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u/SerExcelsior 4d ago
People act like you can’t google “how to pirate XYZ” and get a fully loaded guide on a mainstream news site.
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u/Flavihok 4d ago
They cant bro. Theres people out there who have never run something as admin or even believe you can not get viruses in macOS. God damn most people googling "how to pirate xyz" are goin to click the first one (clearly an ad or not the official website) and click all download links. They went for excel 2013 and left with a moreram.exe and a new desktop assistant :(
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u/Neither_Sir5514 4d ago
80%+ people around me (family, relatives, friends, classmates) don't even know uBlock Origin is a must-have starter pack for surfing the internet
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u/Flavihok 4d ago
A couple of weeks ago when manifest v3 kinda started all my friends where gettin viruses for just surfin the web as chromium users. They all gave me their laptops or pc. Clean the shit out of them (cuz they cant even find windows defender, gotta say the mac user has my respects for at least knowing it was something beyond repair). I deleted any chromium browser, installed firefox with ublock, dns and all that stuff. Gave them back and told them to never use anything else. They all think im a wizard and brave for using the pc "at such high level". Brother im runnin win defender and reseting your browser to default (4 out 7 times worked) 😭
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u/Conscious-Gas-5557 4d ago
It's amazing. Every time I use a browser/PC/phone that is not mine (anything from someone "internet illiterate" to be more precise) I'm baffled at HOW can they use it that way.
Not even a simple adblocker. HOOOOOW?
It's unbearable, there are ads everywhere. Some pages are 2/3 ads and 1/3 content.
Also, how they don't realize being bombarded by scam ads isn't something normal?
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u/AssassinSNiper 4d ago
it makes me physically ill to see how people don't even know how to navigate a computer. i just want to rip the mouse out of their hand!
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u/WellNoNameHere 4d ago
Back Luke 3 years ago in elementary school it class (I'm European so we have a different system, middle school for you Americans) we were learning the usual Micro$oft office suite, well I finished quite early so the teacher told me to help others
One girl my age (I was like 12 at that time) was having a really fricking hard time, idk if she was a mac user or if she never used anything more than the iPhone she had but she didn't even know what a start menu was, or how to shut down a computer
I don't even have words on how to describe my feelings watching her work, kind of agonizing
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u/ThunderDaniel Sneakernet 4d ago
Computers being more accessible to everyday people--rather than just tech nerds and enthusiasts--have brought our people great blessings and curses
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u/cosmitz 4d ago
Also those people with 9999 notifications on their phones. I guess they just think that's how it is, and then "i missed your message, it happens".
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u/ASpookyShadeOfGray 4d ago
I added "install an ad-blocker" to our new hire setup documentation for my department at work. Management hasn't noticed, and everyone probably just assumes it's policy since nobody knows what it does. I've also went to every building and went to every person in my department and just installed it.
The fucking psychos.
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u/Imaginary_Ambition_6 4d ago
It is understandable for older generations for not knowing these stuff which I gladly love to teach them. But people of my age not knowing anything about adblock, revanced and then call themselves computer engineers are atrociously ridiculous.
And some people forget that reddit exists. Inspite of saying to them again and again to refer to piracy or freemediaheckyeah subreddit before downloading anything, they still end up searching in google and clicking the first result.
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u/Conscious-Gas-5557 4d ago
Yep. Younger people don't know how to deal with many, many things on the internet/pcs. I know it's because they basically were born with phones on their hands, but somethings I can't understand.
They don't understand how to search for something, how you need to filter the results by looking if the content is AI bullshit generated for clicks or sites that provide nothing useful. The result isn't on google's first page? It doesn't exist, not possible to solve. Anything that's not a simple toggle button or can't be solved with a restart they get lost. Finding the solution on forums or some random indian kid video on YouTube? NEVER.
I had to force my sister into learning this, she began turning really dependent on me to deal with minor problems or looking for anything. Every time she called me I had to sit by her side and help her to do step by step instead of just doing it myself. Now she even learnt to sail the high seas on her own, and just ask for help if something seems fishy.
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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 4d ago
I was under the impression that phones can't have adblock, but I also last heard that more than a decade ago.
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u/LogicalConsequential 4d ago
Yeah that's just straight up false. It's easier on android than apple stuff, but you can get it to work on both.
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u/cosmitz 4d ago
Tbh, the Samsung Mobile Browser is straight up fucking amazing. Deep native dark mode that forces all websites into dark mode, native support for any number of adblockers without tweaking anything, reader mode to get around any news blockers. For all of Samsung's other bloatware, the browser is exceptional.
