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So me and my brother have been torrenting some games and such and we have not gotten a letter yet. So any precautions to use

I am wondering if there is a client for Youtube Music for WearOS. I already know that ReVanced supports modifying YTM APKs, but I do not know of a way to do this for the WearOS app. Is there something that I could use to use Youtube Music on WearOS without ads?

Matrix? IRC? Discord?

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On southparkuncensored.com I provided the banned/censored South Park episodes, previously using MEGA before they were removed due to Paramount copyright takedown requests.

Now I'm looking for non DMCA compliant alternative hosting platforms that support streaming/embedding and don't use ads. I'm willing to pay.

Comrades, liberals, and the unaligned misers lend me your eyes.

Computer gaming is increasingly unaffordable, in Australia second hand previous gen GPUs are like a million billion dollars. Games increasingly look like dogshit due to stochastic rendering methods and reliance on advanced lighting methods that require rendering at high resolutions for good performance.

Games are also skyrocketing in price, along with dark patterns becoming ubiquitous. The age of making a good system for 1k aud once every 8 years or so is over. Consequently I am wondering about the economics of a seedbox + renting a high performance server and streaming video games to a cheap minipc that is connected to my TV.

Unfortunately in Australia compute is expensive as hell, and we are far away from places with cheap compute. To the point where light speed limitations means rtts of like 200-300 ms

I'm curious if anyone has experience in similar conditions, either combining a seedbox and high performance computer, or having both and spinning up the HPC when you want to waste some time.

How has it worked out? what genres work and what don't? has it been cost effective?

If this is stretching the limits of relating to piracy removal won't offend me. This seems the most relevant, but it is more into hardware and using pirated software (since shit is unaffordable) than piracy directly.

Decided to try grabbing my first game from fitgirl and all was good until running the setup.exe. Since I have a seedbox nothing could be downloaded because the .exe file couldn't find the bins on my computer. How do I go about pulling the game from my seedbox to computer? Do I grab a private file sharing app and move the files that way or just download every game file from the seedbox to the computer?

I try to get some promotion from student. But couldn't find a way to get student email. Anyone know how?

Cross-posted from "An exciting new Switch emulator launches tomorrow — Here's how to get it" by @cm0002@lemmy.world in !android@lemdro.id

I am the author of An Updated Guide for Adobe Zii in 2024. Earlier this morning I received a copyright warning from Reddit and my guide was taken down. Seeing as this is the new home for piracy discussions I thought I'd post it here and update it based on user feedback.

Copy of original post: https://web.archive.org/web/20240803045318/https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeZii/comments/1c1zpxq/an_updated_guide_for_adobe_zii_in_2024/

Goals

I have parsed through r/Adobe Zii for a bit and this is how I installed the adobe 2021 version of the creative cloud on my pc. A couple requirements for my method were:

1. I needed to be able to install without root privileges or be in an isolated environment when root is required. I think its fair to say that the TNT group is a reputable source, but its always better to be safe. I have used their software before and never had issues. The risk comes from the distributor as most of these hacks are posted on private forums.

2. The actual software needs to come from adobe. This eliminates the risk of malware being injected by a third party.

3. I'd like to run the latest version of Adobe CC in case I get access to a legitimate copy of a program.

FAQ

Why not just download the latest versions (2024) of adobe on cmacked or torrentmac?

A couple things, firstly, they are from a new developer (Monster Group) without an established reputation. They could be perfectly safe, but I just didn't want to risk it. Secondly, I'd rather get an actual download from adobe and modify that. This is similar to the method of GenP on windows. In fact there you can run sandboxie and see exactly what files are changed.

Why not use anti CC for the 2022 version of adobe?

I may be wrong, but it seems anti CC needs root permissions to run. Further, I would rather just use the actual creative cloud application. I used to pay for CC but as a broke student, I just cannot afford it when all I use is after effects. It's so dumb how they make it so expensive to sub to just a single app.

Do I need to use a VM to install Adobe Zii?

