"the girls are fighting, aren't they?"

Internet providers are increasingly tasked in the role of anti-piracy enforcers and instructed to block pirate websites and services. In Europe, court-ordered blockades are now commonplace, but ISPs are cautious when it comes to further expansion. In a recent submission to the EU Commission, EuroISPA, which represents over 3,300 ISPs, complains about "disproportionate" blocking measures, as recently seen in Italy, Spain and elsewhere.

Since spotify starting playing cat and mouse with revanced and xmanager users I tried Youtube Music. On PC I use spotx for spotify but I'm starting to enjoy ytm more and more, and I'm wondering if there's something similar to listen to it on PC.

If possible, something that's well known and considered safe.

Edit: I think there's the website with ublock, but does it work well?

When platforms like Facebook and YouTube receive takedown notices from a reputable sender, Japan's CODA for example, the vast majority of requests are usually honored. Yet, the responses from obvious pirate sites and more legally ambiguous platforms couldn't be more varied. Some refuse to act, period. Others have compliance rates higher than Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok.

Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.

mullvad and proton stand as vpn. However, mullvad does not allow torrenting because there is no port forwarding. Mullvad should not be on the list

As title says. I have a music.youtube liked playlist of over 3k songs and I would like to get them onto my phone. I have yet to find a way to do this just from the liked music playlist. Is it even possible?

There's no torrents available and no way to stream this show without being from the UK. Its a trans show called What It Feels Like for a Girl

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002c6nz/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-series-1-episode-1

I was planning to set transcoding on the M.2 by using a Pi M.2 Hat board. However, since the M.2 is already there, should I just use it to run the OS and downloads, too, or just use it as a transcoding consumable and media drive? This Pi 5 has 16Gb of RAM, so it might handle every bit of the transcoding regardless, but I have not tested it. I'm also concerned about latency between the main Pi board and the hat, connected with a flexible circuit board cable.

Also, anyone have issues with media storage on external drive when using Plex/media servers?

Equipment has been ordered but has not been delivered yet. Should come the next few days.

A lawsuit filed by educational publishers in 2024 accuses Google of profiting from textbook piracy. At the heart of the complaint are claims that Google's ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies promotes pirated copies sold by third parties. In its recent motion to dismiss, Google argued that the publishers' vicarious liability claim fails to meet the legal standard. In an opinion and order handed down this week, the judge agreed - but not on everything.

I normally use usenet, but I use torrent as backup. I heard of https://ext.to/, what are other that are good?

American Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is pushing back against increasing calls to broaden pirate site blocking in the EU. The company notes that since similar efforts in Spain and Italy have resulted in extensive collateral damage, there's a need for more transparency and constructive collaboration on the anti-piracy front. Cloudflare also wants rightsholders to pay for their overblocking mistakes.

I dont know what is causing but i tried tons of fixes, i mainly use public torrenting, and sonarr and radarr are doing it.

I added *.arj and arj to the quality profile avoid list without success, and prowlarr is as torrent (i've read sometimes it gets confused and uses nzbget)

A few days ago eu.qobuz.squid.wtf and us.qobuz.squid.wtf stopped supplying full length downloads and each track is 30sec. Then today dab.yeet.su went the same way. Any suggestions for a replacement site? I knew it was too good to last.

As my greedy title says, is there's a way to pirate only fans content?

The slow downloadspeeds got on my nerves so I wanted to find some ps2 torrents and found this reddit post.

2,64TB with more than 2.000 Games. Still very good upload speed.

I tried with seal but it didnt work. I dont want to mass with torrent

Don't intend to use them on the actual server/website, since people have me sussed out about security issues, do want to use them to test out themes and plugins. Is gpldl the best resource, I only think that since ive been able to download some stuff for free at least while the others i've found off google dont seem to have that option. Has anyone here paid the "donation" for a month? Never really trust paying for piracy, half the time they take my payment but I never get verified or the stuff is out of date once I get let through.

Find it interesting how every piracy site for wpaddons is paid, straight upreselling these addons for a dollar or have sub fees. Youd think thered be more purely free ones with it being gpl and so common.

The one I had bookmarked here hasn't seen activity in 3 months...I'm feeling left out

I currently have an arr-stack setup on my home server with qBittorrent, which works relatively well. However, I mainly have two issues with it:

1. There is very little content available on BitTorrent in my native language (Dutch), not even on private trackers afaik
2. There are many torrents which take days to download, or even worse get stuck (hate it when that happens, especially if it's at 99%)

This got me interested in Usenet.

As for point 1, I found an NZB indexer which seems to have a lot more Dutch content. I still have some questions, however.

1. I understand that apart from having access to indexers I'll also need a Usenet provider. How big are the differences between providers? I can find plans between €2 and €20 per month; does it matter that much which I take, apart from retention rate and download speed? Do all providers host all newsgroups?
2. As for point 2, I understand that if content is on a provider's servers, then you will be able to download it with whatever speed your provider gives you. How much content will I actually be able to find? Why isn't content constantly taken down?
3. Is using a VPN recommended with Usenet?

[Solution at end]

Essentially what the title sais.

I want to give this genre a try, but I also want to use mods. Also, Im on Linux so if there are any extra steps I need to do if I install through lutris/steam (as non-steam game) then I would really appreciate your input. The only reason I am currently considering steam as a non-steam game for the install method is just so I dont fragment my games library too much across multiple platforms/apps. If there is any reason not to install it in steam please also let me know.

Much appreciated!!!

[SOLUTION]

Turns out the torrent I found was just a .rar file of the game with the crack file already there. All I had to do was unpack it, then add it through Lutris as a locally installed .exe. I did have to change the runner to proton-ge as the default wine would not start the game. I also had to go into the prefix it created and apply this fix (steamcommunity link) to get it to stop displaying an annoying pop-up message every 30 minutes or so (yet to test it out, but it should work. Will edit again if it doesnt remove the pop-up message).

Also, strangely enough at least for my experience with pirating games, the in-game mod "store" worked perfectly, and I didn't need to manually move files to a mods folder, though I'm sure that would also work just as well.

EDIT 2: The workaround to edit the playtime in the game files worked and I no longer get the pop-up message.

I think the total cost for me would've probably been like $5000 (USD) at least. Like at least 100 movies. 150 TV shows, 50 games.