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AndyLikesCandy, w Facebook marketplace in my country is wild.

Woah, only USD 12 for a GENUINE fake cracked copy someone first downloaded from a torrent?

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have no idea how the law works in India, but I wonder if a small business could save money by just pointing Adobe at these people when they eventually get a lawsuit threat?

melonlord,

This is nepal actually and everyone uses pirated software, government offices included. Nobody gives a shit here.

Double_A,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I mean, if you are a designer that needs it but doesn’t know how to download and crack stuff, 12$ might be worth that time.

shrugal,

It does say “No Virus” in big letters, so what could go wrong?

boothin, w PSA: AI can help you decode file names

there's an entire wikipedia article for this that makes it super easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

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

Whatever is in the megathread.

BrownianMotion, w Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer”
@BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Release a DEMO, like the old days. So we can DECIDE FOR OURSELVES!!

Its a simple fucking technique. We only pirate to try, if its shit - then fuck you. If its good - then you have a purchase.

Alimentar,

That’s the problem though. They want you to commit to a purchase and hope that you forget about your 2h grace window

isVeryLoud,

You can return games on Steam tbh, enough of a demo for me if you’re a Steam user.

I think you can also return physical copies? Depends.

Cethin,

Two hours really isn’t enough for a lot of games. Some games you can’t even get through the tutorial in two hours.

PosadistInevitablity,
@PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net avatar

I mean I just pirate it and play the pirated version lmfao.

No sense in paying money at that point

vacuumflower,

Actually yes.

In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.

And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.

It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.

exododo, w A way to disable laugh tracks?

But how would you know when something is funny then? (canned laughter)

Draconic_NEO,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You just have to use your judgement and laugh at what you find funny on your own, if you need peer pressure (opinions of others) to find something funny then it’s not really funny to you and maybe isn’t even funny for many people to begin with.

This might be controversial but maybe many Sitcoms that do this were never funny in the first place and used laugh tracks because try as they might they had to force people to find it funny via artificial peer pressure, that either constitutes of a crowd being told to laugh on cue, or a recording of them doing so, which is what a laugh track is.

Here’s the key point and why we stopped using them, things aren’t funny, people think certain things are funny, and they also think plenty of things are not funny, and like it or not people are not always going to find the same things funny.

jameskirk,
@jameskirk@startrek.website avatar

It was a joke, man.

superkret,

I think the response may have been one too, at your expense.

LazerFX,

I always thought it was because the earliest stuff was actually filmed infront of a live audience (Like a theatre) who did laugh, so when switching to non-live-audience stuff, the viewing public would be ‘put off’ by no laughter, so they injected it with canned laughter… then as time went on they realised this was rubbish and stopped it.

But maybe I’m just missing the joke in the previous two comments, I dunno.

Draconic_NEO,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In the earlier days it was like that but as time went on it became a technique known as sweetening to make the joke seem funnier, sometimes they would even use it to fill in silence or dead air since that was frowned upon (I wonder why people said TV rots your brain for the longest time… can’t be related to any of these practices could it?).

The beginning part is essentially saying that if people need laugh-tracks to find things funny they are dry and humor-less, a joke at their expense but also at the same time it’s 100% sincere, a person who can’t find things funny without others lacks a sense of humor.

Kissaki, w [ENDED] Giving away TorrentLeech invites. Not selling or trading, they're just yours
@Kissaki@feddit.de avatar

wiki.torrentleech.org/…/everything_about_invites

Invites are for giving to people you know and trust. Don’t invite random people.

🤔

(I’m not saying it’s good or bad. And I assume you made a conscious decision on it.)

CheekyYoghurts,

thanks for ruining the party 😕

yes, I’m aware. As I said I don’t ‘know and trust’ anyone IRL who would use this, so I’m offering them to people in the community who will hopefully use them responsibly. I’ll coach any of those chosen if they’re unsure and of course point them in the direction of the (very comprehensive) wiki.

ninjan,

Yeah just be careful, Torrentleech has been know to ban the guy inviting people who fail to follow the rules. So maybe do a rule pop quiz or something? Or ask how they plan to build ratio since that isn’t exactly super easy on TL.

CheekyYoghurts,

Don’t know what you’re talking about regarding ratio… TL have by far the most generous freeleech out there. Just grab lots of freeleech and after 10 days your ratio will be high. It’s comical how easy it is to get high ratio on that site.

ninjan,

Sure if you use a seedbox or have a port forward VPN and a good connection. If you have a free VPN without port forward or just a slow connection then you won’t be able to seed much due to everyone finishing their downloads super fast. Then building ratio can be really hard. Either way if you go in there just downloading the movies / games etc you want and leave them on to seed you won’t, generally reach even 0.8 ratio. You need a strategy be that build ratio for days / weeks using the freeleech stuff or set up rss download of torrents for popular shows such that you get in on the seeding action early etc.

