Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I managed to get Photoshop CS6 installed on Lutris, using the script on their site. The problem is however, that whenever I open a file (doesn't matter if it is jpg, png, psd, etc.) the screen remains black. I can see the picture in the Layer thumbnail, but not in the main work-area. Does anyone know what the problem might be? (Also, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask).

Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?

I've only just discovered Usenet and while it is paid, it is very cheap and much more convenient than torrents.

Using torrents as well with the *arr suite set up for my various Linux ISOs.

A question here recently brought up memories of listening to this song growing up. Long since lost my copy and had to hear it again. Figured some here might get a trip out it.

TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime

The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it's not permanently banned

IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that's in the public domain

Also: if it wasn't that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem

So basically I want to download an album that is only on Apple Music onto my Android Device to listen offline

Is this possible?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21328454

PGSub - A Giant Archive of Subtitles For Everyone

I've been working on this subtitle archive project for some time. It is a Postgres database along with a CLI and API application allowing you to easily extract the subs you want. It is primarily intended for encoders or people with large libraries, but anyone can use it!

PGSub is composed from three dumps:

• opensubtitles.org.Actually.Open.Edition.2022.07.25
• Subscene V2 (prior to shutdown)
• Gnome's Hut of Subs (as of 2024-04)

As such, it is a good resource for films and series up to around 2022.

Some stats (copied from README):

• Out of 9,503,730 files originally obtained from dumps, 9,500,355 (99.96%) were inserted into the database.
• Out of the 9,500,355 inserted, 8,389,369 (88.31%) are matched with a film or series.
• There are 154,737 unique films or series represented, though note the lines get a bit hazy when considering TV movies, specials, and so forth. 133,780 are films, 20,957 are series.
• 93 languages are represented, with a special '00' language indicating a .mks file with multiple languages present.
• 55% of matched items have a FPS value present.

Once imported, the recommended way to access it is via the CLI application. The CLI and API can be compiled on Windows and Linux (and maybe Mac), and there also pre-built binaries available.

The database dump is distributed via torrent (if it doesn't work for you, let me know), which you can find in the repo. It is ~243 GiB compressed, and uses a little under 300 GiB of table space once imported.

For a limited time I will devote some resources to bug-fixing the applications, or perhaps adding some small QoL improvements. But, of course, you can always fork them or make or own if they don't suit you.

Hi Everyone,

Apologies if this isn't the right place for this. I have been trying to run DQX Offline (Switch) on Suyu for Android on an Ayn Odin 2 (Pro). Using the English Patch. After about 3 days of tinkering I finally got it to work and wanted to share how.

I had many issues getting the game to start, getting it load, to render anything at all, and then getting it to render properly. It's all been harrowing, I wanted to document this process for anyone else with the same trials and tribulations I have been facing the past few days. Please note there is more tweaking and adjusting to be done, and this may not all be mandatory. However these are the settings I was using when I got the game to a playable state.

-Download the Latest version of Suyu (Build: 0de49070e4-relWithDebInfo)

-Download Switch Firmware 18.0.0

-Download GPU Driver Turnip-24.2.0_weav-chan_R19_Experimental

-Download the Game, Patch 2.01, The English Patch, and All the DLCs

-Download the English patch

Install all of the above (For those unaware, GPU Driver is from Suyu's main menu, Firmware is from Manage Suyu data.)

Go to Advanced settings:

System:
-Docked Mode: off

-Emulated Region: Japan

Graphics:

-Accuracy Level: High

-Vsync mode: Immediate

-Use asynchronous shaders: On

Debug:
-CPU Backend: Dynamic
Edit: NCE works fine and has better FPS.

Using all of the above I got the game to launch playable. 

Here are some images of the various issues I had while testing:

World Rendering only in white

Nothing Rendering at all (Flashing)

World Rendering with Artifacts

All shading wrong - Pink mostly

World rendering in Sepia

And the final working image

I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I'm loving it.

However, I don't get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it's faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

These groups do most mainstream shows with similar settings so when should you choose one over the other?

