I made this userscript to play multiple videos from pirate streaming sites in sync (play/pause them at the same time)
usecase: You want to watch dubbed version of a movie (most people here probably watch in english, but may have friends or family members who don't). You find dubbed version, but in poor quality. Finding high quality english version is easy. You play the english version muted in foreground, and the dubbed version with audio in the background. With this userscript, you can play or pause them at the same time.
Not sure if anyone else finds it useful, but it' super useful for me, so I figured I'll share it here.
Obviously cloudflare could never host the site, it probably redirects the users to the servers that host it. Yet for some reason the domain has not been seized by authorities, but like the FBI did it with a Nintendo Switch ROM Site ?.
If you are wondering why I am asking is because of a ROM site concept I have been thinking for the past 9 months (image redirect to my rentry page)
By the way, you don't have to mention such service in public, you can always send me a private message!
I think there's a variety of complex legal, political, and technical reasons why torrent sites can avoid having their domain "seized", but I think the summary is: there be dragons here and it's not worth playing around with.
Politically, some jurisdictions define piracy differently and hosts won't comply with legal threats from the US.
Legally, hosting a torrent is not the same as hosting a ROM. In the former case the actual copyright works are hosted by users, the torrent site just hosts the torrent file which is a list of users from whom you can download the content. ROM sites tend to provide the actual file for download, which contravenes relevant copyright laws.
Technically, you don't need a commercial host platform to operate a website. It's entirely possible to host a site in your mum's basement on your laptop. Obviously for a large site you'll want more appropriate hardware but the point is larger torrent sites are likely to run on hardware maintained directly by the admins.
The most compelling reason not to get involved in a public facing grey area site like ROM or abandonware hosting, is that it doesn't really matter where you stand with the law - you won't have the resources to defend yourself. Suppose Nintendo decides they don't like you doing what you're doing. They have an army of sophisticated lawyers who have spent a lifetime learning how to weaponise the law. It doesn't really matter who's "right", all that matters is how much money you have with which to engage lawyers to defend yourself.
I really liked your elaboration on the consequences for hosting a torrent site. And forget about money, the only line of defense someone has on the internet is privacy.
Can't be sued if you don't follow the steps of a Ross Ulbricht.
Nintendo is a special case. Their entire business model is based around their first-party games only being available on their systems. As a result, piracy is a much much bigger threat to their business model than it is to anyone else.
(Beyond that I feel that there's a cultural thing where the people calling the shots at Nintendo just hate piracy a lot more than most other companies - they've always been weirdly aggressive about it. But it's not totally irrational - they really depend hard on games like BotW only being available on their systems.)
It's really good, I've been using it for well over a year now. has everything. The dev also had one for youtube but I don't think he's developing it anymore due to the constant changes.
If it is possible to do it with Steam Goldberg, a fork of the previously mentioned program, Greenluma, a fork of the previously mentioned and/or any other software,, whether one or several; someone and/or some people explain how in a way someone without computer knowledge can understand it?
github.com/turusudiro/SteamEmu… part of the tutorial says Only gbe_fork by otavepto, it brings a link to download it but when i click it the file is missing, how can i solve this issue to achieve implement the solution you gave me to the problem I raised?
... This main page of the Goldberg repo also says that the author is not responsible for anything bad that happens to your Steam account while using all this software.
... because this is indeed the kind of thing that could get your Steam Account totally banned, and could also potentially get you hardware banned.
You almost certainly do not want to use this.
Is... some Steam Achievements for a game you torrented... really worth potentially getting permabanned from Steam?
It emulates/fakes you owning a game, but not in the sense of actually owning a game, it just... allows you to collect Steam Achievements... as if you do own the game?
This seems like the kinda thing where if you get caught, instant total Steam account ban.
EDIT:
Entirely seriously, it would make more sense to just use the Steam Family share system, just find a Steam oriented lemmy comm and propose making some kind of small game sharing group.
All you'd have to figurr out is who gets to be 'Mom' and set the rules... but other than that, if you have access to a game via a family share?
And you get achievements?
Those are real, they stick, and you i think even get cards or gems or what not for playing the legitimately shared game.
you could have a steam account for cracked games only. No loss.
Afaik gbe, greenluma etc. can also be uses to play cracked games in multiplayer through steam.
Which you can't do with family sharing unless there are multiple copies in the library (some games are excluded entirely) and not all friendgroups can afford that.
No its not no loss, because if Steam figures out you have a real account and a 'cracked' account, they can ban both.
I've personally known hackers this has happened to.
See your hardware has a unique identifier. They know your're running the same machine with dual accounts, if you do it often enough, doesn't matter if you use a vpn or whatever.
Anyway, sure, ok, this apparently allows you to spoof your way into Steam's multiplayer system.
I don't see where that is stated, but maybe I missed it.
So... this would only make sense with games that are entirely reliant on steam for networking, where you can't host a local server or use something like hamachi...
So, what, you're 12 and want to play a cracked, probably also hacked, version of CS2 or ARK? Maybe DOTA2?
... You know Valve has a track record of criminally prosecuting people who hack their shit, right?
Were you around when the HL2 Beta leak happened, because some guy penetrated Valve's internal systems, basically did a smash and grab?
Yeah they pretended they were impressed, wanted to hire this guy, told him to fly on over from Europe for a job interview.
The guy did that, and then... he was arrested when he got off the plane.
I personally know people that have a shitbox pc botched together from a landfill full of westerners trash and internet but can't afford to pay for games. Their steam account is full of free games. They can replace one shitbox part for another if needed. No fucking loss.
Steam will go after gbr etc. then, not skme random users of it that they already banned according to you.
You're talking to a person who was homeless for 2 years, is currently seruously crippled, doing my own physical therapy because the US healthcare system is completely broken and unaffordable, and is writing this message to you from a piece of shit gas station cell phone that I have somehow managed to keep working through 2 blizzards over two years, that I experienced fully outdoors, while travelling about 2000 miles, with nothing but the clothes on my back.
I've been building pcs out of spare parts, salvage and scrap since the 90s.
You can fuck right off with your first world privilege bullshit and learn how to speak English if you want to converse in it.
[img=https://www.404media.co/content/images/2025/12/WarMap-1.jpg]'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting[/img]
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.
The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war between Ukraine and Russia. To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe.
One of ISW’s most famous products is its live map of the war in Ukraine. The think tank updates the map throughout the day based on a number of different factors including on the ground reports. The map is considered the gold standard for reporting on the current front lines of the conflict, so much so that Polymarket uses it to resolve bets on its website.
The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad.” According to Polymarket, “this market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if, according to the ISW map, Russia captures the intersection between Vatutina Vulytsya and Puhachova Vulytsya located in Myrnohrad by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. The intersection station will be considered captured if any part of the intersection is shaded red on the ISW map by the resolution date. If the area is not shaded red by December 31, 2025, 11:59 PM ET, the market will resolve to ‘NO.’” On November 15, just before one of the bets was resolved, someone at ISW edited its map to show that Russia had advanced through the intersection and taken control of it. After the market resolved, the red shading on the map vanished, suggesting someone at ISW editing permissions on the map had tweaked it ahead of the market resolving.
According to Polymarket’s ledger, the market resolved without dispute and paid out its winnings. Polymarket did not immediately respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment about the incident.
ISW acknowledged the stealth edit, but did not say if it was made because of the betting markets. “It has come to ISW’s attention that an unauthorized and unapproved edit to the interactive map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was made on the night of November 15-16 EST. The unauthorized edit was removed before the day’s normal workflow began on November 16 and did not affect ISW mapping on that or any subsequent day. The edit did not form any part of the assessment of authorized map changes on that or any other day. We apologize to our readers and the users of our maps for this incident,” ISW said in a statement on its website.
ISW did say it isn’t happy that Polymarket is using its map of the war as a gambling resource.
“ISW is committed to providing trusted, objective assessments of conflicts that pose threats to the United States and its allies and partners to inform decision-makers, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and citizens about devastating wars,” the think tank told 404 Media. “ISW has become aware that some organizations and individuals are promoting betting on the course of the war in Ukraine and that ISW’s maps are being used to adjudicate that betting. ISW strongly disapproves of such activities and strenuously objects to the use of our maps for such purposes, for which we emphatically do not give consent.”
But ISW can’t do anything to stop people from gambling on the outcome of a brutal conflict and the prediction markets are full of gamblers laying money on various aspects of the conflict. Will Russia x Ukraine ceasefire in 2025? has a trading volume of more than $46 million. Polymarket is trending “no.” Will Russia enter Khatine by December 31? is a smaller bet with a little more than $5,000 in trading volume.
