Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked
torrentfreak.com
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Those are the results from 'interstellar torrent'.
The takedowns are largely free advertising for the legitimate sites. It requires some basic level of knowledge, but that's true of even just using e.g. torrents on average, so it's probably a quite meaningful factor in this.
[1] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/32859507
Because I'm lazy in the last year I've mostly checked very old movies on archive.org
There would be no need go get an account anywhere, to get access, or seeing the download links at all. Just skimming the lists of all the trash that is streaming now, or the classics, and pick the few things of interest, professionally encoded according to so called 'scene-release' standards. Maybe there would be one captcha to be solved, but why would one care about that, if only downloading a few things?
The files would then come down with anything between one to 30Mbit/s, which means a few minutes at most, with some rare exceptions topping out at 150kbit/s which could mean a few hours. Which one still wouldn't care about, if one had rock solid connectivity, whereever and whenever one would be staying.
Limiting oneself to 720p or 1080p in x264, x265, avc1, hevc would be wise, to not run into the filesize limits of some of the free one-click hosters, but honestly, most of the serial shit available wouldn't be worthy enough to be watched out of the corner of ones eye at 480p anyways on some small 'other display', which would still be equivalent to DVD.
Which would be bad for blueray rips, but one probably wouldn't really care, because even at 4k most stuff stays being the shit that it is.
One probably could call that (in funny bad german english) "Loading, Looking, Lösching" meaning something like downloading, watching, and finally erasing that movie (anyway), because shit doesn't deserve to waste storage.
Yes, that would probably work very well for most use cases ;->
And people who don't feel like paying 7EUR/month can choose to either:
A) Just watch the ads, or
B) Build up a backlog and then binge it all in a month.
many people hoard youtube videos just because they fear that those video will disappear when they need them.
Luckily I downloaded it, but that means in time it'll cease to exist. I could re-upload it, but that feels like an invitation to have my account terminated with prejudice.
But I can’t help but feel that 90% of the “back to the high seas” comments on Reddit or social media discussions of streaming is just pirates justifying the piracy they were already committing.
Pirates love having some moral justification. Shit, they should just admit they prefer getting something without paying for it.
I pay for Netflix and Prime but typically stream their content on pirate sites - because pirate sites at least try to deliver a good experience.
But since they clamped down I'm pirating again. Until then there was no need.
>In a March 10, 2017, Twitter thread that was promoting its original series Love, Netflix wrote, "Love is sharing a password." The single tweet in the thread garnered more than 15,000 likes and more than 4,600 retweets.[0]
>Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK[1]
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-encouraged-subscribers-shar...
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/netflix-ceo-says-account-s...
> To illustrate this example, he spoke of how a parent may share their login with their child. And when that child grows up, they will usually subscribe to Netflix, too.
> “As kids move on in their life, they like to have control of their life, and as they have an income, we see them separately subscribe,” Hastings told reporters at CES. “It really hasn’t been a problem.”
> While Hastings didn’t directly address how he feels about non-family members sharing their credentials – such as in the case where friends or roommates may split an account
From [1], at least, it doesn't appear that he ever intended password-sharing among multiple households to be a thing?
Even in [0] (which I would consider a poor reference since it's about the crackdown and therefore starts out trying to prove a point...), I think there is a fairly reasonable interpretation of "Love is sharing a password" that doesn't include 3+ households sharing an account.
Since your parents are paying for your netflix you have a tilted/unbalanced view of the 'cost' to you of piracy.
A single, cheap streaming platform is awesome. Fragmented streaming platforms that raise their prices while offering less content, is significantly less awesome.
Maybe I should cancel every subscription every time I'm done watching a show and only subscribe to a single streamer whose show I'm actually watching right now. They'd get a lot less money out of me that way.
Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway.
For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to keep it just interesting enough.
For the low volume I order I’m often on a retailer’s website. Same day delivery is just gone in my area, and actually Uber and Doordash will just go straight to retail stores for you and its actually 20 minute delivery. They have subscriptions too that reduce some fees.
And if I’m not saving money while using something more convenient, then Amazon Prime time to go! Thanks for the last decade, obsolete this decade.
I'll try cancelling it and see what happens.
Not our problem, never was.
Turn off upload if you don’t have a license, enjoy.
Just admit you don’t care about pirating from a major company. You don’t have to lie to yourself to concoct a moral justification.
When you bought a DVD in the past it was incredibly easy for you to take that DVD and as long as you have a DVD player you can rewatch that movie over and over again without having to pay another dime for the privilege to do so. Now you have to contend with licenses expiring and a show you wanted to watch on Netflix (for example) is now no longer available because people at the C-level can't stop being greedy and pushing for more and more money.
