Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈📦 Friday, September 20, 2024

• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pirate everything. For books:

  Libgen.is

  For everything else check out the megathread at reddit.com/r/piracy

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would love to pirate but would suffer undue anxiety about it and would be hit quite hard if my internet provider cut me off. I know about vpns but don’t know which are trustworthy

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NordVPN is probably the most trusted. They’ve been around a long time and have generally positive reviews.

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe. I’m still incredibly risk averse.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve pirated for years and never been caught. The bigger issue is accessing the torrent websites. But you can set up search in Qbittorrent to search within the program, so you don’t even need to go to the dodgy websites

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d not know where to start and would add insane anxiety to my life.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This has been slowly happening for a long time without fanfare. A lot of stuff you used to be able to watch on YouTube is getting more aggressive copystrikes, probably to try and push us onto cable and streaming services.

  Also the Internet Archive recently lost a copyright lawsuit that means access to 50, 000 books (and movies?) was lost.

  Corporations are getting more aggressive about what gatekeeping what you can access for free and taking stuff down, so a lot of people are advocating for physical backups or copies of anything important to you.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It happens periodically. Streaming services don’t hold on to things forever, and even sites like the Internet Archive (which shares free access to books) periodically has to negotiate a changing landscape of access to materials.

  We do not own things we get off Netflix, or even off Steam and such. Access can be revoked

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s why it should be allowed to archive. Infinity Train was wiped off the internet out of spite and there was some stink about people losing music they had purchased. As in purchased under the agreement that they would be able to keep access.

    Subscription based services can get fucked. I may not dare pirate but I’m not afraid to go caveman if I have to

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You got me interested about Infinite Train so I looked it up. It makes no sense whatsoever why they would do what they did.

      Insane.

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Worst part is that it was on my list but I never got to watch it. And because I don’t feel comfortable taking the risk of other means, I won’t be able to.

        Strange how companies are able to completely deny access to culture if they feel they aren’t getting every penny they feel they’re entitled to, or just out of spite. They can still delete stuff you paid for though!

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