No you do not. The main benefit is getting a playground to test versions in and also avoid running cracks on your main system.

I am getting a JSON error?

This means your version of Adobe CC updated in the background. In order for this to work you must use 5.7.0 (or 5.9.0) version of Adobe CC. It does this fairly fast before you can disable autoupdates sometimes. It can be helpful to turn of wifi temporily so you can disable the autoupdates. See https://github.com/Drovosek01/adobe-packager/issues/56#issuecomment-1546789725 for more information.

Will this work on Apple silicon?

It should in theory. I have received feedback of people getting it to work. I developed this guide using an intel based macbook pro. Make sure in step 2 you download the version of Adobe CC for intel or arm based on your system.

Method

After a bunch of research, this is my method.

1. Install macOS in a VM. I'd recommend using the free trial of Parallels. Once installed select install macOS from recovery partition. Select free trial and proceed with macOS installation. This will take a while. (I recommend a VM because you will need to install an old version of adobe CC during the install to get this to work)

2. The next step is to install CC on the vm. Download version 5.7.0 linked below and immediately turn off keep Adobe CC up to date. If you fail to prevent it from updating, you will get a JSON error later (see here for more info). Install the newest version of Adobe CC on your host and sign in using the same account. Do not enable adobe genuine verification thing. It will see you're pirating the apps and block you.

INTEL: https://ccmdl.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/KCCC/CCD/5_7_0/osx10/ACCCx5_7_0_1307.dmg
ARM: https://ccmdl.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/KCCC/CCD/5_7_0/macarm64/ACCCx5_7_0_1307.dmg

3. Then download whatever version of the apps you need with https://github.com/Drovosek01/adobe-packager. There are instructions in the repo on how to do this. (Note: at the step where you say which XML version you want, enter V4).

4. Download Adobe Zii v6.1.7 from appnee dot com.

5. At this point, because we're in a VM, root permissions isn't really a concern so you can just run the patch. But, if you'd rather not, here's how you can do it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeZii/comments/g3uj17/zii_is_asking_for_root_permission/foj8zy5/

6. Copy each adobe application from your virtual machine to your host Application folder.

7. Create a firewall rule to block all traffic to and from the application. I used little snitch but you can also use lulu.

8. Enjoy your 100% free version of adobe. Happy sailing!

Tips

It can take a while to find which version of Adobe Zii will actually work with which version of the adobe product you're interested in. This is the beauty of a VM is you can muck around with minimal consequence. It also means you can keep the VM around to test new versions, if it works, then copy over to host. I've heard of others installing macos on a separate drive and then booting that instead for higher performance.

A word of warning. Only install Adobe Zii from a reputable source. I did some digging and for some of the other downloads, the file is no longer signed meaning it has been potentially modified.

Note: I have successfully tested this on Lightroom classic 10.3. For After Effects, I found that Adobe Zii 5.3.2 worked with After Effects 17.5. I suspect this is not an issue with Adobe Zii, but rather in my initial tests I messed up some file permissions.

I want to credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeZii/comments/xf5q8b/new_to_zii_and_looking_for_a_tutorial_or/iokuo3w/

I’ve set up everything, but anime subtitles aren’t showing up when I search for them. I’ve also set up Bazarr, but it can’t find any subtitles either. Any suggestions?

I would like to get an invite (for free) to a private tracker, where could I go to get such an invite? Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to find an audio book of a popular book series. But when I start looking, I only found one of the audio books of a trilogy. (looking through the links in the megathread/wiki)

I'm not sure why the 2nd and 3rd audiobook of the triligy can't be found, it should be popular enough that someone would've share it. It came out like a decade ago.

I found all 3 books (like the text-only book), but I'm kinda annoyed I can't find the audio books.

