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DJDarren, w Ubisoft has quietly pulled Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag from Steam

I saw my wife playing this years ago, and always fancied having a go, but never got around to it.

So a few months back we got it going so it could stream to our Apple TV and off I went. Spent a few weeks playing it in the evenings and having a nice time.

Then Ubisoft put out an ‘update’ to it, that broke it completely. A massive update for a ten year old game. Cunts.

So I guess I’ll never finish it, because fuck Ubisoft.

SaintWacko,

Wait, seriously? I haven’t finished it either! What broke?

GunnarRunnar,

Not really an advocate for piracy but I wouldn't have any qualms about recommending that route to you.

ivanafterall,

It feels very much in the spirit of the game.

ours,

Is it piracy? He owns a license for the game.

Are Ubisoft or Rockstart Games pirates for using scene cracks themselves?

520, (edited )

Is it piracy? He owns a license for the game.

Technically it's not.

They don't even need a new copy of the game, just the cracked .exe file.

Are Ubisoft or Rockstart Games pirates for using scene cracks themselves?

Arguably so, as they did not get the scene group's permission to redistribute their works.

Draedron,

Just pirate it

Psythik,

I wouldn’t stress it; you didn’t miss much. Like every modern Ubisoft title, the game was very repetitive. You had enough playtime to see everything the game had to offer.

beta_tester, w Is anyone else getting this message from PDFDrive?

Irrelated to privacy

Xirup,

Piracy you mean?

GamesRevolution, w Whats your preferred codec?
@GamesRevolution@programming.dev avatar

I really love AV1, it’s very small in file size and it’s completely free, meaning that it should play anywhere were it was implemented

hyper,

Are there scene releases that are encoded in AV1?

ruben,
@ruben@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There are a moderate amount of tightly connected releasers who encode and release AV1. Just add av1 to any search on 1337x and you can find them.

kaya,
@kaya@eviltoast.org avatar

Wish AV1 was more widely used, better licensing than x265 while same compression afaik

LufyCZ,

It’s open, so no licensing.

Also, compression-wise, it’s either equal or better from what I’ve seen

VexTux, w Lucky patcher guides?

Is lucky patcher safe? I don’t feel safe allowing root permission on closed source software

LufyCZ,

Nice thing is, you don’t have to. It’ll still patch the apk for you, it just won’t install it (having root allows it to overwrite the current app, allowing you to keep your data)

Apollo2323, w How do the Debrid services get away from copyright?

This is what I found from a Reddit comment: Debrid services literally are just like if you downloaded from the share website directly, as if you had signed up for an account with them. And/or the debrid service downloads the torrent on their server, and you stream from it.

This is already protecting you from any potential legal issue.

Some people may get warnings/potential legal trouble for torrenting directly, but this is only because when using torrent you also become a hoster of the content yourself. This doesn’t happen with these.

janguv,

Think you’ve missed the point a bit of OP’s comment. They’re asking not how the end-user is protected from copyright claims, but how the debrid service itself is.

Apollo2323,

Yes you are right lol well I hope it was helpful from somebody else.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I guess it would, aside speed, this is another big reason for some users to get it, as a third world country person I couldn’t care less about torrenting, nor data caps now that I remember 🤣

Apollo2323,

Lucky you :)

be_excellent_to_each_other, w Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

Ah Sony Music is involved.

Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples' computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers' computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

sab,
@sab@kbin.social avatar

I can't believe I hadn't heard of this.

Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed.

And then they just paid some settlements, recalled some CDs, and continued to operate as if nothing has happened. Bloody hell.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

I remembered there was a Part II to the story that made it even worse, but did not remember those details. Should have read my own link! Thanks for highlighting that because it truly is the icing on the cake.

SIGSEGV,

Yup, I got rootkitted by those fuckers just installing their bullshit software for my mini-disc player.

ADHDefy, w Stream any torrent in sync with your friends
@ADHDefy@kbin.social avatar

Hmm, I wonder if this could be aadapted to a Stremio plugin.

