Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Everyone needs a Gary in their life.
I’m happy to be the Gary for my less technically inclined friends. Their lack of knowledge would get me kicked off private trackers if I invited them so they could curate their own collections, so it’s just easier to be the guy who makes it easy for them.
Be like Gary, sharing is caring.
Oh no, just like if you were actually hired to do a red team simulation for a business! They would have strict rules of engagement and certain systems would potentially be defined as off-limits.
How terrible of Hackthebox to *checks notes… promote industry standard Red Team practices.
Like… which scene groups or individuals?
Don’t really have a particular favorite, although Subsplease is pretty snappy for anime if you want it as-it-releases.
Otherwise, for groups focused on US/UK/European media, whatever’s got the quality range I’m seeking and preferably a season pack all from the same group/same quality.
Just a mild burtation.
i always have good success with libgen.is
People like this are jerks who only share their library with people who already have ultra rare shit. They want to trade rare for rare.
They think they are special for their collections and their actions are anti-thetical to the entire piracy ethos.
I would ignore them and keep searching for another source because its unlikely you have anything they will willingly trade for.
It’s dumb and I can’t stand those people.
But it makes me laugh when they have their collections locked up but other people are freely sharing what they have locked up.
The stuff I don’t want to share… I just don’t share at all. No reason to make it frustrating.
Related: Some people prefer the Nicotine+ client for Soulseek. I personally prefer the classic one myself, but I’ve met many who prefer Nictone+.
There was just one on May 3rd. Upcoming ones are on September 6th, October 4th, and December 6th.
Unlike Spotify, if I download the music, I get to keep it. It doesn’t disappear from the streaming service because of licensing issues. Even if it disappears from Bandcamp itself, if I already have a local copy, I get to keep that local copy.
For 15 years the only way I could listen to 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul was to listen to the rip of a CD I made years earlier, because licensing kept it off of streaming services.
Spotify can and will remove music from their library. Bandcamp can’t remove my files from my PC and various backups. It’s the equivalent of having a physical copy, but in digital format and is transferable and able to be backed up.
Some of us still prefer Bandcamp over Spotify since artists actually get paid worth a shit from it, but that’s just me.
I’ve been trying to find this interview with Mark Hossler for over a decade. It was around 2006-2008, it was pre-youtube and hosted as an mp4 file on someone’s blog… I have been unable to find it, nor have others. If you can find it easily on YouTube… it’s not the interview I’m talking about.
Anyway, it spoke deeply on this point. I’ll try to make my best summation of what Hossler discussed in this interview.
Basically, his position on art and how you can have “control” over your art was this:
If you want to control your art: Keep it in your home, don’t take pictures of it, don’t post it online, keep quiet about it and maybe let people who enter your home view it.
The key is this: All human minds function on copying and memetics. We inherently “copy” ideas that we see in real life, without even thinking about it. Taking this a step further, anyone who wants to “copy” your art can simply do so by viewing it, internalizing the details in their mind, and then (if they’re a talented artist) recreate your art themselves.
In other words, there is no real way to have complete control over your art short of locking it inside of a box and never showing it to anybody. The act of sharing it with others means you’ve put the idea of that art into their mind, and if they wish to do so, they can absolutely copy it. There is no stopping this act, this is innate to how the human mind functions, learns, and adapts.
So if you want “control” over your creations, you better not be sharing them with anybody.
Once you’ve shared your creations (art or engineering) with the world, someone out there will be capable of copying what you did. Further, with billions of people on the planet, someone out there will be capable and willing to do it.
The point I personally think Hossler was making is that in sharing something at all, you’ve already destroyed any of your own attempts to control the use of the idea. Stop trying to control your creations and instead hope society will do it’s best with them.
EDIT: Downloaded and shared on Soulseek, so now there’s at least two people sharing it on Soulseek.
I’m in a queue to download it on Soulseek. m4b format all right? I think that’s the iTunes audiobook format.
I fucking swear people. Soulseek is still ridiculously useful for finding more obscure shit.
I know it’s old and insecure as shit, but holy fuck it still works and you can find shit you just can’t find elsewhere other than maybe USENET.
EDIT II: It’s even good for scene releases if you know the exact title.
Soulseek Download: http://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1
Soulseek Alternative Frontend Nicotine+: https://nicotine-plus.org/doc/DOWNLOADS.html
Please have co-op, please have co-op, please have co-op.
System Shock 2
Need a remake of this waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than System Shock 1.
Someone should download this just to run Wireshark on it to see what it’s actually doing…
I think McDonald’s makes you make an account these days to use their WiFi, I could be wrong, however. This means you now have identifying information about you and your connection on McDonald’s servers, which can be subpoenaed in an investigation.
Local libraries generally require you to have a Libary Card, which is associated with your library login. Because lots of people need library computers, they need to be able to get people to leave the computer without having to physically remove them. One of those ways is with tracking who is connecting by associating their account with a library card and disconnecting them automatically after a period of time. Your library usually wants you to live (or at least exist in) the neighborhood, and will have your name and address on file. This can also be subpoenaed in an investigation.
MAC address spoofing is trivial, sure, but a lot of folks don’t know to do it, and in any one of these cases, if they used the MAC address that was burned in when the product was sold, they have a real opportunity to nail down which specific device connected. They would subpoena the manufacturer for records of where that device was sold, they would subpoena the records of the local retail outlet, and have information on the sale of the device used to connect.
In your neighbors case, you could just be condemning them to civil or criminal liabilities, depending on the laws in your jurisdiction. That’s a pretty “not nice” thing to do.
I’m sure there’s plenty of others. Those are just off the top of my head. Most of the reasons involve “companies keeping information about who uses their services and how,” often called “logs.”
There’s a lot more information than just an IP being sent in a TCP packet.
To be clear, I’m not the person you were responding to originally and I think OP is fine if piracy is legal where they live, you just asked how it would be possible and so I tried to think of ways related to the suggestions you made. Cheers.
I have questions:
Does the government just “not care” or is piracy specifically legal because there aren’t local laws against it?
While you say they don’t care right now, do you think there is a possibility that they might care in the future? Because governments often capture lots of information on their citizens with the knowledge that they can then target people that they dislike. Piracy is one of many things governments can use against a person if they really dislike them or what they’re doing.
If it’s explicitly not illegal and won’t be in the near future, I wouldn’t be too worried.
However, it might be a good idea to avoid public trackers anyway and focus on slowly growing a good reputation on private trackers. That might take some time, especially if you have a slow connection, which is quite possible in a country that doesn’t care about this sort of thing.
You won’t necessarily need a VPN for a private tracker, but it gives you a small amount of protection since at least the members of a private tracker are a (supposedly) vetted, trusted community instead of just any random person grabbing your IP.
but it’s not my job to teach you how to break the law.
It sounds like it’s literally not against the law where this person lives. Like The Pirate Bay when it began, they responded to US lawyers sending them takedown requests by pointing out that US law didn’t apply to every country on the planet.
That could change in the future, sure, but I think that this person probably has a better idea of whether that’s a possibility in their home country than we do.
I’ve not had great success with Mullvad, it seems like they’re a known quantity to the BBC, or at least their VPN endpoints are. I didn’t have any WebRTC leaks or anything, but it still saw me as being outside of GB.