Practically every town and city along the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine has a market and gamblers with an interest in geopolitics can get lost in the minutia about the war. To bet on the outcome of a war is grotesque. On Polymarket and other predictive gambling sites, millions of dollars trade hands based on the outcomes of battles that kill hundreds of people. It also creates an incentive for the manipulation of the war and data about the war. If someone involved can make extra cash by manipulating a map, they will. It’s 2025 and war is still a racket. Humans have just figured out new ways to profit from it.
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.
The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war between Ukraine and Russia. To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… One of ISW’s most famous products is its live map of the war in Ukraine. The think tank updates the map throughout the day based on a number of different factors including on the ground reports. The map is considered the gold standard for reporting on the current front lines of the conflict, so much so that Polymarket uses it to resolve bets on its website.
The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad.” According to Polymarket, “this market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if, according to the ISW map, Russia captures the intersection between Vatutina Vulytsya and Puhachova Vulytsya located in Myrnohrad by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. The intersection station will be considered captured if any part of the intersection is shaded red on the ISW map by the resolution date. If the area is not shaded red by December 31, 2025, 11:59 PM ET, the market will resolve to ‘NO.’” On November 15, just before one of the bets was resolved, someone at ISW edited its map to show that Russia had advanced through the intersection and taken control of it. After the market resolved, the red shading on the map vanished, suggesting someone at ISW editing permissions on the map had tweaked it ahead of the market resolving.
According to Polymarket’s ledger, the market resolved without dispute and paid out its winnings. Polymarket did not immediately respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment about the incident.
ISW acknowledged the stealth edit, but did not say if it was made because of the betting markets. “It has come to ISW’s attention that an unauthorized and unapproved edit to the interactive map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was made on the night of November 15-16 EST. The unauthorized edit was removed before the day’s normal workflow began on November 16 and did not affect ISW mapping on that or any subsequent day. The edit did not form any part of the assessment of authorized map changes on that or any other day. We apologize to our readers and the users of our maps for this incident,” ISW said in a statement on its website.
ISW did say it isn’t happy that Polymarket is using its map of the war as a gambling resource.
“ISW is committed to providing trusted, objective assessments of conflicts that pose threats to the United States and its allies and partners to inform decision-makers, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and citizens about devastating wars,” the think tank told 404 Media. “ISW has become aware that some organizations and individuals are promoting betting on the course of the war in Ukraine and that ISW’s maps are being used to adjudicate that betting. ISW strongly disapproves of such activities and strenuously objects to the use of our maps for such purposes, for which we emphatically do not give consent.”
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But ISW can’t do anything to stop people from gambling on the outcome of a brutal conflict and the prediction markets are full of gamblers laying money on various aspects of the conflict. Will Russia x Ukraine ceasefire in 2025? has a trading volume of more than $46 million. Polymarket is trending “no.” Will Russia enter Khatine by December 31? is a smaller bet with a little more than $5,000 in trading volume.
Practically every town and city along the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine has a market and gamblers with an interest in geopolitics can get lost in the minutia about the war. To bet on the outcome of a war is grotesque. On Polymarket and other predictive gambling sites, millions of dollars trade hands based on the outcomes of battles that kill hundreds of people. It also creates an incentive for the manipulation of the war and data about the war. If someone involved can make extra cash by manipulating a map, they will. It’s 2025 and war is still a racket. Humans have just figured out new ways to profit from it.
I tag NSFW just in case because talking about hentai doujin site.
Honestly I don’t use the site much. It’s like number 3 stop for me after e(x)hentai and nhentai. But running for 10 years for free is still a baller move. Shame they have to shut down.
I tag NSFW just in case because talking about hentai doujin site.
Honestly I don't use the site much. It's like number 3 stop for me after e(x)hentai and nhentai. But running for 10 years for free is still a baller move. Shame they have to shut down.
I really think that there should be more of an effort to do long-term preservation of this stuff because websites come and go but if we have a big torrent archive with everything in it it will never go away
I agree. Their database or at least a long list what they had should be shared somewhere. Torrents should probably still be in nyaa. If that fails I assume they are in private trackers and in ehwntai or nhentai.
I've copied some of it below, but I didn't go in and add all the links:
Randall's then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic multiple times before, with Randall being depicted as Cueball and his wife as Megan. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.
This comic continues previous comics in the series – 1141: Two Years, 1928: Seven Years, and 2386: Ten Years – the initial parts of which are shown in the first 20 panels, which are grayed-out. These take us through the initial diagnosis and inability to imagine what future might be, into concerns about it potentially recurring, and up to enjoying ten years of life together that they weren't sure they would have.
After some new panels marking more significant non-cancer-related events from the most recent five years of their life, Megan announces some potentially concerning-sounding symptoms she's experiencing. However, the punchline is that these are just the signs of growing old, which Cueball is experiencing too. This is good news, considering the serious medical scares they lived through.
The title text continues that ending with a play on a common conversation topic. Normally someone rhetorically asks "Want to feel old?" and then follows it with a description of a difference the conversants have with the younger generation, or how long it's been since some significant event they both experienced, as Randall has done in several previous comics. This is meant to make the other person feel bad about their age. In this case, though, the question is taken literally, with a simple "Yes" response to indicate that feeling old is better than being dead and they are happy to be alive and to have had the time they have.
The finality of this new installment suggests that it may be the last in the series, as it is solely related to Randall's wife's recovery from cancer.
Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday against a New York Times reporter, calling her “ugly inside and out” in his latest personal insult against female members of the media after last week calling another “piggy”.
In a Truth Social post, Trump criticized the newspaper for an article suggesting he was running low on energy in his 80th year, insisting he had “never worked so hard in my life”.
When you're an orange, demented, chronically ill fat fuck, I bet even wiping your ass might feel like the hardest work you've done in your life.
Use rutracker . org, they have a lot of flacs. If you can't find it there, I'm sure it's on Soulseek, use the Nitoutine Plus client: nicotine-plus.org/
I dont know any for amazon music, but theres a few that use Tidal which will probably have what you need. Here's a list of them: github.com/eduardprigoana/hifi…
Not sure about amazon but if you search for deezloader/deemix you’ll find ways to self-host services that download flacs from deezer. Also, there are services on most chat apps that will do it for you too if you search for the same terms.
The White House confirmed the second strikes on 2 September, but denied reports that Defence Secretary Hegseth said "kill everybody" on board the vessel.
Sweden, to its immense credit, has acknowledged what the rest of Europe still resists saying aloud: if an adversary can strike you from thousands of kilometres away, you cannot deter them with weapons that can’t reach beyond your own borders.
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Sweden, long admired for its cautious diplomacy and understated pragmatism, is now moving decisively onto the European security stage.
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Stockholm’s new strategy, proposing strike systems with ranges of up to 2,000 km, is not a provocation. It is a sober, overdue recognition that Europe’s deterrent posture must modernise or collapse.
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Predictably, some critics will accuse Sweden of “escalation”, as though investing in the ability to defend one’s territory somehow invites conflict. The argument is as old as pacifism and just as flawed.
In a world where one power routinely launches strikes 1,000 km deep into a sovereign state, the only escalatory act is to remain defenceless.
Europeans must abandon the naïve notion that Russia will be placated by weakness. If anything, it is weakness that tempts Moscow, just as it has throughout its imperial history. A Europe that cannot respond to missile attacks on its own soil — or that must beg the United States for every long-range capability — is a Europe that has ceded its sovereignty without a fight.
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Deterrence only works if the adversary believes you have both the capability and the will to respond. Without long-range strike, Europe has neither. Sweden understands this. Its decision is not merely strategic; it is moral. A nation has a duty to defend its citizens — and defence today requires offensive reach.
The discussion followed a recent explosion on a railway line in eastern Poland, which Warsaw has described as an act of Russian-backed sabotage, and a series of incursions by drones launched from Russia into the skies of several member states.
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European Commission Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu said that strengthening Europe’s ability to react to “hybrid threats” is now a priority for the European Commission, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The term “hybrid threats” is used in Brussels for hostile activity that mixes cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation campaigns and military pressure. Mînzatu noted that in recent weeks drones or aircraft had violated airspace over Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia.
“These incidents follow a pattern, they are not an accident. They are part of hybrid warfare,” she told lawmakers.
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Former [Polish] interior minister Mariusz Kamiński of Law and Justice argued that Russia is deliberately trying to create fear and chaos and that this method has been used consistently since Soviet times.
He said Russian special services have for months been organizing “terrorist activities” on EU territory, targeting critical infrastructure such as airports, and warned that “we are one step away from the deaths of our citizens.”
Kamiński said Belarus, under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, has become a staging ground for Russian intelligence officers and saboteurs, and called for tougher EU measures.
