Italy, Bulgaria, Spain for example. They usually couldn’t care less (unless it’s football/soccer piracy).

Germany, on the other hand, cares a lot. Use a VPN for sure there.

“VPN up” depends on the country. Some countries don’t give a flying fuck, don’t waste money on a VPN if you live in such countries.

Exactly. Italy doesn’t care either, unless it’s football (soccer if you like freedom 🦅).

From the official Nintendo server, if you have an app that then removes the protection from the downloaded files.

Italy also has DNS filtering, but they recently added IP blocking for some sports streaming websites. This had terrible consequences

Secrecy and bypassing court orders? It seems like illegal censorship to me.

He made some political remarks on Twitter that many people didn’t like.

Download the most recent version from Monkrus and call it a day.

Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which – in my opinion – is more akin to Aaron Swartz’s original vision.

TorrentLeech, DigitalCore Club… they both sometimes open registrations

Torrent forum? That’s interesting. I’ve only used private torrent trackers like TL. Any recommendations?

TorrentGalaxy is up, but if you can’t open it maybe your country has DNS censorship.

Just change your DNS servers to something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 (Cloudflare DNS and Google DNS respectively).

You can change your DNS from either your computer settings or your router (the latter is recommended because it applies to all connected devices).

So maybe we shouldn’t worry after all? Future generations will make fun of us because we can use Windows XP fine but we don’t understand how TikTok works?

thinks deleting installers will delete the installed program

Now I get why Windows XP had an alert that said you weren’t going to uninstall the program when you tried deleting a link to a program

Good luck finding Netflix for $2

I haven’t read it but I’m curious… can you say what that scene is about without spoiling too much?

You can use yt-dlp to download from other website, not only on YouTube.

I agree with you. If a company writes off something in order to make it with zero, then that thing should immediately fall into the public domain.

Don’t just fork it, otherwise if they take down the original repo, your fork will also go down.

Download a full copy of the repo and host it yourself (on your GitHub account or GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.).

You may skip step 1 (getting a VPN) if you live in a country that doesn’t give a shit about piracy. Do your own research

I remember I was trying to find the video of an ad that was on TV (don’t ask me why, I’m probably autistic). YouTube didn’t exist yet. Instead, I downloaded a CSAM video - I was a child myself at the time, and that thing scared me and fucked me up.

Today it would never happen by using a torrent tracker, even a public one probably

Second torrentleech. It’s free, you just need an invite and you have to follow their rules (but that’s valid on any private tracker)

eMule was better in this regard, since you shared a folder you kept sharing all your files indefinitely (provided that you kept them in that folder).

Unless they ban all the users using a specific client

If you develop with MySQL on a Mac…

Sequel Pro > Sequel Ace ;)

I don’t know about your country, but in mine the download and upload of home connections are both unlimited

Yes, this post right here. I’m going to save it and use the sh*t out of it.

Thanks!

I agree. These stats are to be taken with a grain of salt.

Personally, I saw an extreme increase among my peers in piracy, streaming and Plex servers.

Some things are literally not available anymore by legal means. Piracy is an important tool in preserving content for future generations. Future historian will be proud of pirates.

It’s so useless that Microsoft recently announced it’s going to replace it with a button for their stupid AI bullshit Copilot

Please note that, unlike private trackers, indexers are usually a paid service.

Nzbgeek, althub, ninjacentral, drunkenslug just to name a few.

Personally I bought a used office PC (with 8 GB of RAM and Intel i5 6th generation) on eBay for less than 100 €. It works really great!

You can always setup a nice Plex server and give them all the movies they want.

It’s not like you can’t unsubscribe from Netflix

I don’t understand why would I watch a trailer of the movie I’m about to watch. It doesn’t make any sense to me

Keeping an app up to date takes time and work. Especially if it needs cloud services (e.g. multiplayer games).

Good luck trying to maintain an app forever if people just pay it once.

You are actually owning it, because you can download the DRM-free installer and keep it forever.

Well, on the other side of the pond, the French telecom Free has a full fledged torrent and Usenet client right in their router control panel haha

Depends on the country. Some countries don’t give a flying fuck about people pirating

I can’t speak for other countries, but in Italy YouTube pays a lot of money to the Italian copyright holders company for all the potentially pirated videos uploaded by its users.

Bad bot, please stop