So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

Everywhere I look that says "original triliogy" it's always the second re-mastering, never the remastering that was released in the 1990s or the original un-remastered versions

Hey all, I'm looking for FL studio. My cursory search on 1337x mainly (I use the search engine in qbit) only found what I consider to be medium to high risk results. Most of the torrents I'm finding are a single .exe with maybe a readme and a site link. Some also have [haxNode] but aren't uploaded by the haxnode account. Results are few on 1337x and the qbit search engine found most of them on TPB (which I have been meaning to remove from the search list)

TL;DR any recommended place to get FL Studio?

I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.

Hello folks,

TIL that how can you bootstrap my DHT nodes before downloading a torrent.

Find a good famous software from fosstorrent and seed it for some while and then when you seed it for some time, your DHT count will be increased. now you can easily download a torrent by just providing the hash of the torrent ( assuming some DHT node knows where the file of the given hash is ).

hope you learned something new today, if you have a good idea than this feel free to add it in the comment section :)

Hey fellas,

just came across this sub to discuss my torrenting issue.

I am using linux, have a mullvad subscription and use qbittorrent. Because I read something about VPN-killswitches not being 100% reliable, I also bound the network interface from my mullvad-VPN to the qbittorrent-client.

Now something, what is kind of weird. I started a testrun over night with some legal torrents. In the morning I saw, that the downloads where finished and also seeding. The mullvad client said, that it was connected. But when I wanted to make a "torrent-IP-leak-test" online, I realized, that I couldn't open any website, because the "website couldn't be found" (firefox btw).

So I tried to ping 8.8.8.8, which worked, so I assume it must be something wrong on a DNS-level. In terminal I also checked if the Mullvad network interface was still connected, and it was. After I made a simple reconnect to the VPN-server via the MV-client, everything was normal again.

My first guess was, that this issue possibly occurs, because my ISP does an automatic reconnect in the middle of the night.

Now I'm wondering if that setup still can be considered safe. Did you experience similar problems? Is it a threat to privacy?

Using Debian if that's important.

~sp3ctre

+++EDIT 1+++

Observation 1: The source of the issue must be the automatic reconnect in my router (required from ISP) in the middle of the night. It encountered too, when I chose another reconnect-time. A manual reconnect in the router interface led to the same issue. Interestingly, pulling the plug from the router doesn't lead to it.

Observation 2: Since I wasn't able to check my external IP without being able to DNS-resolve these "ip-check-websites", I decided to go the direct way via IP of the website (found via who.is), which worked for some websites. Turns out, at least my IP-address seems not to leak (its my VPN-IP). These special torrent-IP-check-websites won't work at all, if the DNS can't be resolved at the beginning of the process (when putting the test-torrent into the list).

I will try if it makes any difference, when I turn of my alternative-DNS in the router. Will also try some other VPN-servers.

+++EDIT 2+++

The Mullvad-support solved my problem. I want to share it with you:

It is probably because the NetworkManager updates /etc/resolv.conf which the Mullvad app also updates. So it overwrites the change that the app made.

The Mullvad app does not use the NetworkManager but it will use systemd-resolved if you configure that. Disconnect Mullvad and use the following commands:

sudo systemctl enable systemd-resolved
sudo ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
sudo systemctl start systemd-resolved
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager*

So I downloaded this Pre-Installed game from a respected torrent site. But whenever I run the game, the bottom 5 files get updated/changed apparently. And this torrent goes to the error section in Qbittorrent. Now I have to delete the exe and other small files from my folder and redownload them again through this torrent else this torrent wouldn't seed.

So I would not be able to seed those bottom 5 files unless I have a completely fresh install of the game ? and that means, I either have to unselect those bottom 5 files from my torrent client or create a copy of the game in another Folder so the exe and other python files don't get updated as I play the game ?

Anyone know any site with acestream links for football matches? Looks like the one i was using has stopped working and they work a lot more reliably than any other football streams I've found

Hello !
I've been working on this thing for a year, it was intended for personal use but some friends liked it and now all our hard drives are saturated with flac files.
A self-hosted shared Qobuz / Tidal music downloader, looking for fellow sailors to test it and publish a stable release if anyone is interested :)
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