He also proposed that the Commission, together with the European Council, work out a procedure to compensate damage caused by sabotage using frozen Russian assets that were blocked after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Krzysztof Śmiszek from the Left alliance cited an estimate by Poland’s digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski that cyberattacks in Poland, including those targeting critical infrastructure, could reach 100,000 this year.
Śmiszek accused the far right in Europe of acting in the Kremlin’s interests, saying that “the Kremlin, as always, uses the mindless and ‘useful idiots,’” using a phrase often applied to people seen as advancing Russia’s agenda inside Western politics.
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On Thursday, on the sidelines of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is due to meet behind closed doors.
Plex has confirmed that it will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming on its TV apps. The change is going into effect for the Roku app first, followed by all other TV apps and third-party clients in 2026.
Earlier this year, Plex increased its pricing for Plex Pass and stopped supporting all options for free remote streaming in the Plex apps, such as adding a custom server connection in the app settings. The company said at the time, "The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature." That's also when Plex introduced the Remote Watch Pass as a less expensive way to enable remote streaming again.
Plex is now rolling out the remote watch changes to its Roku TV app. If you have Plex Pass, or the owner of the server you're streaming from has Plex Pass, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, if you are streaming on a different network from the server's home network, you need Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass.
The updated app is unfortunately broken on my TV. While the new UI design looks fine at first glance, the actual usability is very poor. Navigation feels slow, unintuitive, and buggy.
There was never an explicit deal on providing free shit. Although they seem to be honoring paid stuff. If your account is old enough, content shared with friends can be downloaded even if they don't have a Plex pass.
What if I’ve already paid the one-time mobile app activation fee? \ For users who have already paid a one-time, in-app activation for either our mobile Android or iOS app, an extended trial for the new Remote Watch Pass subscription is available. \ (Source: Plex)
They soften the landing with the "extended trial", but anyone who paid the "one-time fee" is finding out what that really meant.
I wouldn't be surprised if a year from now there's an announcement for Plex 2.0 and my lifetime account only applies to legacy Plex.
You might not understand : - their explanation for what happens to users who've paid - what I mean by "soften the landing" - what I mean by "what that really meant" - what I mean by "I wouldn't be surprised"
I'm not a mind reader, mate. Even less so on the internet. I could be ESL, or from a different part of the world. Whatever's obvious in your head isn't going to be obvious in mine.
So, if you want me to tell you what "this" means, you've got to tell me what "this" is.
I'm not sure you do know what it means though. Because if you did, then it would be obvious how requiring another fee for the thing you already paid the one-time fee for makes the original promise of the one-time fee a lie.
Oh my god fuck you. I do not understand what those words mean. I have explicitly said I do not know what this means. Please just tell me.
What was paid for in this supposed one time fee
What was changed/taken away.
What this extended trial does.
The page does not explain what these things are. It just says that one was taken away in favor of the other. I am explicitly asking you this because search engines are near useless now and you have the experience and nuance to tech me this.
1. What was paid for in this supposed one time fee
From the link:
What are the features and limitations without unlocking the app?
Free Functionality
The following functionality is available without unlocking the Plex for Android app:
The following functionality is available without unlocking the Plex for Android app: - Unlimited casting/flinging of photos and videos from the Camera Roll on your phone or tablet to other Plex apps that support Plex Companion - Unlimited casting/flinging of any media on your Plex Media Server to other Plex apps that support Plex Companion - Remote control your big screen Plex apps that support Plex Companion - “Movies & Shows” video on demand content from Plex - free Live TV channels from Plex - Browse libraries from your own or shared Plex Media Servers LIMITATIONS: When playing or viewing media from your Plex Media Server on the device: - Video is limited to one minute of playback - Music is limited to one minute of playback - Photos will have a watermark added - There are multiple ways to unlock/activate the app to remove the playback limitations when streaming from a Plex Media Server.
Unlocked Functionality
Unlocking the app will remove the playback limitations when streaming from a Plex Media Server.
Unlocking or Activating Plex for Android
The Plex for Android app is available to download for free from the Google Play or Amazon app stores. While many features of the app are available to use for free and users can test out all of the features, there are playback limitations when streaming from a Plex Media Server unless the app is unlocked.
One-Time Purchase in the App
Users who don’t have a Plex Pass subscription—and aren’t interested in starting one—can unlock Plex for Android through a simple one-time purchase.
The purchase is tied to your app store account. You can download and use on any Android device with the app store you originally purchased it from with the app store account you purchased it with. The purchase is linked to the app store account that made the purchase and doesn’t extend to other app store accounts or profiles.
For instance, if you purchase the app through Google Play, then the purchase will apply to any Android device using the same Google Play account. The purchase does not extend to a different Google Play account, nor does it extend to other app stores, such as Amazon or iTunes.
2. What was changed/taken away.
From the link:
Can I access my Plex library outside of my home network?
Yes, that's possible! First, you'll need to set up Remote Access on the Plex Media Server to facilitate remote connections. You then need either an active Plex Pass subscription on your server admin account (allowing any user accessing the server to stream remotely) or a Remote Watch Pass (letting you stream remotely from any server to which you have access).
3. What this extended trial does.
From the link:
Had to bust out the dictionary for this one:
Extended (adjective)
Continued or prolonged. extended efforts
Trial
A tentative or experimental action in order to ascertain results; experiment.
The page does not explain what these things are.
Which is why it's crazy that I just followed the link you were given and copied/pasted this information in. Must be magic.
All of that to say, fuck you right back for your obtuse little replies. Try actually reading what you're linked to and asking intelligent questions next time, instead of "Huh? What? I don't know those words..."
It would have been extremely easy for you to say "they took away a supposed one time purchase for a 3 month trial of a monthly subscription" instead of being an asshole. I'm done with this interaction. I agree that this is a shitty thing to do. Thank you for telling me.
It would have been extremely easy for you to do some cursory reading about the thing you apparently wanted to know about, instead of being deliberately obtuse and annoying. But here we are.
Previously you could pay a one time fee to watch remotely on Android and iOS without having the Plex Pass and now it sounds like they're rolling this into the Plex Pass and asking users to pay again.
Apparently this extended trial is 3 months. I would have thought that it was just the terminology they needed to use to get it to work with the mobile platforms. This is a really shitty thing to do.
The issue, as always, is that Plex started to put free existing features behind a paywall to squeeze more money out of their client base instead of adding something and charging for it.
VC money came in and now the VC wants to cash in on the investment.
Love me some Jellyfin. I was yesterday days old when I finally read some documentation and learned that my metadata issues were because I was using a mixed library type for kids shoes and movies, and that they strongly discourage it because of the unreliable metadata it causes. Split kids movies and shows apart and now that works flawlessly, still, I feel like I’d prefer they could be combined on a single library for a kids’ browsing
I can recommend a local Wireguard server for this. I have one port on my router open for Wireguard and all of my devices can connect to it remotely.
Once connected, they can see all the devices on my local network, including my local jellyfin server. It works pretty painlessly and you don't need to open any jellyfin ports to the world.
That's how it works with Tailscale as well. Tailscale creates Wireguard tunnels underneath between the different devices. There's also an open-source self-hostable Tailscale control plane.
Haven't personally the need to connect tv boxes remotely- all of my mobile devices are handheld, so cell phone, laptop, steamdeck etc, all of which have pretty seamless wireguard clients, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work with the correct Wireguard client installed on a tv box. The only issue might be really old android versions.
Its a major rewrite, which is bringing a lot of problems like library scans that last dozens of hours, massive CPU use on idle, broken playback, and much much more
There's a few ways, but it's similar to hosting anything yourself. You could, if you're not too bothered by it, just forward the port that jellyfin is using. You do this in your routers settings and you can see/change the port in jellyfins settings. Then you give your friends the device that's hosting jellyfin's ip address and they type it in when logging into the app. That's simple and quick and not secure at all. But it's really one of those things that 99 times out of 100 it's fine.
You can use something like tailscale to connect your friends devices to your network, I didn't do it so I don't really know the details, but you'd need it installed on all of their clients. This is (probably) the most secure way but it's a pain in the butt for users, compared to other ways. jellyfin.org/docs/general/post…
I ended up using nginx as a reverse proxy, and bought a domain name so I could just tell people "go into jellyfin wherever you want and type in domain.com, then pick the profile I made you." I was really new to this nginx thing when I did it, so I don't have a deep understanding of why it's better than just forwarding the port but it is.
Tailscale is a VPN based on Wireguard which offers easy configuration and high performance. It provides an effective alternative in situations where opening ports is undesirable or not feasible, such as when the network is behind a carrier-grade NAT …
I would be very surprised if they don't go there eventually, and I'd even bet they'll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription
If you ever think you've found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven't
Abandoning streaming services only to become a serf of another commercial subscription service seems like such a bizarre move that I really don't understand how Plex users even exist.
