Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

bigfoot , in streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago
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Torrenting will have everything you want within 48hrs (at the longest) as long as your tastes are relatively current and mainstream. If you are into older or more niche content you'll still likely need Criterion or Canopy etc.

Stright , in streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago

If I'm just trying to watch something right then and there, I'll usually use my IPTV subscription or a streaming site, but if I plan on watching later, I'll download a nice high quality torrent

ICastFist , in Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking
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I feel like what I used to be back in 2006-2010, mr. family pirate, although most of my family is glad to pay for one or two services, mostly Amazon prime, which is one of the cheapest. I let my Netflix account cancel from lack of pay some 6 months ago, nobody called me yet.

Earning money in BRL and lots of stuff having a base price in dollars doesn't help us much either.

bjoern_tantau , in Replace Torrenting with Usenet
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You forgot the first rule.

iturnedintoanewt , in An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

Thanks. I've been noticing this A LOT. Deluge will stop and error out the download. You are forced to manually check the file before being able to resume the download. Only, it will error out again a few seconds later. Keeping a very up to date block filter seems to help, but only a little bit.

zabadoh , in An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

I have also noticed some dips in brightness in some shows.

Sounds like an encoding problem, or some sort of form of copy protection in the streamed video that screws up the encoding algorithms, like the old Macrovision copy protection on VHS tapes.

cmnybo ,

Someone probably just did a crappy job converting HDR to SDR.

palarith , in Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking

Case in point

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Not available in Australia

refalo ,

yea that's the majority reason why people do it /s

Ilandar , in Best ship ever!

Pirating is even more woke than watching Netflix or Disney+! Take that Ron DeSantis!

Moonrise2473 , in An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

I remember fifteen years ago I wanted to pirate new super Mario bros for Wii but Nintendo hired a lot of bad peers on eMule, it was impossible to download it. It would download it super fast thanks to the hundreds of fake peers that would upload garbage data, but then when completed it would check it and fall back to 0.2% completed. Super frustrating.

In the end I just gave up because I hate and suck at platformers, why would I ever pirate something that I would never play, but at the time in the forums someone said that with IP address filters it was possible to complete the downloads, by blacklisting all the commercial ip address space and allowing only residential (or maybe they were just living in the right spot, at the time in select cities in my country there was an ISP that ran a fiber optic MAN - metropolitan area network, and it was awesome for piracy, as they didn't block the smb V1 protocol between customers so there were peers that shared gold mines)

jabathekek , in An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?
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I haven't experienced anything like that. Like the other comment suggested, I use qBittorent. What client you using?

can , in An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

Have you tried qbittorent?

SpikesOtherDog ,

Without context, I would suggest Transmission for troubleshooting. Qbittorrent is bloating and weird on Windows.

The torrents should be hashed, but that wouldn't stop someone from making a bad torrent or seeding one.

If someone made a file intentionally collided it would probably cause issues. These aren't collision issues, but bad chunks of data.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/76043/torrent-bad-seed-attack-by-sony-how-does-it-work

At a peek, it seems that this attack only causes delays in downloads. It's more possible that there are commonly shared files with similar issues.

jeanofthedead , in streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago

There’s no need for torrenting with services like Stremio (with Real-Debrid).

shaytan ,
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There is if you intend to keep torrents alive.

Appoxo ,

Theres no need for stremio if you torrent (remotely) and host jellyfin at home. Only a power outage can take me out.

hal_5700X , in Best ship ever!
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What does this have to do with piracy?

jol ,

They are literally pirates?

OpticalMoose , in Replace Torrenting with Usenet
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Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It's a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.

ProtonBadger , in What drew you to the high seas?

Was a student, couldn't afford CDs.

Nowadays I

  1. don't want to subscribe to too many streaming services, each just having a few things I want to watch. Also I broke my neck and I'm now on disability, there's no budget to waste, at all.
  2. Like to watch old shows and "rare" movies that aren't available anywhere.
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