Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

In conclusion, while the alleged intention behind intellectual property laws may be to foster innovation, their practical effect is often to hinder it. The right to innovate—to freely explore, develop, and share new ideas—is fundamental to human progress and should not be unduly restricted by overzealous attempts to commodify knowledge. As we navigate the complex landscape of 21st-century innovation, it is crucial to critically examine and reform IP laws to ensure they serve their intended purpose of promoting progress rather than stifling it.

I dont know who needs to hear this bit qBittorrent has a nasty vulnerability ( and there are some older ones too)

qBittorrent, on all platforms, did not verify any SSL certificates in its DownloadManager class from 2010 until October 2024. If it failed to verify a cert, it simply logged an error and proceeded.

To be exploitable, this bug requires either MITM access or DNS spoofing attacks, but under those conditions (seen regularly in some countries), impacts are severe.

The primary impact is single-click RCE for Windows builds from 2015 onward, when prompted to update python the exe is downloaded from a hardcoded URL, executed, and then deleted afterwards.

The secondary impact for all platforms is the update RSS feed can be poisoned with malicious update URLs which the user will open in their browser if they accept the prompt to update. This is browser hijacking and arbitrary exe delivery to a user who would likely trust whatever URL this software sent them to.

The tertiary impact is this means that an older CVE (CVE-2019-13640 https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-13640/) which allowed remote command execution via shell metacharacters could have been exploited by (government) attackers conducting either MITM or DNS spoofing attacks at the time, instead of only by the author of the feed.

Full write up is here: https://sharpsec.run/rce-vulnerability-in-qbittorrent/

• The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at risk—in digital form—of disappearing from public view without ever being archived.
• Cyber attacks, like those against the Internet Archive, British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library and Calgary Public Library, are a new threat to digital culture, disrupting the infrastructure that secures our digital heritage and impeding access to information at community scale.

They seem to have put up a password on their link protector. No way to contact them. Wondering if anyone happens to know what the password is or how to contact the owner

Is there a way to download or otherwise use Brainscape flashcards without paying (imo) high subscription prices for their "brain science"?

I'm going to see what I can do on my own but I'm low skill so any help would be appreciated.

TIA!

The US Copyright Office has denied a request to allow remote access to out-of-print video games, a decision that impacts video game preservation efforts. The request, supported by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network, aimed to let libraries and archives digitally share these games with researchers. However, the Copyright Office ruled against it, citing potential market harm and copyright concerns.Key PointsDenial of Exemption: The request sought an exemption under the DMCA to enable remote access to preserved games. The Copyright Office found that proponents did not sufficiently demonstrate that such uses would be noninfringing or fair.Opposition

Arrr mateys, how goes the plundering?

If any of ye salty sea dogs has a hankering to create some fresh images for the c/Piracy Wiki Community Edition, we'd all be much obliged to ye.

Cast ye eyeballs on the example banner image below (660 x 200), but mind ye that it doesn't have to be that exact size, just something that'll fit nicely in the wiki (more detail on that below).

The links below be a treasure trove of direct links to each of the wiki pages. To be sure, we'll be wanting a unique image for each of the pages, 18 in all! That's a lot of art, so it's fine if you only want to submit a few - but be ye sure to clearly mark which page each image is intended for. I've gone and numbered them for convenience.

Ye may be wanting to use the example image as inspiration, or go your own way with a completely different art style - that's completely up to your own creativity, me hearties. If ye want to include a pithy tagline to go with each image then all the better, but it's not a requirement.

1. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/
2. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
3. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/all-purpose/
4. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/anime/
5. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/books/
6. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/emulators/
7. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/games/
8. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/mobile/
9. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/movies-and-tv/
10. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/music/
11. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/software/
12. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/sports/
13. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/tools/
14. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/faq/
15. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/isp-complaints/
16. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/rules/
17. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/guides/
18. https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/glossary/

Contest rules:

• Ye can enter as an individual or as a group of people.
• Enter as many times as you like.
• The booty is getting your banner images included on the wiki pages, including a credit for your hard work. No share of gold doubloons will be awarded, alas.
• The competition will be open for ~2 weeks, starting today, all submission to be received by end of Sunday, November 10th (UTC+0 Zone).
• AI generated art is allowed, but entirely optional.
• Please don't use any copyrighted material outside of fair use (I know, the irony!) just so that scumbag lawyers can't DMCA us.
• To submit your artwork, post ye images in the comments below for now, so the community can vote / comment on their favourites.
• All submissions should be a maximum of 1110 pixels wide by 250 pixels. Please keep a copy of the original art since uploaded images may get heavily compressed by our image storage.
• If you don't want to commit to producing an entire set of 18 images, then that's totally understandable - it's fine to submit as many or as few as ye like.
• Depending on the number and quality of submissions, we may end up choosing images from a variety of artists, or all of them from the same artist if there is a complete set. Or we may decide to rotate images periodically if we get a large number of submissions. That's a lot of words to say that I'm not sure yet what we'll get and how we'll choose the winners. But it'll definitely be based on community feedback, so feel free to comment below if you have any good ideas.

