Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Well, color me surprised when, with my Proton VPN enabled, I still faced a government-mandated MITM attack while attempting to visit 1337x.to

"AVVISO

L’accesso al presente sito, che diffondeva illecitamente contenuti protetti dal diritto d’autore, è stato disabilitato in esecuzione di un provvedimento dell’Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni ai sensi del Regolamento di cui alla delibera n. 680/13/CONS

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To be completely honest, I wasn’t aware this was possible when using a VPN. I’ve tried swapping to multiple servers within Proton, but all seem to be returning the same. Is there some commonly known workaround?

I've been using newsgroups for video downloads for quite a while. The Arr suite is great for this. On the same note, I tend to find a good deal of music with Lidarr and my news server, but not everything. Notably, classic rock and older albums are more obscure. I supplement this with SoulSeek, but that's got its own issues.

What other options might be available that I'm probably overlooking?

Edit: To clarify - I'm trying to find other sources or options for finding the music that's more difficult to get from the sources I mentioned.

A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.

The number of infected users of “web hard drives” – the South Korean term for the online storage services that allow uploading and sharing of content – has reportedly reached 600,000.

Malware designed to hide files was allegedly inserted into the Grid Program – the code that allows KT users to exchange data in a peer-to-peer method. The file exchange services subsequently stopped working, leading users to complain on bulletin boards.

The throttling shenanigans were reportedly ongoing for nearly five months, beginning in May 2020, and were carried out from inside one of KT's own datacenters.

The incident has reportedly drawn enough attention to warrant an investigation from the police, which have apparently searched KT's headquarters and datacenter, and seized evidence, in pursuit of evidence the telco violated South Korea’s Communications Secrets Protection Act (CSPA) and the Information and Communications Network Act (ICNA).

The CSPA aims to protect the privacy and confidentiality of communications while the ICNA addresses the use and security of information and communications networks.

The investigation has reportedly uncovered an entire team at KT dedicated to detecting and interfering with the file transfers, with some workers assigned to malware development, others distribution and operation, and wiretapping. Thirteen KT employees and partner employees have allegedly been identified and referred for potential prosecution.

The Register has reached out to KT to confirm the incident and will report back should a substantial reply materialize.

But according to local media, KT's position is that since the web hard drive P2P service itself is a malicious program, it has no choice but to control it.

P2P sites can burden networks, as can legitimate streaming - a phenomenon that saw South Korean telcos fight a bitter legal dispute with Netflix over who should foot the bill for network operation and construction costs.

A South Korean telco acting to curb inconvenient traffic is therefore not out of step with local mores. Distributing malware and deleting customer files are, however, not accepted practices as they raise ethical concerns about privacy and consent.

Of course, given files shared on P2P are notoriously targeted by malware distributors, perhaps KT the telco assumed its web hard drive users wouldn't notice a little extra virus here and there.

...on the good things and ruin it for everyone. How would one go about letting people know, in a responsible manner.

Hypothetically.

I'm not tech savvy and have noticed that many streaming sites are .ru, and as someone located in Finland, I want to make sure if they are dangerous to use.

I'm looking for one (or many) m3u playlists that aren't, shall we say, existing easy to find perfectly legal playlists of public streams. Things like channels that show f1 races, football games, cable channels, stuff you'd generally not get easy access to.

Does anyone know where I can find IPTV playlists with stuff like that?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K, I consider it to be one of the biggest disk space wasters.

Am I the only one who has this opinion?

I had several hundred edited and formatted subtitles up on subscene before they closed. I'd made all of them for my Plex server, so I still have all the files. is somebody going to recompile subscene data, or are we doing this manually?

Hello,

I am using qbittorrent for torrenting and my ISP has refused to open up firewall because of fucking "security" reasons. however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible? I mean all the incoming connections should be blocked right? isn't it how firewall works?

Hey there, I tried many torrent sites but all of them either don’t accept registration or some other bogus reason I don’t understand ..

For example I heard about Glodls torrents as a common place to upload torrents.. However when I tried to register in their forum , later I received an email stating  “ Unfortunately the account you registered on Glotorrents community did not meet the membership requirements “

What are the membership requirements for Glotorrents community?

I am not able to  find out what are the membership requirements in their website or anywhere on the internet.. this is so annoying and frustrating because I feel that every one can upload their torrents easily but this crap only happens to me..

I am having difficulty uploading a torrent because I don’t know any torrent website that would accept my registration and I tried a bunch, so it not just Glodls…

Has anybody heard of this website and is it legit? Otherwise is there any known way of using GPT4 for free or less than 20 euros a month?

But I remember seeing that group being blacklisted and called out in multiple Piracy communities and wikis a few years ago.

What happened? Are they good now?

I've written a guide about how to pirate fonts from a particular subscription service. I'm not sure where I should post it so it can be of help to anyone who is interested. I don't think the mods would be happy if I posted it here, because it might be too much of a liability for the instance if the company behind "particular subscription service" wasn't happy with that information being out there.

edit: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/guides/ripping-fonts-from-monotype-fonts

This seems like a perfect usecase for IPFS

Yesterday I was looking for a niche game and I almost downloaded it from IGGGAMESCOM (which r/piracy claim is not safe). Anyway while searching I stumbled upon a cwhub link for the game that shows the date when the game was cracked and the name of the group (in this case it was DARKZER0). So is cwhub the database that everyone is using ? Cuz searching on r/crackwatch isn't efficient I think (reddit search), and you need sometimes to be sure that you're looking for something that actually exists