I am having issues it keeps saying internal server error did the fuzz get them ? edt: also why isn't it in the megeathread ( if it is not being in the process of being nuked right now it is much better than most sites there)

Torrents • Uploaded: 2,627 • Uploaded today: 78 • Seeders: 4,230 • Leechers: 9 • Peers: 4,239 • Views: 299 • Downloads: 15737 • Comments: 217 Members • Registered: 6,489 • New today: 5 • Warned: 0 • Disabled: 56 • Messages: 12,778

LunaSea, the open source Usenet monitoring app is pronounced dead for the most part. The developer via a Reddit thread said this:

tl;dr: development focus has shifted to a successor to LunaSea and is slowly being worked on. No timelines at this time, as I’m working on it when I have the drive to spend time on it. LunaSea is in maintenance mode and won’t be receiving any updates unless there is a major breaking issue discovered due to one of the supported modules having a breaking change.

LunaSea was started over 5 years ago and in truth has a really poor code base. Mix of inexperience at the time with good design patterns alongside rapid feature releases has grown LunaSea to a point of being a huge time investment to make any major changes to the project.

• Mix that in with a few other things, I have lost a lot of interest in working on LunaSea. Some things include:
• A tale as old as time in the industry: major burnout. This has triggered me to spend a lot more time investing in hobbies outside of coding and my computer in general
• Getting married late last year and spending more personal time with my wife
• Planning a cross-country move later this year and preparing for that
• Taking up a higher seniority position in my professional career (also as a software engineer) which has me committing more time to my career

You also pointed out a really good fact, LunaSea does not really have any income. As it is now, donations are about equal to the infrastructure cost for maintaining LunaSea. Between donations on all the different platforms and Ko-Fi, I average approximately $40-$50/month.

It’s increasingly difficult to want to invest a lot of time into something that isn’t really garnering any financial gains. I would probably estimate at least 3,000 hours have been spent working on LunaSea, and while I am a huge proponent of open-source and free applications, and I don’t regret making LunaSea FOSS, I do wish that I had more financial gains to show for how much time was invested working on the project over the years.

All that being said, I’ve slowly been chipping away at working on a successor to LunaSea. LunaSea is no longer being worked on but I will publish a fix for any major breaking bugs if they occur. As it is now, LunaSea does have minor non-breaking bugs but is in a state where all intended functionality works, so there is no need for any updates.

The successor will remain fully open-source, but will charge for the client application when installed from a monetization-supported platform (such as the App Store, Play Store, etc.). However, free copies of the binaries (IPAs, APKs, etc.) will always be available officially.

This will be a complete rewrite that shifts to a server-client approach where the user would install/run (via Docker) a server component and the client application connects only to that. It allows me to start fresh away from all of the technical debt while having a much improved experience across the board.

However, I’ll admit I’m not overly focused on this either. I work on it when I want to, and I’m not putting any pressure on myself to meet any timelines or release in any timeframe. I really love software engineering and want to avoid burning out again.

I made the mistake of giving general timelines before regarding this project and have missed them all, so at this point I can only say it will be ready when it’s ready. Progress is still being made (albeit admittedly slowly), and I will remain monitoring feedback and giving support for LunaSea when I can.

Back when we would record onto VHS, is that considered piracy? Found a super bowl XXXI tape from my Uncle circa 1997. I'm curious lol.

Also side note, have any of you dabbled in digitizing old VHS? Have quite a few home videos on VHS and I'm wanting to preserve them for the future. I've done a bit of research and have come across a wide array of information. I know that doesn't really qualify as piracy, if there's a better comm for this, please direct me there!

I have been using this config for qBittorrent for awhile and been working for the most part. Sometimes it gets "connection status: Firewalled" I would fix this by going to settings -> connection and click the "Random" button a couple times and save and then it would work again. This seems to not work anymore. Is there a better fix for this? Back before I used docker I don't remember ever having to do this. I have never done any kind of manual port forwarding my current VPN provider does not do that at the price I have it for right now. Let me know if you need more information about my setup or something

Thanks I guess it is just randomly breaks for now since it appears to be back.

Current Config file (minus the keys and stuff)

services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=windscribe
      - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=
      - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=
      - VPN_ENDPOINT_PORT=
      - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY= 
      - SERVER_REGIONS= 
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
    restart: always
    
    
  qbittorrent:
    container_name: qbittorrent
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - /home/blxter/server/qbittorrent/config:/config
      - /home/blxter/raid/media/torrents:/torrents
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      gluetun:
        condition: service_healthy

If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

Looking for more modern high quality files for a QRS player piano system. New to this, but it seems like midi files are the most likely to find since specialty qrs / player piano file formats seem nearly nonexistent on the internet. Having a hard time finding copyrighted more modern (most available internet midi files for piano are from 1800s) song libraries of decent quality. Can anyone here point me in the right direction?