Lastly, I'd like to acknowledge all the kind and knowledgeable folks who have contributed to the Megathread over the years. This new community edition is a bit of an experiment to see whether we are able to keep everything up-to-date as a community, without a lot of gatekeeping. So making the wiki our own with community sourced images is just one fun part of that adventure.

If anything important needs to be added that I forgot in the above, I'll edit this post and add it below:

• Also credit to @crimeschneck@feddit.nl for suggesting this contest!

“Despite the support and enjoyment of the anime by our readers, a business practice that does not benefit the manga artist has persisted. I felt obligated to remain silent until the issue was resolved, and I apologize to the readers who have supported me as a manga artist for this extended period.”

Due to non-payment of royalties, the author had even contemplated pulling the anime and its related songs from streaming platforms during the dispute.

However, earlier this year, Ai reached out to the Ganma! editorial department and Comic Smart to investigate the matter.

In August 2024, the company acknowledged their failure to uphold the royalty payments stipulated in the contract. The editorial department issued a formal apology to Ai and provided a detailed report of the situation.

By the end of August, they calculated the amount owed and transferred the full payment to her.

75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

Hey, so there is a show called all star laff-a-lympics which is only available fully on tubi. It is also available on amazon, but im pretty sure they dont have all of the episodes. Furthermore, tubi version is remastered - the quality is top notch, way better than on any dvd or any rip Ive seen so far. And to add to it - tubi is prettt unstable when it comes to longevity of they library. They had remastered pup named scooby doo which they deleted over night. So, it is worth ripping - how to do it? I tried streamfab but it only allowed me to download 3 episodes (and I had to run microsoft defender a couple of times since I used cracked version). Also, the show is not available in my country so I had to use vpn.

I see it sometimes when I download games and I usually avoid it but I want to play the game online so I want to know if its a genuine concern. Couldn't find anyone else talking about it on here :P

EDIT: Thanks for the info everyone! Makes much more sense now.

Hi folks. Recently I have ripped some Blurays that I bought because I couldn't find them online. I'm using MakeMKV for that and it does a fine job decrypting discs to my harddrive. Most discs have a single or maybe two or three m2ts files that I could then convert to a mp4/mkv file afterwards using Handbrake.

However, some of the Blurays have a lot of m2ts files (in BDMV/STREAM) that need to be combined to a single result. From what I understand this is not mainly the film industry making my life hard on purpose, but there are different localizations of the videos in place (german, english, french, etc.).

I know there are playlist files in a separate folder (BDMV/PLAYLIST), and they probably are used to link all those video files together in the correct order. But I cannot seem to find tooling to read these files (in a Linux environment, that is).

I might not have the optimal ripping/converting process in place, yet - actually I'm pretty sure of that. But also I can't find much more useful information, right now. Is anybody able to help me here? I really don't want to go through hundreds of file manually, for some discs.

I just found an ocarina at a thrift shop for 10 dollars, and I'm itching to play some fun solos for it. I am not itching to give money to JW Pepper. Is there any way to pirate sheet music? PDFs are ok. TIA!

Is this new? Does anyone what the deal is?

So, I was having a phone conversation with my boss yesterday. The topic was a clustered filesystem that can hold huge amounts of data, and how we would best allow local users to access this data without yhe storage cluster becoming overloaded (because of various reasons, the I/O is relatively slow. This was built for quantity, not speed).

Rights now there's an SMB share, and we're looking at replacing that so that we can have better control over the data throughput. My suggestion is to simply spin up an FTP server.

Then my boss asks: "I'm just curious, but would rsync or NFS work as a protocol instead?"

Well, it's a valid question, so the only thing I could do was reply with the honest answer as to why I chose FTP. Paraphrased and translated:

"Because some 20 years ago my then username carried a lot of recognition in certain communities revolving around software and media distribution, whose rights holders would not necessarily approve of said distribution. We used FTP, because when you're on an ADSL from 2002, you want to have as much fine control as you can to make sure your internet connection doesn't get flooded with requests. One connection at a time, and only one file at a time, which would be ideal in our particular case."

The response I got was a chuckle and that he couldn't think of a better endorsement of FTP as a preferred transfer protocol.

So there you have it - My career revolves a lot of skills that I picked up whole sailing the high seas. And coincidentally, my career now also involves literally sailing the high seas as these storage clusters are used on survey ships.