Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That's fine, I choose to support the community, but it's pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.

This only works if you share. Please don't cut off as soon as you've downloaded.

And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for "Machine Gun Fellatio" also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular

"MGF Pack 1"

"MGF+Pack+2"

"MGF+Pack+3"

If I can get the download completed I'll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I'm getting nowhere.

Rules don't permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help

Where do I get newest version of all 3 movies? Cant find torrents somehow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43360343

I hope all our piracy enthusiasts will join me in welcoming the !GenP@lemmy.dbzer0.com community to our instance. Glad to have you folks here and welcome aboard :)

There is some webtoons on the app that just didn't get pirated like roots of the heart, how do i pirate it (i feel this right-forward post will get deleted instantly but whatever, I'm desperate)

Apologies for being the bearer of bad news. "6 hours ago" means roughly 6-7pm Eastern on April 30, 2025. I have no further information; I only know because I was going to visit the wiki and . . . apparently now I'm not.

It's under "Guides & Search Engines" in the Software section of the megathread, should anyone with rights care to update.

Needed a local copy of a video posted to social media, and realized today I already had the tools to obtain it.

Requirements

• FFmpeg
• Web browser

1. Open the page containing the video. Do not start playing the video yet
2. Open the browser's dev tools and click to the Network tab
3. (Optional) Set the filter to "Media"
4. Start playing the video
5. Look in the network tab for the first network request that references an .m3u8 file.
6. Copy that URL
7. Run ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://url-you-copied/file.m3u8" -c copy output_filiename.mp4

That's it.

I acknowledge this is a bit tangential to c/piracy's usual topics but I just thought Zhèng Yī Sǎo deserves a bit more recognition for her anti-imperialist stance and amazingly successful career. All credit to the author of the original post (@ZDL@ttrpg.network).

cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/18359882

If I were to ask you who the most successful pirate in history was, I'm guessing you'd come up with names like Captain Kidd or Blackbeard or any number of others of that crowd in the Caribbean. But what if I told you that history's most successful pirate was in China, and was a woman? Would that surprise you? Intrigue you?

Prepare to be intrigued as I introduce you then, today, to one of the single most feared pirates in all of history: Zheng Yi Sao (this is the name I will be using here; she went by others), the pirate queen who was hunted by not one, not two, but three imperial powers, yet who retired peacefully and died not of violence, but of old age.

Humble Beginnings

Zheng Yi Sao—born 石阳 (Shí Yáng) in approximately 1775 somewhere around Xinhui, Guangdong—was a Tanka who worked as a prostitute-later-procurer on a floating Tanka brothel in Guangdong (or so the story goes).

Marriage

Details of her early life are not well-documented, but what is know is that around 1801 she married the ~~pirate~~ privateer Zheng Yi. (Her name literally means "Zheng Yi's wife". Welcome to patriarchy.) A year after their marriage, Zheng Yi took over a pirate fleet from a captured and executed cousin and became, after some heavy infighting among the pirates off the coast of Guangdong, and with the natural organizational skills of Zheng Yi Sao, the commander of a unified fleet of pirates. By 1805 Zheng Yi and Zheng Yi Sao had wrangled together a confederation of pirates with colour-coded fleets of red, black, blue, white, yellow, and purple. Commanding the massive Red Fleet of … You know what? This is too much about her husband and not enough about who we really want to talk about. Let's move on.

Inherited Command

Short version: Zheng Yi, by now the head of the confederation, with his adoptive son Zhang Bao now commanding the Red Fleet, was blown overboard in a gale in 1807 and died. Zheng Yi Sao effectively inherited the loose control her husband had had over the confederation, and Zhang Bao took formal command over the Red Fleet. After entering into a sexual relation with Zhang Bao she cemented control over the pirate confederacy and became the queen of the pirates she would later be famous for.

Queen

Year after year Zheng Yi Sao got more and more ambitious and ruthless. She incorporated cast-iron discipline among the pirates with harsh penalties for everything from theft of booty to rape of female captives. Despite a major setback in 1809 with the absolute destruction of the White Fleet, she became such a terror to the Chinese authorities (and the East India Tea Company), destroying fleet after fleet sent to engage her confederacy, that the Chinese empire looked to "barbarian" empires to help.

The Portuguese agreed to help and managed to blockade the Red Fleet in 1809 … only for the two imperial powers to be fought to a standstill and stalemate as unfavourable winds kept the pirates from breaking free. Finally the winds changed and the fleet broke free, humiliating two imperial powers in their wake.

The Winds of Change

In 1810, seemingly at the height of its power, the confederacy surrendered to the Great Qing. The motives for this surrender are unclear, but it is speculated that the confederacy was in such a powerful state that it could dictate the terms of its surrender and the Qing would gladly agree to them just to finally be rid of the scourge that was harrying their coastlines and rivers. Other theories suggest that upon the British entering the fray Zheng Yi Sao saw the writing on the wall and knew it was time to quit while she was ahead.

