Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Anyone knows how or where I could find 3D Models and assets mainly for Blender personnal projects. edit : Obviously the places like sketchfab and similar ones i know, my question is if theres any places that share models and assets that are more on the paid side.

I'm planning on using Zotify to download a couple playlists of music I've added over the years. Before I do that, I'd like to be able to make a copy of the playlists before downloading any music in the off chance my account gets flagged by Spotify.

I would like the playlists be ready to use with other services or music seeking apps like deezer or soulseek. I've tried searching but a lot of results bring up sketchy websites that ask for your Spotify account login and I'm cautious of that.

I'm just doing this as a an extra backup step and hopefully things go smoothly with Zotify.

I like to run qBittorrent on a Linux laptop to try and minimize the risk of Microsoft tracking what I'm doing and to protect my main system from viruses. I'm having an issue with it though. When I go into Advanced and select Network Interface, Proton VPN is not an option there. I only get lo, eno1, wlp4s0, ipv6leakintrf0, and tun0.

How can I get it to bind to the VPN so that I don't have to worry about it freaking out and sending unencrypted data through qBit?

EDIT: I also tried torrenting Ubuntu and killing the VPN just to test it out. It didn't stop downloading and uploading when I did that.

Saw this on mastodon and thought I'd share it here.

What the title says. Not sure if temp. error or its over. If it is over, then I hold my hat in my hands, RIP YAPS, and thank you for providing plenty of entertainment for me when I decided to flip netflix the middle.

Whenever I visit Facebook now, I get the following message or suspension warning (note the link is from someone else's instagram account posted on reddit and I only link to it because it's the complete warning at a glance)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/18bsjib/we_suspect_automated_behaviour_on_your_account/

I have no idea what they're talking about or why I'm suddenly getting the message. I originally assumed it was related to my VPN but apparently not.

Anybody else suddenly getting this warning or know what might be going on?

jc141 is a linux game repacking group that use .sh scripts to configure wine prefixes but also includes native releases allowing users to easily play games on linux.

the script is bash and must be run with dialog and from within the directory where jc141 games are stored.

make a .sh file called launcher.sh or whatever else. paste the bash script, save to the dir that has jc141 releases and launch in terminal. personally i set an alias in bashrc that links to the .sh script

mozila paste bin

Hi fellow sailors,

i have lots of downloaded... ISOs... that i need to converto to save space. I would like to make them all of the same size, let's say 720p, and same format, let's say h265.

I am on linux and the... ISOs... are sorted into a neatly named hierarchy of sub-folderds, which i want to preserve too. What is the best tool (CLI) for the scope? I can use ffmpeg with a bash script, but is there anything better suited?

Has anyone else had trouble accessing audiobookbay through the mullvad VPN? I tried multiple different servers without success.

I'm moving in a week and changing my ISP, so my plan is just to pirate a few terabytes of music and games on this IP and dip out. I've never pirated anything before though, what's the easiest way for me to do this?

Some shows in UK are free to watch but you need to create an account in their webpage and you usually need a physical address (plus they have ads but maybe those I can skip). I don't live in the UK, so I'm unsure how to watch those shows. Torrents are extremely hard to find, even more of good quality. Does someone have some advice on this? In particular I was looking for certain cooking tv show contest, but not only that.

Hello based people of lemmy,

I have recently started trying out BSDs as an alternative to Linux and found out that Spotify isn't supported. Before you say try it in a browser this doesn't work as spotify has DRM that doesn't work on BSD OSes.

Now is there a way to stream music similar to Spotify? I know there is a downloader program available.

Furthermore do you know what self-hosted options are available? I already have a basic *arr stack and am always up for convoluted server and Linux hijinks.

Hi, I'd like to set the sails due to being frustrated with streaming services, but I have some questions beforehand. I hope, you can help me with that, since lurking and reading the Megathread/Wiki didn't really answer my questions. Thanks for your help.

1. Is just using a fitting VPN (I've read about Mullvad and ProtonVPN in this community) safe enough to not get caught? I'm located in germany, so sharing even as much as a few kB of pirated content can cost me thousands of euros. I want to be really sure, that I won't get letters from some lawyer soon. All, that I've read so far is basically: Setup VPN and your Torrent software, including kill switch and maybe get into private trackers. Thats it. Is this really enough? Can I do more to be safe? What exactly is the risk with public trackers (as they are often mentioned as the "low hanging fruit" for copyright lawyers)?

2. I've read the post The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking, which mentions many tools to setup. I'm sure these help me find and view content. But are there good resources explaining the functionalities of this software? I'm familiar with Docker and I know about Jellyfin, but it is really unclear to me, what exactly all the other tools do.