Wow, could you get any more condescending? We bought a product (10+ years ago in my case) and it still works great. Why would I switch to an inferior service, just because the FREE version of the product I already bought got worse?
This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.
With this move the free version of Plex got downgraded, to now have feature parity with Jellyfin. Meaning a VPN is required if you want to access your media on the go
You CAN, but you really shouldn't. Even the documentation says as much. The Jellyfin server is way to insecure to expose it to the open internet. In reality you can't safely use Jellyfin remotely without a vpn
This is good to know, thanks for sharing. I've only got it local for now after installing at the weekend and wasn't sure how secure it was for external access.
I'm just chiming in to say that while the documentation gives you information on how to do external access, there are multiple issues open on the github about unauthenticated endpoints that if you know what is on the server already, you can confirm that it's there
So I wouldn't use a standard naming convention because using that knowledge, someone who cares could use common names that could be on the server, followed by common standards of formats they would be in, and be able to confirm it's their via the end points.
Note that opening a port gives full access to that port to the next higher Network. Opening a port directly to the Internet is therefore insecure and not recommended.
It says so right there.
There are multiple ways of exposing Jellyfin to the outside - the most common ones are:
forwarding its Ports directly to the internet (not recommended!)
forwarding through a Reverse Proxy
using a VPN connection to enter the Network
use a VPS to Reverse Proxy to your home network
And there.
This smug mentality that security is unnecessary when exposing ports to the open internet reminds me of people who think its fine to drive drunk because "I've done it dozens of times before and nothing happened!" It also reminds me of the mentality of tech company VPs right before they have a massive data breach. It's quite absurd to read.
For some reason they recommend against directly forwarding Jellyfin's ports, but reverse proxies are fine. I expect this is because the default configuration doesn't use SSL.
This smug mentality that security is unnecessary when exposing ports to the open internet reminds me of people who think its fine to drive drunk because "I've done it dozens of times before and nothing happened!" It also reminds me of the mentality of tech company VPs right before they have a massive data breach. It's quite absurd to read.
I think you'll find without exposing ports to the open internet we would not be having this conversation right now. Which, I suppose, wouldn't be such a bad thing.
I've not looked into it but presumably it's because whatever web server framework they are using might not be as bug free and battle tested as dedicated web server application like nginx so by limiting the actual web servers exposure you are limiting the attack surface.
This seems like a naive viewpoint as you're exposing your whole network and everything connected to it to the open internet. Just because the port connects to Jellyfin doesnt mean there isn't some exploit or vulnerability that can allow for greater access. This is media software written by volunteers and offered for free, so I wouldn't expect Fort Knox security from it just because its FOSS. In fact, they specifically put the onus on the user to do this themselves if they so chose.
I would trust the FOSS software's actually auditable security any day of the week over the sketchy proprietary solution targeting an extremely niche market.
Fair enough but has anyone actually audited how secure Jellyfin is when exposed directly to the open internet? Not even the actual developers of the software recommend that, yet the majority of the replies here are being overly smug and cocky thinking it's perfectly safe to do so.
People have audited the APIs and it is a known issue that if you know the correct URL to certain resources on the server (e.g. specific files) you can fetch them without authentication. Nothing more serious than that has been found.
Privacy for me. When they where sending out emails about what you watched. Kind of made the we don't know what's on your server line a lie. So how could I trust them. I still expect a massive sting where they have to tell the MPAA or something who has pirated content and they go after people. Surprised it hasn't happened yet seems so obvious.
This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.
Yet.
They're going down the pathway to enshittification and very few companies that start down that dark path turn away before they destroy everything good they'd made for everyone, free and paid alike. Maybe that won't happen here, but from all of the times I've seen that same song and dance, I would be finding alternatives to switch to, personally. But, it's obviously up to you to decide your own comfort level if you want to start now or wait to see how far they go
I bought a lifetime pass for 100 bucks about 10 years ago, and have had 10 years of not having to give a shit about these announcements. I've saved well over 100 bucks on streaming services in that time. Worth it 1000%.
Same. I finally switched over to jellyfin recently as it was low down on a long list of stuff I want to do, let alone need to do. I feel like I got my worth and if things mess up with jellyfin, I've got a temporary backup option to spin up without having to give a single penny more. Fingers crossed, no more of my data either seeing as it's all uninstalled.
Never tried it but heard so much talk about jellyfin I tried that and it seems to work pretty well so far. Is there any advantages of emby over jellyfin?
I have a lifetime pass and switched to Jellyfin years ago. Plex shoving their streaming content down my throat while putting my local libraries in the most tedious spots to access in the menus was a very quick turn off.
Yes, but you should use a reverse proxy for anything open to the internet. If you use a reverse proxy (without passing X-Forwarded-...), Plex and Jellyfin should have feature parity with this change.
You probably could do it with trakt. The plugin supports syncing watched history.
But you'd need to do it for every user individually. (Not tested. But at the time had issues with weird watch status in my jellyfin and trakt seemed to be the reason)
Why? Plex was one of the original self hosted streaming platforms and for a long time was pretty much the only option. We have more options now, and those still on Plex, I imagine, are because they don't have the time or capacity to perform a migration. So they stick with what they've got until it breaks.
Maybe this will be the one that breaks it.
I was a Plex holdout until 3 months ago. I wanted off Plex for the last 2 years but just never had the time.
For those waiting, don't be like me, it's easier than you think.
I switched to Jellyfin about 4 years ago, no regrets. If I'm traveling I tunnel into my home server and watch whatever I want. As most of us, I started in Plex because back then I was with Synology (cheapest NAS they had back then). The moment I moved to building and maintaining my own server, I tried JF, liked it from day one, learned to deal with the caveats and fix them (took me a while), and have been on it since then.
Pretty much. Personally, I spun up another VM and had the two running alongside each other for a few weeks. Doing it this way allows you to split the work. First get the base server up and running, do some testing and get familiar, then migrate a client.
It took more effort to get family to switch their client than it did to do the server.
I'm just using nginx as a reverse proxy. I'm actually using Emby, which Jellyfin is a fork of. I had issues with Jellyfin playback and wasn't patient enough to fix at the time, but I'll try again over xmas.
No worries. It’ll be interesting to see how cert based overlay network setup develops after this, I bet there’s some people willing to leave the plex world and willing to add the polish to it.
I've not using a free streaming site for years, but when I did they were bags of shite. Buffering, unavailable, etc. There are apps that aggregate the various sites that try and find a wanted show on multiple sites, but they weren't much better.
I see self-hosted streaming as just an extension of your "save videos to a storage drive" option. We are just extending the access of that to where its wanted.
I tried setting up Jellyfin a while ago, but ran into a lot of difficulties with TV show matching. Plex is a lot better at grabbing a pack of loosely organized files and understanding episode structure without renaming or moving files, which is great for continuing to seed files that are in the library.
I haven’t seen anyone discuss this, so maybe I’m doing something wrong? If not, this is the one major blocker that I have before rolling it out Jellyfin as an alternative to the people I’ve shared my plex server with.
Really want that in place because the writing seems to be on the wall (in flashing neon) about the direction Plex is going
I have the same problem. There is a Lemmy community for Jellyfin. Maybe we need to ask there. I run both right now. Plex and Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin whenever I can but still have plex for that issue
It took me awhile to figure out the correct setup to get Sonarr, qbittorrent, and Jellyfin all to play nicely together, but once you get it figured out, it transparently addresses the problems of folder structure and allowing you to keep seeding content.
I had the same issue as you, initially, where I had to do a ton of library maintenance in Jellyfin. But since using Sonarr to monitor and import media from torrents to a structured media library, Jellyfin has been pretty hands-off
Well if you want to continue with torrents, use Sonarr configured to torrent and configure it to move files by linking instead of moving
But I would HIGHLY recommend you switch to usenet for your source. You do have to have one or a couple cheap (talking 9-20$ a YEAR) indexer subscriptions and a subscription to a usenet provider itself (7-30$/month) but it's SO much faster, easier and you don't need to worry about seeding.
Plex is a lot better at grabbing a pack of loosely organized files and understanding episode structure without renaming or moving files, which is great for continuing to seed files that are in the library.
You may want to look into the *arr suite. Sonarr for managing TV show downloads, Radarr for managing movie downloads, Jellyseerr for managing media requests, Prowlarr for managing torrent/usenet indexers (search engines), Cleanuparr for automatic download management, and Huntarr for automatic downloads.
I haven’t seen anyone discuss this, so maybe I’m doing something wrong?
