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Fhek, do piracy w What are the best alternatives to The Pirate Bay in 2023?

Whatever is in the megathread.

DieterParker, do piracy w Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive?
@DieterParker@feddit.de avatar

I was of the impression that the ia doesn’t delete, but instead puts files in quarantine until copyright runs out. Else they’d have to digitize it again later.

Apollo2323, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Blocking ads its not piracy.

theKalash, (edited )

I think it’s a qoute from some sitcome, I don’t remember where I heard it. But it’s “Not watching the ads is like stealing TV!”. And it’s about just changing the channel during an ad break. It’s clearly a joke, too. But maybe some people actually believe that.

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

It's quoting Linus Tech Tips. And he's being mostly genuine about it.

Blxter, do piracy w Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?
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They have really put me off recently often even with adblocker ads show up on the page.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Read my other comment. Clear ublock origin cache and re update lists.

Blxter,
!deleted4407 avatar

That worked thanks.

Apollo2323, do piracy w What are the best alternatives to The Pirate Bay in 2023?

fmhy.net

people_are_cute, do piracy w Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive?
@people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Honestly, for Sci-hub I think it’s just that Elbakyan got tired of maintaining and updating it constantly. That “waiting for court results” part was just an excuse, just because Indian law enforcement is too unequipped to go after pirates doesn’t mean the country magically became lax on IP law. There was no good chance she could’ve won the dismissal plea.

wutBEE, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

Man, I’d prefer to have this account on my Xbox account but it won’t let me migrate since I have a different Minecraft account there already. Wish it would just let me throw that one away and link this one in.

lazycouchpotato,
@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world avatar

You will have to request Minecraft Support to delete that existing Java Edition profile from your Microsoft account. Once they do so, you can migrate your Java Edition profile to it. I’m assuming their support’s pretty hammered right now, so I’m not sure if they will get back to you in time.

The easiest thing to do would be to choose a different Microsoft account to complete the migration, despite the inconvenience it might cause later on.

Migrate it to your child’s/spouse’s Microsoft account if you have one. If you’re feeling extremely generous, migrate to a friend’s Microsoft account. You can then swap usernames between the accounts at a later date.

Slappula, do piracy w I am looking into setting up a home mediaserver. Any good guides?

I like Unraid for the server operating system. It is a paid product but very easy to use. You can run all of the ‘arr’ apps in docker. The docker installs are done from their Community Apps store.

LiveLM, do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

Since it’s a Linux box, you could try to sandbox your player with Firejail or a Flatpak + Flatseal. Just for a little bit of extra peace of mind.

pre, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?
@pre@fedia.io avatar

@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can't get that then I'd think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

Saganastic,

You don't even need a hacked version. Just use an older version. Besides, Firefox is open source, I'm sure someone would fork off an adblock allowed version.

imgonnatrythis, (edited ) do piracy w Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive?

This is depressing as hell.

Most people have no idea how much sci-hub has advanced medical and basic scientific discovery.

We need things like the archive more than ever now too as the the disease of thinking truth is a maleable substrate continues to spread.

amio, (edited ) do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

There's no such thing as safe safe. While unlikely, even media/data files could contain exploits. They'd need to target specific issues in specific software, but that happens all the time.

WinRAR had a recent high publicity mistake earlier, where a "specially crafted" archive can make executables seem like other files so it's easy to accidentally run them. Big no.

I also recently saw an (old) exploit analysis: some Linux thing got wrecked specifically because of vulnerabilities in a media player/codec - in fact opening the folder was enough to trigger the exploit, which could give someone unrestricted access to your system. Very, very big no.

Back in the day, I think Windows Media Player had some idiotic license download thing that was also used as an attack vector.

Basically: executables are just a slam dunk malware delivery vector. Media files are safer in general but not safe.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever, do games w Controllers with paddles?

I use the 8bitdo

In theory, having a whole new button would be nice. But understand that games are specifically designed around the 18+1 button setup and there is rarely a need for a 19th and a 20th. And if I am going full steam craziness: I tend to prefer modal mappings at that point anyway.

I could see something like a flight sim or an elite game benefiting from ALL THE BUTTONS but… at that point I want the HOTAS form factor. Or we are talking something like the x series where everyone knows the game is meant to be m+kb but we still try to make it work.

SandLight,

That said, I have my 8bitdo grips rebound to be stick buttons, and I have the stick buttons removed.

Even if I don’t get more options, I still get better options.

KazuyaDarklight, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion
@KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the FYI, haven’t played in years but got it merged to my Xbox account with no issues.

Francis_Fujiwara, do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

If it’s for multimedia content, it’s safe, I guess. I have been downloading movies and series from that page for 5 years, and I have never had any security problems.

Xirup, (edited )
@Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Good to know! I know it’s stupid and not at all the case, but I had read about a virus that ran on an old version of Windows when you open a file because Windows needed to compile the file to open it and the exploit took advantage of a vulnerability in that compiler to rescale to admin permissions, and I think about that when downloaded this serie.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You can hide malware in EXIF metadata.
Just let common sense and be always aware of abnormal device behavior.

wildbus8979,

There has also been a number of malwares targeted at codec decoders, VLC was at one time a big target, not sure that is true now a days though

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