carson

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[–] carson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It be nice if some private trackers offered a forum section, similar to invite section, that offered advertising these behind a certain rank.

I'm on one that is, behind a PT that you have to like apply and get into after a certain rank on the tracker.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah like others mentioned, I would strongly advise against doing this. Will probably get scammed or cabal banned at worst too.

But my advice if you have the money to spend and want to just easy access, look at the donation signups that Brickfrog mentioned.

In particular, I think TL, PHD, HDT, AvistaZ, and CinemaZ are worth while to donate and join.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have found other services like Tidal aren't as advanced with their DRM it seems, I'm able to download using some command line CLI off github full FLACs and everything.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For remuxes I find BLU internals (WiLDCAT, BLURANiUM, CONSORTiUM, PmP etc) to be solid. I find a lot of them really go the extra mile and make a definitive remux with best video qualities, audio qualities, subtitles, chapters etc. They aren't really racing for the fastest release but building quality remuxes.

As far as like remuxers that race to do the latest releases, CiNEPHiLES, EPSiLON, FraMeSToR, KRaLiMaRKo, TRiToN, and LEGi0N I'd prefer in that order I'd say...but they often are just aiming to do a plain one source remux from a single blu-ray and not much else. Some opting for custom discs or make mistakes with bad DV layers etc.

I think above all else. BLU does a really good job of curating the best remuxes possible. They have a few individual users who do great remuxes but aren't like big groups...and a whole program where they mark ones as BLURANiUM approved.

For WEB-DL HONE and FLUX I think are the best that are active. NTb often won't do a hybrid DV HDR release and it's annoying. HONE is also great because they do H.265 for 1080p. Otherwise most are fine really...

For movie encodes, I typically will just grab the 1080p HDR encodes that are available or otherwise just a 1080p x264. Lot of the HDB and BHD internals basically here, the Aither internals are good too...but lot of the time I do it myself from a good remux!

I often grab re-encodes for older TV series with way too many episodes and I don't care about quality as much in particular. QxR, TAoE, EDGE2020, Vyndros, YAWNiX, iVy are good in my book.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's certainly alive and exists.

But access to music is easy and affordable. It's more inconvenient for me to pirate it than just use a streaming service.

I also listen to a lot of independent artists and rather buy their stuff to support them.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curiosity Stream, Nebula, Tidal, Soundcloud, Spotify, Prime, and a Plex share basically.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think only an extremely authoritarian government could, who doesn't care about what the citizens think....if that was what they cared to stop.

Excluding that, stopping piracy wouldn't really be something popular with voters and probably would be very expensive to enforce. i.e look how SOPA and PIPA went down in the US.

 

I joined OPS via a recruitment some time back, but I really don't need this tracker much I don't think.

Don't really care to grind for climbing through it's invite forums. Don't have much need for music torrenting as I thought at the time.

My only worry is like, if I just let my account go inactive would it reflect poorly on the tracker I joined from? That is a tracker I do care a lot to stay in good standing on.

[–] carson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Seems solid, I was really excited for Mastodon and loved the idea but.......I didn't really use Twitter much so I didn't have a need for it still.

Reddit has always been my go to social media so I'm glad a fedi version of it exists with lemmy!