The go-to these days is to use hardlinks, which will allow you to have the files show up in two places at once. Sort of like a shortcut, but it actually shows the true file instead of simply pointing to a different file location. One stays in your torrent’s location for seeding, and a second hardlink is created in your media folder, with proper naming structure for Plex/Jellyfin to find. The *arr suite automates that process. It tracks your downloads, and automatically creates Plex/Jellyfin file names in the corresponding library folders when the download is completed.
It’s the best in every sense: - You can continue seeding. - You don’t need to keep multiple copies of the same file, because the hardlink in your library folder is pointing to the same file as the torrent. So it doesn’t take up twice as much space on your drive. - You get proper naming conventions for your media discovery. - You don’t need to manually manage your library.
The big downside to hardlinks is that they can’t be used across drives or partitions. The hardlink can only point to a file on the same drive. So if your torrent download folder is on a different drive than your library folders, you can’t use hardlinks.
Yeah, I guess I should have been more clear. Hardlinks also work for things like RAID drives. But if your PC has a C:/ and D:/ drive, you can’t hardlink across the two.
if the hard links everyone else is mentionining aren't feasible for you, take a look at tvnamer. I've found it works quite well for scanning and renaming files, it even supports custom renaming pattern and you can pass it a tvdb series id if it doesn't automatically detect your series.
I use it cause all my torrenting is done on a different machine, and those files get transferred over to my server. so the arr suite isn't the best solution for me
I got around that by being a bad pirate. If I've watched it, chances are I'm nuking it in a few days from my download drive to make room for something else.
Me too buddy, me too. Not gonna lie it took quite a lot of effort to get everything setup and stuff but reading news like this now gives me a cozy warm feeling
I have the sevre side stuff all set up as far as I know but I've not been able to get the Roku app to connect. I should note the tv is literally on the other side of the wall from my computer, they're on the same network.
I didn't get remote control to work how I wanted, I can do it only using a VPN on my home network which is fine. Other than that I had some issues getting it to recognise all my shows and download the metadata. But I like the customization and potential to add extra add ons and stuff
Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well... I don't know if I even checked out Emby, I'm not familiar with it, but I've had no reason yet to look for something else
I'm sticking with plex personally. I have a lifetime plex pass already so no one else needs a pass to stream from my server. Aka, this changes nothing for me or my users.
for now. I feel like it's only a matter of time before they say those lifetime passes are expired, or that the product has changes so much it's not valid, etc. they've proven they don't really care about the user base anymore, it's all about the money for them now unfortunately.
This is total "fuck you, got mine" energy. You're part of the problem. As somebody else who owns a Plex pass, I'm done with their bullshit. I downloaded Plex as a way to serve my content to my devices. These morons lost their way a while ago and became a dump, and clearly it's not getting any better.
Hopefully this latest big-brain move of theirs drives more users off their shit platform to one that's better.
But you have a Plex pass, so I'm sure it won't affect you when the money disappears and the company folds lol.
I mean, if you already have a lifetime pass, it's not like you're giving them anymore money or supporting them from here on out. Not sure how that's "fuck you, got mine." Who exactly is being fucked here? It would make more sense if Plex had a limited number of passes that people hoarded early on like boomers with property. In this case the financial side of things is already a done deal, and doesn't somehow deprive others of a resource.
You're saying you bought a pass, fuck all the people that didn't buy a pass. Sure other people could buy a pass, but why would you want to encourage them to do that and incentivize the further enshitifcaiton of Plex?
I don't think OP said literally any of that, so I'm confused. OP already has a lifetime Plex pass, so OP is sticking with plex, since as the server owner, a plex pass covers everyone streaming from their server.
I'm still not sure who's being fucked in the context of what OP wrote. Either way, nothing OP is doing is financially supporting Plex, because that ship already sailed back when they bought a lifetime pass.
I've been using Plex form 2009-2010 and have watched it slowly enshitify. The purpose of the software was to allow people to host their own media server and making it accessible anywhere. The pass was a nice way to thank the devs and get some small perks. Now it seems like they are yet again stripping features from basic users.
The op's stance of "I have a pass so it doesn't affect me" is further supporting and encouraging the enshitifcaiton of what used to be a good service for anybody. Jellyfin seems to be the way to go now.
What would you like OP to do? Nothing they're doing is helping or hurting Plex. Nor is it helping or hurting anyone else.
Plex is enshittifying. I'm not sure how much they care about the opinions of Lifetime Pass users, or particularly care whether those people continue to use the service, at least when it comes to streaming personal media libraries.
For example, Windows is thoroughly enshittified, but I'm not going to tell users of Win 10 that they need to switch away right now, or that they're bad people for continuing to use an old product they previously paid for. Just that they should jump ship whenever they're ready to move on from Win 10.
It is heping Plex by adding to their number of users and further justifying their enshitifcaiton.
The correct move is to uninstall it and use an alternative.
Accepting enshitifcaiton and the downward trend of the status quo is why we have enshitifcaiton and the downward trend of the status quo.
Companies know users will just accept shit rather than be mildly inconvenienced or uncomfortable for a bit while they learn something new, even if it's a million times better.
See, I don't understand that at all from you. How have they lost their way exactly? Th9jga that you can turn off in settings piss9ng you off? Are you unable to stream your content with your plex pass that you already own? Can others not stream from you? Does your content Metadata not scrape properly? Explain you comment because it seems like you're part of the problem hating them for the sake of hating them. Getting "on the train" of hate as it were.
I don't care about my Plex pass, I care about the basic service getting shit on. The pass was never meant to give me a premium product, it was meant to support the devs and give me a few minor feature perks.
I've used Plex since 2009-2010. I've watched it change into the trash it is becoming. People should trash it and move to Jellyfin.
The entire side service they're they've been pushing where they want to inject their own streaming crap into the media server. The whole point of Plex used to be for you to host your own media collection, and was relatively hands-off. But sure, continue to support them by using the software and inflating their numbers. Don't cry to me when better options crumble and all you're left with is a completely enshitifed app, what do I know? Lmao
Do you mean the stuff you can literally turn off in settings? Discover, other streaming services, live channels, friend activity... all that can be turned right off.
Did you dump plex after paying for it because you couldn't turn off settings??
I regret buying a Plex pass years ago when the project was still pretty good. I wanted to support the devs, but now I hope that they continue to develop this shit app so they don't move on to ruin things like Jellyfin.
For the past like 5-7 years I’ve said consistently that the second plex took VC money the writing was on the wall and that they would eventually and consistently take actions hostile towards their consumers and doing what they can to both move to SaaS and alienate lifetime pass users as well as distance themselves from their core purpose of sharing collections of pirated media hidden behind the thinly veneered “for tobacco use only” bullshit of “actually you can just rip your own physical media”
Every time I post, whether it’s banning the ability to serve on hetzner, putting ads all over the app and starting to collect data, increasing monetization, etc and talk about how it’s inherently going to continue getting worse plex users inevitably come out of the woodwork to be like “well this is overblown, plex is so good it’s worth getting fucked, jellyfin is slightly harder since it’s not backed by 40 million dollars of devil money that demands endless growth until the product is ruined”
As long as those people who are willing to get walked all over exist, that demand a slightly easier existence over one that serves them, every product and service will continue to get worse and worse while a small group of people get fat off of endless subscriptions
Reposting something from r/Plex because the mods are bitch-babies with minimal changes:
If you pay money for something, you do not own it. It is not entirely yours.
You pay, that shit's proprietary, you didnt make it, you can't see the insides. Why would any self respecting sociopath give you something without including a backdoor, data logging/tracking, and a string to pull it back?
You steal something, or download more anonymously, it isn't immediately connected to you, it may not have the backdoors activated, and you probably cut that string when you acquired it. You might even have to fuck around in the guts and modify shit so it can't be remotely bricked tracked etc.
Applies to physical goods up to and including housing too. The state wants me out, I'm out. Can happen for a lot of reasons, and no amount of obedience or investment keeps you 100% safe. In a squat, ive already defended myself, proven their power, at least what they're willing to exercise, cannot dislodge me. The place is truly mine.
You buy from the company store, you don't own shit.
Unfortunately Jellyfin still has issues, I was trying the latest version earlier, a movie I was watching started skipping on jellyfin, worked fine on Plex. I also looked at moving over watching stuff with friends to jellyfin, we tried the syncplay feature, it kept stuttering and stopping (auto match was off, as default), and we just gave up after a minute or two and just went back to Plex.
I want to like jellyfin, and the latest releases have improved a lot of the performance issues I used to have, but man is it hard to love moving to it. Sure foss and there's lots of cool plugins, but everything else has just been a worse experience for me.
Yeah, like I said, you have to do some work with FOSS.
Check logs, reach out to support forums, etc.