Surrender

On April 20, 1810, Zheng Yi Sao and her adoptive stepson Zhang Bao officially surrendered with 17,318 pirates, 226 ships, 1,315 cannons, and 2,798 assorted weapons. (24 of those ships and 1,433 of the pirates were under her personal command.) Zhang Bao was awarded the rank of lieutenant, and was allowed to retain a private fleet of up to 30 ships. The pair were also given permission to officially marry. (Don't think too hard on this.) Pardons were issued to all of the surrendering pirates, and the regular seamen were given pork, wine, and money along with a general amnesty.

Along with that amnesty, Zheng Yi Sao was also given land in Guangdong where she operated a successful gambling house.

Post-surrender Life

Not a lot is known in detail about Zheng Yi Sao's post-surrender life. It is known that she gave birth to a son in 1813. It is also known that she gave birth to a daughter, but little else is known about her. (Welcome to patriarchy.) Aside from a legal case (which was dismissed by the emperor) over some money, she led a pretty unremarkable life, dying in 1844 at the age of 68-69, having run a successful (and infamous) gambling hall on Hainan in the intervening time.

Influence

For a woman almost completely unknown in the west, Zheng Yi Sao has had an enduring fascination and appeal here in the east. She appears as a character in films, in television, in literature, in graphic novels, and in video games. Scholarly works have been written about here from shortly after her death onward. Places have been named (both officially and unofficially) after her. She has cemented her place in history ... and justly so.

Oh, and that thumbnail image for this essay? That's the only known photograph of the great pirate queen herself.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21474519

Not sure if a local gov could get away with this. Is it sensible to ask the local gov take formal actions to declare copyright as unenforcable on things like service manuals and wiring diagrams, which product makers protect almost like trade secrets? It’s not likely enforced anyway, but a formal step would be needed before leaked service manuals could be distributed by public libraries.

In the EU, manufacturers must share repair docs with third-party /insured/ repair professionals (not consumers) for some specific products like washing machines.

Using a stick

Would it be sensible for a local law to require those professionals who have privileged access to repair docs to share whatever they obtain in the course of their work with a public library?

using a carrot

Would it be sensible for a policy to compensate professionals who have privileged access to repair docs for sharing whatever they obtain in the course of their work with a public library? It could be abused. E.g. an appliance repair shop could submit multiple wiring diagrams for the same product as separate submissions if they are (e.g.) paid $/€ 50 per submission.

If the carrot and stick are both used, repair pros could get 50 for the first submitted doc for each model, but then have a mandate to supply any additional docs they receive for that model without further compensation. Maybe that’s too detailed for a petition.

Been trying to make Linux more a part of my life and decided to switch my Plex server over from Windows 11 to Ubuntu.

After an embarrassingly long time I was able to get Plex, Docker, and Zurg all working as I want mostly using this guide

Now to the point, I would like add RDT to this. I am able to get RDT up and running and connected to Jackett and Sonarr but I am not able to get RDT to correctly download the files into the rclone mount.

My hope is that I can have my RealDebrid library connected via Zurg and my TorBox library connected via RDT both syncing with my Plex server.

Tldr; need help configuring RDT to integrate into current docker compose.

Edit: Everyone is asking for the code, so here it is. Keep in mind, this code assumes a few things:

1. You'd need to specify the virtual environment path for Python.
2. You'd need to specify the directory for which the games are located.
3. You'd have to put a "game_info" file in each game's root directory.
4. You'd need to have steamcmd installed.
5. The format of the game_info file is like this (I use CS.RIN.RU):

build: 17601020
steamid: 548430
csrinru: https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=81377

Hope I'm not breaking any rules. This is my first post on Lemmy. I tried to post on garbage-ass Reddit but apparently being a new user means you can't do fuck-all. So, I'm gonna try to make Lemmy a home.

Anyway, I pirate games. Mostly because I'm broke, and somewhat because I hate spending money on a game and then hating it 15 minutes into it. But anyway..that's neither here nor there.

The entire purpose of this post is just to share this neat little thing I created. I'm not promoting it -- it isn't released. I just wanna share nerdy shit with other people.

The issue that I was having is that I figured, over time, my pirated game collection will get quite big. It will become increasingly more time-intensive to check back to the piracy forums for updated pirated versions of the game.

So I came up with a solution. Whenever I download a new pirated game, I will create a file called "game_info" in the directory which will include three little bits of data.

1. The build number of the pirated game
2. The Steam App ID
3. The link to the forum topic about that game from the piracy site I go to.

I wrote a script that will scan my games directory for each game_info file. It will then use steamcmd to check SteamDB for the latest patches released and compare that to the current build number in the game_info file. Obviously if they don't match -- there's an update. And it will inform me. This way I can quickly check if there are any updates available for a game, then I can go to the piracy forum and check to see if anyone has released the updated version yet.

