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Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult
- lysace 2y agoStreaming https://www.svtplay.se/the-pirate-bay https://www.svtplay.se/the-pirate-bay works via e.g. Mullvad VPN (pick a Swedish location). It only has audio and subtitles in Swedish though, so...
- thisislife2 2y agoI think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).
- Dylan16807 2y agoThey want to talk about the series so the article isn't really jumping the gun. The title is just their hook.
- deaddodo 2y agoI literally found it in two seconds on one of the most popular non-legit streaming sites. Checked two others, and it's there as well. The article author has no idea what they're talking about.
- meowster 2y agoI may be ignorant, but streaming is not the same as torrenting, and The Pirate Bay is known for the latter.
- colecut 2y agoyou can couple a torrent service with something like put.io and now it's a streaming service =p
- deaddodo 2y agoNot ignorant. Definitely overpedantic. The Pirate Bay is known for its championing piracy, in general. Those streaming sites are piracy. They also usually use the same source videos as those found on torrent sites; if not outright acting as a thin media player on top of torrents, in some cases.
- aqwdd 2y agoI live in sweden. I can download it with subtitles and just google translate it to english. I have done it on the first episode. Link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98u9ie https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98u9ie
- aqwdd 2y agoEpisode 2: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98z0b2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98z0b2
- tim333 2y agoThey are technically different. I also found The Pirate Bay on a torrent site straight away (1337x). Streaming plays straight away like youtube. Torrents you generally have to download first using bittorrent like software. Though it blurs a bit with software like Popcorn Time.
- crtasm 2y agoThe article was published over 5hrs before your comment, do you know when those sites added the episodes?
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- jasonm23 2y agoThe author is writing a promo piece, which is, if you can read subtext, instructing you to do what you just did. Let me break it down. 1. Tell the internet via the #1 torrent/free-info news site, that it's really difficult to find this show. 2. Let the internet do what it does. i.e. find the show, spread the show.
- RajT88 2y agoSide question: there is an undocumented and free Google Translate API. Is there a similar one for transcription? I have one I made which you feed a video file and uses a paid transcribe/Translate service to spit out subtitles, but I would love a free one, even if crappier...
- vetinari 2y agoAny reason why not running transcription locally? Whisper is pretty nice and can spit out timestamped srt or vtt.
- whalesalad 2y agoAw man does anyone remember way back in the day there was a TV show produced by (I think Sony?) that was all about IRC pirating? Edit: I think it was this, "The Scene" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
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- 0x38B 2y agoIt’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.
- diggan 2y ago> sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it. Yup. Top 2 reasons I became a pirate again after not being a pirate since maybe 15 years ago: #1 I literally couldn't give someone money to watch/listen to what I wanted #2 I was paying someone money to watch/listen to something and then they removed it Even popular things like Saturday Night Live are still impossible to acquire legally in my country. Edit: Forgot another point that became very annoying, the show is available but not with the subtitles I want and/or need. For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. But if I use Swedish Netflix, it would work, but technically breaking Netflix's ToS. Content rights have completely fucked up the user experience.
- crossroadsguy 2y ago# 3 There was 1 subscription streaming service to pay for, then 2, then 3, then 4… and eventually I decided to stop counting but the number kept on going up.
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- rightbyte 2y agoA big bullet point for me is that I find it unethical to support most of the studios and media companies.
- bazoom42 2y agoHow about just not consume their products then?
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- _gotb 2y agoNever use public trackers (unless you're downloading Linux ISOs of course).
- neoromantique 2y agoSeedboxes are a good investment :)
- diggan 2y ago> Never use public trackers ... if you live in a country where the police don't have better things to do. There are plenty of countries where literally nothing happen no matter how much you download/upload, even when using public trackers. Police there tend to focus on people do the initial uploading, if anything.
- zxilly 2y agoMostly the police don't care about this, it's the owners of the copyrights who care , they might send an email to your ISP and then you'll have to pay.
- diggan 2y ago> they might send an email to your ISP and then you'll have to pay I've probably downloaded/uploaded 10s of TBs at this point, in the two European countries I lived in since like two decades ago, and never received a single letter or had to pay anything. I'm sure there are more countries like these two.
- defrost 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet_Ltd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet... They tried that in Australia and struck out three times in evey level of the Court system. ISP's owned by media interests might pass that stuff on, ISP's don't have to and many don't.
- veggieWHITES 2y agoBeen downloading literally whatever I feel like in Canada here for the past few decades with nothing more than an email forwarded to me from my ISP with some "threats" from the original copyright owners :P
- I_am_tiberius 2y agoThe casting is absolutely amazing.
- belorn 2y agoPeople may be unware of it, but yt-dlp has support for svtplay and thus can access/download the show directly. It may be geo-ip blocked however.
- conradfr 2y agoBefore reading the article I thought it would be because of the name, like when it was hard to find the (great) album "The Music" by the band "The Music" in the early 2000s.
- changing1999 2y agoReminds me of the joke from Peep show about naming their band "Various Artists".
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoI'm just a normal functioning member of human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.
- NelsonMinar 2y agoFWIW I don't see any copies yet on nzbgeek.info, a popular Usenet NZB tracker. Almost no releases at all from OLLONBORRE ever, for that matter, that's the scene group the article discusses.
- lake_trade 2y agoHas anyone here seen/remember Welcome to the Scene series on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459 I found it to be quite nice, there is a second season as well something related to ammunitions smuggling.
- GinsengJar 2y agoPeople speculated From Software named the player's horse mount in Eldrin Ring Torrent for the same reason.
- palata 2y agoThe intro says: "[...] made its debut [...] earlier today. International viewers are left waiting until other services pick it up. In the meantime, [...] finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult." I don't see the irony there: if it is so new that it is hard to find through legit channels, it makes total sense to me that it may be hard to torrent. I wouldn't make any conclusion on the day of the launch.
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- deadlypointer 2y agoThe TPB Afk is a really good documentary about this IMO, not sure how this series will compare to that.
- bastloing 2y agoI can't wait until I can just copy and paste the description or plot into an AI and have it generate the whole series or movie. Lionsgate and Runway teaming up should make that possible.