Watched Louis Rossman today, and he’s part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more....
This whole discussion is like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It depends completely on how you define open source, and there is no single universally agreed upon definition. Per this article, there are over 80 variations of open source licenses all with different term and conditions. Some are more permissive, some less so. Yet they can all be considered a variation of open source, though I’m anticipating you wouldn’t agree? For this particular app, there are some restrictions in place aimed to protect users from malicious forks. IMO this is a good thing. I can’t understand why you are acting like the definition police here, it seems very pedantic tbh.
Many software buyers – even new developers – misunderstand the term “open source” to mean the software is available to use, copy, modify, and distribute as desired. This misunderstanding may arise from confusing open source with public domain or shareware, both of which are free to use and modify without specific permissions or licensing.
The truth is that, for the most part, open-source software is covered by one of several types of open source licenses and is not necessarily free of charge either.
In contrast to proprietary software where vendors typically make it impossible to access, copy or modify the source code, open source code permits the use, reuse, sharing, modification, and distribution of the code in other programs or applications. But just as with proprietary software licensing, open source software is subject to various legal terms and restrictions, depending on the type of open source license in force.
You make some good points, but whether it exactly meets every criteria of open source software as per that definition or not, I really can’t bring myself to care that much either way. I get that it’s important to you, and that’s fine, but not everyone cares that much about it. People can read and vet the source code, the intention of the project seems good, and the intention of the authors in deviating slightly from pure open source principles seems to be to protect their users from scammy clones, which also seems fine with me. TBH we’re not really into strictly following the letter of the law in the pirate community, and if this app helps people to avoid surveillance capitalism and puts even the slightest dent in Google’s massive profits then I’m all for it. Anyways, have a good one.
Yarrr, fellow pirates! We are excited to announce that the c/Piracy Wiki and Megathread have recently been ported over to the new “Wiki by Zero” hosted at wiki.dbzer0.com....
Definitely, and note that (for me anyway) I didn’t have to disable any of my other extensions. I think they are referring mainly to adblocking extensions in that step.
I think because people may have added additional filters manually that might trigger the ad block detection, but that’s just a guess. The guide was written by the uBlock Origin developers so I assume they have a reason for that step. But you can try without that step, it might well still work, especially in stock configuration.
You are entitled to your views, but please don’t turn this post into a political discussion. If you want to talk about your political opinions, there are plenty of communities for that topic. !piracy is not one of those communities. Thanks and have a good day.
Yes, so people in our community are aware of the ‘unremoval’, not to hate on lemmy.world. It’s a move in the right direction and personally I’m glad they took this step. Everyone is so tribal nowadays, just chill.
Hi Antik, as I mentioned elsewhere in the comments, I was very happy to hear that you decided ‘unremove’ our little community. I appreciate you going to the effort of revisiting the earlier decision and being transparent about the process, and I’m sure that goes for the vast majority of the people here (though obviously not all 🤨).
While individual users were probably more impacted by that decision than we were as a instance (because they couldn’t access this community from lemmy.world), I can tell you that our admin team fully understood the situation you were in and there are no hard feelings from our side.
I don’t know whether there is a wider appreciation of the fact that managing a lemmy instance is quite labor intensive and technically challenging for the system admins, who are all volunteering their time and expertise. And there’s still lots of bugs and problems to identify and deal with.
Being in the graphic design business, it’s frustrating what a customer doesn’t send their branding-designated fonts. Adobe has a lot available, but not everything....
I don’t like to see fellow pirates fighting each other - save it for the corporate overlords! To clarify this issue, you absolutely can Google search the site the OP mentioned via Google and download links etc. Think of that site kind of like the Russian Facebook/Instagram/YouTube all rolled into one. They do have an app they try to get you to download, and they do want you sign up for an account, but the content is also indexed by Google so you can find stuff without the app and without logging in, using the method described by the OP.
We are getting closer to the next major release. This version will have many breaking changes, so we are listing them here for app and client developers to adjust their projects....
What is ridiculous is posting a link to a 4chan post by a right wing extremist “boogaloo boy” that is 90% comprised of links to anti-semitic, racist, nazi propaganda and 10% survival-related links, then saying “just ignore the nazi stuff, don’t judge me” when someone points this out.
As reported in TorrentFreak, Italian regulator AGCOM has “successfully” blocked 45 pirate IPTV providers in Italy at the behest of commercial sports streaming company DAZN Italia. DAZN claims piracy steals €800,000 from live sports every single day (they are obviously batshit crazy)....
