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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

this is a crosspost from here, for some reason it isn't linking automatically

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UPDATE: Just checked and subscene is now down for me

So... what're your guys favorite alternatives?

The ones I'm aware of but haven't used much are:

UPDATE 2: needed subs for an ep of a moderately popular crime procedural show that aired 4 days ago on a regular tv channel, so updated to note experience with them. tested in librewolf on vpn:

  • english-subtitles (dot) org : had latest subs, no issues downloading.
  • subdl (dot) com : site was realy fast compared to some of the others. had latest subs, no issues downloading. that said, it had creditted the uploaders from subscene so it was easy to see that the subs were just copied from there. i probably need to retest this stuff again in with something else in a few days to see which sites are getting new uploads that arent just copied from subscene.
  • my-subs (dot) co : did NOT had subs for latest ep. did have subs for previous ep. no issues downloading.
  • podnapisi (dot) net : had some weird css fuckup on the search results (i use always https mode so maybe realted to that?). but they had latest subs and no issues downloading.
  • subtitlecat (dot) com : mostly for translations. Otherwise I generally avoid this one since I prefer my subs to be spot-on. had latest ep, no issues downloadig.
  • ~~yifysubtitles (dot) me~~ : they did not even have current season of the show. if they did, then there search sucks balls so hard you might get a ruptured testicle.
  • ~~opensubtitles (dot) org~~ : update: these guys use fucking google fucking recaptcha which has been extremely fucking assholish in firefox/librewolf lately especially when on vpn (im talking you can submit 15+ correct and it still say you wrong and dont let you pass). so they can fuck right off my list until they decide to switch to literally anything else besides recaptcha. seriously guys how can you call yourselves "open" anything and using fucking google recaptcha. you can do better than this.

Happy to hear complaints on any to avoid too.

edit: for any curious why, I found this is from an older thread from before the final closing announcement:

24 February 2024

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Yesterday, we received unfortunate news from one of our trusted admins stating that the owner of the site intends to shut it down due to insufficient revenue.

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Passed by Congress late December 2020, the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA) was crafted to urgently close a loophole in copyright law that treated unlicensed reproduction and distribution as a felony, but unlicensed streaming as a misdemeanor. This week, well over three years later, a 40-year-old former operator of an illicit IPTV service became the first person to be convicted under the PLSA. While a win is a win, the case wasn't entirely straightforward.

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Hey everyone,

since YouTube started annoying us with their “disable ad blocker” thing, I managed to get rid of it by uBlock Origin and a Tampermonkey script. Yet, the stupid popup is back. To everyone who's gotten rid of it until now: What did you do? Can you point me to the resources you used? It's annoying!

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I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

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I've seen a number of posts lately like "How to get yadda yadda yadda" but when you click, the content is actually a question about the subject line, which sucks.

If you're posting a question, please make it look like a question. It's EASY... Just put a QUESTION MARK at the end of your subject line. It looks like this:

?

We're pirates here, not fucking savages.

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subtitles on max (self.piracy)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by blargbluuk to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hey, just curious if anyone's had any experience saving the subtitles from max.com recently? I can only find old info about it being an xml file when it was HBO Max and that no longer seems to apply.

I've tried a couple random utilities (Subtitle-Downloader, ttml2ssa) and can't seem to make any progress. If you can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it!

edit: Like with most things I seem to do, as soon as I post about it I actually start digging into it more and figure it out. So anyway, here's how I figured it out:

I used The Stream Detector extension in firefox, start the stream up on max.com with subtitles enabled, then monitor the extension until it shows a vtt file. Then I download the vtt file using the extension and can convert it to srt using ttml2ssa and use it normally.

edit 2: alas I discovered that downloading them this way will only download up to a certain time in the video. I haven't explored further but I imagine I'd have to go either play or seek through the video to get it to trigger the next vtt file which I could download (I haven't confirmed as of yet). May update again if I figure out a better process for this

(final hopefully) edit 3: doesn't seem to be an easy way to automate this but what I ended up doing is using the stream detector extension in firefox, configured to automatically download vtt file extensions from streams, then just open the video on max, scrub through roughly every 9-11 minutes to get the each piece of the vtt file, they're named sequentially at least. Sometimes it will grab duplicates so I just wrote a quick powershell script to delete the duplicates, and rename the files based on the episode name. Then I convert the vtt to srt, and finally I use Subtitle Edit to join the srt files into a single one since the time stamps are all correct. Then I've finally got a usable full subtitle file to use.. yay..