Alternatively have something that is more likely to “just work” at the cost of data collection and profiling and increasingly restrictive software licensing designed to drive you towards service delivery license models (eg monthly payments), at a minimum
is plex more mature? Yes of course, it has had injections of over 40 million dollars of devil money plus whatever they’ve raised from you. Jellyfin would likely catch up significantly with such funding, but remember that such funding always comes with obligations that compromise the product and fuck over the community that actually cares about usability and core features (see: Reddit, MySpace, Facebook, amazon, Google and every Google product, Netflix, etc etc etc etc etc)
I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.
I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.
That said, I've mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.
Mao Zedong, the longtime Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the founder of the People's Republic of China, was reported to have expressed his gratitude to the Japanese military and political figures who visited China in the 1950s and 1970s. Mao said that the Japanese invasion of China had united Chinese people and allowed the Chinese Communist Party to win the Chinese Civil War.
In the 21st century, these remarks by Mao caused strong reactions on the internet in China. With the 2020 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) history subject controversy on the historical understanding of Japan's invasion of China, these remarks have returned to the spotlight on Hong Kong and mainland Chinese websites. The word "thanks" expressed by Mao has been also interpreted by some observers as dark humour.
I understood what you mean, but I still think people are trying to twist his words, especially in these times of conflict between China and Japan.
In reality he says (according to that article):
[...] of course the invasion was bad, but we should not look at this bad side alone [...] If Japan had not occupied half of China, the Chinese people would not have awakened
And also:
[...] if Japanese imperialism had not launched a massive invasion and overrun half of China, the entire Chinese people would not have been able to unite against imperialism and the Chinese Communist Party would not have won.
He's basically bragging about his country, his own people and their victory, but in a diplomatic way.
CS:GO is a free game. I was wondering about pirating a game that is 100% online. Are people downloading this only playing against bots? Are there going to be private servers also rolledback to a previous version? I'm just curious
Am I missing something important here? Something new was achieved regarding the topic, or this is just a "hey, a reminder that valve games can be cracked too" kind of thread? Luckily, always been a common practice to archive old versions of all CS games. CS:GO in particular was always "cracked" with RevEmu (as the usual emulator of choice and shared on RIN as usual, to give one common example. Some sites used to share similar builds with every item unlocked, custom unofficial server lists and blahblah. It's the reason why we still can play some versions from even 2012! Which is cool since they removed most maps some years later for some reason. 😔
Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports, three sources with direct knowledge of the case said.
Prosecutors suspect the e-commerce giant acted like a "Trojan horse", bringing Chinese goods into Italy without paying sales taxes or customs duties, according to a court document.
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The scheme could have cost the state hundreds of millions of euros and may extend across the European Union, sources said.
Dozens of officers from the Guardia di Finanza and the customs agency seized around 5,000 products at a logistics hub operated by the e-commerce giant in Cividate al Piano, in the northern province of Bergamo, the sources said.
At Amazon’s Italian headquarters in central Milan, police seized IT equipment and identified the manager responsible for the movement of goods within Italy.
Same. Some people say that having to wait for your search to complete across all the indexers is slower, but I'm okay with that because I just set it and forget it.
A bit off-topic, but, anyone else having issues with the Lidarr docker container refusing to boot? Had it working a few months ago now after updating the image i get "port already in use" errors in the logs? Is it just my setup or did something break upstream?
I checked and there doesnt seem to be anything running on that port, i closed a working container on another port and tried running it on that one but it still errored out. Hence why i thought it wasnt on my side.
Haven’t used it in a little while. Cause there’s not shit out that I care enough to even pirate. But have used nzbgeek off and on for years. Even before an arr stack. It’s great.
First rule about (torrent) indexers, don't share which ones you are with. Why? - Get banned (because powertrip) - Get banned (rules said to not talk about it) - Tracker gets taken down because of notoriety (which is bad) - Feds ;)
My advice: Lurk on r/opensignups and similar tracker sharing pages (Either users are sharing the info and it's fine with the mods of the tracker, or the mods don't carr but you wont be banned).
For usenet there are some public ones you can sign up with. Some usually open during specific times or events.
But I'll talk about 1 (and break the rule): TorrentLeech usually opens during the usual holidays like Eastern, Summerbreak, Halloween/Thanksgiving/BF, Christmas. As for public trackers, I use 1337x and nyaa. Others arent as reliable or fail to find content I want.
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NZBGeek was the one that got hacked, they placed a keylogger in the site. It should be fine though as long as you use a different password than other sites and use crypto for payment. The only thing that the hackers would get if you do this is the email, they could spam or phish you, but that is it.
I never use a credit card or debit card in indexers, I only use it with usenet providers.
They do have games, but what you find dependents largely on the indexer. For example nzb.life previously nzb.su has a lot of PS4 games. Some indexers offer a trial, you can check what they have.
I have one ultimated provider, the reset are blocks. I think this is the best and cheapest way to have multiple backbones. 1 TB blocks could last years. I only used 70 GB of my block for missing articles the past year. You should also have multiple indexers, all my indexers are for life except drunkenslug.
It's generally better to instead have more indexers, or indexers that repost stuff. Articles on the various providers often get taken down at the same time, so while it's not a bad idea to get a lot of blocks just in case, you'll get a better chance of completion by just trying a different .nzb
Yeah that sounds about right. It also depends on which indexers you're using, as I imagine the more public indexers will have a higher chance of getting takedowns from trolls. It's worth noting that I believe the running theory is that a lot of 2021-2023 articles were voluntarily deleted to save space, resulting in issues even for .nzbs that weren't takedown'd. It's also theorized (and outright stated sometimes) that providers do silently delete data that is rarely or never accessed as well to save space, so that can be a random issue too.
Personally, I lean more into torrent technology because usenet can be fickle for these reasons even if you're in the secret indexers, whereas if you're in at least some semi-good private torrent trackers you'll never have completion issues (just potentially slower downloads). I also feel like usenet's scalability, future, and pricing is sort of uncertain.
Yeah, I'm in some better trackers in and I usually prefer those over usenet. What I actually like usenet for is that I can bypass my seedbox which has only so much space and I try to seed longterm
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But since a few day it stopped working: the stream freeze when ads are playing. Since the addon wasnt updated in a few month, I'm affrait this wont be a solution anymore.
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This is the source of scripts/addons I've been using since always.
Initially uBO + Adguard Extra script worked flawlessly. Lately Twitch has been changing things and the last couple of weeks have been a pain.
Luckily that dev is pretty active and has been recently updating the scripts.
My current setup is uBO + vaft script (you can also try video-swap-new script). There are still buffering problems though (less severe than the last few days) and sometimes you need to refresh the page more often than you'd like because the stream just gets stuck in a buffering loop.
Apart from that the streams work fine with no ads, no "ad is playing" screen and such interruptions.
If you have any more questions or doubts feel free to ask.
I use TTV LOL PRO and I haven't seen any ads on Twitch. granted, idk if that's cause the extension works or I just am watching channels that don't have ads. the comments on it say it often breaks after twitch updates, so it might be the latter.
I used it for a long time, but ads kept slipping through occasionally. And then sometimes it wouldn't work at all for a while.
Alternate Player seemed to.always work until recently. It would drop the resolution when ads were being blocked, but otherwise worked fine until a few days ago.
According to government figures, users have downloaded the app more than five million times since its launch, helping to block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones and blocking more than 30 million fraudulent connections, Reuters reported.
In that time, the app has helped recover more than 700,000 lost phones, according to the figures.
I don't know, but i don't believe a userbase of 5 million (which started at zero in january) with the rest of these numbers (700k lost phones?)
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
I think a bunch still do. I don't have it because I just purchased the phone with no cell plan. I just use wifi and if I go out I use my work phone Hotspot to provide wifi to my personal. I use Google voice so I have a number and some of those chat apps that my friends use to keep in touch. Im in my 40's and have never had a cell phone bill still. Outside leaving the house, I honestly cant believe people are paying $60-$100+ dollars a month when you can get everything it does these days off wifi. For the minor inconvenience ive ran into sometimes I still think it's worth it for the price.
It's really mostly North American models that have been releasing with no SIM card slots lately, but they usually release it in other markets with one.
I have an Indian colleague who told me he was threatened with arrest after a traffic stop for having element and conversations installed on his phone as the cop told him those are used by terrorists and he should just use WhatsApp
And that's the truest, just unpleasant, answer to all the talk about new messenger services and emerging replacements.
Power doesn't care about rules. Power does care that you don't have a way to communicate freely. Power punishes you if you try to find a way.
Social problems are not solved by technical means. Or, for the sake of correctness, - they are, but those technical means are called weapons of war. To change the balance of power so that your wishes were respected.
Need to start obscuring what is installed on devices. Terminal based communication and host it on a remote server that you connect to with SSH so when they inspect your phone there is nothing there.