Edit: Not to say the subscription model is completely wrong. It's actually a very compelling model, pay once each month for access to an entire catalogue of movies and TV shows is amazing. It's just really frustrating to watch streaming platforms hemorrhage content as the original media owners look towards higher licensing fees or even consider standing up their own streaming service, making yet another streaming service you have to pay for to access content.
You're not suggesting that the small hurdle required to clear before you can watch a DVD specifically your phone or tablet justifies piracy beyond you just not wanting to pay for it, are you? If so, you're making OP's point...
Also, using handbrake is not "way more difficult/time consuming than a torrent", come on.
No, that comment was saying morality is just an excuse. This thread is about convenience being the main reason for piracy.
>If so, you're making OP's point...
Yeah, that's why I responded to you instead of them.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/150656/europese-politiekorpsen-r...
Remember there was a time when criminals made lots of money selling bootleg DVDs and CDs. Obviously those buyers had money.
Quellism is fictional, but that does not make it invalid.
>the personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
--Quellcrist Falconer.
NOTE: "Make it personal" but this is business not war. Kinda feel I need to clarify that last line.
Ultimately, we are paying more for less content with more ads than cable. AND they are selling our data on top of everything.
Piracy will gain enough momentum to warrant government intervention that will further degrade and rob us of internet freedom. Mark my words.
In the long run imo only two options:
a) finally figure out licensing and platforming ambitions to unify so that the onus is not on customers
b) upgrade your democracies; become Switzerland
Ideally both.
They used to block DNS requests, then when secure DNS rolled out, they targeted SNI requests.
But with ECH there is nothing to block except the ip address, which is dynamic and doesn't even belong to the website if it was hosted on a CDN.
There usually is a hefty layer of indirection and obfuscation between the sites and the actual content served, presumably to make these moves easier (moving a frontend is certainly much easier than moving a multi-terabyte library of pirated media) while also preventing other similar sites from leeching off the same content. The smaller ones additionally tend to employ fairly aggressive SEO techniques, which is why finding them is easy despite the continuous takedowns and name changes; the largest ones seem to rely mostly on word of mouth, just like their torrent counterparts.
it’s really good! I’ve gone weeks without even using any of the devices connected via HDMI and a lot of the video quality is way better than what the streaming services would send, or what the stability of my internet connection would show, or what that devices version of the streaming app would show
4k rips with latest compression formats are nice
One example is popcorntime or webtorrent + finding the movie in Yify.
But I just wanted to point this out to those that don't know.
I believe there was some cases in Sweden or Denmark aswell were users got those extortion letters aswell.
Scary stuff, out of curiosity, how much do you have to torrent in order to be a target by these lawyers? I guess seeding those torrents makes you a bigger target?
The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things.
I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.
There's a specific site for watching animation (including anime) that has a better interface and search than Crunchyroll and it's free. There are pop-up ads that are easily blocked with uBlock Origin.
I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?
I did share a Netflix account before the clampdown but now I pirate again. I just take the road of least resistance. Like water.
There is a pretty obvious difference between copying data (which leaves the original available) and removing a physical item from a store (which does not leave the original available). You can still consider both to be wrong, but they should be differentiated.
It is also worth trying to understand why people pirate, and addressing those issues, rather than just have snarky comment wars.
Though, I’m as interested in why people pirate as I am why people steal from stores.
Second, it's about the chance of getting caught. With online piracy this is zero. Doing that at target will net you a criminal record even if you're really good.
Conisder another example: You're hiking through the hills, are getting hungry and there's an apple orchard you can easily reach from the trail. Would you take an apple?
PS I didn't mean to make this a heated discussion, though it's obviously a hot take. I just wanted to explain my point of view. I'm kinda beyond justifying this.
This doesn’t seem like the right term; it’s correct from an economic perspective but nobody “consumes” movies the way they do food.
Theft rates are falling excluding vehicle theft
However I edited since whether or not it’s on the rise is actually irrelevant to my point.
Piracy is an activity within the scope of the free market, just like this institutionalized theft. Giving companies a blank check while holding individuals to the highest standard is a more impressive feat of mental gymnastics.
I don’t have to convince myself that piracy is okay: I do not see what is wrong with it. Others do. It’s on them to make the case against it and nobody makes a compelling case -- not one that I’ve read or heard. The talk of but it’s theft fails to see that piracy is markedly different from theft. It’s going to a different store where it’s on offer for free.
My point is more that railing against small time media piracy while actual crimes are committed against human beings by big companies plays directly into the hands of those seeking to further the imbalance of power.
So, your assertion in practice is to say that you believe items below a certain reproduction cost should be free. This is just the sort of mental gymnastics I’m talking about.
piracy involves the item still being in the same place, so you have to prosecute the person that copied and gave it to someone else
lol, what a silly comment. We have plenty of nice things.
I think they should get the death penalty for violating the terms of service./s