Piracy General: We Rule The Cyberseas Edition

/|\ / | \ ------- ---------- \_____/ The Pirate's Code: >Take what you can, and give none back. The ancient articles hold true, lad. >>Don't pay for any kind of digital content whatsoever. Only use account sharing/cracked accounts when/if streaming. Particular emphasis on hacking, cracking, and pirating DRM-controlled content. >>Block ALL advertisements possible. Support nothing which uses advertisement. Drink the tears of those who cry about it. >>Collect as much data as you can onto your disks, such as music, movies, games, etc. The Jew fears the data hoarder. >Remember, civilization is afraid of you because you're a pirate >>You pose a threat to their internet order, so you should use a VPN or TOR, or a privacy torrent solution like Tribler >>Public WiFi owners shake in fear from you, so they built systems to stop you >>A good pirate can't really be stopped, so long as there are enough of us >>Beware of shallow reefs (IP-logging torrents) and other dastardly tricks from our gay enemies: Tyrone the glownigger and Schlomo the corporate lawyer >Seed, ye scurvy dog >>Pirates are stronger together >>Seeding keeps the dream alive >Check game installers and other executables for malware >>Sandbox suspected malware in a VM >>Use Ghidra to reverse it >Yarrrr, I hate [SOME COMPANY] specifically, but I use their services >>find a way to fuarrrk them over by abusing their services >>Use yt-dlp, Vanced, DNS adblockers, Magisk, and the Aurora store to ass-fuarrrk the Google wench >>Do not sign into any account on any Microsoft Product >>Don't buy Apple >>Anytime you do sign up for an account, be sure to use throwaway credentials they can't sell

Download what you want 'cause a pirate is free, You are a pirate! Yar Har Fiddle Dee-dee All of my software is DRM-free! Download what you want 'cause a pirate is free You are a pirate!

I think this fits /tech/ more than /sec/.

>>53906 Ahoy me mateys, where is the best place a lad can plunder Visual Studio? Be there a way to break it to use Visual Studio without a microsoft account, me mateys?

>>53909 >VS If you need it for school or work they will get a license for you. If you want it for personal use ... you're better off learning an open source editor/IDE that will always be available instead of voluntarily chaining yourself to the botnet.

>>53910 I just want to develop C++ code for Windows, and develop Python code on Windows

I used to be into privacy, I had an XP VM with Autocad, Maya, CS 3. Burned all of it ultimately, and got into open source stuff, and it has vastly improved my life.

>>53912 I tried going all FOSS. I must say, I do prefer it. The only (main) reason I even see to use Windows is for games. Windows is insecure and it's spyware. Although, there is a lainthread on this board about how Linux can be even easier to hack than Windows. I digress. >What are the uses of an XP VM? Perhaps AutoCAD and Solidworks and all that other stuff is cool. For me, I am forced to use non-FOSS when I want to connect my computer to a car. The software for interaction with on-board vehicle systems requires XP if the vehicle is old like mine. It no longer works with modern versions of windows, either. AND the software has to be pirated. However, it saved me the need to buy a $5,000 scanner tool. All I need is a USB->OBD2 cable

>>53912 What FOSS software did you replace Autocad and Maya with? Show a screenshot of items you've designed to make sure you're not LARPing here.

>>53911 you don't even NEED visual studio for that. just use an open-source IDE as anon said.

>>53914 >>53915 Thank you. I regret making this thread though. This has little to do with piracy, and it feels like this thread really doesn't belong on this board. Piracy is certainly a useful tool for a security professional, but perhaps it's too broad to discuss here

>>53906 >Take what you can, and give none back >Seed, ye scurvy dog huh?

I think the only reason why torrenting and piracy has been on the fall is because of whole information systems being incorporated in the consuming media process. Spotify has an AI that suggests you new songs, Netflix has everything on one platform with subtitles and everything. I think the new stage in piracy is to make a full autonomous system. I have been thinking of making my own for quite some time now. How sexy a NAS with few terabytes of movies and shows, with automatic torrenting through VPN and a nice media platform to consume it in would look like.

>>54437 >I think the new stage in piracy is to make a full autonomous system. Isn't that what Popcorn Time tried to do?

