Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Not sure this is on-topic enough and maybe a bit niche, but does anyone here have experience running Animal Crossing via Ryujinx on the Steamdeck?

Just tested it and it really seems to bring the Steamdeck to its limits. Fan is running a lot, I had a crash or two as well. Kinda worried about frying my Steamdeck with this.

I checked online for performance tweaks but they mostly say that Yuzu works a bit better with the right tweaks, Ryujinx is already setup the best way but has worse performance.

Nothing that can be done or does anyone have some experience here?

Edit: Steamdeck OLED version by the way.

Hello mateys, do you want to help steer the ship? Well you're in luck, mod applications for /c/piracy are now open.

After seeing an obviously spam post hanging in the comm frontpage for hours yesterday with a dozen reports for it up, I realize we might need more people to react to it around here.

The job is not very demanding really. We don't get a lot of things violating the rules around here. Just some obvious spam mostly. Expected effort is probably as low as a couple of hours per week. Basically being able to keep an eye for possible reports while you're active through your day. So let us know if you can lend a hand.

• Must be willing to enforce instance rules as well.
• Being very active in /c/piracy will be a big a plus, as that will allow you to notice and respond to problem posts, even before they're reported.
• Knowledgeable about pirate culture and tech a plus.
• Bonus if you're an anarchist as that vibes with our instance's culture, but not strictly necessary.

Looking for 1-2 mods. Preferrably in different timezones.

Post your application in the comments and mention the timezone you're in.

Does anyone know where I could pick up a cracked version of a lean piano app, if it is even possible?

I have bought the piano now I need to gamify the learning because both me and my daughter are lazy.

Edit: for android.

I use Surfshark, and the protocol options I have are: Open VPN TCP Open VPN UDP WireGuard

Which should I be using?

Also I have QbitTorrent (Win11), and was curious if the version mattered at all

I am well pleased to inform a new concept for Emulation, ROM and Torrent enthusiasts, if you want to see behind the scenes, join our Simplex Group!

https://rentry.co/retrotorrents#join-our-simplex-group

For context, it will be a website with magnet links to download compressed ROM files through a torrent client, like a .rvz ROM file for Wii and GameCube games in the dolphin emulator and so on.

For all that have the same goal, shall unite as one.

All thanks to Peter sunde and Njalla for the domain!

TL;DR: Chinese LLMs (including DeepSeek) are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to overhaul copyright law as a matter of national security.

Some companies, most notably Google, have regional specific pricing for their products. So for example, YouTube will be significantly cheaper in India, let's say, than in the US because former's purchasing power is much lower.

However, not all companies do so and that is a prime motivator towards piracy, even for customers who want to go the legal route. There are many examples from niche ones like the streaming app History Hit to mainstream newspapers like New York Times.

I would like to focus on the latter. It's no secret that it's news app in moddable form is easily available though the games section is still off limits, I think. Still, I went to see how much their legit variant cost in my country, India. For first year, it was INR 1000, not bad, considering that rival newspapers in my country have a similar structure. The small thing is that after first year, it will jump eight fold. So, a subscription to a newspaper will cost annually more than any streaming service I can think of(and Atleast streaming services have to offload the Full HD streams from servers, news articles have a much lower bandwidth cost) and almost the price of an entry level smartphone per year.

It's almost as if NYT deserves to be pirated. It is almost as if they don't wish to take users money, even for those willing to pay. For a subscription, that is Twice more than Play Pass, YouTube Premium, Disney combined, it is almost laughable.

tried yt-dlp, with browser cookies. Tried the developer tools trick too (network serction). None has worked

Does anyone know what's up with that? Couldn't find anything via Google. Seems really fishy to me.

Edit: Got the official explanation from the dev on Reddit:

AutoClick Feature of JDownloader works as following. Open the browser and wait few seconds, then take screenshot and search for the Recaptcha click area and auto click on it. Screenshot is needed so JDownloader knows where to click. You can disable this feature, see https://support.jdownloader.org/de/knowledgebase/article/jd-opens-my-browser-to-display-captchas

On Linux, JDownloader creates screenshot to find out the color of tray area so it can try to find it's tray icon and calculate the correct background color for transparency. You see the JDownloader icon having white background. You can disable this via Settings->Advanced Settings->Tray.gnometrayicontransparentenabled

So I've been completely out of the waters for years but the way things are nowadays I have to sail again the high seas.

But to where?

Are there any general purpose torrent search engines like there used to be?

I have a seedbox with Ultra.CC. I've got Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr setup with IPTorrents as the indexer. It was working perfectly, however recently I've had lots of issues is connections being reset.

Here are a couple of the errors I'm seeing.