<span style="color:#323232;">Captain Olaf was so boring,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">When he found a ship to hit,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">He spent six months in discussions,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And his pirate crew all quit.
</span>
There’s a decent write up on how Android ‘dropper’ malware functions here. TLDR - while the APK may be clean, it tries to trick you into installing a malware infected APK later in the install process or during a fake update.
Check out something like smart dns proxy, it works for all the uk tv channels with streaming services. It’s much more reliable than VPNs for that particular use case.
Just would like to have a discussion on the topic. I’ve purchased around 20ish movies/shows on Vudu, and my wife has grown to be unhappy with Vudu’s UI and especially how the watch progress works. I am curious what some others thoughts on this are. My initial thoughts are I recognize I’ve purchased a license to watch the...
The fact is we don’t allow copyrighted material, torrent files or direct download links on c/piracy anyway, it’s against our rules. So this whole thing is based on a malicious misrepresentation of our community, initiated by a user with a grudge against us, because we banned him for posting anti-trans and racist content.
I’m just gonna apologize already for some long run-on sentences and stuff, the text below the questions are more just unorganized thought piles then actual organized specific confusions....
A1: Yes and no. They are worth it if you want to download and seed more obscure content that would not be found on public trackers. Private trackers often keep very old and niche torrents alive because of their rules designed to promote healthy seeding. Some private trackers specialize in certain types of content too. They will sometimes also get new release torrents slightly earlier than public trackers but nowadays there’s not that much difference in that respect. If you are already satisfied with the content you find on public trackers then I’d say the benefits of joining a private tracker are somewhat diminished. Having said that there are other possible benefits - e.g., some private sites tend to have more trustworthy content and comments because virus infected content is usually more quickly identified and removed, and some have a friendly community. But if you are mainly seeking popular and newer content then public torrents are perfectly serviceable. The VPN question is a thorny one for me. I’m naturally reluctant to trust my real IP address to any website, but many private trackers require that you don’t use one. Yes, you are less likely to be ‘caught’ downloading a torrent from a private tracker, but it’s still a possibility if a site is compromised. I’m not sure how often that happens in real life though, maybe some other members can provide some history of known breaches.
A2. No torrent sites are 100% safe. 1337x took down that problematic torrent within a day (I think), so that shows some goodwill. But there are always some suspicious torrents on public trackers, because no site mod or admin has the time to forensically check every upload - it relies on a certain amount of trust with regard to uploaders that they won’t suddenly start uploading virus infected content. But you get a ton of false virus reports on public trackers too, either because copyright holders may want to put people off from downloading the content, or because noobs often misinterpret virus scanner warnings which often highlight a cracked file as a keygen/PUP/trojan even when it’s (often) perfectly harmless. So long as 1337x has some moderation in place for uploaders and responds in a timely manner to reports of viruses etc, then I’d say nothing much has changed at 1337x, despite the various unsubstantiated conspiracy theories you may come across. I’ll still be using it from time to time. In general torrents will be safer on private trackers because they are more carefully moderated, but there are no guarantees. You should always take precautions.
Hope that helps a little - I’m sure you’ll get a lot of differing opinions on these questions.
I reckon it’s probably a good thing we are flying under the radar in the media tbh. Media attention might draw other forms of unwanted attention. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out over the next year or so though. Those meme communities have a lot of growth potential given their demographic.
Alternatively, you can use the official YouTube site with Mull browser or Firefox with the ublock origin extension installed. But NewPipe offers a better experience since you can download videos etc.
I usually download ebooks from Anna’s Archive and transfer it to my Kindle through the service. But 1/10 times it fails, with no apparent reason. The particular ebook in question is annas-archive.org/…/e310a253a9d85992129cc2b8dd351…. What’s the way out?
It’s more reliable to copy the file across to the kindle via usb connection. You will need to run the download through an epub -> mobi convertor first since it’s in epub format. There are plenty of free ones online, e.g., https://convertio.co/epub-mobi/
Apart from signing into multiple accounts or isolating pages under the same domain, is there any advantage to using Firefox containers from a security standpoint or do you think that Total Cookie Protection is sufficient for most use cases / threat models?
I switched from containers to total cookie protection just for quality of life. It takes a lot less micromanagement of settings and still provides strong protection. I’ve not looked back since, and yes, I think it’s more than sufficient for most people.
