Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

“Despite the support and enjoyment of the anime by our readers, a business practice that does not benefit the manga artist has persisted. I felt obligated to remain silent until the issue was resolved, and I apologize to the readers who have supported me as a manga artist for this extended period.”

Due to non-payment of royalties, the author had even contemplated pulling the anime and its related songs from streaming platforms during the dispute.

However, earlier this year, Ai reached out to the Ganma! editorial department and Comic Smart to investigate the matter.

In August 2024, the company acknowledged their failure to uphold the royalty payments stipulated in the contract. The editorial department issued a formal apology to Ai and provided a detailed report of the situation.

By the end of August, they calculated the amount owed and transferred the full payment to her.

75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

Hey, so there is a show called all star laff-a-lympics which is only available fully on tubi. It is also available on amazon, but im pretty sure they dont have all of the episodes. Furthermore, tubi version is remastered - the quality is top notch, way better than on any dvd or any rip Ive seen so far. And to add to it - tubi is prettt unstable when it comes to longevity of they library. They had remastered pup named scooby doo which they deleted over night. So, it is worth ripping - how to do it? I tried streamfab but it only allowed me to download 3 episodes (and I had to run microsoft defender a couple of times since I used cracked version). Also, the show is not available in my country so I had to use vpn.

I see it sometimes when I download games and I usually avoid it but I want to play the game online so I want to know if its a genuine concern. Couldn't find anyone else talking about it on here :P

EDIT: Thanks for the info everyone! Makes much more sense now.

Hi folks. Recently I have ripped some Blurays that I bought because I couldn't find them online. I'm using MakeMKV for that and it does a fine job decrypting discs to my harddrive. Most discs have a single or maybe two or three m2ts files that I could then convert to a mp4/mkv file afterwards using Handbrake.

However, some of the Blurays have a lot of m2ts files (in BDMV/STREAM) that need to be combined to a single result. From what I understand this is not mainly the film industry making my life hard on purpose, but there are different localizations of the videos in place (german, english, french, etc.).

I know there are playlist files in a separate folder (BDMV/PLAYLIST), and they probably are used to link all those video files together in the correct order. But I cannot seem to find tooling to read these files (in a Linux environment, that is).

I might not have the optimal ripping/converting process in place, yet - actually I'm pretty sure of that. But also I can't find much more useful information, right now. Is anybody able to help me here? I really don't want to go through hundreds of file manually, for some discs.

I just found an ocarina at a thrift shop for 10 dollars, and I'm itching to play some fun solos for it. I am not itching to give money to JW Pepper. Is there any way to pirate sheet music? PDFs are ok. TIA!

Is this new? Does anyone what the deal is?

So, I was having a phone conversation with my boss yesterday. The topic was a clustered filesystem that can hold huge amounts of data, and how we would best allow local users to access this data without yhe storage cluster becoming overloaded (because of various reasons, the I/O is relatively slow. This was built for quantity, not speed).

Rights now there's an SMB share, and we're looking at replacing that so that we can have better control over the data throughput. My suggestion is to simply spin up an FTP server.

Then my boss asks: "I'm just curious, but would rsync or NFS work as a protocol instead?"

Well, it's a valid question, so the only thing I could do was reply with the honest answer as to why I chose FTP. Paraphrased and translated:

"Because some 20 years ago my then username carried a lot of recognition in certain communities revolving around software and media distribution, whose rights holders would not necessarily approve of said distribution. We used FTP, because when you're on an ADSL from 2002, you want to have as much fine control as you can to make sure your internet connection doesn't get flooded with requests. One connection at a time, and only one file at a time, which would be ideal in our particular case."

The response I got was a chuckle and that he couldn't think of a better endorsement of FTP as a preferred transfer protocol.

So there you have it - My career revolves a lot of skills that I picked up whole sailing the high seas. And coincidentally, my career now also involves literally sailing the high seas as these storage clusters are used on survey ships.

I think we'll need to add another section to the megathread

I've decided to try out some games I don't know if i want to pay for yet, so i went to the megathread and it suggested Game Bounty. Whenever I go to download a game on their website, I get redirected to filecrypt. Whenever I press a button, it redirects me to a random website that wants me to click some button. When I left/right click anywhere, it directs me to some crazy long aliexpress link. What the hell is going on? https://imgur.com/a/gl9oEHZ https://imgur.com/a/KYrZNQj

So I have a Synology server that I have a good deal of experience with, so this post will be through that lens.

What I'd like to do is set up a Raspberry Pi exclusively for pirating. So Qbittorrent and Proton VPN to get started, later Radarr, Lidarr, etc. I don't think I'll have a problem getting the Pi up and running, but I'd like to run it like my server, tucked away somewhere without a monitor or peripherals.

How do I access it? For my Synology box, I just put in a browser the local ip port 5000 and I have a whole desktop right there. But when I google about how I'd access a Pi, everything points to using SSH. I know a lot of people have Pis set up like this and surely they can't be administering the whole thing through CLI, right? How do I get a similar setup to my Synology such that I can just get a desktop interface in a browser?

How can I do this. Happy to use their API if that is easier to gain access to the paywalled info. Any help would be appreciated.

""I think it's super hard for a gamer," Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about. I think it's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services." This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo "simply works" and "pirates cannot play games" which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues."

Let's not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21672073

You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡

Yeah, so as in the title, these things cost. A lot. Do you know aby forum that shares accounts or bypasses limits of free plans.

I Got a Chromecast with google TV a few years back, It has been sitting in a box since I dusted off the old tricorn, and went back to streaming on sites and connecting to my TV. However, Recently I found that I can download a VPN and enable Developer mode. I downloaded Film plus. It worked for a week but then just stopped anyone have any other suggestions?

How secure is it using Calibres share option? will my ISB be able to see the books that I have shared? Has anyone used it personally? If you have what are the ways that you use it? I hear that people use it to transfer to their kindles. Just want to make sure I wont be shooting myself in the foot

I’m strugling a bit making it work as intended.
I set it up to push straight to Sonarr/Radarr and it works, but my ratio on everything is still bad. I’m guessing something is taking time, making me lose out on the initial swarm.

My connection is wired Gbit.

It’s not really a problem as I seed forever and have a great ratio, but I still want it to function or at least understand why it doesn’t.

Appreciate any advice!

I use the Firehawk site, but whenever I enter an ARL (premium/family) it tells me I can't log into deemix-gui. Anybody have a solution or idea why this happens?

And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?

The FBI sleeps when libraries burn

The ESA, which represents several major gaming companies, has shared an updated list of notorious piracy threats with the U.S. Government. One of the notable newcomers is FitGirl-Repacks, which has been a dominant player in the game piracy landscape for years. Meanwhile, ESA's report no longer mentions malware, cryptocurrencies, or Scene release groups, which were previously seen as 'growing trends'.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/19586791