Yoshii

Yoshii wrote

Yep, they pack some of the more recent releases with adware and DRM, making the game not launch if you delete their readme's and such. They forced an absolutely great source and competitor to close, and then they package scummy shit like that into their newer "releases", which are actually just rips from other sources that are repacked with their trash.

Avoid unless you know what you're doing, and even then, be extremely cautious.

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Yoshii wrote

See, this shit should be 100% illegal. You significantly violate the grounds of the court order, you harass and attempt to break into the guy's place, you seize the guy's equipment and demand personal information without <supposedly> declaring search and seizure ability, you crack his hardware <brutally ironic> and then use the credentials you forced him to give in order to shut down his site and social media.

For fuck sake, this is straight Gestappo or FSB; the fact that they've gotten away with this much almost certainly spells his doom in getting anywhere with the case.

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Yoshii wrote (edited )

They've been compromised for a while, and this shows how much interest they were losing in the project anyways. What, you've never heard of hosting an APK? You've never heard of social promotion? Word of mouth, that doesn't ring a bell? There are 1001 ways around this, but because it wasn't made piss-easy for them, they quit. So yeah, they were losing the will to see this project through. It's not too much of a loss.

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Yoshii wrote

Yes, and there are several reasons why, not limited to:

--Easier and quicker to do without any bullshit hoops to jump through.

--You actually own a copy of it and get something for your effort.

--No paying to listen to the same library of music on a monthly basis for the sole purpose of greed.

--Musicians get a relatively small cut of the full profit; unless they become popular or mainstream, they will have enough to live and that's about it.

Summary: fuck the greedy assholes and the idiots that advocate them, download the music, then donate what you can directly to the musicians that you like and support. Seriously, if some of these artists could gather enough of a following to go independent, the fans would support them.

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Yoshii wrote

Yes, ISP's are still doing it, just like how throttling was supposed to be illegal since '16. ISP's do not have to play by the rules, and it's only with mass public outcry that anything is done or attempted. This is proven true when you use compromised services such as Free Download Manager or Vuze to torrent anything, as you are forced to seed and therefore give yourself away.

The best advice that I can give you would be to look up the right servers in the OpenNIC project or similar DNS solutions that have null monitoring protocols. If you have the money, invest in a VPN solution using one of the discount links on countless YouTube channels. Provide only fake info when using services, especially popular ones that you may use directly or indirectly when downloading. If you insist on torrenting, using private trackers is required now. It wasn't necessary before, but now they look out for any torrenting traffic at all to dissect. Finding direct download sites is another priority since you can easily obfuscate anything sketchy or potentially incriminating using a variety of methods and tools.

'Piracy' (still a fucking stupid term) has become more difficult thanks to extended monitoring, crawling, and ferocity of companies abusing things like DMCA. However, if you know a couple people online, you can probably find new sources to investigate.

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Yoshii wrote

Yep. Thanks to certain applications I can rip and encode entire albums inside of eight minutes. People bitch about music sharing sites when I can listen to almost anything from YouTube. When combined with fascist and totalitarian systems that propose destroying free use, it's ironic and hypocritical yet sad. Because of this, music will soon be strictly monitored and any unauthorized distribution will be criminal.

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Yoshii wrote

I try not to, but I end up doing so most of the time. Movies, music, and games tend to be not up to my standards so I demo them and delete them, only costing me time and bandwidth. When I actually like something I will buy it when I have the spare cash. I absolutely love the feel of physical books, so I try to buy those but generally hold off because of how expensive they are.

In a world where the majority is impoverished, saving money on overpriced media mediums (fun wordplay) is kind of necessary.

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Yoshii wrote

While I like and endorse the idea, it's bad in "first world" countries, especially the UK and North America. ISP's generally have a clause in their contract that explicitly bans distribution, paid or free, to other households or as a public access point. On top of that, there's generally a lot more interference and pollution in said countries alongside technicalities such as private land , both of which can complicate things depending on where you live. There are probably loopholes that you could exploit or create, but that depends on your creativity.

As far as simplicity, it really is that simple. Set up two dishes and create a direct link. The biggest issue is getting the hardware and creating a stable connection in terms of alignment. It's otherwise a great method of granting a more fair method of internet access for people that live in rural or poverty-stricken areas. With evolving tech, you can even get a solid gigabit connection depending on how much you spend. You can check multiple channels and videos, including a video on LinusTechTips that demonstrated a long-range approach.

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