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Rule 1:

Sexy pirate John Oliver artwork ONLY

Now I have been there for around 4-5 months and Reddit just killing piracy over there and making it a rule uploading this bullshit sucks.

It is not really a useful sub anymore, get off.

Yes I will be active on her though. It is the only useful thing now.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and making it a rule uploading this bullshit sucks

Do you think they just want to troll you?

Have you really not read one of the many stickied posts all over Reddit about the blackout and what the admins are going to do to that website?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's literally the entire point. If the subs are unusable, site traffic falls, Huffman makes less money and looks worse to the investors, and people find better alternatives like here.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's honestly hilarious Reddit bungled this so badly as to upset everyone. Ah well, at least with this digital piracy community I can rest assured a corporation isn't censoring discourse.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reddit is probably going to be happy about the protest in this sub. Can't imagine that investors like the sub about getting stuff for free...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, the sub was closed and Reddit forced it to reopen, so there is an argument they do endorse piracy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still can't believe Reddit actually decided to do that. I thought they were going to ban the sub or keep it closed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I figured given all the other subs to force back open, they should've just not risked the potential bad-press of appearing to endorse digital piracy right before going public as a company, and just stayed quiet and said nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

But then they should be happy we wanted to stay close right? How is a big dead sub better than a private one new people wouldn't even know it exists? Forcing r/piracy open was a very weird decision, I still don't get it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Active on her? She's a lucky lady 😂

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Piracy and privacy guides, two main reasons why I'm here. Arggg 🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user 🙋‍♂️🚢

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@hyperio The great thing is, I don't even have to sign up. I just follow this sub (do you still call it a sub?) from my #Mastodon!

Ahh, bless the #Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think is called community now. At least is c/piracy to access [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You would think that a pirates favorite letter be the r/, but it truly always was the c/.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

pirates be at 'SEA' now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I regret that all im able to give you is a mere upvote

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It won't be the same without RARBG. 😭

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

i still miss isohunt and mininova

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I've not thought about Isohunt for a looooong time. That takes me back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Mininova? I still miss Suprnova!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Wow haven't heard those names in ages

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, consistently great 1080p X265 releases you could rely on them, this was a big loss for me, nobody release that many X265 releases that fast, PSA only mainstream, megusta only TV shows, everything else either too slow or too rare

[–] throwachimera 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I've switched to the RBG and INFINITY x265 1080p releases from TorrentFunk or 1337x. IMO they are a decent replacement for the RARBG x265 1080p releases but its hard to find some movies.

The selection on RARBG was just insane..

That being said. You can still find plenty of the old releases on other trackers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

they are rare to find when I searched recently for X265 1080p releases, I mean for TV shows I downloaded PSA, Elite or mostly megusta anyway, but for movies I downloaded just one time now Infinity, will see how many releases they will have, we will only see what will be the situation

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

@hyperio

Ohhh, what a clueless summer child. Hussshh, everything will be alright.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Arr, take my wooden peg!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Let's do it then

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[–] SpookySnek 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Quick question, how does this piracy community compare with fmhy?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fmhy are just providers of the instance and that's what their general communities focus on. For information regarding the high seas, this is the community you want to look into.

[–] darkstar 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No actually fmhy is technically a "competitor" to this community if you want to call it that. I personally think fmhy has a better megathread than this one due to it being updated much more frequently, but essentially both communities are similar.

[–] Poiar 8 points 2 years ago

Either one community will become big and the other small.

Or, the two communities will start going into niches (like, one being more focused on movies and the other games)

And seeing as you can subscribe to both, I assume that these communities will assist each other.

The strength of federation is that you have no "one-true-community" anymore. If one gets sick (I.e. Reddit) you have other safe havens to take over

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Ich war dabei. Los Piraten!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I didn't use /r/piracy, but I do read this forum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Just the quality of replies and posts here over the old sub, is honestly alone worth the move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm afraid to ask, but why John Oliver?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He makes Last Week Tonight which is a show with a big reach, Reddit-Mods are essentially pinging him.

He did respond on Twitter with a dump of sexy pictures of him to post.

The show is on pause because of the writers-strike at the moment, so it might take a while for this to be a topic.

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