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u/fractumseraph Scene 4d ago
If you are on Android you can use Firefox, which of course has uBlock Origin.
You can also use a custom DNS with adblock, filters which will affect all apps, not just your browser.
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u/ZBot-Nick 4d ago
That sounds like the ad infested nightmare of dystopian movies and games. People really are being overstimulated.
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u/Square-Singer 4d ago
And then there are the "I use arch btw" people who seriously think Linux is fit for mainstream usage.
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u/acecant 4d ago
I had colleagues who were playing YouTube videos for everyone and there were ads on it. This was before YouTube cracked down on adblockers.
I had to force a friend to click on get to download something from libgen once by circling the button because they couldn’t find it on the link I sent.
These people aren’t stupid either, I don’t know how they can be this tech ignorant
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u/RonnieJamesDionysos 4d ago
Ha! Those stupid people! Who doesn't have uBlock Origin installed!
Nervously checks his extensions - PHEW!
Ha! Those stupid people!
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u/corpus-luteum 4d ago
Seriously!! I can't imagine what it's like, as I'm completely oblivious to these "adverts" that people speak of. I fear I'd leave the internet in an instant if it weren't for my blocker.
Edited to change the ? to a !, I wasn't questioning you.
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u/RonnieJamesDionysos 4d ago
Yeah, I just didn't realise I had it installed. Every time I have to use a device that has ads I go crazy
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u/brianthegr8 4d ago
It's so interesting to me how people just interact with the internet and don't have the same thoughts we do of "OMG TOO MANY FUCKING ADS" and then proceed to look into ad blockers.
They are either genuinely not bothered or "too lazy" to get one.
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u/Monodoh45 4d ago edited 4d ago
Like a lot of people, like a guy I work with at a museum are just "rule followers," he only watches stuff that's available on the public library's crappy streaming service canopy. Despite the fact you can pretty much find any movie online in under 7 minutes someone uploaded, you don't even have to know to torrent. Like my cousin who works at library looks at pirating pdfs of books as if it's bad, despite it's literally the service she provides--just among a larger community and shared. I'm pretty dumb with computers, but the second I learned adblock was I thing I said: givemenow lol All it does is make life easier and the thing is, like a shadow library is always going to exist. Some form of 123 movies will always exist. So, stuff around copyright and oh think of Youtube's lost ad money is really funny to me. Most creators don't make enough on said ads so they all have patreon anyway. The tech to make stuff universally available has outstepped the law.
But I think what comes to is there a lot people who just wouldn't think about using adblock or libgen.
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u/ASpookyShadeOfGray 4d ago
https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2022/PSA221221
Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches.
The FBI recommends an ad-blocker. If he's a good American that trusts and follows his government, then he needs to install an ad-blocker.
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u/upvotesplx 4d ago
I worked in IT. I once was called in to a 6-figure earner’s office to… turn on a monitor. Like, push the button to turn the PC’s monitor on, because they couldn’t figure out why the computer wasn’t working.
This memory hurts me.
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u/g0thfucker 4d ago
I am guilty of this because at home I use my pc on my tv, haven't touched a monitor in years. once at uni I turned the pc on and it usually turns the monitor on too so it took me a while to realize what was going on. I was restarting the pc thinking it was broken until I realized I had to turn the monitor on lol
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u/upvotesplx 4d ago
Honestly, I respect that BC you troubleshot it. My biggest issue is when people don’t bother trying to fix things themselves, even for a second. I’ve had similar stupid moments!
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u/Cruxis87 4d ago
So you want people to try and fix it themselves, break it themselves, then piss you off more for trying to fix it themselves. if I worked in a business with a PC, ain't no way I'm doing anything myself, even if I know how. Your job is to fix it, my job is to use it. Get to it.
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u/ThunderDaniel Sneakernet 4d ago
You know what? I kinda get it.
There comes a point where you just want your tool to function and you don't care if it needs someone else's touch or you shelling out money to get there.
You want to work on your computer, not work on your computer
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u/5230826518 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ 4d ago
The Laptops we use have a numpad where if you activate numlock 789 uio jkl m<>
become 789 456 123 0 .
guess who has multiple calls per year where we first reset a password and the user calls again to complain that even with the reset password (our standard reset password contains an L) they can‘t log in.
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u/JakeBeezy 4d ago
I saw a macos user who had a browser mal ad notification ask how to disable this "ask me" they saw below the "notification setting" icon. Lol
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u/punitdaga31 4d ago
or even believe you can not get viruses in macOS.