Bryan Lunduke is just another right winger who’s butthurt that Mozilla spends any of their money advocating for liberal values. Meanwhile the massive amounts of corporate cash that get funneled into conservative ‘think’ tanks (oxymoron much?) and superpacs apparently isn’t a problem for him. While I acknowledge he does raise some valid points about Mozilla’s over dependence on Google revenue, nearly all large corporations try to peddle influence with political parties and donate to social/charitable causes, so there’s nothing unusual about that at all. If they were a more right wing organization, this article would never have been written by him, that’s obvious takeaway here - it’s just a stock standard conservative hit job.
Hello community, looking for your wisdom, I need a tool / addon / script / whatever free that works for windows to download videos from i.e. netflix or prime video. ty!
Lies! Deception! (lemmy.world)
A better Revanced (grayjay.app)
Watched Louis Rossman today, and he’s part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more....
Launch of new “ce” (community edition) c/Piracy Wiki and Megathread (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Yarrr, fellow pirates! We are excited to announce that the c/Piracy Wiki and Megathread have recently been ported over to the new “Wiki by Zero” hosted at wiki.dbzer0.com....
YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I’m sure many of you are already aware that YouTube has been rolling out anti-adblock detection for Chrome users for a few weeks now....
Help me Build a Small Community (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I originally asked for things along the lines of survival: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4805526...
Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6018317...
The Best Resource for Pirating Fonts (www.google.com)
Being in the graphic design business, it’s frustrating what a customer doesn’t send their branding-designated fonts. Adobe has a lot available, but not everything....
Lemmy 0.19 Breaking Changes
We are getting closer to the next major release. This version will have many breaking changes, so we are listing them here for app and client developers to adjust their projects....
Is there a good collection of survival knowledge compiled somewhere?
I’m looking for a wide variety of topics. Feel free to call me crazy :)! But I would love any/all info regarding the following:...
Fmovies is back
I got there from the link on their Wikipedia page pirate captain laughing
FMHY (FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH) switching to db0 - Divisions by zero (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Crewmates, please join me in a hearty welcome to all FMHY users recently joining our instance....
One of us, one of us, one of us, ... !!! (feddit.de)
Olaf Scholz
Anyone knows reliable source for "Choice of games"?
What I found are mostly IGG released.
DAZN's Early Piracy Targets May Include U.S. Govt. Domain Seizure Survivors * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
As reported in TorrentFreak, Italian regulator AGCOM has “successfully” blocked 45 pirate IPTV providers in Italy at the behest of commercial sports streaming company DAZN Italia. DAZN claims piracy steals €800,000 from live sports every single day (they are obviously batshit crazy)....
Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor. (sh.itjust.works)
One of many articles: nbcnews.com/…/musk-stopped-ukraine-attack-russian…
German Chancellor officially endorses piracy! (lemmy.ca)
The Chancellor of Germany, in a move to show solidarity to pirates, wears an eye patch....
This file has 16 detections, is it safe to install it?
www.virustotal.com/gui/file/…/detection...
how do I watch British and Irish tv channels for free unlimited
id prefer that sky channels are included
How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?
Is it even possible? Another question, Why does my school even use software from 3 years ago?
Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server?
Just would like to have a discussion on the topic. I’ve purchased around 20ish movies/shows on Vudu, and my wife has grown to be unhappy with Vudu’s UI and especially how the watch progress works. I am curious what some others thoughts on this are. My initial thoughts are I recognize I’ve purchased a license to watch the...
Games
Where can I get free games for Linux using navada graphics
lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/2881638...
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....
A few questions I've gathered about piracy (specifically torrenting)
I’m just gonna apologize already for some long run-on sentences and stuff, the text below the questions are more just unorganized thought piles then actual organized specific confusions....
[email protected] has the most subscribers out of any community according to lemmyverse.net (lemmy.world)
Android Ad Blocker
Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?
[Solved] Can't send selected pirated ebooks through the Send-To-Kindle service to my Kindle. Is it some kind of background piracy detection?
I usually download ebooks from Anna’s Archive and transfer it to my Kindle through the service. But 1/10 times it fails, with no apparent reason. The particular ebook in question is annas-archive.org/…/e310a253a9d85992129cc2b8dd351…. What’s the way out?
Are Firefox containers useful?
Apart from signing into multiple accounts or isolating pages under the same domain, is there any advantage to using Firefox containers from a security standpoint or do you think that Total Cookie Protection is sufficient for most use cases / threat models?
Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time (www.theverge.com)
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Guess Empress was right this time. (twitter.com)
Normies trying to use Lemmy rule (pawb.social)
Downloader for paid streaming services
Hello community, looking for your wisdom, I need a tool / addon / script / whatever free that works for windows to download videos from i.e. netflix or prime video. ty!