Fellow italian pirate here, using Gentoo for servers and laptop since 2014. Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Would love to have a chat someday
Your question is so generic that it is difficult to reply. I'll tell you about my use case then so that you can try to figure out yours.
My goal is to be a respectful citizen. I divide my torrents in three categories:
I bought tons of space (recently converted to three drives, 20tb each) and use a virtual machine locked behind a vpn. Even if I forget to paid, the virtual machine is bind to the tunnel so that traffic doesn't go out except for LAN, so no leaks.
The VM has two torrent client:
I tend to leave everything in transmission seeded forever, the stuff in qbittorrent seeded until 2.5 ratio or 4.0 depending on my mood.
At the moment I have 90.2 ration on transmission and many many many TB of uploaded stuff. That should be enough to feel like you are giving back
I don’t since I live in a third world country. Can seed at 1Gbps with no warnings whatsoever, 20€ monthly
I read
I don't since I don't live in a third world country.
Give your country more credit if you have a 1Gbps connection and it doesn't enforce draconian idiotic laws. Just out of curiosity, can you name the country?
Back to the point of money and piracy, like I said, one “pays” for media in one way or another.
While I agree with you on everything this point is not 100% true. I am paying thousand of $CURRENCY on disks and other hardware every few years but I feel that for every side of the coin, there is a minimum situation (let's call it a floor situation) on which less privileged people may find themselves.
For example if you are a bachelor already struggling to pay to be in college or a child that has only access to their parent's computer, piracy is literally free and you can reach to it without paying anything on top of what you have already. On the other hand, netflix is always $CURRENT_PRICE regardless of your situation.
Btw, thank you for making articulate posts. This is why I am on lemmy.
saw this yesterday with my relevant other. Very enjoyable even if a crop. The movie is dogshit though
Brief reminder that most people on the planet aren’t American
So what? Catholicism and Protestantism is ingrained in big parts of europe
do you share it? I would like to take a peek
nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don't you download packs that contain the entire season?
For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet
As another commenter said, please do it.
In Italy between the movies were screening in the cinemas and dvd releases there was a wait time of 3 months. Exactly three months. The most common way of piracy was streaming websites (like cineblog nowadays) pestered with ads. Before the age of WEBDL most people who couldn't pay for the cinemas and everybody who wanted to have lots to talk about pop arts and trends was watching cam rips. The quality of cam rips were ever increasing every year with specialized forums discussing hardware to do it. I remember you could find everything from low quality phone cams (we are talking 2006 phone cameras) rips to tv quality cameras pointed to the screen from inside the cinemas with tripods.
Project X was such a hyped up movie in Italy that I personally witnessed a bunch of people recording it in the cinemas and everybody at school was sharing the phones on which the movie was recorded during lessons.
To be honest camrips started to disappear during and after covid, but even now for very famous movies like Barbie and Hoppeneimer of Marvel stuff people are still downloading those.
For reference:
Commonsense 2023
Bitsearch and Solidtorrents’ Login and Sign Up buttons don’t work at all for me, even with extensions disabled (Firefox, Chromium)
you can just upload the torrent hash or magnet, so it should work: https://bitsearch.to/add-torrent
I had various degree of success by posting my torrent on 4chan and the various torrent caches like itorrents and btcache
Super mario 64 multiplayer! I have spent several hours in it with my bf. https://github.com/djoslin0/sm64ex-coop/
tried, doesn't work for ed2k and it is proprietary software. Will pass
I started because I wanted to get around censorship in my country. I also wanted to view stuff in the original language and here we dub everything.