Same. I’m looking around at the KBin instance and it’s in bad shape, some of the communities are in. The admin is MIA due to IRL issues with health so he can’t be around to help. Moderators are abandoning already weakened communities that are now stuffed with bots and spam content.

The only real lively community is over in Lemmy’s instances. But, the Fediverse still yet has a long ways to go, it needs more maturity as an alternative and needs more time to gather membership that’ll hopefully be comparable to reddit’s but not in quantity but quality.

looks at RES in hopes they have much longer

Which they most likely will, just won’t say anything.

Google search needs to just branch itself off into several micro-search engines. It is useless as a general purpose search engine.

Again, try searching ‘skillet’ and you’ll get more results on the band with the name than the pan itself. Make a media-based micro search engine where it’s nothing but music, movies, shows .etc

But as big as Google is, they won’t do it.

NO! I’ve got something better!

We make the ads guilt you into using ad blockers! Then we pepper your active streaming with ADs every 30 seconds! YOU WILL BUY! YOU WILL CONSOOME!

Probably has a future? It’s already here.

I understand that things don’t last forever. But and it sounds selfish to say and maybe people might agree, I’d like for these things to last as long as I’m alive to view them whenever I please.

Though I’m really sick of this god damn hot potato shit with the content that’s spread across several streaming platforms. As well as unstable services. “Oh, we’ve shut this down, fuck your purchases” “Oh, we couldn’t sustain this platform, go elsewhere”.

It means a lot to the customer. Doesn’t mean dick to these services.

Steam really did try with the movies idea, it didn’t last too long though. Licensing is a bitch to maintain.

Curious, I checked out Chris Dodd and wonder what he’s up to. He’s a close advisor now to Biden so I’d imagine he’s whispering in Biden’s ear and whoever will listen, about how much of piracy is ‘bad for ya’. In case anyone forgot, Chris Dodd was a major asshole during his 6 year stint (2011 - 2017) with MPAA and he ultimately failed in stopping piracy.

I don’t think this latest tactic will work. Congress couldn’t even understand Facebook and they couldn’t even hold Mark Zuckerberg of all people, accountable for his shit. Congress, MPAA and all the forces in the world couldn’t stop Kim Dotcom. MPAA, ACE and whatever, still cannot shut down The Pirate Bay.

They’ll just keep bashing their heads on the brick wall. The only victories they’ve gotten in all of the 20+ year decade war on piracy, is that most times, the sites go down because of lack of funding and support. They only take down big sites because they’ve found weak links or they’ve found those run-a-mouth pirates who’ve gotta go around talking shit about pirating to the point where they’re a liability then wonder why their favorite service/site is shut down.

Riiiiiight, Linux community is friendlier. I wouldn’t really call them that, though some aspects are. My problem still with the entirety of the Linux community that will always put me off about Linux and rather tolerate Windows more is the elitism. I have used Linux OSes before, I have my fair share of favorites and I see Linux as a go-to whenever I pick up computers too old to bother with Windows 10 and 11 and I just simply want a bare basics machine.

But I cannot in full faith, use Linux as my primary OS. I’ve tried. I can’t do it. There are simply things on Windows that I need and want to use that’ll simply just run and that’s what I want the most is for things to just run. It isn’t because I’m too dumb to use a Linux OS. It’s because I don’t have the patience or time to be weeding through forum posts, deciphering depositories and repositories, figuring out what obscure and vague message the terminal sends me and spending time on Google.

Besides this whole chart doesn’t make a load of sense. Like the whole “you’ll own what you buy”? What does that have to do with D&D and Pathfinder? I don’t get it.

Some of what you’ve listed isn’t exactly confusing - they’re just pirates who are gamifying piracy and in the honest pirating ways - that’s disrespectful.

Direct downloading can be easy but also not easy. File sharing sites do adhere to requests from copyright holders or anyone filing complaints will get the content taken down in time. The biggest blow of this is Uloz where you could practically find anything on it and download, at the cost of spending time if you don’t want to pay for speedy downloads.

But most of the time, direct downloading is a whack a mole game. Maybe people aren’t telling others because they could be sharing outdated information, almost nobody can be sure whether the content will still be there. Furthermore, it is frustrating because you have to weed through so much bullshit like ads, redirect links and more just to get to a single working DDL link. I’d know, I’ve done this many times.

The short answer is yes, but you’ll have to get used to the reality that Nintendo themselves will not be there for you if anything goes wrong down in those 20 years. There will be third-party fixers and a community of people who’ll probably have things made for replacements.

You are far better off using a Switch as opposed to a DS. You can emulate more on a Switch than a DS.

There was a resounding chorus of “DUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” that echoed across the land as Netflix discovers this reality.

Buddy, go bitch at the author who wrote the article that plastered all over what we’re responding about.

And my point still stands - they CAN’T prove that those IP addresses would be from frontier. It’s a huge whack a mole game they’re getting themselves into.

So, okay.

