Spyke

Replies

piracy

Comment on

Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight - Ars Technica

If, like me, you just wanted to know what the Bob Dylan defence, is:

"Meta's response in this case seems to be that a powerful technology corporation should not be held to the same standard as everyone else for illegal conduct."

The authors mocked Meta for raising what they call "the Bob Dylan defense" of its torrenting, citing song lyrics from "Sweetheart Like You" that say, "Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king."

piracy

Comment on

Piracy Data: The Film and TV Industry Is No Longer Problem No. 1 in 2025 — It’s Manga

Reply in thread

I don't think ideas are the problem, it's that new forms of distribution are causing the industry to panic. Producers are making safer bets (sequels, remakes, franchises) so original ideas, which tons of people have, aren't getting funded.

Also worth noting that producers these days are less Hollywood and more Wall Street, they don't really understand movies so they make calls based on numbers and precedent that let them estimate profitability.

Comment on

In heat

Reply in thread

Yeah, the way that i would do it is to look up the Wikipedia page for the movie Heat and go to the cast section.

This is how i always look for information and it can actually be to my detriment. Like that time i went to Reddit to ask them what that movie was where time is a currency, and somebody pointed out that i could have just googled "time is money movie" and it would have immediately shown me In Time (2011).

Also, when i want something from an app or website i will consult the alphabetical list or look for a link to click, instead of just using the search bar.

I don't know, somehow it never entered my brain that search bars are smart and can figure out what you meant if you use natural language. Even though they've been programmed that way since before i was born

piracy

Comment on

and also when you do now that i think about it

Reply in thread

Beats me. I get peers from DHT, from trackers, and a few from PEX, but once they're in a lot of them time out. A lot of them return "Connection reset" too.

Happens a lot less when i set up port forwarding properly, but it still happens. Could be a lot of things, and i don't have the technical knowledge to even know about most

Comment on

Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?

You're going to be opening that package often over a short period. I don't think it's useful to tie it down too tightly, and i especially don't think it's useful to introduce accessories (clip, bottle hack), you'll have to deal with them every single time you open the bag.

It's also just a fucking bread bag, you don't need to secure it so firmly.

Twist and tuck or just tucking, maybe tying a knot if it's going to get jostled a bit (going camping)

piracy

Comment on

In this thread, i figure out how to transfer Tixati from Windows to Linux; step 1: core2.dat doesn't work

Reply in thread

Oh i see it now, i didn't mean it like that lol

Yeah as far as i can tell the best way to do this is to export all magnets out of the old system, import them in the new system, make sure the file path / location is correct, and force check. It's what i did, but a lot of transfers are apparently only 99% complete even though they were 100% before. Of these, many have 0 peers so i don't know if there's any hope of them completing.

It's a shitshow. Honestly i fucking hate torrenting right now, nothing ever works

piracy

Comment on

Fellow pirates, How to download all the liked videos/song from YT music.

Liked Videos and Liked Music are private playlists, they have a generic URL and you can only access them by being logged in. I have two methods to download Liked Videos:

  • Install a desktop app video downloader, most of them have the option to download an entire playlist.

  • They also have an option to add a cookies file so you can download private playlists, such as Liked Videos or Watch Later

  • Log in to YouTube in your browser

  • Export the cookies from the browser

  • Import them to the desktop app

  • Download Liked Videos

That's what you're supposed to do, however i never got that to work. If it doesn't work, you can transfer all your liked videos from the private playlist to a public playlist. Here's what i do:

  • Create a new playlist called Downloads, and make it public; it now has its own specific URL, unlike the generic URL of Liked VIdeos

  • Install the YouTube Multiselect browser extention

  • Use Multiselect to select every video in Liked Videos and add it to Downloads

  • Use the desktop app to download the Downloads playlist

This is how i download my private playlists like Watch Later or Liked Videos, i assume it also works for Liked Music