How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this?

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• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Consistency and quality. That’s where fitgirl and yiffy get it. If you show up and repave a road every time someone mentions a pothole, eventually you’ll get a reputation for it.

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• yukichigai@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's not really complicated: they just include their name in the filename(s), whether it's in the readme or the installer or the media files. Upload enough releases named something like "Some.Show.S01E01.Pilot.1080p.x265-AverageJoe.mkv" and people will start recognizing AverageJoe and their work.

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  • neidu4@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Pretty much this.

    I was part of the piracy scene in the early 00’s, and it pretty much went like this:

    • be early. It gets people’s attention when you’re among the first to provide something fresh.
    • be prolific. It builds a brand when you have a lot of scene releases to your name.
    • provide quality. It causes people to prefer and distribute your releases.

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• AnotherWastedHuman@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Was FitGirl not an average Jo(sephine?) at some point? Do something consistently well that benefits those who can’t do the same, and you can build a “brand” if that’s what you’re after.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username? And how do peers know it comes from them?

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    • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?

      You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group

      And how do peers know it comes from them?

      This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.

      PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.

      On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.

      The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.

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    • radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Every torrent starts with somebody. Someone repackaged the goods, or ripped the stream, or whatever. The original uploader can call the file(s) whatever they want.

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• Tarambor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On the list of things that are bad ideas this is right up there with them. The last thing you want to do is identify yourself as a source of pirated content.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No fame there. Just pretending

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