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You only need calibre and it handles everything for you.
An issue you may run into is light gray font, which is easily solved
Why does purpose or ethics matter. It is called piracy and not robin hood.
Whatever the intent, it incentives archival even with selfish purposes across different decentralized sources, which is pretty valuable with that huge amount of data that would be expensive for a centralized entity to archive on their own. Not to mention a single point of failure. So even selfishness is leading to helping history not be lost.
And you think 100 years from now or longer if some random historian comes across some still working storage containing long lost media that a pirate had kept they are going to care about the legality of that at the time?
And don’t forget how much game versions change from launch, so new version is history too. Same for movies and shows and books with how editing has been done that’s led to loss of the original copy. And led to reliance of fans to restore content like Star Wars.
It is happening now with Netflix too where now the pirated versions of some Netflix show is the only way to see what was originally shown.
“We have George Lucas’d things also that people don’t know about,” the siblings told Variety, referring to the Star Wars director’s much-critiqued altered re-releases of the original franchise. “It’s not, like, story, but you’re essentially patching in shots.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/netflix-retroactive-editing
The MCU’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is barely a year old, but even the Marvel superhero miniseries isn’t immune from Disney’s re-editing efforts. In March 2022 some devoted Reddit fans discovered that a scene where Bucky throws a pipe through a woman’s shoulder had been altered so that woman falls back on the pipe instead.
https://screenrant.com/tv-shows-films-edited-after-original-release/
14 years… Time doesn’t stand still for that long.
As much as I complain about denuvo I still do buy the games even if they do get cracked. I don’t pirate any PC games, since exes are just not something I want to risk. I’ve got a collection of legal games that surpasses the availability of gamepass. PC gamepass advertisement says ‘Play over 100 high-quality games on Windows PC.’ That’s a baby collection compared to what I got in my legal library of games. That’s not even bringing GOG into the mix.
Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.
And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.
There is the mega thread on the side bar. Here’s the music section maybe it’ll have something you are looking for
https://rentry.co/megathread-music
Here’s also the freemediaheckyeah wiki
Just go to be sure the download the clean adware free version from what I remember. Easy for Linux though since it is available in the repo. On windows I think you go to the page https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
Been a long time since I used it on Windows.
Noticed there’s a lot of geeky people on lemmy, and so many seem to be using stuff like linux in threads asking what OS do you use. Which is definitely a big outlier from the average user. So seems like even if the numbers aren’t high that there’s a lot of people who can provide tech support to dumb people like me.
Some people here are saying i2p may be the future https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/259433 Sounds like Qbittorrent is planning to provide i2p support too. So hopefully port forwarding won’t matter as much for future releases.
Whether pirates have wanted or not if they pirated long enough they have experience lot of things being killed off. Torrent sites they relied on dying and disappearing for good like rarbg. Recent reddit causality being r/newyuzupiracy. Direct links being killed off like megaupload. Discord channels dedicated to piracy or jailbreaking being banned and killed off (why isn’t stuff like matrix more common instead of hoping Discord ignores them?).
The constant search for new methods to piracy p2p, torrents, usenet, i2p, irc, discord bots, telegram bots, etc.
It’s not an area that has stability so pushes people to constantly be searching and finding new ways to pirate. Being on centralized places has always been borrowed time. Piracy in the long run always ends up having to search for a new home, better places, better methods. It’s a nomadic lifestyle in the digital space by the nature of it and the hostility towards pirates from those in power.
But, one thing that has remained a constant has been decentralization. With no better representation of that spirit than bittorrent. As long as a few people have it the source remains alive.
Then go open up your own sub if you want a piracy sub on reddit that much. You think it’s the name that makes a sub special? Could be /r/shitideas and if you made it focused on piracy it’d be a piracy sub. Acting like there’s something stopping you from starting up your own. If anything it being /r/shitideas would make it easier to go under the radar and attract less attention from being shut down. Step up if you want it.
Don’t even need to do that. Just need to point to what happened to /r/megalinks
Looked through the archive from 2019 /u/qefbuo said
Personally I think we should move to a decentralized network like Diaspora, anywhere we gather that’s centralized is on borrowed time.
Or what more recently happened with r/newyuzupiracy
https://kotaku.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-reddit-piracy-banned-yuzu-1850547515
When reddit decides a ban hammer is going to strike there is no warning.
People are so brain dead that they think the only place to get answers on piracy is reddit. Even 4chan is better if they can’t be bothered to come here or raddle or any piracy forums that exist outside of reddit if they are left that clueless.
Should nuke the stuff on reddit, and give it back to them to figure it all out for themselves. They can have their sub if they want to talk piracy on reddit that much. Probably go about recommending piratebay to each other to download software and games.
That should be the way for every sub really. Just wipe and leave it unmoderated and tell the people who are whining to go mod it themselves now that it’s back open.
Why even log in? Getting my GDPR request made me not want to. Might as well opt for teddit.net/r/modcoord or teddit.net/r/piracy
You aren’t wrong. It is something to be careful of. Here’s one source
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/avoid-these-android-tv-boxes-like-the-plague-they-come-pre-loaded-with-malware
Best might be to go with a known brand, get a Raspberry Pi, get something like the Intel Nuc if you want something more capable and a wireless keyboard to go with it.