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6997656

List of unofficial console PC Ports with Tutorial (Re-/Decompilations)

I have created a list of all the unofficial console PC ports (that are based on Recompilation or Decompilation) I know about, along with easy-to-install versions that have been marked with a star ⭐.

Additionally, I have included short installation tutorials on how to install them. My plan is to keep this list up to date and add new finished PC ports in the future.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14680192

I have a VPS, but no root access so I can't use apt, or even read a lot of the system files. I would like to get jellyfin (or any media server, really) running on it. Jellyfin has a portable installation option, so I followed the instructions in the docs to install it from the .tar.gz.

But it says I have to install ffmpeg-jellyfin, and I can't find a portable installation of that. My VPS already has ffmpeg installed on it. Will jellyfin work if I just point it to that instead? Or, how can I go about installing ffmpeg-jellyfin without root access?

May be of interest to fellow pirates... youtube trailer | invidious trailer

Ah, the good old days of Kazaa, Bear Share, LimeWire, and Morpheus. What do you guys think - did piracy permanently devalue the music industry as claimed? Or were the record companies just massively overcharging for music in the first place? Given that record companies have been stiffing artists since forever, what is the best way to support your favorite musicians today?

In the streaming age, the concept of music piracy seems eons behind us. Back in the early 2000s, however, pirates shook up the industry by stealing and illegally distributing MP3s, which listeners would otherwise have to pay for.

How Music Got Free takes viewers back to the ‘90s and early aughts, when the FBI launched a sprawling investigation into music piracy to identify – and convict – those stealing music. Even once the thieves were discovered, mass music piracy was blamed for permanently devaluing music.

Directed by Alexandria Stapleton, the two-part documentary premiered at SXSW earlier this year.

What is considered the best/safest way to pirate printed magazines? On the Awesome Piracy-repo, there are some links, but they either don't work or look sus (except for maybe magazinelib.com).

If you endulge in free printed magazines, what is your preferred way?

Amazon Prime, like many services, is a DRM hell. It won't go to over 480p on Firefox on Linux at my end. However, instead of a rant, I am interested in why this is happening. Say, I rented the same film from YouTube Movies(Yes, such a service exists) and the quality can toggle all the upto 1080p but the same title on Prime Video is stuck at 480p. Is it because both services use two DIFFERENT kinds of DRM?

For starters, I used to live in a third-world country and have been pirating since about 8 thanks to my older bro, and to my knowledge, I never got a virus thanks to good practices and habits like vpn+ and staying only with a trusted tracker (and obviously some luck too). But I stopped when I grew older and made money. Except recently I got caught lacking. I downloaded something from a website I didn't usually go to a while ago and apparently had a silent malware infection. I forgot to have 2FA on in my Google account and saw a login from Russia. I don't have anything particularly sensitive saved even passwords wise in my google account but still I acted quickly by logging them out turning it on ASAP and changing my passwords. They had been doing stuff and deleting their tracks like attempting to log in somewhere and delete the email right after (I knew because my phone would get notifications and then when I clicked on them they would be gone and deleted) This has all stopped as of now.

But I noticed something weird, that they probably did not account for, and that is I had Firefox syncing my info including PW right before it happened. And I noticed that he made an account for AT&T (and saved the info) with what I presume is his very Russian or Ukranian-sounding email, or one of his hacked botnet slaves but his password was literally my GF's name and year of birth. there is no evidence of my gf anywhere besides me emailing her 2 memes when her phone was broken, but even then her email is only her name and not her YOB (if he did go to my sent tho, he would see her right away as i only have sent like 12 emails from that account which would make more sense). This password was not in the google pw manager which tells me he deleted it from there but FF synced it. I tried logging in with those credentials to the ATT website and an account indeed exists, with a $245 payment due with no payment method added. I couldn't see anymore without verifying through text, and the options all looked like random foreign numbers. Has anyone had anything like this happen to them? Why would they go out of their way to do that instead of generating a randomized password? I am willing to share the email address.

Upon closer inspection, the password was created on April 14th and used on May 21 which means it was actually before I got that malware. Another likely scenario is my info was part of a leak. Thoughts?