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MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership”
(arstechnica.com)
mpa(a?) heard of medusas head? coz thats how this works.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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This is like the time the MPAA declared "victory" when they had all of the original Pirate Bay founders arrested. But Pirate Bay still continued because it was no longer ran by them.
But you know, this is now the opportunity for people to let the MPA think they won. Just let them think so. If they think so, they'll give a little less of a shit. If we keep screaming to the high heavens about piracy, this shit will just continue.
Look how smug and happy he is! Anyone wanna tell him?
Me waiting for the next "mothership" to pop up so I can use it:
I think they think that Fmovies was actually relevant.
Who? Oh, didn't even notice.
Tomorrow: a new mothership!
I think I2P will get a new wave of users willing to pirate stuff
I never considered I2P as a source, is it good for PC games?
Pfffft...if only.
What do I see them doing a lot of the time? "WHUT VPN SHULD I USE?!" asked like 1,000 fucking times a day. "WHERE SHULD I GU TO GET X FILE FROM Y SOURCE SINCE MY FAVORITE PLACE GOT SHUT DOWN? :("
Legions of new pirates are lazy, entitled and think they've got the privilege to be spouting how much they think they should get for putting in as little as much work to get what they want. Always e-begging.
I doubt it. Streaming sites like Fmovies are used almost entirely by technologically illiterate users. It's for people who want to pirate, but don't want to learn anything.
These users are going to remain helpless until the next malware-laden streaming website enters their lives.
They're not about to install additional software to try to access anything, or at least not software like I2P or BitTorrent, because that would require effort and some amount of technical understanding to accomplish.
This is like wondering why so many people still use Twitter two years into Elon's hostile takeover. People will resign themselves to defeat if it saves them from having to learn anything new.
I'll be honest, I didn't even know about fmovies until everyone started talking about it here recently. I've just used Torrent sites for downloading, and Stremio for streaming and I have not noticed much hiccups.
What they took down is an easily accessible public server that hosts content itself and is accessed by tens of thousands of technologically illiterate people via their phones - with no VPN - constantly. These folks are streaming movie after movie, 720p cam jobs, making these sites light up like the 4th of July (or like a Christmas tree, whatever reference works for you).
Makes sense, though that just gives the impression that this site isn't anything special. I swear there's a million and a half streaming sites by now, and I would bet everyone using FMovies has found clones or alternatives (if they didn't already know of some).
Maybe. I know several technotards who think they've discovered black magic because of an Ebaums World quality site where they have to watch 20 ads per shitty 720p movie and they run around telling everyone they meet about the site. These sites spring up, spread like fire, and get merkd fast af. Meanwhile torrent sites last YEARS by being a little more underground.
Fighting piracy is like a caveman with a pointy stick trying to fight a 3 headed hydra from Greek mythology. The only way for them to truly defeat the hydra is an idea they would never accept because they aren't allowed to treat customers/consumers as people.
Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Disney, Fox, HBO, Hulu, MGM, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros.
Joke's on you MPA, I don't watch any modern trash produced by these "entertainment" companies.
Make MoviePass Great Again!
Fmovies? Never heard of... wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I'm going to have to buy everything now!!!!!11!1
Arr.
pirates just need to for a while pretend to post in a way that piracy is really no more so they stop doing anything about it.
F
Movies
My go to site which has most of what I'm looking for is still up. So much for that lmao.
Literally every site in my regular rotation is completely unaffected lol.
Eh, Aniwave was a pretty big one for the anime community. From what I understand, it's the one most people fled to after KissAnime was taken down. Aside from that, I've never heard of any of the other sites they mentioned.
If that's what you want to believe then I will not be the one to stop you :)
Cool,so we can defund the MPA now that their job is done.
It is done, right?
Right?
It's not like it's a government agency, it's a film company group. Defund it by never paying for a movie and getting everyone everywhere to never pay for a movie
The mothership is down? I didn't even notice.
Private tracker I've been using for like 17 years still works.
17 years is a pretty good record. Site must have been built with some damn good fake doors.
I've head about private tackers forever, is it that much better than public? I have never really had an issue with public trackers ,but also never had an invite to a private one
In general, yeah. Private torrent trackers tend to focus on specific types of content. Some might focus on cartoons. Some might focus on anime. Some focus on books. Some focus on video games. Public trackers, on the other hand, generally focus on everything, which, of course, means they won't have a lot of the older or more niche stuff, and they might be lacking in one or more categories (music, anime, books, TV, etc.).
It's also much less likely that a torrent on a private tracker will die because most private trackers enforce certain rules about seeding and because the people there are generally much more into seeding than most people on a public tracker. (Probably most people on public trackers simply download what they need and stop before seeding anything back.)
Private trackers are also typically the first (and sometimes only) places to get scene releases. Scene releases, which are done by private groups, are usually higher quality than stuff on public trackers. Sometimes, they leak onto a public tracker, but not usually.
IMO, yes. Just for the consistency of quality and absence of fuckery. Damn near any TV show/movie/documentary is on there in at least 1080p, usually in 4K for newer stuff. For music I use SoulSeek and for eBooks I use LibGen.
Ditto.
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