• @[email protected]
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    1208 months ago

    Most assuredly; that gentleman doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

    What he IS doing— is justifying his expenditure.

    It will come to nothing anyway.

    What a poop-nosed loser.

  • Rin
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    8 months ago

    My go to site which has most of what I’m looking for is still up. So much for that lmao.

    • Random Dent
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      58 months ago

      Literally every site in my regular rotation is completely unaffected lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Eh, Aniwave was a pretty big one for the anime community. From what I understand, it’s the one most people fled to after KissAnime was taken down. Aside from that, I’ve never heard of any of the other sites they mentioned.

  • @[email protected]
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    978 months ago

    This sounds a bit like declaring victory in the war on drugs after shutting down one (1) cocaine operation

    • Maeve
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      298 months ago

      Yes, I literally laughed aloud. The sheer arrogance in certainty projected is a dead giveaway.

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      178 months ago

      I doubt it. Streaming sites like Fmovies are used almost entirely by technologically illiterate users. It’s for people who want to pirate, but don’t want to learn anything.

      These users are going to remain helpless until the next malware-laden streaming website enters their lives.

      They’re not about to install additional software to try to access anything, or at least not software like I2P or BitTorrent, because that would require effort and some amount of technical understanding to accomplish.

      This is like wondering why so many people still use Twitter two years into Elon’s hostile takeover. People will resign themselves to defeat if it saves them from having to learn anything new.

    • dianyxx
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      18 months ago

      Pfffft…if only.

      What do I see them doing a lot of the time? “WHUT VPN SHULD I USE?!” asked like 1,000 fucking times a day. “WHERE SHULD I GU TO GET X FILE FROM Y SOURCE SINCE MY FAVORITE PLACE GOT SHUT DOWN? :(”

      Legions of new pirates are lazy, entitled and think they’ve got the privilege to be spouting how much they think they should get for putting in as little as much work to get what they want. Always e-begging.

  • @[email protected]
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    438 months ago

    MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites

    Why would you say something you know you’ll regret having said?

    • Maeve
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      88 months ago

      Casting illusions works on some people, usually those with defeatist or “not worth the trouble” mindset?

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    the thing about whack a mole is you, the player, do not get to decide if more moles pop up.

    also, yeah, i’ve never heard of this and the fuckin piratebay is still up. i literally tell my students to use torrents and a vpn for anything they cant afford and might want to watch for class.

    • SaltySalamander
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      28 months ago

      17 years is a pretty good record. Site must have been built with some damn good fake doors.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      I’ve head about private tackers forever, is it that much better than public? I have never really had an issue with public trackers ,but also never had an invite to a private one

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        In general, yeah. Private torrent trackers tend to focus on specific types of content. Some might focus on cartoons. Some might focus on anime. Some focus on books. Some focus on video games. Public trackers, on the other hand, generally focus on everything, which, of course, means they won’t have a lot of the older or more niche stuff, and they might be lacking in one or more categories (music, anime, books, TV, etc.).

        It’s also much less likely that a torrent on a private tracker will die because most private trackers enforce certain rules about seeding and because the people there are generally much more into seeding than most people on a public tracker. (Probably most people on public trackers simply download what they need and stop before seeding anything back.)

        Private trackers are also typically the first (and sometimes only) places to get scene releases. Scene releases, which are done by private groups, are usually higher quality than stuff on public trackers. Sometimes, they leak onto a public tracker, but not usually.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        IMO, yes. Just for the consistency of quality and absence of fuckery. Damn near any TV show/movie/documentary is on there in at least 1080p, usually in 4K for newer stuff. For music I use SoulSeek and for eBooks I use LibGen.