• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Oh do please tell me about this “piracy” you speak of. Pirates are my people, I sailed the seas with them back in 1998 and my 28 kilobaud modem. Unfortunately I have lost sight of them in the private tracker wars.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve never bothered with private trackers, what benefits do they actually provide?

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        11 months ago

        They say they provide curation of content, keep out lawyers and provide an incentive to seed.

        In practice none of these are provided.

        What they really are, are entities who sell access to copyright infringement material.

        They discourage network effect free sharing. They discourage posting content with investors rules and they impede seeding by creating a zero sum economy where nobody wants to download anything unless they really have to because you won’t be able too seed your ratio back to 1 as everybody tries to seed and nobody disappears.

        It leads to the ridiculous practice of downloading whatever gets posted on the RSS feed, just so you can seed it to other people who blind download stuff just to seed it. Basically a pump and dump scheme where someone always end up holding the bag.

        All this to motivate people to buy their ratio back. I’ve seen one recent case they were charging 20$ to free leech 80gb.

        In other words private trackers are shit, kill private trackers with DHT

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        11 months ago

        None, just use a VPN and thepiratebay/nyaa/whatever else and stop being a baby

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            11 months ago

            I would never execute a pirated app in a non sandboxed environment, that’s just silly.

            Just buy games on steam like the rest of the world.

            I’m talking movies and anime personally

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                11 months ago

                Who tf

                I have like 600 games in my backlog between emulation and steam sales, why would I risk a keylogger snatching my bank info?

                You think you’re safe using a private tracker? Lol

                I might trust fitgirl repacks, if I was truly broke and desperate and kept it to my gaming only partition.

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                    11 months ago

                    Also “don’t trust piracy” my ass, my plex library is bigger than your mom.

                    I’m just not stupid enough to get PC herpes.