Warner Brothers is permanently taking some shows off HBO Max lol.
I learned a ton of Linux/BSD basics just from experimenting with file server distros like FreeNAS during my college years. I had an old PC with a terabyte of storage (in 2007 that was a lot) that me and my roommates would dump all our torrented movies and TV shows on, and connect our computers to that over the LAN whenever we wanted to watch something.
A buddy of mine had a modded original Xbox with XBMC (the precursor to Kodi) on it, and he had it connected to our server. Seeing those movie files being played on a TV as if they were a DVD was pretty mindblowing in those days.
I have never used a VPN for torrenting. Ride into the danger zone :dean-malice:
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For gods sake at least use a peer blocker and don’t seed if you are not using VPN.
Fed monitoring your torrent: huh, MaoistLandlord is seeding to me from Cincinnati, OH. I’ll send them a letter
Peer blockers aren't enough, because your IP is still in the swarm. They help reduce the amount of junk data that you receive from malicious peers (e.g., film/recording industry shills that spew bad torrent segments), but you're still identifiable.
If you're not using a VPN, a seedbox hosted somewhere with decent/Interpol-hostile privacy laws is a good option.
Basically closes off your internet connection if the VPN connection lapses.
Edit: VPNs usually advertise it as a feature. I use Mulvad and it has it.
"Service" media is :sus: to me because of how easily (and often) things simply vanish, forever, and can never come back because the company doesn't want them to.
Look up how lots of companies destroy properties so they can have them as tax write offs forever, for instance Megas XLR was a victim of that and likely the HBO max shit is also going to be that soon.
i support local small businesses by getting my burnt DVDs from a guy with a folding table on the sidewalk downtown
Unironically does more for society than paying for Netflix or buying a new DVD from the studio's distribution company
Many physical releases of games now are just for show. Games as a service means you're required to connect to a 3rd party server at some point.
You can hold a disk in your hands all you wish, but you can't actually play it because the server that hosted 90% of the actual game was shut down years ago.
An increasing number of physical discs don't even have the actual game written to them. Only a few lines of code to tell your Xbox or whatever to start downloading the game from the store. Buying a newer game might be meaningless if you don't have an internet connection.
Digital media owned lock and key by shitty media companies? Yeah it sucks
Rips and archives lovingly maintained and shared by regular people? Pretty much necessary since physical media and old machines will eventually stop working and be useless as anything other than museum pieces
Like cool, you have one of the 200 remaining copies of some obscure Mega Drive game. You know what's even cooler? Being able to download it and an emulator and being able to play it on any machine in 5 minutes
especially with gaming
Aren't most games only partially on-disk these days (assuming they even get a physical release)?
Yeah even switch games will sell you the cartridges and still require you to download the rest of the game off the internet in some cases
They usually buy the smaller cartridges to make more money from this shit, too.
Streaming is heavily compressed, and you'll often see very noticeable compression artifacts. You'll take my blurays and pirated remuxes from my cold dead hands.
Remux it straight to my veins. Super unimpressed with english language, essentially western trackers in this regard. The russians are the cinephiles that seem to always have the remuxes I'm looking for. Granted they have multiple russian language tracks, but I admire that the people that package them care so much about the experience to include so many flavors for russian speakers (i will sometimes remux after the fact just to strip the superfluous audio to conserve space, but only after a healthy amount of sharing).
Still can't believe they gave HBO max to the guy who runs a service that hosts toddlers in tiaras
I feel so bad for all these people who worked for years on projects only to have some fucking geek in a Patagonia vest be like "Actually, we could make more money short-term by axing them entirely"
A compilation of stories about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws
https://thepiratebook.net/category/articles/
It all started maybe 10 or 15 years ago. I remember that my nephew was the first one in the family doing it. He had a little USB hard drive, and one day he got a large quantity of films from a neighbor – things such as National Geographic nature documentaries, music, action films, and video clips. Computers were rare in Cuba at the time. You could find maybe one computer on each block. Some people who had computers started collecting and selling kits of digital contents; it became a way to earn money. You could buy one terabyte of contents, connect the hard drive directly to a television, and watch it without any computer. You just needed to bring your own hard drive to the seller and transfer the files at his place. You could even customize the package by asking for a part of it only (to save money) or for more specific contents (only kung fu movies, TV shows, games, music, etc.).
https://thepiratebook.net/el-paquete-semanal-cuba/
This is kinda what I picture sometimes when I go to the trouble of amassing and maintaining a media library (I can seldom bring myself to get rid of a copy of anything, even if i don't like it, and redundancy is a must). It has so much more value when it's shared. At the start of the pandemic i bought a projector and a screen on the cheap and I got into blur ray remuxes. I liked the idea of pirating the absolute best digital reproductions available on the consumer market, and they look amazing when projected (just wish i had more people to share the experience with). I would think to myself that there may be a time when all of this becomes necessary again, precisely to have so as to share. I thought of having a couple of 16 tb hard drives just to hold the scihub depositories locally, but yeah, too much for me.
I'm old enough to have been to LAN parties that were very similar to this. We would carry desktop PCs and CRT monitors into some guys house and play games and swamp media all night. Then USB drives came along and we'd just sneaker-net when visiting each other. It was just a cool way to share media on a personal level before broadband was available or too pricey for most people.
Mulvad VPN is good and cheap. qBittorent has a built in search feature that takes a bit of setting up but is very helpful.
Some day I'm gonna listen to all the commentary on the Simpsons and Futurama dvds I have that have Matt Groening to see if he accidentally said anything related to :epstein:
it never gets old to me how the "heroes" of kelly comics are clearly based on his own imagined appearance. fucking kills me every time. whatever clown or group of clowns comes up with these are my favorite shitheads.
The cheapest way would be to buy a bigass hard drive and leave them on there - but I guarantee burning your own copy would be cheaper if you really wanted something physical. Dunno how long it would last tho, I know burned CDs have a donkey doo lifespan.
