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One ironic thing is that one of the easiest ways to find good 'pirate' sites is to simply search for the takedowns. One indirect way to do this search Google fo

One ironic thing is that one of the easiest ways to find good 'pirate' sites is to simply search for the takedowns. One indirect way to do this search Google for some term like [movie_name torrent] and then go to the links in the inevitable "In response to multiple complaints that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 results from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaints that caused the removals at LumenDatabase.org: Complaint [1], Complaint [2], Complaint [3]." message. Those are the results from 'interstellar torrent'. The takedowns are largely free advertising for the legitimate sites. It requires some basic level of knowledge, but that's true of even just using e.g. torrents on average, so it's probably a quite meaningful factor in this. [1] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/32859507 https://lumendatabase.org/notices/32859507 [2] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34353453 https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34353453 [3] - https://lumendatabase.org/notices/24237273 https://lumendatabase.org/notices/24237273

yard2010 3y ago
Nice trick, but you can just use Yandex to look up anything you can't find on google. No DMCA takedowns there :)
- bt4u 3y ago
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Varloom 3y ago
Just use Yandex, it wild wild west over there.
slothtrop 3y ago
If I do this (and I'm not saying I do) I tend to avoid torrents because I don't want to deal with a VPN to avoid being harrassed. I find a low-quality stream with adblock/noscript on. Because I'm lazy in the last year I've mostly checked very old movies on archive.org
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
  Hypothetically you could also look for sites linking to so called one-click hosters, of course with adblocker, otherwise they would be (both, the sites, and the OCHs) unbearable. So called download managers would be unnecessary, becuase a correctly configured and isolated browser running on a paranoid platform still performs very well, or maybe just because of that? One wouldn't really care, because it would just work. There would be no need go get an account anywhere, to get access, or seeing the download links at all. Just skimming the lists of all the trash that is streaming now, or the classics, and pick the few things of interest, professionally encoded according to so called 'scene-release' standards. Maybe there would be one captcha to be solved, but why would one care about that, if only downloading a few things? The files would then come down with anything between one to 30Mbit/s, which means a few minutes at most, with some rare exceptions topping out at 150kbit/s which could mean a few hours. Which one still wouldn't care about, if one had rock solid connectivity, whereever and whenever one would be staying. Limiting oneself to 720p or 1080p in x264, x265, avc1, hevc would be wise, to not run into the filesize limits of some of the free one-click hosters, but honestly, most of the serial shit available wouldn't be worthy enough to be watched out of the corner of ones eye at 480p anyways on some small 'other display', which would still be equivalent to DVD. Which would be bad for blueray rips, but one probably wouldn't really care, because even at 4k most stuff stays being the shit that it is. One probably could call that (in funny bad german english) "Loading, Looking, Lösching" meaning something like downloading, watching, and finally erasing that movie (anyway), because shit doesn't deserve to waste storage. Yes, that would probably work very well for most use cases ;->

yard2010 3y ago

Nice trick, but you can just use Yandex to look up anything you can't find on google. No DMCA takedowns there :)

bt4u 3y ago
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Varloom 3y ago

Just use Yandex, it wild wild west over there.

slothtrop 3y ago

If I do this (and I'm not saying I do) I tend to avoid torrents because I don't want to deal with a VPN to avoid being harrassed. I find a low-quality stream with adblock/noscript on. Because I'm lazy in the last year I've mostly checked very old movies on archive.org

LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
Hypothetically you could also look for sites linking to so called one-click hosters, of course with adblocker, otherwise they would be (both, the sites, and the OCHs) unbearable. So called download managers would be unnecessary, becuase a correctly configured and isolated browser running on a paranoid platform still performs very well, or maybe just because of that? One wouldn't really care, because it would just work. There would be no need go get an account anywhere, to get access, or seeing the download links at all. Just skimming the lists of all the trash that is streaming now, or the classics, and pick the few things of interest, professionally encoded according to so called 'scene-release' standards. Maybe there would be one captcha to be solved, but why would one care about that, if only downloading a few things? The files would then come down with anything between one to 30Mbit/s, which means a few minutes at most, with some rare exceptions topping out at 150kbit/s which could mean a few hours. Which one still wouldn't care about, if one had rock solid connectivity, whereever and whenever one would be staying. Limiting oneself to 720p or 1080p in x264, x265, avc1, hevc would be wise, to not run into the filesize limits of some of the free one-click hosters, but honestly, most of the serial shit available wouldn't be worthy enough to be watched out of the corner of ones eye at 480p anyways on some small 'other display', which would still be equivalent to DVD. Which would be bad for blueray rips, but one probably wouldn't really care, because even at 4k most stuff stays being the shit that it is. One probably could call that (in funny bad german english) "Loading, Looking, Lösching" meaning something like downloading, watching, and finally erasing that movie (anyway), because shit doesn't deserve to waste storage. Yes, that would probably work very well for most use cases ;->