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🏴‍☠️ AHOY fellow pirates and welcome to the state of global piracy for April 2024! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I'll see if I can make it happen.

Enjoy the numbers!


TOTAL SCENE RELEASES BY SECTION

I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview. Numbers in braces are the values from the previous month.

total section
19.708 (21.123) TV (HD)
12.848 (15.462) MP3
5.773 (3.663) XXX
4.682 (8.271) FLAC
3.133 (4.902) EBOOK
2.894 (2.947) MOViES (HD)
2.475 (2.737) TV (SD)
1.726 (993) ANiME
1.482 (1.395) SPORTS
1.357 (1.247) DOCU
797 (549) APPS
595 (561) GAMES (PC)
579 (431) MOViES (SD)
426 (460) GAMES (CONSOLE)
279 (294) MViD
165 (272) BOOKWARE
43 (48) ABOOK
6 (12) OTHER

Total: 58.878 (65.367)


TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

total group sections
1. 2.542 (2.171) ↑ +4 PTC FLAC,MP3
2. 2.516 (2.528) ~ WRB XXX
3. 2.210 (2.501) ~ AFO FLAC,MP3
4. 1.792 (175) ↑ +76 LEWD XXX
5. 1.773 (1.578) ↑ +2 NEUROSiS MOViES (HD),TV (HD)
6. 1.322 (1.985) ~ FLAME MOViES (HD),MOViES (SD),TV (HD),TV (SD)
7. 1.253 (969) ↑ +6 NORKiDS TV (HD)
8. 1.185 (1.089) ↑ +2 EDITH MOViES (HD),SPORTS,TV (HD)
9. 1.146 (1.133) ↑ +2 CBFM MOViES (HD),SPORTS,TV (HD)
10. 1.078 (893) ↑ +4 AMB3R MOViES (HD),MOViES (SD),TV (HD),TV (SD)
11. 964 (1.106) ↑ +1 ZzZz MP3
12. 950 (423) ↑ +25 SKYANiME ANiME
13. 880 (823) ↑ +3 VEXED FLAC
14. 827 (2.400) ↓ -10 21A1 EBOOK
15. 781 (669) ↑ +5 TRIPEL MOViES (HD),TV (HD)
16. 750 (750) ↑ +1 RAGEMP3 MP3
17. 740 (823) ↓ -2 CHOPiN MOViES (HD),TV (HD)
18. 736 (1.466) ↓ -9 TVARCHiV TV (HD),TV (SD)
19. 644 (568) ↑ +5 CTO EBOOK
20. 621 (3.064) ↓ -19 BABAS FLAC,MP3

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

total group
198 (198 / 100%) KIDENGEE
41 (2.210 / 2%) AFO
25 (73 / 34%) WESTVLETEREN
24 (117 / 21%) RVKD
19 (380 / 5%) BAE
11 (139 / 8%) LOST
11 (1.319 / 1%) FLAME
10 (92 / 11%) ROSiN
10 (1.206 / 1%) EDITH
9 (424 / 2%) Narcos
9 (11 / 82%) BONDYE
8 (463 / 2%) HiggsBoson
7 (25 / 28%) XME
7 (501 / 1%) OLLONBORRE
6 (329 / 1%) WAYNE
6 (96 / 6%) KIDFINEE
6 (740 / 1%) CHOPiN
6 (82 / 7%) PRUTTEGUTT
6 (75 / 8%) NERO
5 (21 / 24%) MERCATOR

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

total section
360 TV (HD)
77 MP3
59 MOViES (HD)
16 FLAC
12 XXX
12 APPS
9 GAMES (PC)
7 MOViES (SD)
6 SPORTS
4 TV (SD)
3 EBOOK
2 ANiME
1 ABOOK

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR APRIL 2024

From the 58.878 scene releases, only 32.648 of them had file + size information.

They total to: 59,96 TB (59.961.189 MB) in 617 thousand files (617.126).

No idea about the size of the missing information, so the real value should be much higher.


ARCHIVES


NOTES

  • Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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I have online courses from some platforms that I could share, what is the best way to download them?

Searching the web seen the extension https://cococut.net/ are there also alternatives for Firefox or better alternatives?

After I download the videos is it recommended to convert them to some other format for example with ffmpeg?

I am looking for some introductory documentation to WEB-DL or similar

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in the center of France

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10068948

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In a judgment published today, Europe's top court concludes that suspected file-sharers can be subjected to mass surveillance and retention of their data as long as certain standards are upheld. Digital rights groups hoped to end the French 'Hadopi' anti-piracy scheme, claiming that it violates the fundamental right to privacy. The CJEU's judgment leaves no stone unturned explaining why that isn't so, leaving case law to deal with the turbulence.