Jacoolh,

I was just about to ask this.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Check this

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Don’t we already have Peario?

ADHDefy,
@ADHDefy@kbin.social avatar

I didn't know that we did, but yes, apparently! lol :O

That is awesome.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I have not been able to check it out myself, so if you do please share the experience :D

pcjones, w [HELP] Setting up a Jellyfin server with different (remote) storage servers

I also use a Hetzner Storagebox for my Jellyfin instance, I mount it via SMB. Works great.

Pulp, w How do the Debrid services get away from copyright?

I assume they still handle DMCA notices. So nothing wrong legally

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

What do you mean by “handle”?

Apollo2323,

So since Real Debris just like YouTube its a legal service , if you upload a movie to YouTube and a company send them a notice to take down that movie , YouTube will take it takedown and company happy :) the same is with Real Debrid.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

But man, the scale should be way lesser then, I mean, that have never impacted me to watch stuff, either if it is old or new content.

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

To be fair, Spotify is unsuable without premium.

Kir, (edited )
@Kir@feddit.it avatar

Spotify is unusable without premium Xmanager

JCreazy,

Is what someone would say if they didn’t know any better.

MaggiWuerze,

Using Spotify without premium, as Spotify offers it, is unusable. There might be other options than paying, but the vanilla Spotify experience is horrendous

JCreazy,

That’s fair

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

spotify-premium-apk for the mobile devices, soulseek for the desktop.

Madbrad200,

Xmanager > random spotify premium apk

JokeDeity,

Just installed via xManager after your comment and now I can’t log in…

Madbrad200,

Join their discord, it’s helpful. I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t let you login, shame because it really is the best ATM.

gc_, w Stream any torrent in sync with your friends

Could anyone tell me about how torrent streaming works? Is it just the file being downloaded to a server and streamed to a bunch of viewers, or something else?

Spacellary, (edited )

I use WebTorrent / WebTorrent-CLI and it basically streams/partially downloads the torrent and plays in your player of choice.

Not sure about this other option here.

technomage1, (edited ) w Android Game Popup Ads

I’ve been using nextdns.io with great success. It let’s you customise your settings and gives you a personal URL to paste into your private DNS

7Sea_Sailor, (edited ) w [HELP] Setting up a Jellyfin server with different (remote) storage servers

Why go all this way to build this stack on German hardware under the constant risk of being found out by copyright holders and being fined hundreds if not thousands of euros - when you could just get a seedbox that’s automatically configured for exactly this purpose and can run all the apps you need? Look at ultra.cc for example, they just work, don’t cost a lot of money and don’t annoy you with DMCA notices. And if you dislike their price or anything else, there’s limitless options out there.

retiolus,
@retiolus@lemmy.cat avatar

Hi, why ultra.cc? And why don’t they cause DMCA issues?

7Sea_Sailor,

Ultra is what I personally have been using for a while now without a single problem. But as I already said, there are plenty of other hosters with the same featureset, though I cannot make specific recommendations - but the seedboxes community on reddit may.

Regarding the DMCA, usually these hosters base their operations out of countries with lax or nonexistant copyright laws, allowing them to simply disregard incoming takedown notices. In Ultra’s case, they claim to forward copyright notices to the respective server owner, but I have yet to receive a single notice. Though I’m also exclusively on private trackers, maybe thats a reason too.

ShortN0te,

How should they even know? How should they prove that you are in posession of that data? Yes Hetzer most likely has to respond to reports but again how should the rights holder find out? Just because they find a jellyfin server in the wild? Even if the site is not SSL protected they are not Man in the Middle the traffic.

freeman, w Ubisoft has quietly pulled Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag from Steam

Interestingly the game is downloading for me. I have had it in my library for some time now.

Is it saying its been pulled for new sales only?

https://lemmy.pub/pictrs/image/274830cb-8072-442e-891b-5e86b7880b99.png

apprehensively_human,

Pulling a game from the steam store does not stop people from downloading it if already in their library.

freeman,

Ah. That makes sense.

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