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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago

Solution: search with Yandex. Russkies don't give a fuck about western complaints of copyright, so every pirate site can show up there. Ahoy! 🦜 🏴‍☠️⛵

[–] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 30 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

If users can find those sites then corpos find it as well. They don't need YouTube videos to find out about that. I bet it is even someones job in big corporations to find pirate sites and I'd bet the last place they look is on YouTube.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

if too many people know about the site, it will draw attention of the corpos too. that is why i cant fathom why some video sites i have used even tell you to share the site with other people in social media or whatnot.

[–] Azrael@reddthat.com 5 points 14 hours ago

I agree with you. But at the same time, filming a tiktok promoting criminal activity is really stupid. Not telling people should be rule number 1.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

But they make it more known than before unlike our word of mouth strategy which keeps it in the inner circle for longer

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 177 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Oh no, the youngins are on their "if no one talks about it, the corpos won't know" delusion again.

Security through obscurity isn't security, and plenty of sites have survived longer than most of you have been pirating despite coverage by actual news organizations. Your least (or most) favorite youtuber (or forum, or guide, or wiki) isn't moving the needle.

If you aren't part of the actual scene that's sourcing shit for day 0 (or earlier) upload you have nothing to worry about regarding open discussion through psuedonymous social media. Or people making youtube videos. Or guides etc.

Pirate sites and fan projects that get shut down weren't going to last anyway. Real ones arr either set up to last or find a way to continue. Like Pirate Bay and AM2R.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 45 points 22 hours ago

Real ones arr

Nice

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Okay so the corpos know.... But compared to power users and then giving that same information to Joe Nobody who had no idea these things existed...that forces them to be a lot more aggressive because now you have "mainstream" attention

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Hence my mention about Pirate Bay. There were multiple mainstream news stories about it. Multiple of the founders were unmasked and put on trial, but the site was constructed so that it kept running. It is still running to this day, despite it no longer being the face of piracy that it was long ago.

Edit: In more recent news/sites, Anna's Archive. They have yet another lawsuit against them that isn't going to amount to anything but maybe a few more domain names going down because none of the people operating it have been able to be unmasked.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Me, still using Pirate Bay since before most of the people in this sub were born.

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

As is tradition.

Traditiooooon! TRADITION!

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

My country plays wack a mole with their domains. I mostly rely on 2 private trackers now

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're not using a VPN to visit PB.org from a non- problematic country, are you even trying?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

My torrent program and prowlarr use a VPN. I don't bother using it for normal browsing.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 12 hours ago

Now say the two things you just said in order

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

I have it running at router level but to a local server (so Australian). My devices also have it on so I can quickly change location on whatever device I'm using too

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

*laughs in private tracker

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah but I don't want to have to deal with community drama, upload requirements, minimum seed ratios that you can't hit because you aren't downloading popular enough torrents, applying to get in like it's some fucking C-level job application... Some of us pirate because we want content, not because it's a lifestyle.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

My private tracker is just 2 weeks of seeding and if no one is leeching, you get credits that can be used to zap torrents or buy upload to keep your ratio high. I just pirate whatever and have my client auto delete the torrent after 2.5 weeks and then just login to the site every few months to see the ratio and make sure I’m not missing a file. Very much set it and forget it.

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 14 points 17 hours ago

I recently joined a private tracker and your comment about s job interview cracked me off cause it really was like that

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)


Just fuckin with ya. Those are all valid gripes. I guess I got in on the scene way early through invites from friends and so I've hardly ever had to go through any interview process. I think the only place I "interviewed" was baconbits and it wasn't really an interview since I mostly just shared evidence of good ratio on other trackers with long-lived accounts. I've had an account in good standing on Cinemageddon for... 18 years as of next month. Getting over that initial hump made it pretty easy to get in with good standing, and most decent trackers aren't that hard to get good ratio on.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The private trackers I'm on also give "credits" for seeding time in addition to seed ratio, so even if not a lot of people are grabbing data from me, I can still download more by keeping my files always seeding.

Now, I'm not in any "big" or "classic" tracker, so maybe this is only a thing on the Smaller/Newer PTs, that being said they have everything I want so 🤷

[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 8 points 21 hours ago

minimum seed ratios that you can't hit because you aren't downloading popular enough torrents

Autobrr is the cheat code for this. Set it and forget it, come back in a month and you have 5 terabytes of buffer

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it should be named something you can't say on youtube

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 15 hours ago

WHAT IS UP YOUTUBE today we're gonna be talking about ksr.xyz dont forget to like subscribe and hit the bell icon

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago

You must Imagine Sisyphus a happy pirate

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Where would someone avoid to not see F1 race streams live?

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks! I'll give them a look!

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Bad noises and no interest, it's a combination effect

[–] makeitwonderful@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ryoae@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Man you almost had it with the rhythm of harder, better, faster, stronger but you didn't complete the end with another 'it'.

You had one job.

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

weird to blame video form lol.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Popular video gets attention. Attention reaches company. Company reaches for lawyers. Lawyers reach for cease and decist forms.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

Company worries about massive mainstream attention compared to being niche

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago
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