Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Your link is malformed, working link is here: top five regrets of the dying

It's important for rare/poorly seeded torrents, but not at all important if it's a new release movie or something like that which will be well seeded.

You can always visit the donations page to see funding progress. It's currently sitting on 47% of the fundraising goal to see us through until the end of the year. Thanks everyone for your support.

You can post a link to the landing page of a site, but direct download links are not allowed. So https://getcomics.info/ is fine, for example.

I don't think so, my version has the full name: "Bypass Paywalls Clean"

Just FYI, from this article "Interested users still can install an XPI file from author's GitLab here."

This method is how I installed the latest version on Firefox, because the original one was no longer updating.

Lol snap

Have you tried the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension? There's a version for Chrome and Firefox. It works for many sites but not everything. I think Firefox removed it from their add-ons repository but you can install it manually. There's a good article on that decision here and also a method to use uBlock Origin for this purpose.

I think this is the best approach. We don't want direct download links here (see rule 3) for exactly this reason. We want to be able to serve as a pirate community in the long term without having to play whack-a-mole with hosting providers and domain names every few months, to say nothing of the legal risk. But I would expect we would be able to add such an instance to the Megathread if the mod team liked the idea, so it's at arms length from this instance. 👍

In this instance, no direct download links are allowed, but can't speak for other instance - that's up to them. You can always PM links to people, or link to another landing page elesewhere like 1337x.to just to offer us some protection from DMCAs. We are pro-piracy after all, but this space is for chatting about it rather than file sharing.

Have you tried Usenet?

Just before this gets too off topic, please remember this is c/piracy, not c/politics. Any further political posts will get removed.

So long as they can pocket a few hundred milion from the IPO, Reddit management couldn't give a monkey's about any of their milions of users or the thousands of communities that made Reddit valuable in the first place. They are quite happily flushing all that down the toilet to get their big pay day. Why didn't they just go non-profit like Wikipedia? That's the only business model that makes sense for Reddit and is sustainable. But then nobody gets to become a multi millionaire, and we can all see which would be the bigger tragedy for u/spez.

Thanks for the question and for bringing it to our attention. We are (mostly) all quite new to the Lemmy platform and haven't yet put together a specific privacy policy for the instance, or looked into customizing the default behaviors regarding logging. For the time being I would suggest you take the usual precautions of using a VPN and following privacy minded practices when creating your account. We will post a sticky about it once we have had time to consider all the ins and outs.

Fully agree, even though Lemmy is decentralised, each instance is still hosted by a hosting provider and is subject to DMCA and other enforcement actions like any other website. That's why we don't allow specific file requests and direct downloads etc. If we went that route, it wouldn't be long before we were shut down, then have to start from scratch every few months, which wouldn't be sustainable.

Not that I know of. I'd say we are the most active community for that topic.

It's not something I have been experiencing with lemmy - we have plenty of posts from the past 2 days here in @piracy. It's possible it's could be an issue on either end though I suppose?

So he reckons that without locking out free downstream users, Red Hat would go tits up and the whole Linux ecosystem would fall into the hands of hackers and hobbyists? Fine by me.

I like Jeff Geerling's response:

Red Hat: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

I call them: users.

I fight for the users.

I think that no amount of verification or technical details would satisfy you, because you could simply turn around and say, "well that might have been the case on the day is was verified, but what about the day after?" or "why should we trust the independent auditor?" In other words, you are just trolling. If you are the one claiming they are not trustworthy, despite them having an almost flawless reputation, then the onus is on you to provide evidence to back up your claims, not the other way around.

Gotta say, I love the pop version!