Edit: I’ve been a member for 14 years, I’ve seen countless people fail to maintain a good ratio despite trying.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sounds like it’s not the issue of the tracker at all. Just invest in a small seedbox either self hosted or get a proper non-free vpn. Not exactly rocket science…

ninjan,

And I agree, I have multiple TB both ways but if he gives away invites to whomever don’t expect them to have seedboxes / a good torrent VPN etc without asking. It’s hard if you’re the person who only downloads the movies they want to watch and haven’t ever thought about seeding more than leaving the torrent on for a few days. That “works” on RARBG style sites but of course doesn’t work on a tracker like TL which bans permanently and do not give a fuck about your reasons.

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

Huh? It cant be easier. With just a 2TB drive and 2 years I collected 8TB in upload on this tracker alone.
This is one of the easiest if you can seed 24/7

ninjan,

And I’m saying that’s a big if.

Imprint9816,

Pretty much all their big files are free leech. Start with a few popular to build ratio.

Pulp,

One of the easiest to gain ratio on

Kissaki,
@Kissaki@feddit.de avatar

How did I ruin the party? What does that even mean?

deathbird,

He’s not wrong in principle, but I trust me, so add me to the raffle too please.

MattTheTekie, w Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet??

There’s constant fixes for it btw from the ublockorigin team now! :D

ShranTheWaterPoloFan, w How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?

If you think it’s crazy your school uses three year old programs wait until you find out how many businesses are running XP!

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

My school is running Windows XP on many computers. Only this year they finally got rid of 32-bit machines.

WeAreAllOne,

I’ve seen BMS software running on Windows XP since 2008! And I mean they still run.

PixeIOrange, w Can they even track pirated installs ?

All points made in that post are LMAO.

They estimate the installs. Or least thats what remains between they wont track installs and they have a proprietary data model to calculate them.

Enshittification takes its course.

QuarterlySushi,
@QuarterlySushi@kbin.social avatar

rofl seriously? Not only will they charge for the installs, but they won’t even use the actual number of installs - they’ll guess? This is the most hilariously stupid business model I’ve ever heard of

dingleberry,

All this makes a lot more sense with the lens of mobile gaming. Effort required is little, and margins are huge. If players don’t partake in microtransactions, you just bombard them with ads.

This is the future of Unity. They are counting on devs not even bothering with the whole monetization model and instead expect them to turn on IronSource ads.

doom_and_gloom, w Can they even track pirated installs ?
@doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml avatar

Don’t forget, this is a publicly traded company.

All info from them should only be considered PR until verified through strict testing, which is difficult because it is a black box.

Steve, w A way to disable laugh tracks?

After a little while, you’re going to prefer it to the strange pauses in the dialogue.

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

This is going to sound weird I prefer it to the laughing, makes it feel like they’re actually finishing their sentences rather than being cut off by people laughing at random words and seemingly cutting them off. I don’t know about most people but I find seemingly random laughter at benign things to be unpleasant and annoying.

Though maybe in the future as media manipulation with Machine learning gets better maybe we’ll have a way to chop out the gaps seamlessly as if it never happened for the people that find the gaps more bothersome.

By far the most unpleasant thing I find with current implementations is the fact that most aren’t seamless and they leave a lot behind when they can’t mute the whole scene such as when it’s mixed with dialogue or background audio.

downpunxx, w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn't protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN's do

lud, w Now you have to pay to see lyrics on spotify

It does make sense though since Spotify has to pay musixmatch for the service.

wecalledhimmavis,

who crowdsource a heap of their lyrics, paying a pittance to their curators 🙄

lud,

That’s true. But to be fair, I have added one song and synced a few. I didn’t do it because I wanted pay, I did it because I wanted the song’s lyrics to be on Spotify and on the app.

They built a service and people seem to like it, so I don’t mind.

Nakoichi, w Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer”
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

Abolish intellectual property (and private property in general)

anarchrist, (edited )

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.

The sign was painted, said ‘Private Property.’

But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing.

This land was made for you and me.

Trebach, (edited )

And the sign said anybody caught trespassing
Would be shot on sight.
So I jumped over the fence and I yelled at the house,
"Hey, what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out
Or to keep mother nature in?"
If God was here he'd tell you to your face
"Man, you're some kind of sinner!"

SternburgExport, w Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

Doesn’t even surprise me anymore. Rockstar has gone to shit.

Oha,

cant even play their legitly purchased SINGLEPLAYER games without internet connection.
I fucking hate rockstar

Infiltrated_ad8271,
@Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social avatar

Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.

Btw, I feel like telling that I deleted my rockstar account quite a while ago, they asked and re-asked nonsense, waiting from weeks to over a month between email and email, and the worst thing is that sometimes they were in chinese. It took me more than half a year to delete that crap.

glibg10b,

Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.

Pirating the game is a lot easier. The people getting punished are the ones who give Rockstar their money

SternburgExport,

Wait… WHAT?

Oha,
SternburgExport,

I’m already angry enough that they don’t let me spawn certain vehicles in singleplayer but this is too much. Time to get a cracked version and uninstall that Rockstar Launcher crap.

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