>>54437 That has been possible for years. I can't even remember the last time I've downloaded something directly from a torrent site. Must have been somewhere in 2013. https://www.flexget.com/ or https://sonarr.tv/

>>54437 >I think the only reason why torrenting and piracy has been on the fall is because of whole information systems being incorporated in the consuming media process. That's wrong. You can even post the image about search trends about torrents plummeting and it's irrelevant since search engines already refuse to give relevant results if you search for some torrent on some content (and thus the decline). A lot of people still use torrents and even pirate dl/stream sites for tv series or even anime.

>>54437 A pirate's equivalent of a blind box subscription sounds neat. Probably could automate something that would yank random selections based on tags or genre, sourcing from your usual public and private trackers.

>>54507 I can only speak for myself, but my own use of torrents has definitely gone upward over the years. Not down.

>>54526 this is true since the internet speeds keep on upgrading around the world and keep on being more affordable, if you search some torrent on a netflix show on google/yahoo you will never get relevant results and if you do you are actually snitching the results which will cause a take down so it's not safe to use mainstream search engines

>>54534 Talking about mainstream search engines, wasn't there a thread about a sort of search 'utility' or something like that? Sorta like a search engines but not quite that. I really can't find it anymore.

>>54534 Thats kind of why you do not search on mainstream engines. Google use to be good on that end but it's kind of gone downhill.

>>54536 for torrents, try running a *arr stack. jackett in particular helps index different torrent sites. *arr stacks are easier to put up now with docker too

>>54439 >>54509 There are plenty of services like this. 'Private Trackers' nearly all have recommendations or at least recent uploads now.

Is there any way to ensure a game .exe is safe? I don't know anything about reverse engineering Also is libgen.is safe? It claims to be but now i'm worried because someone told me it was full of malware

>DA JOOOZ!!11! stopped reading there, sage in all fields, and fuarrrk off you retarded nazi

>>54536 Yandex is the a blessing, even if you don't know russian. >>56000 Services like virus total will help a lot with small files. That may be enough if you're just reading some book from libgen. Also, be careful with file types and file sizes. If a high quality PDF or long book is really small in size (few Kbs) you should be kinda worried. The best thing you can do is run most piracy related stuff in a VM. A setup like Arch Linux + Jewdows 10 VM works well (for me). I play muh gaymes in Windows 10 and watch chinese cartoon in Linux. I don't care about malware in Linux. I simply dodge buttons that install sussy browser extensions by installing Ublock Origin. >>56003 I'm so sorry if OP offended you, Tyrone. There is this website that promotes diversity and fights anti-semitism. It is called 4channel.

Russia may officially decriminalize software piracy https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5240942 >Against the backdrop of growing sanctions, the Russian authorities are urgently preparing support measures, among which the abolition of criminal and administrative liability for the use of pirated software "from countries that supported the sanctions" is being discussed. Such a move could temporarily mitigate the departure of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and others from Russia, experts admit. But, they warn, most of the significant software from these companies is sold by subscription, which means that access to it will be blocked anyway. Yandex facing financial problems due to sanctions, warns of bankruptcy https://yandex.com/company/press_center/press_releases/2022/03-03-2022 https://observatorial.com/news/economy/56949/russian-internet-company-yandex-warns-of-bankruptcy/

What's the recommended VPN for torrenting?

>>57514 The main consideration is that the VPN needs to allow port forwarding so that your client is reachable from the VPN server, otherwise you'll get soykafty and inconsistent speeds. Make sure you configure your client to take advantage of this properly, too. Mullvad and AirVPN are two services that I know for certain offer this but I'm sure there are many more.

>>57514 >What's the recommended VPN for torrenting? >>57518 >>57518 > the VPN needs to allow port forwarding >Mullvad and AirVPN are two services that I know for certain offer this but I'm sure there are many more. Some VPNs don't support port forwarding due to the risks and kind of clientele (bonet spammers) it attracts to using their IP addresses. So there are positives (fast torrent downloads) and negatives (blacklisted IPs) to be aware of.

>>57419 Primary demonstration that for software, piracy is an inadequate solution and Free Software is required. I'm not fond of the Russian government by any means, but they're serving as a great exhibit of just what proprietary systems and dependence on externalities causes.

>>57527 Without patent rights it would be possible to develop ReactOS with leaked Microsoft source code.

