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Shutting down a piracy site

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨restingOface@quokk.au⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Italian government is strange because it goes only against pirated football TV streaming. They completely ignore all the other forms of piracy.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      false. they allow high seas piracy in the Mediterranean. a nation has been kidnapping civilians in international waters, torturing them, and no European nation gives a fuck.

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      • HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Holy fuck. Can I get a source? Because damn man, if that’s real then I’m about to look at the UN a little differently

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      going after other kinds is how you end up with naples covered in trash again

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This hasn’t been true for a while. Unless you are constantly looking for only the most mainstream stuff, huge swathes of material is lost with every shutdown.

    The idea of piracy being invincible is a myth from a different internet era along with old patterns like “platforms spring up and die constantly”.

    Yeah, in the 2000s that was true - but the main platforms we have today have been around for 20 years and have a stranglehold on users. The internet logic of the aughts no longer holds.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Kinda ironic that russian and iranian sites are the ones most likely to survive current purges. No wonder they’re almost impossible to find when using most western search engines

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      • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Right, I’m not really impacted because whenever I want to access something my gvt wouldn’t want me to, I just use yandex.

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Given recent events, all cloud-based LLMs should have been included here. In the history of humanity, there has never been a more profitable piracy operation.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My favortie bit is when they announce it all proud of themselves, it has the same energy as a dog with a stick.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Person plays Wack A Mole game

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If it weren’t for piracy, the Internet would not exist

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always thought porn was the catalyst.

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        SSSHHH!!!!!

        Seriously! Shut the fuck up!!!

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      • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s what the internet is for. Pron.

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      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Porn, music, gore. Come for the boobs, snag a Metallica album, watch someone get their head sawn off with gardening tools. Average teenage Xennial internet experience.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, we can’t really download Hookers or Blow via the Internet, so instead we had to settle for Porn and Digital Piracy.

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hmmm… sometimes I take it for granted that I also go outside sometimes

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Otoh AI wouldn’t exist either.

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Mmmm, I think it would, too, but we’d knowingly still call it LLMs and use it both responsibly and accordingly.

        Yeah, everything would be a lot more boring, but boring is good. People can afford to eat when things are boring. Socialized healthcare is boring.

        Wonderfully boring.

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Usenet working fine still. Generally faster speeds than torrenting and upload requirements.

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    • ApertureUA@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • imhungry@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Where would someone start if they wanted to get into usenet?

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      • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Unfortunately, or fortunately, not a whole lot of places discuss Usenet to not draw too much attention to it. I know it’s reddit, but /r/usenet is a really good resource both for providers and indexers as well as for setting things up for personal use. Some guides exist on YouTube too.

        If you’re looking for media, look into what an Arr stack is and how to set that up for a media server you’re running, for example. Although not exactly necessary, that’s what many people use and set up.

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    • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Usenet more used for newer releases and items are hosted by individuals, not p2p? Since I stopped using Spotify I’m constantly backfilling older music, and with TV shows and movies I’m usually 5+ years behind the release. It was just something I read, the content on Usenet is usually revolved around newer things

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Usenet is hosted by companies dedicated to it, not individuals. So generally you can use an encrypted connection and max out your bandwidth.

        It’s not just new stuff either.

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      • Demigodrick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Usenet retention can be an issue, I think some providers have a cut off of over 15 years though.

        Admittedly its more popular now so likely to have more modern stuff yes.

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  • gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In ukraine, piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and its not enforced. In 2022 after full scale invasion, ukraine banned most popular russian piracy websites as a “sources of propaganda”. Absolutely nothing has been done to foreign and especially local services.

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    • tourist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      in south africa piracy is also technically illegal

      but I only heard of one case of someone being prosecuted

      someone was filesharing a locally produced film and the director sued

      that was over a decade ago, and there might have been other cases where people were prosecuted for digital piracy since

      but uh… someone I know… has been rawdogging torrents for years, no VPN, no fancy router settings or whatever

      zero complaints from Hollywood nor ISPs

      I doubt the police service will bother doing anything about it anytime soon

      “Okay, today we could either monitor the TCP traffic of some guy downloading terabytes of copyrighted adult films… or we could go stop a gang shootout and do some state brutality to innocent citizens on the way back…”

      “…last one to the squad car has to use that old R4 with the fucked barrel!”

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    • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I imagine the Ukrainian government has more pressing issues at the moment.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    qbitorrent’s built in search, my dearest

    also yandex search, from russia, with love

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FBI took down rojadirecta, now there’s a 100 sites called that

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  • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I may as well just ask here, I would love to have a digital copy of a specific book, but I’m struggling to find it on Annas or Zlib. It’s very academic but also quite new. I do not have access through the university and I’m not finding it on scihub yet either. Are there like, places where people can request academic titles or something? You can dm me if you want!

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    • BurnedDonutHole@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Try these… shadowlibraries.github.io

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      • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh fuck yea thanks for that, definitely will

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For academics journals, supposedly you just ask the author for a copy. That’s probably significantly less likely to work for a whole book.

      Being a new book, it could be a while before it becomes “available”. Someone has to be both interested in the topic enough to buy the book, and willing to upoad it somewhere. I’d say this could be your chance to contribute to the high seas, but academic books are expensive.

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      • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks! And yeah, definitely. It starts at somewhere around 110 euros, and I’m poor lol. If I could I would love to contribute to the high seas though!

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Did a big site get shut down recently?

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought this was SBA for a sec

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