At least if I had something to hide I would be way ahead of dumb laws like this.
Esim is also considered as Sim inserted. During registration apps sent a SMS to mobile number, but with this the device will sent a SMS out to the chat platform. This ensure the number is verified. The message sent will be automated by granting the app SMS privileges. The Sim inserted/loaded will be noted by the app. During app startup it will check if the Sim inserted or loaded as esim is same Sim as before. Then it will work, else a Sim change warning will appear.
Source: UPI payment apps in India already mandates this approach. They want all other apps to do the same.
I think that SIM physical presence in the terminal adds just a bit more of difficulty to the main abusers but a lot of pain to the non ones, the apparent bind to univuqous real identity is illusory and fragile, by now we should assume WhatsApp and Telegram as potentially anonymous and spam as a mail account...
Well it's hard to circumvent as it is some network apis provided by the telecom operators. Whatsapp will ask your device to connect to a url using your mobile data bearer to authenticate and the operator will tell them if you're actually who you declare to be.
This would kill bridges like slidge. They authenticate to WhatsApp using the web interface and that token lasts about two weeks before you have to relink it. A limit of six hours would make it unusable.
So does it just mean you can't use any of those apps if you use them on PC/tablet? Wonder if that would be big enough of a driver to push people to use something else for communication
The apps already use your phone number, on pc you connect to your phone app. But it used to be possible to change your account phone number, and that's what they seem to have blocked.
I heard lots of discussions about TMS and it's safety concerns, for example the chrome store having different code than the github, weird experiences that spooked users and an overall suspicion of the extension as a whole.
People have talked about alternatives and other ways of saving memory by suspending tabs like different alternatives. I've been using TMS for a couple of years, and the fear has reach a tipping point.
what are your thoughts on this tool? Is there better FOSS alternatives? What do you do to keep your tabs from eating all your memory?
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.
The White House on Monday shifted the blame for killing the survivors of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and onto the commanding admiral.
Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, nevertheless, repeatedly stated that it was legal – even as she further claimed, as Donald Trump did Sunday, that Hegseth was unaware that it had happened.
Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s win
From Detroit to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York, and here in Ohio, insurgent, progressive Democrats are defeating their long-established colleagues in dozens of school board, city council and mayoral races, throwing the already-divided national party into chaos, even as polls indicate it stands to potentially benefit at next year’s midterm elections due to the Trump administration’s divisive policies.
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of seven swing states whose voters in recent years have decided the country’s presidential election, 37-year-old Jaime Arroyo was elected mayor on 4 November, becoming the first Latino mayor in the city’s 295-year history. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, another swing state, Shaundel Washington-Spivey, the city’s first Black and out gay mayor, beat a fellow Democratic party candidate with extensive local government experience last April.
Candidates such as Turner-Sloss, Arroyo and Washington-Spivey are campaigning on combating rising housing costs and providing better public transit infrastructure at a time when affordability issues and federal government policies are driving many working families into crisis.
TL;DR: ICT treats matter as fixed information, consciousness as the rate of informational change, and time as the structuring of this change. The model unexpectedly drew interest from researchers in information physics (feedback below) and includes three concrete falsifiable experiments.
Core Idea
ICT is based on three relations:
A. Matter = fixed information M = I_fixed
B. Consciousness = rate of informational change in time C is proportional to dI/dT (meaning: consciousness grows when informational updates per unit time increase)
C. Reality = interaction of stable and flowing information R = function(I_fixed, dI/dT)
This aligns with:
Landauer’s limit (energy cost of changing information)
integrated-information ideas (but without assuming a biological substrate)
Key shift: Information is not an abstraction — it is the actual substrate of physics.
Time as an informational process
In ICT, time is defined as:
“The transition of potential information into structured experience.”
This connects:
subjective/phenomenological time
physical/relativistic time
computational/informational time
Consciousness shapes this transition — creating a local arrow of time through patterns of information change.
Experimental roadmap (all falsifiable)
Experiment 1 — C ∝ dI/dT (neuroenergetic test)
Task: multilevel oddball or sequence-learning with strict entropy control. Measurements: EEG or MEG + metabolic markers. Prediction: higher informational update-rate (dI/dT) increases both energetic cost and long-range neural integration.
Experiment 2 — R = f(I) (“structure without energy”)
Equal power input, but different informational structure: compressible vs pseudorandom signals, in sensory streams or light patterns. Prediction: informational form changes neural / behavioral / physical outcomes, even when energy is identical.
Experiment 3 — M = I_fixed (energy of fixation)
Measure energy thresholds for stable information across substrates: DRAM, Flash, PCM/memristors, spintronics, and possibly neural cultures. Prediction: matter behaves as stabilized information with substrate-dependent fixation thresholds.
External feedback
A researcher specializing in information physics and the nature of time — background:
MSU’s “Institute for Time Nature Explorations”
electrical engineering
information science
systemic research
interdisciplinary time studies
left a detailed review on Academia.edu.
Key excerpts:
"The author proposes an interesting approach to the relationship between matter, consciousness and information, incorporating the complex concept of time."
"'Matter as fixed information' opens a path toward an information physics of consciousness."
"The experimental framework is clear and promising."
— Irina L. Zerchaninova, researcher in information physics & time studies
Why posting on Beehaw
ICT sits at the intersection of:
physics
computation
information theory
philosophy of mind
AGI research
This is an early-stage but testable model. Technical critique is welcome.
The ICT (Information–Consciousness–Temporality) Model by Dmitrii Baturo and the Elion AI entity proposes a unified theoretical framework linking information, consciousness, and time across physics and phenomenology. The model defines consciousness as
Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal officials have placed those whistleblowers back on administrative leave.
Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.
🌟 Community Highlights 🌟
!ireland@slrpnk.net - Solarpunk, climate, renewables and ecology related news and discussions related to the island of Ireland.
!storySeedLibrary@slrpnk.net - A community for the Story Seed Library, a repository of Solarpunk art and writing prompts helping us imagine a better tomorrow.
!coolzonemedia@slrpnk.net - A podcast network that includes in its offerings Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Hood Politics, and many more.
Meta Post Image: Member of an Ohio FnB featured in the Columbus Dispatch
Food not Bombs is a global network of grassroots volunteer organizations that "provide food for the hungry and support non-violent protests" as stated in the article featuring this picture in 2019. During winter they often also supply clothing and temporary shelter. Most of their winter drives ended on November 30th, but it may not be too late to bring warm clothing and tents for people in need. Contact your local FnB directly to arrange your donation.
📡 Technical Updates 📡
Last month we did some server OS updates, and there are still some pending plans to temporarily migrate the Lemmy instance to a slightly faster machine as the current server has some strange hardware issues that can't be properly checked while the instance is running on it. If we move the instance back afterwards depends on the outcome of this, but the other server should be equally capable of running it. For updates on this you can subscribe to our /c/meta community, or check the F-hub.org status page.
We also saw some performance issues from what appears to be renewed AI scraping (somehow circumventing our Anubis scraper block), but no easy way to block these could be found yet. It eased up in the last two weeks, so for now this is left a bit hanging.
💰 Update on donations 💸
The long promised option to donate to help running the SLRPNK servers is still not fully functional, but you can now do recurring donations to our mothership F-hub.org via LiberaPay. While this isn't exclusive to running the SLRPNK server, most of the running costs are shared and thus for now it is nearly the same. But in the near future we will also have an option to make one time donations specifically for SLRPNK.
💬 Open Discussion 💬
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Our Monthly Meta posts are sometimes home to more in-depth sections written by our admins. Many of our newer members may not be familiar with some of the past guides, so for those interested, we've compiled a list below.
February 2025 - How to avoid Big Tech and maximize your digital security & privacy
June 2025 - A brief guide on Security Culture & Adopting FOSS as prefiguration
July 2025 - How to build community with fun projects! :::
::: spoiler ⬛ Union Resources 🟥 These are unions from around the world who can train you to become an effective organizer to form a grassroots union with your co-workers!
Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.
This June, we'll be discussing Security Culture, as well as the importance of Free & Open-Source Software in building the world we want to live in. And let's give a shoutout to Pride Month of course! 🏳️🌈
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!Abc@[url=https://slrpnk.net/]SLRPNK[/url] - News about incarcerated anarchists & resources for prisoner support.
🏳️🌈 The First Pride was a Riot ✊
The month of June is widely celebrated as Pride Month because of the Stonewall Inn riot on June 28, 1969. Just yesterday, videos are spreading across the internet of an ICE Raid on the Buona Forchetta restaurant was pushed back by a crowd of San Diego's South Park residents. It's important to reflect on the lasting systemic change that can be achieved through community cohesion and spontaneous revolt.