>>57527 I only hope this will take off in other places too. Maybe this will be an inspiration and example to the world.

>>57636 The jews here would never allow it

I want to make a living selling pirated soykaf like a champ, but it's not 2002 anymore. What to do?

>>57636 So do I but Russia isn't exactly guy-controlled. They might just undo it. It wasn't policed well before either, so it's not as big of a change as if it was allowed in Germoney.

>Netflix has everything Netflix has soykaf for fuarrrk on there. I think the reason piracy may go back up is because of all these streaming services shoveling low quality soykaf onto their platform and having maybe three interesting shows. Then couple this with the over saturation of streaming services doing that very same thing with copy/paste UI.

>>53913 >The only (main) reason I even see to use Windows is for games. Use an offline Windows PC for games. Assuming you are only playing DRM free games you should have no problem. If you need to play the latest online games you should ask yourself why and if it's really that worth it.

>>53906 I buy DRM free digital content because I want the market to grow and there is nothing you can do about it.

Mullvad removed their torrent leak test. Do you think it's a canary?

>>60038 Just use another torrent leak test

>>60026 I got a subscription and honestly only because you have to use windows, I don't think it's worth it. I tried in *bsd and linux and the best you can do is 720p. The search algorithm is also garbage, it shows random results that have nothing to do with your initial search. At the end you are paying for a service with low quality image and sound compared to any decent scene group release. They are also triying to manipulate your content consumption and they will make you addict to watch passively their movies or tv shows if you keep using it.

>>60055 The shows they have don't make it worth it let alone compatibility problems.

>>60026 >Netflix has everything When I recommended "The Godfather" to uncultured swines (colleagues), they said Netflix didn't have it. How is it possible? You would never have found a video rental shop worth its name without it, back in the days.

>>60061 >How is it possible? Because Netflix refuses to get the licensing to stream the movie, that's why.

>>53909 >>53910 vscodium exists lol

Where do you get your legitimate Windows images? I used to get them (msdn archive) on the-eye but they somehow turned into a discord insider trade group and the main site only contains russian propaganda and some tracker/nostalgia. There's a archive.org backup of msdn archives but I want to see new images/iso. Also it's a bit lacking too imo, took me a long lurk just to get a JP Win 8.1 image only to find out it did not have the madobe ai/yuu and explorer-tan themes preinstalled :( I'm also looking for Vista ISOs which the archives did not have.

>>60628 "windows iso downloader"

>Take what you can, and give none back. The ancient articles hold true, lad. Are you a leecher?

>>53906 >Tribler What's the catch? It seems too good to be true.

>>60815 Mainly that it's an immature system, dominated by one set of software rather than a protocol with many implementations. The software's development also appears to be mildly tumultuous from a quick look. This might also interest you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file-sharing_applications

>Netflix has everything Then why isn't there anything I like? It's all dung soykaf and pop soykaf

Is there any good tracker / other way to pirate japanese (untranslated) LNs? Currently I have to hope it's on nyaa (rare) or on perfect dark (even less common)

>Take what you can, and give none back. >Seed, ye scurvy dog Hmm...

>>61700 I think it means give nothing back to the larger system. Actual pirates, the kind with boats I mean, sometimes tried to pose as some kind of resistance to imperialism and encroaching empire while sharing equally amongst their own crew. It's also just a catchphrase from some Disney movies. Every time you watch a corporate movie you didn't pay for, think of that quote.

Can we bypass all drm if we just take the voltage output from a screen and just calibrate it so it records correct values or just point a high res high hz camera and discern different pixels

>>61758 there are already few devices that can bypass drm through spoofing but IDK now. netflix allegedly no longer works on versions below android 11 and I also think there's also the safetynet thing. there's still people that manage to take drm protected content ("WEBDL") through PC but not sure what they use now. other stuff include hacking into streaming services but they usually get patched (kind of disorganized, there should be release "scene/group" that siterips them but they instead spread the app on telegram or whatever for bitly ad revenue lol) >>61700 >seed it was meant to be somewhat of an insult (dog is used as insult on many countries) leeching is fine imo since the real important part is storage aspect. if you had the drive online seeding for 20k hours then expect the "seed" to die at some point due to hardware failure. the more time a drive is online- the more chances it gets struck by disasters like say a chainsaw or firetruck siren can kill HDD, or a lightning strike / earthquake during that span of time, highly possible.