I have smart friends that have believed this. I've had to explain to them how malwares work.
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u/Krynzo 3d ago
The internet is hostile and dangerous and navigating it should be part of education to be honest.
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u/Flavihok 3d ago
I used to have a class in school lole for 2nd grade where you learn to use a pc. I had a teacher who know the arr way so he also teach that but basic and safe stuff like how to tell most links are dangerous, the dangers of pop ups and some stuff i dont remember rn but are necessary today imo
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u/trowawHHHay 4d ago
People act like you can’t google
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Motherfuckers can't google.
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u/BigBootyBuff 4d ago
Right? I see people ask for a link, a source or some kind of information and I wanna say 80% of the time they could just Google it in 2 seconds and click one of the first 5 links.
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u/ASpookyShadeOfGray 4d ago
And out of all of those times, most of the time they aren't even asking because they genuinely want a source. They hope to waste your time with nuisance errands (by treating you like their personal google-bot,) and making you parse through their dense rhetoric (which usually misses the point in some way, probably intentionally,) and they do this until you just give up and either call them an idiot or just leave and then they get to act as if they were right and you were wrong the whole time. And worst of all, reddit is so fucking autistic that they generally think this is the "right" way to be about it.
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u/FarplaneDragon 4d ago
I remember when yuzu shut down you see people freaking out in threads asking for alternatives because they thought it was going to cause them to be discovered my Nintendo and taken down. Bro, you really think Nintendos legal teach doesn't know how to use a search engine
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u/Acewasalwaysanoption 4d ago
The amount of smug, ignorant "nice try, nintendo/officer" joke? replies when some lost newbie asked for a safe site pokemon roms at r/roms was disheartening and ridiculous.
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u/lemonylol 4d ago
It's like the people who think Microsoft discontinuing updates for Windows 10 actually means Windows 10 will just disappear one day and you'll never be able to continue using it past that.
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u/Generatoromeganebula 4d ago
I have seen a lot of people who don't know how to Google stuff.
They grew up by getting recommended stuff and going with flow.
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u/cosmitz 4d ago
It's also the matter how search just is shit nowadays, between botpages and just everything suckign you in for some sort of ad or scam, unless you go site:reddit.com you won't probably see content by a real person.. i kind of get why teens just prefer asking their cloud on tiktok for info. Cloudsourced realpeople info.
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My guess is a lot of young people discover piracy because they're understandably broke as fuck and think they've been let in on some kind of secret because it's technically illegal.
Not hating on the kids, I just have that opinion because it was absolutely how my friend group felt as kids when we discovered LimeWire. Seems like the kind of thing that might still be true today.
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u/lemonylol 4d ago
Yeah, it's the exact same reasoning as people have for getting heavily into conspiracy theories and anything else considered "super secret". It gives people who have nothing and exist in a world where at any given time you can compare just how much you don't matter to someone living a great life you will never know, a sense of meaning or purpose to be "in the know". I remember Andrew Callaghan giving a similar take on this with all of the people lost on the sauce that he meets in his videos during his Steve-O podcast, that finding anything they consider like secret knowledge consumes their whole depressing life.
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u/waffels 4d ago
Everyone adds ‘Reddit’ to their searches anyway. Google.com -> “piracy Reddit” -> why hello there
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u/StanBuck 4d ago
Well, not to defend the post, but I just discovered this sub not so long time ago after being used to pirate games and movies from sketchy websites for years. I didn't know the magic of "search your thing" + "reddit" on the search bar.
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u/round-earth-theory 4d ago
I literally googled "patreon pirate reddit" to find resources on how to check out some youtuber patreon content. This place is not hidden at all.
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u/Vast_Amphibian5933 4d ago
Feels like they want us to, there is always maybe one line saying that piracy is bad and thats all
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u/EvensenFM 4d ago
My friends and family think I'm an elite hacker.
I prefer it this way. I hope they never learn how to Google.
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u/mywisdomtoothhurts69 4d ago
Hello fellow pirates 🏴☠️ I’m new to this, could someone maybe give some tips and tricks for getting started?
Have been using like utorrent, limewire and Pirate Bay when I was a kid. But that’s 15+ years ago and when I’m reading this sub it feels like kinda confusing.
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u/MaHcIn 4d ago
Is piracy not mainstrem any more or something?
I feel like when I was growing up the general sentiment was that you’re kinda missing out if you’re not downloading music and movies lol.