Big thanks from a long time lurker!

Any free options available?

Background: I bought a Blue-ray set that came with a code for the digital copy. This was back before Funimation was acquired. I could go through and rip my discs since Sony seems to be on the verge of nuking my digital copies, but teaching myself yt-dlp seemed more convenient.

Here's are the settings I ended up using with yt-dlp to download digital copies from Funimation. I paste all three of these at the same time into the terminal, but you can paste them one at a time if you want. I'm on Linux and log into Funimation with Firefox, but it should be almost the same for Windows. The URL needs to be changed for each download. I have noticed some downloads stalling, but I if I refresh the pages that lists the episodes, the download resumes.

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox -F https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --list-subs https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --write-description --write-info-json --write-sub --write-thumbnail --embed-subs -o '~/Path/To/Downloads/Video/Folder/s%(season_number)02de%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.funimation.com/path-to-episode

Here's what each part means:

Line 1:

 -F

Outputs you which versions are available. I have it tell me this, so I can make sure when I run Line 3 the output matches the highest quality listed in the output from Line 1

 --cookies-from-browser firefox

Tells yt-dlp to use the cookies from your browser to authenicate the download since it's only available if you're logged in.

Line 2:

 --list-subs

Tells yt-dlp to list the kinds of subtitles it can find. I have a few episodes that it cannot find any subtitles even though they're avaiable when streaming. It seems like it's something weird with some episodes, and is probably related to this: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/1656

Line 3:

 --write-description

Makes a .description text file with the description metadata in it in the same folder you download to.

 --write-info-json

Makes an .info.json json/text file with all the metadata in it in the same folder you download to.

 --write-sub

Makes an .srt srt/text file with the subtitles in it in the same folder you download to.

 --write-thumbnail

Makes a .jpg image file of the thumbnail artwork for the episode in the same folder you download to.

 --embed-subs

Embeds the subtitles in the downloaded video file.

 -o '~/Path/To/Downloads/Video/Folder/s%(season_number)02de%(episode_number)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s'

Specifies the download path, and formats the filename as: s##e## - Episode Title.mp4

Hope this helps someone. I realize you could skip all this hassle and just pirate it somewhere, but I'm not sure where to find this specific release other than the digital copy on Funimation.

I'm looking to test out Windows, but I don't want to download it without my VPN. I'm trying to use it in a virtual machine with GPU passthrough so I can play all my games. I also obviously don't want to pay for a copy. TIA!

The problem: My download is fine but seeding is very slow and intermittent even for popular torrents. I think this could be improved using IPv6 via 6to4. 6in4 or 6rd, all of which are supported by my router, to discover more peers.

My ISP allowed me to forward the port so I am discoverable via IPv4, but doesn't support IPv6 and I understand the aforementioned technologies as a way to connect to a tunnel broker, which would forward my packets to the IPv6 internet.

However, they are another entity that can monitor my internet activity. Are there any, preferrably free, 6in4/6to4/6rd tunnel providers that are known to be torrent-friendly? Are there any firewall rules I should set up for my security, like only allowing IPv6 traffic to the qBittorrent port? My ISP doesn't care about torrenting so I haven't been using any kind of VPN. Should I?

Oddly enough, I have no problems seeding on a specifically Central European torrent tracker, which usually maxes out my measly 2 Mb/s DSL upload, but the dozens of peers at international trackers, some of which must be in Europe, barely leech data from me. Am I presumed to be slow because of a slow ping from the presumably American server, or is my disqualification from IPv6 so impactful? I find it strange as I can download from 20+ peers simultaneously and top out my 20 Mb/s plan.

It's not only a glossary, it allows you to tailor *arr stack to your 'needs'

Looking into self hosting for this and this seems to be the top answer on the googles but, then again, the googles are shit now so i figured id ask you folk.

Hi all 👋

I'm looking for some help locating large packs/collections of crossword puzzles (in my case for use with the Shortyz/Forkyz Android app) pretty please (sob story below if you're interested). I promise I'm not trying to be lazy (though it's possible, as my mum would say, that I'm having a boy's look), but I've looked around on archive.org, all my usual pirate sources (the generals and MAM have a bunch of books in PDF/ePub and the like, but nothing in machine-readable format), Forkyz list of sources, and ofc Google, and come up I feel surprisingly empty.

Anyway, thank you in advance to everyone 💙

NB: This is an edited-for-context cross-post from here. Please remove if not appropriate 👍

<sob-story> Dad's in palliative care and my step-mum is getting a bit bored with her Sudoku puzzles, which of course I've had no trouble providing lol. </sob-story>