>>61698 Finding raw LNs is difficult. You might try that one rodent-themed ebook tracker that has IRC signups twice a week. I find it sometimes has Japanese books including LNs that I can't find elsewhere, but it's not a silver bullet. If you do go this route, please upload anything you good you have that isn't already there, you'll get showered with bonus point gifts and help out other dekirus. You might also check Itazuraneko, the old DJT site, and Boroboro for DDLs.

I've found it impossible to source VN's I can use to study Japanese. I'd need something I can copy the text into a dictionary with, or even better, something with furigana. And then I'd like it to be something I want to read, like slice of life/yuri. I've never found this. I'm bored of anki.

>>61795 There are some programs that basically OCR VNs and let you select text. Japanese learning threads on other imageboards usually have a few posts about them. I've never liked VNs though so I can't help finding them assuming you've already checked Nyaa.

New to this world of trackers. Is there a tracker for softwares in general?

>>61817 1337x.to seems to be the best for getting the most up-to-date versions of mainstream software (e.g. Photoshop, Renoise, Zbrush) but for more obscure software not on 1337x searching on Yandex or RuTracker seems best.

>>61846 I see, thank you :)

>>61795 You can use a kanji dictionary and search by radical / stroke count

i wonder why there isn't a thread about sharing torrents that we're seeding, it's not against the rules as far as i've seen, and it would be cool i think

>>60628 https://github.com/luzea-archive/microsoft-download-link-archive

>>61795 Textractor + Clipboard Inserter + Yomichan Guide on learnjapanese (DOT) moe

>>53906 I'm very new to networking. I could set something up, but I'd really like to learn as much as I can about it as well as how to connect to a VPN. How do I even start and what VPNs are good to use?

>>62450 Mullvad guides are good https://mullvad.net/en/help/guides/

I have a paid VPN but for some reason my Deluge client won't work when I plug the VPN address into it. Am I doing something wrong.

>>62881 >Am I doing something wrong yeah, you use vpn

Where can I pirate magazines like The Economist Time that kind of nerd stuff I'm looking for source that gives all of that kind of magazines.

>>62919 >The Economist Time that kind of nerd stuff Yeah, okay, whatever. https://magazinelib.com/

>>62921 thx, lot any idea how can I get subtitles from? for series or films I torrent. I try google search and find what I need most likely but if there is smart way to get subttles, tell please

>>63141 Subtitles are basically automated at this point. You open your movie in any normal video player (mpc whatever, vlc, mpv etc) and then just use the built-in subtitles downloader. It will download the subs from opensubtitles or some other database. It's so easy my actual working on a computer for 35 years yet still somehow tech-illiterate mother can do it. If there are no subtitles in your preferred language (rare but can still happen) just download the English ones and run them through DeepL. Also, this isn't even piracy, subs are legal.

Surprised there's been no mention of Stremio in this thread so far. It's like Netflix, but Piratical and it works better than Netflix and has a broader selection of stuff, just remember to install the Torrent addons from the add on menu. Has a native and actually good Linux client too.

>>63157 https://www.stremio.com/privacy I don't like it to be honest.

>>63157 why is this allowed yet popcorn time a similar app made years ago got attacked and shutdown like 10 times and split into 10 different copycat apps most of which were viruses?

>>63170 They haven’t attracted enough attention yet.

>>63157 i don't like the way it just leeches of actual seeders without giving back.

>>63157 just dowload your movies in qb in sequential order. simple and fast.

I am a member of several private trackers and I rent a seedbox, which is nice because I can stream media using Plex. I also setup OpenVPN on the server so I can also use it as a VPN! It's about $10 per month, but that's on a 20Gbit/s network, unlimited data transfer, and 1TB of data storage. I mostly seed movies, TV, and games, but also linux distributions.

>>63456 wow that sounds like a good deal, what seedbox provider are you using?