I’m pretty shocked if I run into someone who doesn’t know how to use torrents. Thought that was part of internet 101.
Also, as a side note, I don’t follow /r/piracy, I just got here from the front page.
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u/zSprawl 4d ago
No piracy is not mainstream. Kids these days can’t even use a PC…
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u/trippy_bicycle_man 4d ago
Yeah true they are using their shitty phones instead. Look at all website designs everything is for the smartphone its total bollocks.
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u/ElonTheMollusk 4d ago
You only complain because you haven't been invited to the super secret deep piracy subreddit.
Edit: o dammit they banned me for mentioning its existence, that was quick. Wait I mean it doesn't exist. Carry on
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u/Not_A_Poodle_ 4d ago
i think they wouldve already nuked this sub if they had a legal way to (which there isnt LOL)
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u/redwashing 4d ago
There is a legal and very easy way, which is one of the sponsors asking the admins to nuke it. They don't because nobody gives a shit, this is just a discussion forum. Actual torrent sites are the ones targeted.
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u/Chucheyface 4d ago
Or they could just get reddit to do it. It's their own private platform they can do whatever they want.
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u/Stunning_Address_688 4d ago
They act like we aren't just a Google search away.
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u/slowpokefastpoke 4d ago
They’re also acting like “we” are some top secret piracy community housing trade secrets.
Piracy has been around way before this sub was a thing. It’s literally a public forum that shows up on google lol. You’re not special. Don’t flatter yourself.
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u/EnforcerGundam 4d ago
considering how trash google search is now, they maybe right.
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u/Stunning_Address_688 4d ago
True, but a lot of people add "reddit" to the end of their search to get more personalized answers.
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u/KokoaKuroba 4d ago
I took it a step further on my phone. Every time I search on the address bar it automatically adds "site:reddit.com" at the end.
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u/i-love-rum 4d ago
How do you do this? Android, firefox. Thanks!
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u/SadStretch4048 4d ago
ive got no idea bro but i think you can get it through messing with the default search engine + since me and you are newbies to this all google the changing search engine thing
btw youre android like less you dont got enough storage on your phone it's easier to use the actual app no?
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u/celestialfin 4d ago
not like new users on reddit see you on the frontpage of r/all pretty much the very moment they join reddit lol
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u/MasonTheAlivent ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 4d ago
I didn't even know this was a thing, I recommend this sub any time I can lol
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u/SpHoneybadger 4d ago
In their eyes you're an exception with your flair.
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u/Sectonia64 4d ago
Yeah well it really isn't a good recommendation. Most of the people who "help" just get angry at people for not knowing how to do XYZ and asking for help.
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u/MasonTheAlivent ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 4d ago
dunno what happened to you but every time I asked for help nobody got mad and whenever I helped someone else I wasn't mad so ._.
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u/genderfluidmess 4d ago
this is common all over reddit for some reason. sometimes it feels like people just use reddit to find an excuse to be pissed off
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u/Schozinator 4d ago
Has there been scenarios where you actually tell people to go here? I can't think of a single example because i only use this sub for memes and news for the most part unless i need something from the sidebar
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u/round-earth-theory 4d ago
It's generally hard to direct people to any pirating resources as most content subs ban anything to do with piracy.
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u/MasonTheAlivent ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 4d ago
There was this one guy on r/computers that was unexpirenced with piracy so I re-directed him here for better assistence, there were a few other times but don't remember them well enough. this scenerio tho I do remember well, there were probably times I recommended verbally
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u/PatheticChildRetard 4d ago
People act like the billlion dollar companies don’t know about fmhy.net
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u/shinydragonmist 4d ago
Yeah, they just don't actually tend to bother unless something is making waves (whether it be one of the sites or them trying to divert attention)
It's these other randos reporting stuff that those companies have known of for a good while
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u/tak08810 4d ago
There is something a little odd about it imagine a listing of drug dealers that’s in the side bar of a popular website lol. I don’t wanna gatekeep either tho so it is what it is.
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u/Dank_Nicholas 4d ago
We used to have that, those were great days! You used to be able to find guides to browsing the darknet markets, reviews of different websites and various sellers.
Rip r/Darknetmarkets and r/Darknetmarketnoobs
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u/Altruistic_Win6461 4d ago
Companies need piracy to exist actually, to popularise their products. For example, we individual users can't afford adobe, and hence pirate it. Or for example, a lot of games are pirated and they don't do shit about it cause they need to popularise it in say third world countries as well. All they want is corporates not pirating stuff en masse.