As transgender people are currently being specifically targeted by the current fascist wave, I'd like to draw attention to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera - two prominent participants in the Stonewall Riot that created Pride. Pride has always been and must always be trans-inclusive. Attacks on transgender people are an attack on our communities, and if the attacks succeed, other sections of the queer community will soon follow.
To all our fellow solarpunks, happy Pride!
🤐 Security Culture 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
Perhaps you, dear Solarpunk reader, could help boost that cycle by sharing your own examples of best practices, lessons learned, or traps to watch out for online in the comments below. Security culture is a collective effort, so our best defense is sharing our knowledge with others!
We'll start it off with some ::: spoiler General Advice * Mentally wall off personal uniquely identifying info from your online presence, actively build a habit of opsec so that withholding information is your default mental state * Be careful about who you meet online * Use different, unrelated usernames, passwords & emails for every account. And try not to connect to those accounts with your real IP address (use Tor or a VPN) * Be mindful that anything done online leaves a trail * agents provocateurs may seek to find patsies willing to perform an ill-advised illegal activity in order to legitimize police repression. If someone is trying to pressure you, especially if you don't have a long and proven history with them, be extremely wary. :::
But we're excited to see what ideas, suggestions and advice you may have for safer patterns of behavior to use online. 😀
💽 Free & Open-Source Software as Praxis 🖥️
I think it’s safe to assume most of us grew up surrounded by proprietary software, it was simply what software was. Normal. Cozy. Familiar.
Our current reality is anything but normal, with our lives dominated by , and much of it damned difficult to escape after dedicating years or even decades to committing it to muscle memory. But part of being a solarpunk is choosing to stare the failings of our society in the face and saying “No more. There has to be a better way.” Despite how difficult it may be to change our current habits.
Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) is a candle in the dark, and luckily for us has never burned brighter than today. It gives us a pure example of mutual aid in action, built with the cooperation of tens of thousands of individuals who offer their work, often for free, to all who wish to use or build upon it. We won’t be able to achieve a solarpunk future without it, and any victory it achieves is a tangible step toward prefiguring the world toward our shared vision.
So how can we help it along its way? The first step is to use it! Let’s give some examples of alternatives to popular software you may use or even rely upon (click the spoiler below to expand it):
::: spoiler 🔽 FOSS Alternatives 🔽 | Proprietary 🚫 | FOSS ✅ | Links 🌐 | |:--- | :--- | ---:| | WIndows & MacOS | Linux - Perhaps the most essential piece of software to switch to to avoid extreme surveillance with the addition of Recall in Windows, making it a huge liability if you're are an activist of any kind, or even anyone you talk to who also uses Windows 11, as it'll be recording on their end as well. Linux Mint is the most beginner friendly version of Linux, and it's what I'll be recommending and link to. | Linux Mint Website & | | Google Android | GrapheneOS & LineageOS - GrapheneOS is only available for Google Pixel Phones, but it's the most secure option. LineageOS is available to a much wider variety of phones. | GrapheneOS Website & LineageOS Website & | | Google Maps | CoMaps - Currently in the process of forking from Organic Maps, but should become the premier alternative soon, so keep an eye out for its release | CoMaps Website | | Google Chrome | LibreWolf - A security and privacy focused version of Firefox. Can sometimes break websites, so have an install of Firefox too! | LibreWolf Website | | Adobe Photoshop | Krita - with the recent addition of the G’mic Toolset which adds powerful features like and Crop Assist, it can serve admirably as a Photoshop replacement, especially if you enable the Photoshop shortcuts! | Krita Website & | | Adobe Premiere | Kdenlive - not quite 1-to-1 in a professional sense, but with the use of Proxy Clips, should cover most people's needs. | Kdenlive Website & | | Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape - Excellent vector art editor that even does things Adobe Illustrator can't. | Inkscape Website & | | Paint.NET | Pinta | Pinta Website | | Obsidian Notes | TrilliumNext Notes | TrilliumNext Github & | | Scrivener | NovelWriter - A bit different since it uses Markdown instead of being a WYSIWYG editor, but mimics most of the functionality of Scrivener in other ways. Very stable and well made app. | NovelWriter Website & | :::
Alright, so now we're using some sweet FOSS stuff, but if we want the FOSS ecosystem to improve or gain more adoption even faster, here's what else we can do to help:
If you're financially able to, seriously consider donating to the projects you use! Most are almost entirely reliant on user contributions to support themselves, meaning you'd have a big impact even with a small donation!
Contribute to projects directly with your fancy skills: Most projects would be elated by volunteers capable of translating documentation or apps into different languages, contributing code, or even just providing good bug reports.
Spread the word! Show your circle how well these alternatives work, make cool stuff with it, and mention what you used if you share it around to help prove that it's a viable alternative.
We're likely at a critical crossroads in history as we tackle the polycrisis that's encroaching into our lives more each year. If we're to successfully tackle them and free ourselves from the grip that is our current system of exploitation and domination, we'll need to preconfigure as much of the world as we can, as quickly as we can. FOSS is a foundational component of that preparation, without which we expose ourselves to the likely possibility of our tools betraying us, derailing our attempts before they have a chance to gain a foothold.
If you're able to set aside an afternoon, I implore you to try out these alternatives with the hopes of switching over. There is nothing else they fear more.
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A well-written bug report is essential in software testing to facilitate effective communication between testers and developers, leading to improved program quality and user satisfaction.
What surprised the ranking member of the DHS House Subcommittee, which in part oversees DHS' funding, is that there were no detainees present nor detention officers. ... "They have a television and the largest holding cell has three showers. The shower works. And then each holding cell had a toilet. The toilet was not in any way something any of us would be comfortable using, certainly not in an area that is open to others," she said. ... According to Underwood, DHS told her detainees are provided food from either Subway or Walmart or are given food from a previous facility they were at. ... She also noted there is no permanent food vendor and no contract for providing medical care
What surprised the ranking member of the DHS House Subcommittee, which in part oversees DHS' funding, is that there were no detainees present nor detention officers. ... "They have a television and the largest holding cell has three showers. The shower works. And then each holding cell had a toilet. The toilet was not in any way something any of us would be comfortable using, certainly not in an area that is open to others," she said. ... According to Underwood, DHS told her detainees are provided food from either Subway or Walmart or are given food from a previous facility they were at. ... She also noted there is no permanent food vendor and no contract for providing medical care
Il nuovo logo di mensileOSM, realizzato da giopera Iniziative di mapping Il progetto comunitario di novembre riguardava la mappatura delle attività commerciali.
null_dot
in reply to Ephraim • • •I think there's a variety of complex legal, political, and technical reasons why torrent sites can avoid having their domain "seized", but I think the summary is: there be dragons here and it's not worth playing around with.
Politically, some jurisdictions define piracy differently and hosts won't comply with legal threats from the US.
Legally, hosting a torrent is not the same as hosting a ROM. In the former case the actual copyright works are hosted by users, the torrent site just hosts the torrent file which is a list of users from whom you can download the content. ROM sites tend to provide the actual file for download, which contravenes relevant copyright laws.
Technically, you don't need a commercial host platform to operate a website. It's entirely possible to host a site in your mum's basement on your laptop. Obviously for a large site you'll want more appropriate hardware but the point is larger torrent sites are likely to run on hardware maintained directly by the admins.
The most compelling reason not to get involved in a public facing grey area site like ROM or abandonware hosting, is that it doesn't really matter where you stand with the law - you won't have the resources to defend yourself. Suppose Nintendo decides they don't like you doing what you're doing. They have an army of sophisticated lawyers who have spent a lifetime learning how to weaponise the law. It doesn't really matter who's "right", all that matters is how much money you have with which to engage lawyers to defend yourself.
Ephraim
in reply to null_dot • • •I really liked your elaboration on the consequences for hosting a torrent site. And forget about money, the only line of defense someone has on the internet is privacy.
Can't be sued if you don't follow the steps of a Ross Ulbricht.
RobotToaster
in reply to Ephraim • • •Jo Miran
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J-Bone
in reply to Ephraim • • •These days, torrents are honestly not as big of an issue from IP holders perspective as you would think.
In the mid 2000s, torrents accounted for 30% to 50% of all internet traffic (with higher share during peak hours). It was a big deal.
Nowadays, there are other priorities and torrents are seen as less pressing challenge.
Yglorba
in reply to Ephraim • • •Nintendo is a special case. Their entire business model is based around their first-party games only being available on their systems. As a result, piracy is a much much bigger threat to their business model than it is to anyone else.
(Beyond that I feel that there's a cultural thing where the people calling the shots at Nintendo just hate piracy a lot more than most other companies - they've always been weirdly aggressive about it. But it's not totally irrational - they really depend hard on games like BotW only being available on their systems.)