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Hello, i was wondering if Lime3DS is any good as an alternative to citra

i'm not sure if emulation talk would be fitting here so my apologies if it isn't but i just thought it would be fitting considering it does have some relation to piracy due to how ROMs are obtained, but anyway.. i did hear Lime3DS isn't an actively developed fork of Citra as of now since there's a new 3ds emulator being developed as a replacement for that but i was wondering if Lime3DS would still be good to use in the meantime while waiting for the new 3ds emulator to be finished

hope this isn't a dumb question, i was just curious will be looking forward to hear back!

(Addtional question: i was gonna use it on my linux machine since it has a linux release but could it perhaps work on the steam deck too?)

hey everyone! quick question ive been trying lately downloading a torrent from bt4gprx.com; when i click on "magnet link" it opens a new tab but it's blank, is it just me?

Not sure this is on-topic enough and maybe a bit niche, but does anyone here have experience running Animal Crossing via Ryujinx on the Steamdeck?

Just tested it and it really seems to bring the Steamdeck to its limits. Fan is running a lot, I had a crash or two as well. Kinda worried about frying my Steamdeck with this.

I checked online for performance tweaks but they mostly say that Yuzu works a bit better with the right tweaks, Ryujinx is already setup the best way but has worse performance.

Nothing that can be done or does anyone have some experience here?

Edit: Steamdeck OLED version by the way.

Hello mateys, do you want to help steer the ship? Well you're in luck, mod applications for /c/piracy are now open.

After seeing an obviously spam post hanging in the comm frontpage for hours yesterday with a dozen reports for it up, I realize we might need more people to react to it around here.

The job is not very demanding really. We don't get a lot of things violating the rules around here. Just some obvious spam mostly. Expected effort is probably as low as a couple of hours per week. Basically being able to keep an eye for possible reports while you're active through your day. So let us know if you can lend a hand.

• Must be willing to enforce instance rules as well.
• Being very active in /c/piracy will be a big a plus, as that will allow you to notice and respond to problem posts, even before they're reported.
• Knowledgeable about pirate culture and tech a plus.
• Bonus if you're an anarchist as that vibes with our instance's culture, but not strictly necessary.

Looking for 1-2 mods. Preferrably in different timezones.

Post your application in the comments and mention the timezone you're in.

Does anyone know where I could pick up a cracked version of a lean piano app, if it is even possible?

I have bought the piano now I need to gamify the learning because both me and my daughter are lazy.

Edit: for android.

I use Surfshark, and the protocol options I have are: Open VPN TCP Open VPN UDP WireGuard

Which should I be using?

Also I have QbitTorrent (Win11), and was curious if the version mattered at all

I am well pleased to inform a new concept for Emulation, ROM and Torrent enthusiasts, if you want to see behind the scenes, join our Simplex Group!

https://rentry.co/retrotorrents#join-our-simplex-group

For context, it will be a website with magnet links to download compressed ROM files through a torrent client, like a .rvz ROM file for Wii and GameCube games in the dolphin emulator and so on.

For all that have the same goal, shall unite as one.

All thanks to Peter sunde and Njalla for the domain!

TL;DR: Chinese LLMs (including DeepSeek) are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to overhaul copyright law as a matter of national security.

Some companies, most notably Google, have regional specific pricing for their products. So for example, YouTube will be significantly cheaper in India, let's say, than in the US because former's purchasing power is much lower.

However, not all companies do so and that is a prime motivator towards piracy, even for customers who want to go the legal route. There are many examples from niche ones like the streaming app History Hit to mainstream newspapers like New York Times.

I would like to focus on the latter. It's no secret that it's news app in moddable form is easily available though the games section is still off limits, I think. Still, I went to see how much their legit variant cost in my country, India. For first year, it was INR 1000, not bad, considering that rival newspapers in my country have a similar structure. The small thing is that after first year, it will jump eight fold. So, a subscription to a newspaper will cost annually more than any streaming service I can think of(and Atleast streaming services have to offload the Full HD streams from servers, news articles have a much lower bandwidth cost) and almost the price of an entry level smartphone per year.

It's almost as if NYT deserves to be pirated. It is almost as if they don't wish to take users money, even for those willing to pay. For a subscription, that is Twice more than Play Pass, YouTube Premium, Disney combined, it is almost laughable.

tried yt-dlp, with browser cookies. Tried the developer tools trick too (network serction). None has worked

Does anyone know what's up with that? Couldn't find anything via Google. Seems really fishy to me.

Edit: Got the official explanation from the dev on Reddit:

AutoClick Feature of JDownloader works as following. Open the browser and wait few seconds, then take screenshot and search for the Recaptcha click area and auto click on it. Screenshot is needed so JDownloader knows where to click. You can disable this feature, see https://support.jdownloader.org/de/knowledgebase/article/jd-opens-my-browser-to-display-captchas

On Linux, JDownloader creates screenshot to find out the color of tray area so it can try to find it's tray icon and calculate the correct background color for transparency. You see the JDownloader icon having white background. You can disable this via Settings->Advanced Settings->Tray.gnometrayicontransparentenabled

So I've been completely out of the waters for years but the way things are nowadays I have to sail again the high seas.

But to where?

Are there any general purpose torrent search engines like there used to be?

I have a seedbox with Ultra.CC. I've got Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr setup with IPTorrents as the indexer. It was working perfectly, however recently I've had lots of issues is connections being reset.

Here are a couple of the errors I'm seeing.