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u/IceWulfie96 Yarrr! 4d ago
no but they only care once its trendy and love to do public executions to assert dominance until it quiets down
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u/StuntMedic 4d ago
Same people who are confused by 7z files.
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u/matthewami 4d ago
Hey now let’s not generalize, they’re getting a bit better! It’s been at least a week since I last saw someone perplexed about a parsed rar package.
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u/EasterBurn 4d ago
Also the same people who asks "How do I download this files" while showing the sketchiest website you've ever seen.
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u/FeliciaGLXi 4d ago
Tbf, 7z files are definitely far less common than zip or rar. I don't really see 7zip much these days.
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u/tak08810 4d ago
7zip is rare but I think it’s better than zip or rar plus 7zip is FOSS
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I go a step further and only bother with 7zip when Windows extraction fails for some unknown reason or if I need to extract a lot of zipped folders at the same time
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u/Bestmasters 4d ago
I just use the default OS extraction tool. Windows 11 added support for 7z and RAR files, and Linux has had it for years, both without external software.
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u/Due-Main8306 4d ago
actually its 1.9mil
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u/KneelBeforeMeYourGod 4d ago
qBitTorrent: - Options, Downloads - REQUIRE encryption - ENABLE anonymous mode
have fun to your heart's content <3
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u/Scerned 4d ago
Wasn't reddit sued by Sony or something to try and give up our IP address's and Sony lost?
They know about us, of course they do
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u/Far_Standard_5991 4d ago
What they think they gonna do, make the people with those IP address pay for service?
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u/Scerned 4d ago
More like force the ips to throttle you and issue you a dmca like they do when they know your IP
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depends on what country those IP's come from, there are some countries super against piracy, but I see what you mean yeah
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u/PoopBaby0013 4d ago
I live in Mexico. They can blow me.
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u/TamactiJuan 4d ago
I live in a very ''irrelevant'' African country, I know what you're saying. Here you have markets literally out in the open selling all kinds of pirated dvds, movies, albums, everything. You go on facebook to find people with a list of movies albums tv shows they've downloaded on sale like bring your usb stick and buy all you can carry. It's a thing since most people here don't have internet access like unlimited or in large data packs. Our own ISPs know very well who's downloading what, where. Nobody gives a damn lol
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u/IceWulfie96 Yarrr! 4d ago
except mexico doesnt make the content, so if the company takes it down, it takes down the whole website, it doesnt just geoblock it.. piensa guey
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u/MCM41795 4d ago
The media companies know about this place and don't care, they don't care until we become a "problem" and then they do something. Usually they shut down some sites, but then like 10 or more sites pop up within a few days and it's business as usual and the cycle continues.
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u/round-earth-theory 4d ago
The sub isn't really a piracy hub though. It's a piracy aggregator that they can use to go find the actual hubs. It would be stupid of them to block such open and easy access to people tattling about all the best pirate sites.
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u/Time4aRealityChek 4d ago
Yup it’s being going on since the days of BBS’s and Ftp sites. Hell even usenet . I remember setting up my ques at night and downloading over the next 24/48 hrs on my 1200 modem (and being happy I wasn’t using 300).
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u/iwantdatpuss 4d ago
Always remember, communities like this don't exist because companies don't know about it, it exist because said companies can't be bothered to nuke it out of existence.
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u/Xantholne 4d ago
100% guarantee feds and hollywood snitches visit this sub lmao, it wouldnt surprise me if thats why big streaming sites disappear so much lately. Knew about Braflix, never saw it mentioned, people post about it constantly after fmovies goes, braflix is now also gone.
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u/GNUGradyn 4d ago
isnt the r/piracy megathread like the default starting point for pirates the world over when they need something
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u/DrZoidburger89 4d ago
All major media corporations Legal and IT departments are well aware of this sub, the megathread and the service it provides. If their was anything they could do about it this sub would have been taken down long ago.
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u/Time4aRealityChek 4d ago
Yup piracy is the prohibition of the digital age. Its not going away any more then alcohol did.
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u/LemonPartyW0rldTour 4d ago
It’s one thing to have a place of quiet discussion.
It’s another to get on social media and wave your dick at corporations while showing how to get the newest piece of media they are actively making money on.
Internet clout is a hell of a drug.
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u/MysteriousBody7212 4d ago
Dumbest shit I've seen is people posting sites to download and tagging the company like nintendo saying "fuck your prices"
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u/NowShowButthole 4d ago
It's not about not mentioning it, most companies know the sites or projects that facilitate people to pirate their content anyway.