Note for anyone shopping for seedbox providers -- over the past 5-6 years I have filed 20 tickets with Whatbox to inform them that I can't make the payment for my slot on time. They have always been accommodating, which is their policy, but they don't make a big deal out of it so maybe it's hard to anticipate just how flexible they can be. The timeline for the longest one went like this, a few years back: - 21 June: "I should have money by Monday" - 25 June: "Whoops, not yet, next Monday worst case" - 03 July: "Sorry, things aren't going well this time and now I don't have any ETA for you; I retrieved critical files in case you have to shut down the slot" >"You've had this particular slot for quite a while, and have been with us for even longer, so we have no intention of spoiling that." "Thanks, will update ASAP" 07 September: "Great news, I can pay now, thx bro" Yes, I just disappeared and didn't update the ticket at all for about two months and it was chill. So uhhh if you're late paying for soykaf like me (I got my Motor Club of America membership revoked because I guess they were offended that I kept paying the dues late lol, they acted really sanctimonious about it every time I'd call in to fix it) then try this one I guess.

Best app for watching movies "out of the box" with simple and convenient interface?

Bittorrent v2 has per-file hash trees. Has anyone written a program that just seeds whatever's in a folder? Would be useful for archivists trying to keep files alive without necessarily committing to any set of torrents/swarms.

>>53909 Isn't that basically open source with a free freedom respecting fork? Or am I confusing it with VS Codium ?

has any pirate here ever experimented with GPU passthrough? none of the users on chans really show much interest there and most of the youtube tutorials are for legitimate steam games (OP should put there as well cuz why not) have you ever dreamed of running all of your games in a hypervisor? thats basically what i did i put all all of my stuff in vmware and so far every dx11 unity game works fine but im locked to 60fps but so far the performance is good (man i love my efficient radeon IGP more than my 1650ti) >but what about your host believe it or not i have never played games on my host despite using a gaming laptop though i did one use GPU-P on windows oh and fuarrrk patreon and fur95zone those are getting virtualized as well not gonna poz my system with rainbow pronouns .t avid igg-games user never really cared about viruses (just swap the steam api dll) >run suspected trojan in sandbox optional but how the fuarrrk do you make a stealth VM for analyzing malware i got a couple of binded keyens i want to study and maybe make a clean executable afterwards

>>64079 I like Jellyfin. I run a server for my family and friends with all the music, TV shows, and movies I've accumulated across multiple drives.

>>53906 /private trackers general/ where? also, does anybody have btn and hdbits access?

>>53911 Either learn vim/emacs or use vscodium

looking for a good website to download music for free as im getting tired of paying every single month for spotify. any ideas ?

>>66381 either use yt-dlp to download off of yt, or get soulseek and download from there. soulseek you'll find higher-quality files and already tagged whereas with yt-dlp you'd have to tag it yourself, or use beet to tag it.

>>54437 >I think the only reason why torrenting and piracy has been on the fall is because of whole information systems being incorporated in the consuming media process. You're completely wrong on this. While suggestion and better content goodies, "showcase/gallery/l10n and search function" it is not really the "deal-breaker" for people. The real reason for torrent decline something to do with a combination of "aggressive laws" and "search engines/browsers blocking or censoring torrents" WHILE the real true reason for the rise in such platforms is simply that people just picked it up due to good marketing and FOMO among peers that already use the service. If you pirate music you'll have a real hard time. It wasn like this back in 2010 when you could just search up "itunes plus deluxe albumname" on google and get the direct link. Last I've heard even a linux distro iso .torrent file download got blocked by chrome (~2020). Now try that with all the torrent websites that kept on hiding itself due to domain seizure/closure or dns or httpheader blocking - the average_joe may have found the site (or bypassed country blockung) sure but their browser said "the torrent file contained malware" and so average_joe stopped using the site immediately. Catalogs are nice and sometimes I just visit ikwyd just to find a nice catalog of what was popular. Mind you, sites like cruncyroll and spotify used to be pirate platforms and streaming platforms don't favor the artists, you might as well just pirate and buy their official merch https:// www.digitalmusicnews.com/2013/12/02/artistspiracy/

>>66818 no, I think there's something to it spotify desparately tries to get you to listen to curated playlists instead of albums, creating a kind of vendor lock-in with that part of their service, a sort of artificial surplus value to provide You're right about search engines. Soulseek still exists though, and people were using napster and limewire limewire back in the day mp3 players dying and being replaced by walled garden phones is also a factor for sure >you might as well just pirate and buy their official merch yep, completely. enough people I know who make music say this that it's basically a fundamental truth to me by now