Let’s say these film studios DO get ‘permission’ or ‘access’ of these IPs. Haven’t we already proven in the court of law that IP Address does not equal a person? How come that is? Well, it’s because people can hide under VPNs, they could use proxies, they could use open wi-fi, they can change their address by ISP request .etc

They aren’t assigned permanent IPs and they aren’t tied to their IPs through identity.

This whole effort is just a waste of their time, proving once again, that they’re desperate for anything.

On the other hand, the r/piracy subreddit is full of entitled jackasses who pick you apart for stupid arbitrary reasons. I’ve posted news posts on there before as a means to inform the pirating community as to what to look for in case things could go wrong in the future, as a lead. And any time, people kept commenting like “WHUT DUS DIS HAVE TU DU WITH PIWACY?!” every fucking time.

I’d spell it out for them, I get downvoted, I get my post reported and it’s removed. Seriously, fuck all of those e-begging pieces of shit.

For Whom the Cat Tolls

Mewtallica

And Justice…for Cats

I never really understood these graphs, even with the best of my ability. I just think it’s an excuse for people to make vaginal references.

Especially with how much it holds your hand in understanding how it works. I’d know, because I’ve used the damn thing.

I think the people getting stung by the commentary here, are really people who I’ve personally called out in my comment alone. They also don’t like the truth of what’s being told in general as well.

I’ve pirated for over 16 years myself and I know my end goal was always to get free shit, but it became more than that where I’ve started to pay attention about the scope of pirating. I got better and understood better as I went along. In other words, I’m more of a wary pirate these days than stupidly bumbling myself around and relying on all of these services to stay up forever, for my leisure.

The worst I’ve ever gotten in my entire history of pirating was just an ISP letter. A single letter. I didn’t get fined, arrested, raided, dragged to court or anything. Done it all in America, the place where it was a hotbed where a lot of that was going on with other people caught downloading and uploading.

And I side with all of the pirates who’re fighting a good fight by keeping the practice alive and duping the entertainment industry at every turn. I side with other wary pirates who’d scoff and cold shoulder the idiots who refuse to learn, hell that’s why some places are fucking invite only, for christ sake! They don’t want stupid scrubs coming into their turf and fucking things up for the rest of them and asking a hundred dumb questions they’ve don’t got the time to answer. Especially when they’ve been answered as much as it’s been asked!

I’ll take those downvotes as admission of guilt, thank you.

You’re very much on point. I see it all of the time, people are just holding out their hands more for free stuff than giving a single shit about the cause of piracy. “Plz give me link to download photoshop” or “plz give me seeds to download torrent of this AAA game, plz” almost all of the time. They decorate it through many guises of reasons but the bottom line is still the same - “I just want free shit”.

And this year alone has seen a lot of awful losses for the pirating community as a whole. RARBG is gone, Uloz is gone (from what it once was anyways), 13DL is gone, Webtoon will soon be gone, Fmoviesto is gone. These are very huge sources of all of the pirated media we’ve taken for granted over the years. And when they all went down, one by one, the sentiment wasn’t “awww, I’m going to miss them” in sincerity. It’s more like “aww, now where will I get my free shit now?” and they offer absolutely no resolutions except for the more savvy folks.

I blame loud-mouth, entitled and selfish pirates for why these services get shut down. I blame them because they’re the ones going around online just yapping and yapping, eventually it’ll catch the interests of undesired people or people who are morally conflicted on piracy. They take action, for however long it takes, the service is shut down and everyone is shit out of luck.

They’re the same idiots who storm to pirate communities all like “WHUT DU I DU? I GUT A LETTRH FROM MUH ISP AND I JUST DUWNLUDED SHIT” and 9 times out of 10, people have to spell it out for them that the reason they get caught is because of no VPN or mistrusting the wrong VPN services or not watching their fucking backs.

Now on the other hand, I will not jeer for the times pirating has it’s victories, like this one. Because it’d be dismissive and ignorant to ignore the elephant in the room that the core reason why piracy still continues is become of the stomping of consumer rights and the draconian practices of the entertainment industry that not a lot of people are holding accountable for why shit is the way it is.

I’m at odds about the whole violence thing. People should be allowed to express how they feel, even if it means that they express the most grotesque way in how they’d like to handle someone they don’t like. One cannot always assume someone will have the means and resources necessary to carry out the perfect murder on someone.

If we are to glorify the concept of anonymity, why are we so afraid of these kinds of expressions? You won’t know who I am, you won’t know where I am and you won’t know much about me unless I give out details or hints to either of those things. I’ve long stopped making death threats to people online years ago because it sounded absolutely ridiculous, knowing that I’ll never be able to reach the person whom I hate. Much less, even go through with the threat at all.

That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be allowed to express how nice it’d be if I held someone’s head down while riding an escalator as the feed of the steps gradually grates the skin off their face.

I think this is really just a symptom of how social media of all walks on the internet don’t really do enough in the way of security and privacy so that these things are simply just that - expressions.