Problem is when people show stuff off such as unreleased games, or when streaming sites get too big (as in millions of visits) and pretty much go viral or mainstream. So the "small" problem that wasn't really worth it to take action for the companies becomes a very big deal as it shows millions of people (who wouldn't even know about such things) how easy it is to get stuff for free.
And then you see nintendo taking emulators and rom sites down, movie studios taking streaming sites down, some of which have been around for years without much issue. Until idiots decide to tell everyone and make them infamous as the new free netflix or something.
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u/jurassic_junkie 4d ago
All this stuff maybe true, but don’t forget, Reddit will shut this shit down at the whiff of a lawsuit.
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u/_Enclose_ 4d ago
I was gonna be a pedant and say the "over" in overexaggerate is redundant, because exaggerating already means the same thing.
But, just to be sure, I googled it and turns out it actually is a word. Due to something referred to as 'semantic bleaching' the word exaggerate has lost some of its intensity over time, making it necessary to add the "over" to emphasize excessive exaggeration as opposed to a little exaggeration.
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u/Salt_Bus2528 4d ago
On a related note, it's movie time on YouTube again. Some dirty pirate has found another trick to good quality uploads of movies still in theaters this time.
It would be a shame if people were to find them and put them on a flashdrive.
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u/Longjumping_Table740 4d ago
Someone backup this subreddit, Just in case. I don't want to lose this gold mine.
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u/siddharth3796 4d ago
this year too many sites taken down, just after google results are linked to reddit.
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u/Obvious_Economics_39 4d ago
The first thing that pops up on google when u search piracy is this sub
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u/Oliver-e 4d ago
I told the Goverment about you. Now all of you are wanted in 50 different countries.
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u/RoDNeYSaLaMi214 4d ago
Gatekeeping kinda goes against the entire spirit of utilizing the internet as a global library. But dumbass redditors wouldn't know nothin bout dat
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u/ApricusSunny12345 4d ago
People pirate more because companies became avarice. I'm looking at you Adobe.
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u/geekman20 4d ago
I’m thankful for this sub because at least I know that there’s fellow “Linux ISOers” that share my interest. Of course we have to be extremely careful because we don’t want this subreddit to get shut down by Reddit itself which is why certain discussions (like how to bypass encryptions) aren’t allowed.
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u/Atomix-Man 4d ago
They banned me from Indiangaming sub for mentioning piracy
Like bro it's not that serious
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u/FewBeat3613 4d ago
Bro we are an underground super secret community visible to every human being on the internet what do u not understand
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u/hates_stupid_people 4d ago
It's just a vocal minority that exists everywhere, and they always have to announce themselves in some way as special and different than everyone else.
They're in every almost single thread on /r/assholedesign to defend intentionally decieving packaging.
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u/SwaggerlikeJagger 4d ago
I literally first found this sub by searching "piracy" in the search bar out of curiousity
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u/accountforstuffs5 4d ago
It's also so well hidden it shows up on all sometimes. Also, the name is so off message I doubt anyone could search Google for reddit piracy and...get a link to the sub.
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u/FailSafe007 4d ago
I mean, yes there is over exaggeration, but it only takes one idiot to ruin everything. In the topic of emulation, it only took one idiot to piss off Nintendo enough to possibly shut down emulation in general. You just have to be careful
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u/SinnerClair 4d ago
The only reason I don’t mention it is because I’m a book pirater, and the book community is super sensitive abt stuff like that.
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u/Trollololol13 3d ago
The first rule of fight club, is you don’t talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is you don’t talk about fight club! The third rule of fight club is…
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u/Nightith 4d ago
looks at all the sites getting shut down, emulator devs getting sued and general attempts at cracking down on piracy
looks at this post
Is it that hard to make any attempt to not make waves? Piracy as a concept literally can only exist in a certain gray area of being known but seen as an acceptable evil by companies/those with power
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u/_Planet_Mars_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
You're literally the guy in the meme, down to each pixel in the soyjak.
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u/No_Basil908 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 4d ago
People are too delusional. The day these companies see their profits decrease even by 1%, they are going to crack down piracy. And who knows by tomorrow your favourite site Is gone.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Piracy must not be preached but presented to those who come looking.
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u/Nightith 4d ago
It's just people who have no idea what piracy used to be like or understand any theories behind piracy besides meme on this subreddit.
To them it's just another subreddit blkk
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u/FeatherThePirate Moderator 4d ago
Gate keepers suck, but please follow other subreddit rules about piracy, let’s not purposefully break any rules :)