movie-web always seemed like such a sitting duck for takedowns like this. Any form of piracy that’s grabbing from a few centralized streaming servers is bound to be shut down.
P2P torrents over a VPN is the most resilient way to do piracy.
Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I’m genuinely curious.
yah i forgor about that
but technically you can, but with a self signed certificate only (ehich are less secure; or by asking people to set up the dns manually)
with self signed certs you don’t lose encryption, but the client won’t be able to make sure that it’s connecting to your server specifically
Shiiiit. I remember the site, movie-web.app, getting taken down months ago, I was meaning to self-host it. This year is a dark year for open source piracy repos.
Also fuck github for taking down open source project they don’t like.
It’s from Software Freedom conservancy, they regularly publish such great articles. These guys do a whole bunch of great work in general, I highly recommend checking their other articles, maybe follow them on Mastodon (@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org) or donate a few bucks to support them.
It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.
Funnily enough it didn’t have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don’t think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren’t finding it from search results, as I don’t think it even had the info that’d be grabbed, and probably didn’t even have SEO or anything like that)
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Does anyone have a mirror of the repository?? I want to self host it
I think they have a mirror at https://docs.sudo-flix.lol/ Also https://erynith.github.io/movie-web-instances/
There are still a few instances about such as https://mw.lonelil.ru/
ayyyy that’s been my go to! sometimes when the normal hosts don’t resolve it’ll start auto-playing russian dubs, it’s so silly.
Fucken William H. Macy is all like “вот что ты пропустил на прошлой неделе в сериале Shameless” and I just lose it.
As long as someone backed up the repository, it can still be forked, right?
Just a reminder that there are tons more options like this (and this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to movie piracy).
https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
this link puts c/piracy’s megalist to shame, it’s also a shame that it’s only movies. I’m guessing from the url that it’s not tho.
edit: oh hell yeah, there’s a homepage! How well is it moderated?
It’s moderated very well, they change things every month.
Bookmark and forget. Thanks
They’re axing certain adblockers on youtube / Spotify. AND they just took down one of the largest paywall bypass extensions for Firefox.
The billionaire class is scared as fuck this one last quarter of “profits” won’t he enough to satisfy wallstreet
sad yarr
Oh well
movie-web always seemed like such a sitting duck for takedowns like this. Any form of piracy that’s grabbing from a few centralized streaming servers is bound to be shut down.
P2P torrents over a VPN is the most resilient way to do piracy.
Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I’m genuinely curious.
From what I know, the for network fits this
(My knowledge comes from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ua8HrgZsAg)
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There are handshake domains, which are distributed on a blockchain, but sites that use them won’t resolve in browsers by default
i2p or tor addresses. Which aren’t popular because it’s hard for both admin & user.
I think one way is to use a domain host that is located in some country that doesn’t care at all.
just don’t use one?
host shit on bare ips
You can’t have valid HTTPS on bare IPs.
yah i forgor about that
but technically you can, but with a self signed certificate only (ehich are less secure; or by asking people to set up the dns manually)
with self signed certs you don’t lose encryption, but the client won’t be able to make sure that it’s connecting to your server specifically
Technically they could by manually verifying the cert from somewhere offline.
Hydra effect pls
Shiiiit. I remember the site, movie-web.app, getting taken down months ago, I was meaning to self-host it. This year is a dark year for open source piracy repos.
Also fuck github for taking down open source project they don’t like.
self hosted git ftw always
Just noting that Microsoft acquired Github back in 2018.
was just about to mention this, github literally has a vested interest in killing inconvenient open source projects whenever it sees fit
Give Up GitHub!
What a thicc article but it’s probably the best critique of github in the internet
It’s from Software Freedom conservancy, they regularly publish such great articles. These guys do a whole bunch of great work in general, I highly recommend checking their other articles, maybe follow them on Mastodon (@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org) or donate a few bucks to support them.
As I don’t see it here mentioned enough: sudo-flix is a fork
It is hosted at https://sudo-flix.lol/ for now :)
The hell is movie-web
I found a Firefox extension that no longer exists.
It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.
Funnily enough it didn’t have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don’t think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren’t finding it from search results, as I don’t think it even had the info that’d be grabbed, and probably didn’t even have SEO or anything like that)
It’s available as a docker image isn’t it? So we can just self host it
There are so many forks though right? Hopefully they all keep going. I only found out about movie-web a couple months ago and it’s pretty cool.
We need to get more stuff into darknet.