2025-01-29 00:02:03.5|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/1.1 [PUT] https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/sonarr/api/v3/indexer/5: 400.BadRequest (432 bytes)
[
  {
    "isWarning": false,
    "propertyName": "",
    "errorMessage": "Unable to connect to indexer: HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/prowlarr/6/api?t=tvsearch%5Cu0026cat%3D5000%2C5030%2C5040%2C5020%2C5010%2C5070%5Cu0026extended%3D1%5Cu0026apikey%25XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%5Cu0026offset%3D0%5Cu0026limit%3D100]. Check the log surrounding this error for details",
    "severity": "error"
  }
]

025-01-30 19:47:29.1|Warn|IPTorrents|Unable to connect to indexer, please check your DNS settings and ensure IPv6 is working or disabled. https://iptorrents.com/t?73=&26=&55=&78=&23=&24=&25=&66=&82=&65=&83=&79=&22=&5=&99=&4=&60=&q=%2B%28tt4445396%29%2C%2B%28S11E08%29&qf=all

[v1.30.2.4939] System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: The request was aborted.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Connection reset by peer.
 ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (104): Connection reset by peer

DNS is fine. I've tried putting query limits on the indexer in Prowlarr, but that hasn't helped.

I'm wondering if this is a common thing with IPTorrents? Is there anything anyone can suggest? I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I have FlareSolverr installed and applied to the indexer in Prowlarr.

Randomly in the middle of episodes, some if the ads just wont be deleted, will get like 3 ads in a row before its back to the show, I can ofc skip but when multitasking its a bit jarring to get ads on pirated content. Conspiracy theorist in me thinks they get paid off or avoid getting sued by keeping these ads. Just feels oddly lazy to miss some ads consistently like for amazon pharmacy when I've never seen this issue before.

Netflix users face being forced to pay the TV licence fee even if they do not watch the BBC, under plans being explored by officials.

One option for the future funding of the corporation is to make households who only use streaming services pay the annual charge, it was reported on Tuesday.

Bloomberg said the plan has been discussed by the Prime Minister’s office, as well as the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Other options include allowing the BBC to advertise, imposing a specific tax on streaming services, and asking those who listen to BBC Radio to pay a fee.

On Tuesday, the DCMS said the Netflix proposal was not under “active consideration” but did not rule out that the option was on the table.

The BBC’s charter ends at the end of 2027, and Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, is looking at ways to keep the corporation well funded at a time when more people are gravitating toward on-demand services such as Disney+.

Critics say the licence fee dates from a time when consumers had no choice but to watch programmes at the time of broadcast.

It currently costs households who watch live TV or use BBC iPlayer £169.50 a year, an amount that usually rises annually with inflation.

Even if they don’t watch BBC programmes, households are required to hold a TV licence to view or stream programmes live on sites including YouTube and Amazon Prime Video.

It is not, however, needed if people only watch on-demand, non-BBC content.

If the licence fee is expanded to those who only watch video-on-demand, it could risk a backlash from consumers who may argue they already pay subscriptions for the same services.

Another option under consideration includes making users of the BBC’s on-demand app pay a subscription fee rather than the licence, mirroring the business model of services like Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.

Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee so that lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users.

Another option was to leave the licence fee largely as it is, with a few tweaks, but with better enforcement, a person familiar with the internal deliberations said.

A spokesman for the DCMS said that they wouldn’t comment on “speculation”, adding: “We will provide more details about charter review plans in due course.”

A government source said the process was at an early, information-gathering stage and was not being actively considered by Ms Nandy.

Preferably from 2020 onwards and without the need for a mandatory product key/Microsoft account, I've already had a lot of headaches because of these two "casualities"!

Hi, I'm looking for german SFDL/FTP or Torrent sites Thank you :)

The streaming sites listed on FMHY all seem to use the same title ID number in their page URL for a particular movie or tv show. I'd like to use the ID source for a search macro, but I've checked a few and they do not match IMDb or TheTVDB. What database do these IDs come from?

I have many Tbs I want to download & don't have the space plus I don't have the $ to invest in large amounts of storage so I've been trying to learn about Seedboxes here and around the net and it seems like it might be a solution to my needs but I have so many questions.

Is a seedbox just for remote torrenting and moving files to and from your computer?

Can you logon to a seedbox and direct download files from a website into the seedbox?

Can you create torrents in the seedbox for posting to torrent sites?

Are seedboxes mainly for keeping ratios up on private trackers or do they also accept open trackers as well?

Do you have to worry about DMCA notices with a seedbox?/Can seedboxes see what you transfer?

Can seedboxes be used with a VPN for optimum privacy or is there even a need?

What are some of the best seedboxes which leave a minimal, trackable footprint & preferably use US currency?

Any helpful guidance would be most appreciated. Thank You!

I want to study Oxford's "English Language and Literature" without going in debt for it. So far I've found a couple of PDFs which provide quite a reading list and the course's structure, but it's no course content. I'm really curious if there's a place for what I'm looking for.

Last year we saw Mickey Mouse going public domain and now every year more and more talkie movies are going public domain too. The talkies began in 1928, and I would say they got very close to what we have today in about 1934 or 35.

That means that every year people will have hundreds of "new" releases on public domain, making paying for watching new movies unnecessary. One thing is preferring the new movies when you have to pay both for new and old movies. Another thing is paying for new films when you have hundreds of old movies as good as the new ones (or better) for free.

I don't know about you, but I could spend the rest of my life watching public domain classics, no problem. For instance, I read a dozen books last year, only two of them were less than a 100 years old.

I would say Hollywood is in a pinch right now, something that will make them miss the days when their biggest enemy was piracy.