Lol, someone loves the taste of boots

None of this is a likely threat, but is any of it completely outside the realm of feasibility?

Yes. It’s well beyond being worth considering. You’re describing a massive conspiracy where hundreds of people from multiple countries’ governments as well as private corporations would all need to work together without any information leakage. All this to entrap some Canadian programmer who tried to torrent season 2 of a TV show aired in 1990. If any of this was worth doing, it would have been done by now, yet we hear of nothing like this ever happening.

I’ve gone my entire adult life downloading copyrighted material without using a VPN and it’s never caused me any problem. My contract with my ISP confers me a level of trust that I’m perfectly comfortable with. I’m familiar with the Canadian law around this stuff, and how it’s been interpreted by the courts in the past. I am under no threat of financial damages being pursued against me. My ISP has no incentive to log my online activity or report it to foreign authorities. And even if they did, the Canadian courts limit the pursuable damages to four figures; barely enough to pay for the lawyer that would file the suit.

That level of paranoia is a waste of energy. I know that what I’m doing works just fine. Why would some Hollywood studio plant CSAM in a torrent? That would implicate them as well. It makes zero sense. They have better things to do than entrap some nobody in a country whose laws don’t favour them seeking any damages. It would cost them far more in legal fees to come after me than to just leave it alone. The notices they send out are entirely automated and exist primarily as a scare tactic.

If you’re willing to be curious and open minded about things beyond your limited perception and experience, rather than be a know-it-all, I’d be happy to share with you an example email that I recieved recently. I think the language they use is quite interesting.

The law in Canada limits the ISP’s risk exposure and the pursuable damages of the rightsholder. Also it definitely would cost them if they told me “we have not responded to this notice from the rightsholder” and then turned around and did exactly that. That would be a flat out lie to their client. I’d have grounds to sue in a situation like that.

Also, I’ve been doing this for almost a decade and never had any problems. Maybe you shouldn’t assume that your situation is everyone’s situation.

Your ISP has the same access to your data, but they also have a payment account linked to you, and they regularly cooperate with rights holders and law enforcement.

This varies widely by ISP and jurisdiction. I never use a VPN and my ISP doesn’t give a fuck what I download. They forward me the scary letters from the rights holders but they always preface it with “don’t worry, we ain’t no snitch”

Damn, you’re right. It makes total sense now.

BTW I love your username. If only there were some way to make money off it!

No, I get what you’re saying, I’m just saying that the name for the thing you’re describing, where some fantastical premise is extended logically using more realistic science, is “science fiction”.

We call that “science fiction”, not 100% science-based

I’m still stuck on “science-based”

100% science-based dragon MMO

The nice thing about torrents is how lightweight they are. If one thing goes down, ten mirrors of that thing can pop up to take its place.

Nothing. It’s fine. I can’t fathom why people are out here paying for their piracy. Seems like it defeats the purpose. I still find everything I ever want on the same sites I’ve always gone to.

I don’t have a dedicated torrent machine. I sometimes use my phone. Sometimes my gaming PC. Sometimes my TV’s PC.

From reading the readme, it appears yt-dlp is actually the one that’s a fork. It says it’s a fork of YouTube-dl.

I’ve heard of both, only ever used YouTube dl. Not sure what the difference is

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Are you savvy enough to search the internet for a guide on how to do something technical, evaluate if the guide you find is right for your situation, and then follow that guide to do the thing? That’s basically how I set it up for myself. You don’t need to understand the deeper workings of stuff. If you’ve ever modded a video game before or troubleshot a software issue, you’re probably savvy enough.

FVTT does all of the things you mentioned here out of the box. No need for tinkering.

That’s just because the admin didn’t make sure it was updated before game time. I have never had that problem because my server is always on and I connect to it a couple hours before game time. Also I never update the software before a game.

I can’t help you with a cracked version, but I can help you make your decision and tell you it’s very worthwhile. I bought it 5 years ago and have probably used Foundry for hundreds of hours (at least 500 hours based on some quick mental math) with different groups for a total of a dozen different players.

It requires a bit of tech savvyness to learn initially, but just from reading your post I can tell you’ll be fine. It blows every other competitor out of the water. It has a massive community of open source mods which augment it in various ways. Most game systems are also FOSS projects with large communities of developers supporting them.

It’s like the Linux of VTTs, though that’s not a perfect comparison because Foundry itself isn’t FOSS. But it’s highly configurable and moddable, and it really rewards an admin who likes to tinker, while at the same time being very usable right out of the box.

I use it sometimes, but tons of creators apparently DM their content to their subs rather than posting it, which doesn’t show up here.