware of a few individuals like threesixtyp on The Pirate Bay who put out bundles of TV shows and movies in the original aspect ratio but I'm wondering does anyone else had suggestions on how or where I could find this kind of thing? Maybe a site has an advance search section for aspect ratios for example.

I figured some kind of specialty or niche torrent site may have something. I could see something like a best retro movie pack popping up on 4chan's torrent board.

I am aware I could crop the videos with a program like Handbrake but that would take a decent amount of time to do.

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Once-thriving Usenet provider NSE was targeted by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN many years ago. Under legal pressure, the provider felt forced to shut down its successful business. Though NSE ultimately triumphed in court, that victory came years later. NSE is now demanding millions of euros to compensate for the alleged damage to its business. BREIN, however, sees things differently.

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i primarily use fedora linux and im looking a website or something specifically for linux versions of games, specifically stardew valley and hyper light drifter. any help would be great!

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Popular shadow library LibGen continues to face trouble. In addition to ongoing technical problems, a U.S. lawsuit resulted in several domain suspensions and seizures in recent weeks. To top it off, the shadow library was just added to Germany's pirate site blocking list, making it harder to access the remaining domains.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29831606

Hey all,

I've been using requestarr via Discord for the past year or so to have a remote user request option for my *arr stack.

Looking to move away from Discord completely and have been having trouble finding an alternate that would run on a more FOSS or secure platform. I run discovarr my local users but I'm hesitant to post that up as a web app for external access.

Does anybody around here know of a program or app or container even that would provide similar or replacement functionality via Matrix or signal or something of the like?

Thanks!

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Anyone have a working electron wrapper to use Photopea offline? All the links I can find have been DMCA'd or return a 404 error

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Sixteen well-known suppliers active in the UK pirate IPTV market have been selected by broadcaster Sky to star in a new phase of the company's ISP blocking program. A new order obtained at the High Court is technically an extension of an existing order won last year. However, with significant tweaks, upgrades and an extremely determined opponent, pirates may be about to face their toughest challenge yet.

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The easiest way to hurt a pirate site, at least temporarily, is by taking away its domain name. Historically, domain name registries have been hesitant to take action but with the right approach, progress can be made. This week, anti-piracy group BREIN reported that following their complaints, the .nl and .eu registries took action against several 'pirate' domains. On closer inspection, it appears that copyright has little to do with it.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

I recently set up radarr and sonarr and I noticed that in Qbittorrent, it automatically adds the label/tag/category of 'radarr' or 'tv-sonarr'. (The terminology of label, tag, category changes based on how you're accessing it. It's confusing and makes this hard for me to search). I'd like to auto-tag/label/categorize by indexer because different indexers have different seeding criteria. What is the best way to auto-tag? Is it through radarr and sonarr or through qbittorrent? And where are the settings to control that? Or do I need a plugin or something?

Edit: I asked this in the Radarr Discord and they told me that you cant use Radarr to do this. They suggested setting up qbit_manage to do it.

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Coordinated by Italy last month, a huge law enforcement operation reportedly 'dismantled' a pirate IPTV service with 22 million users. That's an extraordinary number and shows why countries like Italy have adopted mass site blocking measures. Logic suggests that the removal of such a huge player from the market might reduce the need for blocking measures, if only temporarily. The data shows that in the wake of the action, blocking demands significantly increased.

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My entertainment experience is so much better than my friends' because of piracy. I use torrents, and store my media and it's made my life so great since I got into this a little over a year ago. I've seen shows that none of my friends have seen. Lately I've been into police dramas and there's an incredible series from France called Le Bureau des Légendes, which is phenomenal. There's one from the UK that I just finished called Line of Duty that was also great. I saw an Estonian period film that is entertaining called Apteeker Melchior -- it was freeleech for a short while, so I grabbed it.

My friends who pay for Netflix, Disney+ and all the the other streaming channels watch the all same garbage TV. I can see that too, but I get access to these other amazing films and shows. I've not even mentioned the books, audiobooks and music.

The pirate's life is a great life and it's the life for me. Arrrr.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 
 

It is amazing, but it has the issue of not having that many user. I2P is great, but because not many people know about it and that it is harder to set-up than going to a torrent site and downloading, not many people use. I2P speed improve the more people use it. One other flow I found is that I2PSnark is awful and there is a need for a better client for it. From my understanding the more you seed, the better speeds you will get, thus it encourages seeding which solves the issue with normal torrent were a lot of people will not seed after a while. I think it is a great idea specially now that many torrent sites are being taken down.

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