Force of habit!

Never really used Tor, my main experience was with ZeroNet. One reason I went with ZeroNet over I2P was that ZeroNet didn’t interefere with the rest of my traffic & still let me use the regular internet whenever I wanted to.

If I understand I2P outproxies correctly, I guess that means I2P still monopolizes your connection and outproxies are a workaround for that, right? An I2P intermediary that passes on normal traffic between you & the rest of the internet?

https://mk16.de/assets/docs/outproxies_in_i2p-english.pdf

The last time I experimented with I2P (7 years ago?), you couldn’t use the clear web at the same time as I2P. Is that still the case?

Don’t forget Big Buck Bunny!

Which meant people had to actively find & pay for a Usenet provider. Which they didn’t do when there were so many additional venues to discuss things online for free.

I believe the smoking gun were emails showing that Grooveshark management told employees to upload music, fatally undermining the “safe harbour” defence of “we shouldn’t be held responsible for the actions of users if they upload copyrighted material”.

While I posted the link here in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com , that’s not the focus of the site; I think they’re considering Usenet “over” as a place where many people discussed things. (I know I haven’t used it for that in… over two decades?)

A download of the Stephen Chow film 回魂夜 (Out of the Dark) (1995) that I got with eMule in the late 00s/early 10s.

It’s a horror comedy, much of which takes place at night. Meaning it’s dark to begin with. But this copy was an RMVB file, a format developed to show a postage-stamp-size streaming video on a web page in the last days of the dial-up era. The video was so low res and dark barely anything was visible.

In addition the subtitles were of the shitty, burned-in, let’s-not-bother-paying-a-real-translator type. So I couldn’t see and I couldn’t understand anything 😅

Still got it on a DVD-R somewhere, though.

Got a few pirate VCDs in the late 90s to play on the Philips CD-i with FMV chip, like The Replacement Killers. Fortunately they were pretty good quality.

My first experience with lektors (thanks for teaching me the name!) was years ago with a season of M*A*S*H I got from P2P: one guy droning on in Russian over all the original actors’ voices. So I thought it was something exclusive to Russian pirate media! I mean, no one in their right mind with a legitimate licence to release media would put out something that shit , right??? 😆

Fortunately those files came with a secondary audio track that did not have the boring Russian guy droning over the actors, so I didn’t have to suffer through it.

But then last November I tried to watch (legitimately, not pirately) a Russian film, the action movie Одиночное плавание (The Detached Mission) (1985) and got… a lektor speaking over the dialogue. I resisted the urge to commit murder for 10 minutes (I really tried to give it a chance) before I quit in absolute rage at the boring f%&king c%nt talking over everyone!!! 🤣

To add insult to injury, the lektor was talking in Russian over characters who were speaking in English, so I had to read the English subtitles just to understand what English-speaking characters were saying!

My experience detailed here: https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube/p/1514124/full-movie-odinochnoe-plavanie-the-detached-mission-1985

The fact that there are countries in the free world today that still perpetrate this crime against humanity makes me want to cry! Give me subtitles or give me dubbing: anything but a f&%king lektor! 😆

Thanks, that might be it.

Thanks for that info!

No VPN.

The article explains that the key services are tied to the hardware & probably controlled (with an attempt at plausible deniability) by the hardware vendors.

Guess someone now needs to come up with a a way to pirate these pirate services 😁

Thanks!

I got Jackett plugin working in qBittorrent for a few indexers (e.g. TPB, Knaben), but 1337x returns an error, with a message that takes me to a page that doesn’t explain what the problem is or how to fix it.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

Anyone know how to fix that?

Thanks so much for all those great tips! Saved.

Thanks for all that great info!

ATM I can only find the Onn Stick on the usual sites here. WIll keep looking for the box.

Thanks for the info.

I see Amazon MX showing the Shield for MXN $4,300, which is maybe 2~3x what she’s hoping to spend. And the Shield TV for $3,200. Still pretty pricey.

Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks.

• Re reset: does every power disconnection (blackout; unplugging) count as a reset, with an ONN requiring VPN to re-setup?
• Could a free VPN be used for ONN setup?