2025-01-29 00:02:03.5|Warn|HttpClient|HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/1.1 [PUT] https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/sonarr/api/v3/indexer/5: 400.BadRequest (432 bytes)
[
  {
    "isWarning": false,
    "propertyName": "",
    "errorMessage": "Unable to connect to indexer: HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.usbx.me/prowlarr/6/api?t=tvsearch%5Cu0026cat%3D5000%2C5030%2C5040%2C5020%2C5010%2C5070%5Cu0026extended%3D1%5Cu0026apikey%25XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%5Cu0026offset%3D0%5Cu0026limit%3D100]. Check the log surrounding this error for details",
    "severity": "error"
  }
]

025-01-30 19:47:29.1|Warn|IPTorrents|Unable to connect to indexer, please check your DNS settings and ensure IPv6 is working or disabled. https://iptorrents.com/t?73=&26=&55=&78=&23=&24=&25=&66=&82=&65=&83=&79=&22=&5=&99=&4=&60=&q=%2B%28tt4445396%29%2C%2B%28S11E08%29&qf=all

[v1.30.2.4939] System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: The request was aborted.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Connection reset by peer.
 ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (104): Connection reset by peer

DNS is fine. I've tried putting query limits on the indexer in Prowlarr, but that hasn't helped.

I'm wondering if this is a common thing with IPTorrents? Is there anything anyone can suggest? I'll appreciate any help. Thanks.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I have FlareSolverr installed and applied to the indexer in Prowlarr.

Randomly in the middle of episodes, some if the ads just wont be deleted, will get like 3 ads in a row before its back to the show, I can ofc skip but when multitasking its a bit jarring to get ads on pirated content. Conspiracy theorist in me thinks they get paid off or avoid getting sued by keeping these ads. Just feels oddly lazy to miss some ads consistently like for amazon pharmacy when I've never seen this issue before.

Netflix users face being forced to pay the TV licence fee even if they do not watch the BBC, under plans being explored by officials.

One option for the future funding of the corporation is to make households who only use streaming services pay the annual charge, it was reported on Tuesday.

Bloomberg said the plan has been discussed by the Prime Minister’s office, as well as the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Other options include allowing the BBC to advertise, imposing a specific tax on streaming services, and asking those who listen to BBC Radio to pay a fee.

On Tuesday, the DCMS said the Netflix proposal was not under “active consideration” but did not rule out that the option was on the table.

The BBC’s charter ends at the end of 2027, and Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, is looking at ways to keep the corporation well funded at a time when more people are gravitating toward on-demand services such as Disney+.

Critics say the licence fee dates from a time when consumers had no choice but to watch programmes at the time of broadcast.

It currently costs households who watch live TV or use BBC iPlayer £169.50 a year, an amount that usually rises annually with inflation.

Even if they don’t watch BBC programmes, households are required to hold a TV licence to view or stream programmes live on sites including YouTube and Amazon Prime Video.

It is not, however, needed if people only watch on-demand, non-BBC content.

If the licence fee is expanded to those who only watch video-on-demand, it could risk a backlash from consumers who may argue they already pay subscriptions for the same services.

Another option under consideration includes making users of the BBC’s on-demand app pay a subscription fee rather than the licence, mirroring the business model of services like Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.

Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee so that lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users.

Another option was to leave the licence fee largely as it is, with a few tweaks, but with better enforcement, a person familiar with the internal deliberations said.

A spokesman for the DCMS said that they wouldn’t comment on “speculation”, adding: “We will provide more details about charter review plans in due course.”

A government source said the process was at an early, information-gathering stage and was not being actively considered by Ms Nandy.

Preferably from 2020 onwards and without the need for a mandatory product key/Microsoft account, I've already had a lot of headaches because of these two "casualities"!

Hi, I'm looking for german SFDL/FTP or Torrent sites Thank you :)

I heard that gog-games(dot)to went private (or invite only) for a while some years back but I recently found out that they came back after some time. Does anyone know if they are still as good as they were? I only heard that they were trustworthy before and I can't seem to find any recent post that says otherwise. Thanks for the help!

God of war III (USA) (1.00) (BCUS98111) is not working on RPCS3. While the EU version works just fine.

(AFAIK, EU version is censored lot of scences, which I don't want)

I downloaded USA iso from Redump (myrient). I downloaded EU version from Gnarly Repacks.

I also updated the game to 1.03, still stops at cache compilation.

Can somebody help?

I can provide additional info if wanted and links if allowed.

Although a computer is better, there might be great potential for smartphones to participate in the swarm. But there seems to be some complications.

https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent/-/issues/2

Someone did make a torrent client for iOS 16+ devices named 'iTorrent' but there is no mention of I2P.

https://github.com/XITRIX/iTorrent

There is this technology to replace the physical boards on the pitch by customized ones by processing the video, so I wondered if there is some filter available to block those boards altogether and replace them for a black board?

I'm sure I'm not the only one annoyed by those two-layered boards that are becoming the norm, and those ads are getting more invasive everyday.

I would be willing to go through the trouble of watching the videos with a few extra seconds of lag if that means getting rid of those ads.