Judgement here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62021CJ0470

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I'd like to buy a French comic I can't find online from any store that sells French Bande dessinée (Amazon, fnac or anything else) and then ask for a refund so I can keep a nice *.cbz or *.cbr file on my hard drive.

Any guide out there on how to properly de-DRM comics? I'd like something easy if possible I'm tech and computer savvy enough but not "coding" savvy

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Note: I have no idea what was actually meant.

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Torrent (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I'm near the origin

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I have a collection of about ~110 4K Blu-Ray movies that I've ripped and I want to take the time to compress and store them for use on a future Jellyfin server.

I know some very basics about ffmpeg and general codec information, but I have a very specific set of goals in mind I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction with:

  1. Smaller file size (obviously)
  2. Image quality good enough that I cannot spot the difference, even on a high-end TV or projector
  3. Preserved audio
  4. Preserved HDR metadata

In a perfect world, I would love to be able to convert the proprietary HDR into an open standard, and the Dolby Atmos audio into an open standard, but a good compromise is this.

Assuming that I have the hardware necessary to do the initial encoding, and my server will be powerful enough for transcoding in that format, any tips or pointers?

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Earlier this year, a Hawaiian District Court blocked movie companies' efforts to unmask alleged BitTorrent pirates using a DMCA subpoena 'shortcut'. The filmmakers asked the court to reconsider its position but without success; the 'DMCA shortcut' will remain closed. The rightsholders will appeal the order but won't be able to use evidence previously obtained through settlements with pirating subscribers.

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The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed new customer verification requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers. The goal of the 'Know Your Customer' regime is to prevent fraud and abuse, including piracy. In response to this plan, prominent rightsholders want the department to expand the proposal's scope to include domain name registrars and registries. Ideally, they argue, domain companies should also be required to take down pirate domains.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

After movie-web got taken down including all their github repositories, a fork called sudo-flix emerged.

Their links are:

From what I can tell, it's a perfectly working fork. So go ahead and star, fork and host instances and code on other platforms!

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This isn't exactly piracy, as I intend to pay, but I'm wondering how I can use a VPN to get a cheap Deezer subscription.

I'm trying to use TunnelBear with an Argentine IP to get a very cheap Deezer subscription, but I keep getting an error when I try, and I think it might be because the credit card I'm using is not from Argentina.

Is there a way around this? If not, do any other music streaming services allow you to use a VPN for foreign pricing rates?

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I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community.

What I am looking for is a way or tool to extract from a YouTube playlist the information which of my saved videos (usually very niche music from about a decade ago) are no longer available in it (so that I might procure them elsewhere).

With google being google, and the condensed information of "x videos are no longer available" that is displayed, I am fairly sure the information isnt gone gone, just hidden from the user.

Is there a way to get at that info?

Thanks in advance

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Hey all, please don't even think of replying here with suggestions for actual IPTV providers, just DM me if you're willing to make a suggestion. Otherwise, let me know if the below situation is normal.

Long story short, I'm new to IPTV and looking for one that does US sports. I just got semi-scammed (at least, misrepresented) by a provider I found on one of the forums.

I spent most of my trial period struggling to get a VPN to work (and thought I did). Then I paid for six months, which was dumb as shit.

I picked up PIA to replace Mullvad, since that one has an Apple TV client and I'm Mac/iOS/tvOS. That broke IPTV on all devices. And why? Because these guys block VPNs due to "other IPTV provider want to steal our streams from their servers" broken English BS excuse that I can't even make sense of. What does one thing have to do with the other?

They want me to use their VPN, which is based on either Outline or Surfboard (the second doesn't even have a website). On Mac, that would mean using Tunnelblick to run their custom config file. The best part is:

In the chat, I asked what I should do on Apple TV. That's when they ghosted, since they have my money now. And then came back to say "Oh, actually we DO allow VPNs, it's your ISP that's blocking them."

So how come I can go anywhere and do anything on PIA, except use IPTV?

I'd love to know if that situation is abnormal. Am I right that streaming a bunch of IPTV using some rando's config file (or in the clear) is batshit? This is all on the high seas so I gotta use a VPN, right? Am I just misunderstanding the technical issue due to the language barrier?

Experienced IPTV sailor perspectives welcome 🏴‍☠️

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