I thought it was cool. Anyway, just thought I'd share some nerdy shit.

Feel free to degrade me.

In a post-scarcity society, manufacturing would be cheap. Goods are easy to come by, keeping us comfortable and fed. We can spend our time at other pursuits, such as the development of futuristic technology. Some economists argue that such abundance is impossible. Cheaper food, they suggest, will grow more mouths to feed. For data, on the third hand, we already have a post-scarcity economy. With current equipment, it is nearly free to copy data. One original movie, song, game, or program... can be distributed to the internet overnight. Access to these services would be universal.

Predictably. Moneyed interests enforce artificial scarcity. Legions of programmers, lawyers, and other hacks extract payment from anyone sharing in the culture. They dont care who they exclude, only maximizing their own share. The U.S. legal system changes its rules to suit the powerful. For example, The Copyright Act of 1976, bought by bribes from Disney Company, expanded the length of copyright from 56 to 75 years. Now its over 100 years.

100 years is too long

What about living memory? Show an elder -- say a 70-year-old human -- one of the best movies they saw 50 years ago. Maybe they have an important perspective! But that classic movie may be inaccessible. Better content gets more expensive, and older content gets rarer. Lastly, the elders die. Those cultural moments, connections between real life and stories still locked away a century later, are lost.

Printed books fall apart. Ancient tombs decay. But data is cheap. Lets protect it!

It is the photo of a person with long dark hair, colourful shirt, and wearing a pirate hat. To their left, the logo of Sci-hub. To their right, that of The Pirate Bay. Over the image float several sentences in white with black border:

knowledge belongs to humanity THEY DON’T EVEN PAY THE PEER REVIEWERS piracy of academic material is morally good and justified your taxes fund this research be gay do crime it’s your to take if you want

This is quite new. Just wanted to share. (The link is from Sci-Hub, so the whole thing seems legit).

Edit: but, if I'm getting it right, they're just replacing paywalls with another paywall?

I'm interested in playing through LAN, which the game supports, but using multiplayer at all asks for a key.

Has anybody figured out a way around this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/versus/comments/1jxrs2h

88.3 gb, way smaller than the Dodi repack!

idk if links are allowed so i just grabbed a screenshot. looking forward to it!! :D

Hello, everyone.

I used to have access to Iptorrents many years ago after being invited by a friend and loved it. As I felt Netflix was a reasonable replacement at the time, I shifted to purely using it for all my streaming needs resulting in an IPT account shutdown. Today is a different story though... As the library shrank and split into many different providers bumping the price up to a very UNreasonable level along with small and bloated libraries, I'm ditching the services for a purely Jellyfin reliant home. Does anyone know of a quality tracker that I can use these days?

Edit: Everyone has been so helpful. Thanks for all of the information and invites!

While cloned fonts may not be illegal, it certainly wasn’t in the spirit of the campaign.

The music was definitely used illegally though.

Hey, releases by PAL-CultFilms™ are dope with often best quality possible as it is straight from dvd. Im currently trying to download The Smurfs (1981-1989) 32xDVD9 1xDVD5 PAL-CultFilms™ but with no luck. It is more than 200 gigs so its getting difficut at this point. The question is: is there a place that archives CultFilms™ releases on lets say rapidgator or other warez dl site?

Hoping someone can help me out with figuring out how to use torrent streaming within Jellyfin (or similar). I've been researching/experimenting for a week now and am only getting more confused, lol.

Currently using Stremio with TorBox (and Trakt) as a Netflix/PrimeVideo replacement. It works great for streaming movies or my favorite shows quickly at high-quality with no buffering, but Stremio is profoundly terrible at everything else (and is sketchy AF).

I want to put together something that acts like a locally hosted version of the late great Fmovies -- simply shows what's available, and keeps track of what I'm watching and which series is next with easily configurable and customizable watchlists. When I choose something to watch and press play, it plays immediately -- just like any commercial (or pirate) streaming service.

I'm not interested in downloading/hoarding, only streaming. I don't want anything downloaded to my computer, but having an option to cache something locally for a certain time would a convenient feature. TorBox currently does all the streaming and seeding.

Jellyfin looks like the way to go. But all of the guides and plugins are geared towards Usenet/Torrent collectors, and not streamers. The Arr suite seems overkill for what I need, but certain parts seem useful so maybe something could be cobbled together? Then there's newer plugins/apps such as Jellyseer, ListSync, etc, but all the information is geared towards downloaders and not streamers.

I'm not married to TorBox, but it works great for me and has the option for Usenet as well as debrid. If something works better I'll check it out.

Is this possible using Jellyfin? Is there a hidden or unlisted plugin for it like the Torrentio Stremio plugin or the Umbrella Kodi plugin for Jellyfin.

Or can the Arr apps do this without having to download/organize?

Or some other media server entirely?

Much thanks for any help or hints you can give. If I get something working I'll post a detailed guide if there's need for one.