>>66852 >no, I think there's something to it >creating a kind of vendor lock-in >yep, completely. enough people I know who make music say this that it's basically a fundamental truth to me by now It's so true. The "artist" never wins against the publishers plus right now they're maximizing this with "vendor dark patterns". This is the case with books and music: The printing press always wins. Lucky to get 6% from total sales (now subscription mind you) plus they can also lie about your real stat/hits which happened lots throughout the years. Even with the shift of digitally streaming/subscription platforms for books and music, nothing changed. The house always wins and all they did was: - replace the traditional evil with a parallel evil (not lesser or more) - make this walled-garden device ecosystem more accessible - content provider did literally no hard work but takes more than %50 of your revenue Plus the platform can also just delete your account when they like to. This is so much worse with "app" market since they also lock you in to using their own payment processor which also cuts out your revenue as a dev by a lot (despite the fact anyone can use alternative payment this is why biggest gacha in general are mostly browser-based games that also or only work on pc). It's not worth to be a content creator these days despite the advocacy of the content providers advocating/convincing more people to make content for their abusers (just look at youtube, why do content providers always talk about the revenue system and cry that their "video will probably be not monetized [not bait]"). It definitely reeks like a ponzi scheme now. "Join us in making content, there is money in $platform subscriptions and ad-based(free users) revenue" but in reality it's actually $0.003 for each complete stream and so much worse with e-books. Nothing changed. I thought there's gonna be a huge digital revolution but not really. Anyone can design a protocol that allows the streams of your content to be more decentralized (aka with inclusion of cryptocurrency, not blockchain) and it's the web 3.0 we've been eyeing on but that's not even a good future anymore when you find out the same content-creator predators are already ready to prance on this new decentralized/neutral ecosystem of web 3.0 and implement the same walled-garden when in fact it must have been a self-sufficiency/hosting platform but no - they want people locked-in to their little metaverses ponzi.

>>66381 Search for "blockthespot github" if you're on pc,and "xmanager spotify github" if you're on android, to replace spotify premium. To get your music, use rutracker.org, soulseek, slavart, free-mp3-download.net and private trackers like RED and OPS

is there something like private trackers but for iptv ?

>>66902 There is pirate IPTV, you still have to pay subscription fee (it's still cheaper than whatever ISPs offer in poor countries like Ukraine or Vietnam, 1~2$). There is free as in beer IPTV, streams are very unstable and you have to rely on constantly updating playlists.

>>56027 >Gaming in a VM How do you get this to actually work? In my experience gaming in VM is soykaf at best. I use stupid virtualbox though, which limits video memory to 256mb.. Personally my solution is to have a second, offline-only computer running windows 7 for any windows soykaf I pirate. You'd be amazed at the kind of stuff you can run on a gen4 i5 and associated igpu so long as you don't get too lofty with the settings. Anything too new to run on that is generally trash anyways. Also, virustotal is owned by big brother google, who inevitably use your uploads to there to profile you or at the very least deanonymize you. Surely there must be a better alternative?

>>66954 If you can't get your games to run without Windows, I think you have bigger priorities to work on.

>>53906 Pro tip to college students. pirate ebook version of your textbook then look up what price they sell for and write off the cost the books would have been if you actually bought them on your taxes. share the ebook files with class mates who need them. If you live on campus always use a VPN or something similar to avoid the college proxy/firewall that definitely exists to keep you from sharing an infinite commodity with your neighbor.

>>66954 You won't get far using virtualbox. Use KVM and a motherboard capable of GPU passthrough. >>66981 I could never find any of my textbooks online. I think I maybe found 1 or 2 the whole time I was in school. And so many need some kind of exclusive online code to force you to buy it brand new.

>>66818 No one seems to remember hulu was a pirate site as well. https://web.archive.org/web/20090217092201/http://www.hulu.com/ I think that steaming sites such as netflix did a lot to reduce torrents because a service that plays what people want on demand was all that most people wanted. I think the OP is mislead and that piracy has picked up steam again because of the fragmentation. Instead of one or two services there are 15, they are all rather expensive, and you would have to subscribe to them all to get what you want. What was once cheap and convenient has become expensive and inconvenient because of the corpo tendency towards greed.It seems they money grub so hard they end up shooting themselves in the foot because it turns out people don't like being nickle and dimed.