Why no one is speaking about Dodi-Repacks 😔
I don’t understand folks that pirate games. I don’t think there’s a particular service issue currently between all the platforms and sales.
If I’m boycotting a publisher/studio, I just don’t play their games. If I find them too expensive, I just don’t buy it and won’t play it. And if it’s not worth buying it at full price, I’ll just might buy it on sale later.
Movies and TV shows on the other hand… There’s definitely a service issue there.
Back in my day, we didn’t use VPN!!! We would download unfiltered!!! /J
the most important thing to have when pirating is common sense
the second most important thing to have is a vpn
the most important this to have when pirating is common sense
We disagree actually, it’s to have well written tutorials and not to rely on the idea that people can just know things from nothing.
We get the frustration in this meme but honestly, we never liked this kind of attitude in tech spaces, it’s exclusionary, gatekeepy and harms people. We understand not wanting to answer every single question but some well written tutorials etc to link to are better than having everyone starting in ignorance and getting in trouble or being harmed for it.
Especially if said tutorials keep up to date and add more answers to people’s questions over time.
After all, being helpful actually helps the pirate community in that more people seed, so helping others is actually win-win. There’s really no downsides whereas expecting others to know everything or being rude stops this from happening and thus is a loss for all of us.
Who is “we” in this?
Please read our profile.
My Lemmy client doesn’t show profiles by default and it’s a pretty popular one. Perhaps it might be wise to introduce yourselves in a sentence or 2 in the future.
Well, that’s a fault of the client. Really it should be working on such basic functionality, if it doesn’t have it already.
What do you mean?
My client doesn’t show these things, and i’m honestly not interested enough in the matter to read someones bio to put their odd form of expression into context, even if it would show them.
For the sake of efficient communication i would suggest adjusting either by putting that context in your comment or by expressing yourself more clearly.
Still don’t know why I’d need a vpn. My country doesn’t go after individuals pirating (yet). That’s the only reason, as far as I understand, to have a vpn for pirating. So until they start to take come after individuals, I’m gonna save my money.
It’s a general rule, there are exceptions. I’d think it would be obvious why a VPN is needed for some even if you don’t need it.
I think it’s the older way around. There are really only 3 or 4 countries where using a VPN to pirate is needed. I’m just willing to bet you live in one of those countries.
You want a tray of cookies for that original line?
Oatmeal please. If you want to be anonymous on the internet, use TOR not a VPN.
Torrenting over TOR. Fantastic idea. You clearly know what you’re talking about.
Use cases are important.
Wanna torrent anonymously and don’t wanna pay for a VPN? Get into I2P
A serious question: what’s wrong with pirate bay? I have been using it to download movies, shows and language learning content for over a decade, and I never had any problems.
Those aren’t typically risky media. When you’re downloading games though, you’re downloading executable programs. You can do some serious damage if you execute the wrong things. You’re not executing a mkv or a pdf, you’re only reading it.
You’re not executing a mkv or a pdf
You’re half wrong and half right, .mkv files are completely safe but the same can’t be said about .pdf files, attackers can embed malicious code, such as JavaScript or hidden executables, within a PDF file.
People really underestimate the capabilities of this .pdf file format. I remember some time ago, someone managed to run doom inside a .pdf file.
You can embed 3d models in PDF.
You shouldn’t but you can!
Tell that to circuit board designers. It’s horrible every time a 3d model of a circuit board is added. The component height gives no visual advantage, and it’s slow as shit on corporate computers.
My first job was extracting text from pdfs, in the end OCR was the most reasonable way. This was back in like 2010 when it was waaaaay harder.
Everyone who enjoys cosmic horror should read the PDF spec. https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-specification-archive/
