Do you think poor ip lawyers don’t know rutracker exists? For 20 years?

Sites closing is result of reaching jurisdiction, not absence of information

I don't agree with this. It's a bummer when your favorite piracy source goes down, but telling people is the only way other people find out. I want everyone, especially poor people, to know how to easily access pirated stuff.

The IP lawyers are always going to find it anyway, and new sources come pretty quick when the old ones die.

im a suburbanite cracker so im giving myself a pat on the back for the Sisyphean task of not invoking Rapp Snitch Knishes

i don't think IP lawyers are crawling tweets or public forum posts to figure out what piracy sites need to be shut down lol. 99% of the time, like you said, it is because these services are all owned by a handful of people and fold immediately when they sent a DMCA/threatening legal letter.

Things like Switch emulation/piracy, yeah - to a degree I agree with you, but I think 99% of the time, the reason 'popular emulator' or 'popular mod for game' gets shut down is because they wind up taking money for development or forming a goddamn LLC - I'm looking at you Yuzu/Citra.

To be fair, in the end, all this is easily solved by piracy sites/etc doing a simple registration test and/or requiring like a consistent ratio for seeding/downloading; which more should certainly do.

Nah talking about media piracy like it's no big deal is rad actually. Get your movies on lookmovie2.to and your music on soulseek/nicotine, your books on libgen

oh thank god they didn't get ratemyhog.com, these hog rating sites keep going down!

First rule of committing cool crimes on the Internet:

1. Do not talk about your cool crimes on the Internet.

Just so long as no one snitches on the ppb.com I’m good

They'll never get my beloved what.cd

I just checked and https://hexbear.net/PPB is still up

absolute lemmings

Oh no, people share things that they enjoy and feel like would help their community. So weird and strange and dumb. Anyway, I haven't stopped torrenting and need more hard drive space. :/ I earnestly can't believe that IP lawyers have not heard of 1337x until they were browsing hexbo one day.

(Really though, I sort of understand the concern, and treating online spaces like you would treat a circle of couches with your best friends in person is something I'm personally working on. Apparently I also overshare in person as well, anyone who talks to me for a couple of weeks can rattle off what medications I'm on etc.)

This is like when I was 19 at a Evangelical Christian university and liked to brag about how I could get any drugs off of the silk road (I got expelled)

how the fuck am I supposed to find the sites if people don't talk about it

but i can get so many upvoterinos on the tweet site if i mention the site i read comic scans from in my maymay (actual thing that happened)

The Content is no longer the point. All Content has become conspicuous consumption, so the point is that they are Seen being able to Access the Content. Watching/reading/playing is ancillary to possession, to access.

must confirm others share qualia with me

Good to know these qualia are shared with others

GOOOOD post

I should go and edit all my comments where I mentioned the website [redacted] in it now that I think about it.

"Where do you steam full movies like that?"

I just go on Bilibili

how do you know / why do you think they are gen z?

Can someone explain why a person can find out the hot new piracy website by DMing someone or doing some research but an IP lawyer can't?

I feel OPs got a really good site and this is their way of sharing the good word! Reverse psychology at its finest!

I'm waging a protracted people's war against the tyranny of pirate streaming by snitching on these sites, such that torrents will reign supreme /j

Alright but really, in the recent thread on /c/anime on the shutdown of Aniwave, I mentioned two websites, but I felt kind of mixed about doing this. Like, there are websites that I would only mention in DMs, so why did I feel like those two websites could be mentioned openly? I mean, I could come up with reasons — the one has existed for years, has a Patreon, and justifies itself as an educational resource protected by free use; the other is the website used for Hexbear's own movie nights — but the fact that I felt a need to rationalize this in the first place, right?

7H15 15 1173r411Y WH47 1337 5P34K W45 1NV3N73D F0r

Or better yet just base64 encode the URL.

I love me a good rant, thank you.

The kids are dumb, idk what to tell you fam. It’s a side effect of being young, not a generational thing.

With the rise of peer-to-peer e-commerce, they’ll believe anything a random stranger tells them. “Link? W2C?” And you can send them any phishing site and they’ll happily make an account and throw away hundreds of dollars without even checking if the business is legit. It’s incredible and I’m sure I’d have done the same at 13 if I had todays internet.

Right but can someone give me a link to a good public tracker?