Does Lutris require some special setup?

Using fitgirl repacks are a bit hit and miss for me. But if they don’t work, Lutris doesn’t help.

Of course, but how often would you go to a coffee place? If you work in an office, coffee is usually free anyways.

As a poor European:

Coders saying “but me a cup of coffee” for $8.

I buy a pack of coffee of 250g for ≈ $3. An average cup, according to Google, is 7.5g.

That’s $0.40 for a cup.

(Or about 9 beers)

I haven’t used it in a while but Aeroinsta was good and probably safe (despite their shady website). Gets rid of unnecessary stuff like ads and allows downloading.

It shouldn’t be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.

Everyone just copied everything from each other. Floppy, then Twilight CDs. Then came the internet and exploring music there was better than sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio to quickly press record. It was normal when I was young to share, not really an active choice.

Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.

The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.

Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to “compensate” authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).

The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

This is not piracy. We’ve always been allowed to record e.g. radio and TV for personal use.

FYI It seems like at least the US government doesn’t want you to go there. So if Fmoviesz is down or something, you should be careful to avoid alternatives such as sflix.to, lookmovie2.to, flixtorz.to, sflix.to, movieuniverse.se, soap2dayto.day.

lossless-music.org

You can disable right click hijacking with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled in about:config, I don’t think you need an extension for that

Often it’s not that great, but I believe it just needs more users to solve this

That’s what Tribler is for

So if I have games that don’t run, installing Steam should help?

Look for QMMP, a Winamp clone.

I’m not really familiar with Gnome

Maybe consider using a launcher for that, like albertlauncher (Linux) or ueli (Windows).

It depends on how the video is embedded and which format it is.

• You can try to open Page Info (CTRL+I) > Media tab and see if you can find the video there (Firefox).
• Sometimes you can right click and open frame in new window, which then allows you to save it (you may need to enable dom. event. contextmenu in about:config if they block right click)
• Get the VideoDownloadHelper addin (Firefox)

It depends on your location whether you need a VPN. I’m good without it. If you want to pay, maybe you can pay for usenet instead.

Maybe, but I’m talking about receiving it. That’s why you have to be careful torrenting (uploading) whereas DDL is no problem

Whether someone spends their personal resources to copy a medium digitally or physically doesn’t really matter to the copyright holder or author. They won’t get paid either way

I don’t know about the first part. Copying isn’t illegal for your own use. Either way, when receiving a copy, you’re not the one doing the actual copying. This was protected by fair use until EU politicians got lobbied into banning it.

But if you get it on VHS or DVD or whatever and sell it, or even give it away, Mr Bob won’t receive his cut and it’s not considered piracy or stealing

This is assuming - like digital media - some one took the time to spend his own free time to make copies of a physical medium.

There is no way of knowing whether the person has copyright or stole the first copy.

Or compare school books: the whole class buys one copy together, makes copies for every person to share costs. Likewise, a whole family can chip in to buy a car - you wouldn’t force them to buy a car each.

Suppose some dude on the street hands out books for free and gives you a copy. Does it make you unethical for accepting one? Would it be different online?

Suppose your government charges a “blank media tax” on storage devices to “compensate” creators with the assumption you already “illegally” download their content, didn’t you already pay for it anyway?

What if you’re downloading stuff as a hobby but you’d never pay for it if that would be the only other option, did anyone lose anything of value?

You can also get YouTube channels on RSS

Tribler

The music won’t start paying for me. Looks nice otherwise

Tribler.

Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching

There used to be regular Android apps packs on torrent sites.

Depending what you look for, there’s likely an open source alternative.

Some installers work, some don’t. You may need to install different versions of .net runtime.

Some research tells me it’s a physical chip that blocks you from opening certain files 😬. I did hear MS was coming with this at some point. Maybe check if this can be disabled in the BIOS

People here don’t need convincing, I think, but I still wouldn’t pay if piracy wasn’t an option. I’ll find another hobby. Besides, laws making it illegal are quite recent, thanks to greedy corporations. If it was immoral, there wouldn’t have been that much discussion about it.

If you’re looking for shows, there is showrss.info

I’m using Joey for Reddit and it’s still working. It’s noticably more quiet on Reddit though.

Maybe google SoushkinBoudera. Otherwise getcomics is ok. There are big (Dutch) collections on Soulseek too.

DC++ is great but I can’t get a decent working client for Linux that works with an IPv6 router (i.e. no port forwarding)

I don’t think it uses Tor directly, but Tor technology: “a custom built-in onion routing network”.

It seems to work from what I can tell because my downloads are not seen by iknowwhatyoudownload.com

More here https://www.tribler.org/anonymity.html