Piracy General

[Betonhaus]

Also, your research is silly. I have a single disk shelf with more than 168TB of capacity today that cost just shy of $5k a few months ago. You can't compare 2003 capacities and costs to today's. Not to mention the NSA having a disgustingly near-infinite budget.

Aside from the fact that the bandwidth throughput would also be a lot higher, you would need very specialized hardware to fill up the storage space fast enough. Back of the hand estimate is that your personal pool would take at least ten days to be filled up, not the single day needed for the 2003 estimates. Assuming that speed and capacity has scaled up still requires a massive amount of memory and storage manufacturing, and the nsa doesn’t have secret factories of its own but it buys from standard manufacturers like WD and Seagate. And the sheer amount of storage they would need to buy would be constrained by existing factories, with their purchasing having to add up to more than any other customer combined and that would be hard for publicly traded companies to hide from their investors.

Sure I bet they tell their leaders (which in theory would be the President) that they can read the entire internet, but they would be limited by filters. If they wish to prove me wrong then I’ll be buying a lotto max tomorrow that better be a winning ticket when they’re done.

 

[moocow]

Dumbest motherfucker on this site, I swear to fucking god.

 

[gampboonerisms]

So when does AI take dis jeerb? But for real, when does AI roll out into mass surveillance and fuck over the copyright cucker. Within 3 years? Bets:

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Dumbest motherfucker on this site, I swear to fucking god.

100% of pink triangles deserve it

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

So when does AI take dis jeerb? But for real, when does AI roll out into mass surveillance and fuck over the copyright cucker. Within 3 years? Bets:

AI is already in mass surveillance. Flock Cameras, and now this SignalTrace that is going to use additional device fingerprinting to track where you are and who you are specifically. These companies that are vendors for it are openly proud of it. They simply do not care anymore. I said it in a different thread, but ever since the mass surveillance was exposed by Snowden and others, the government agencies just laughed and didn't care anymore about it being clandestine. People simply did not care about mass surveillance and just went on with their niggercattle lives. I did at the time as well, I was just a freshman in high school and only cared about video games, so I had no idea what was going on, then once I was older and started seeing a lot more "personal ads" infesting my devices that I went down the rabbit hole and really got interested in how bad it's been and getting.

 

[moocow]

AI is already in mass surveillance. Flock Cameras, and now this SignalTrace that is going to use additional device fingerprinting to track where you are and who you are specifically. These companies that are vendors for it are openly proud of it. They simply do not care anymore. I said it in a different thread, but ever since the mass surveillance was exposed by Snowden and others, the government agencies just laughed and didn't care anymore about it being clandestine. People simply did not care about mass surveillance and just went on with their niggercattle lives. I did at the time as well, I was just a freshman in high school and only cared about video games, so I had no idea what was going on, then once I was older and started seeing a lot more "personal ads" infesting my devices that I went down the rabbit hole and really got interested in how bad it's been and getting.

The most insulting thing about it all is that if (big "if", I know) it was used for genuinely beneficial purposes, it's unfathomably powerful and useful.

They could use this shit to solve cold murder cases, put a literal end to human trafficking (and drug trafficking for that matter), solve and stop just about any crime involving any kind of financial fraud (whether the fraud is the goal or a means to an end), root out and stop every terrorist plot out there, catch every leaker, refute and disprove every lie by every propagandist (along with rooting out their funding networks and sources), and make this world an immeasurably better place ...

... but doing so would implicate far too many wealthy and powerful people, from politicians to deep state department heads to billionaires, and so the fucking cunts don't have the balls to do it. Nah, instead they've deployed this obnoxious global dragnet to peddle fucking ads, track people's movements for petty crime enforcement (while blocking useful enforcement, e.g. cities ditching Flock to avoid it being used to deport actual criminals), and correcting "wrongthink." It wouldn't even be a particularly hard sell to most people to grant the "wielders" of this crime-ending tech indemnity (or at least cap their punishment for shit they're caught up in at "you lose your job and your access to this shit once it's fingered you") but they still won't do it because of the risk of having to give up power.

I fucking hate them for it, so fucking much. The most well-connected, high-power, high-capacity pattern-matching and trace-following systems ever devised by humans, and they won't use it for anything beneficial. Only to sell us shit and hurt us.

 

[analrapist]

Good ol' kuso-director Uwe Boll is capitalizing on his film Citizen Vigilante's right-wing hype by posting it for free on X for ~48 hours, a bit under 1 of which has elapsed. https://x.com/CitizenVMovie/status/2070144987224743956

Posted to Piracy General because yt-dlp grabs it trivially, but if you wanna be boring, you can just watch it for free.

Quality info:

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Citizen Vigilante - The movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see.  Uwe Boll's #CitizenVigi... [2070139883226607616].mp4':
  Duration: 01:28:46.06, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3949 kb/s
  Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 1920x1080, 3816 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 2400k tbn (default)
  Stream #0:1[0x2](und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Good ol' kuso-director Uwe Boll is capitalizing on his film Citizen Vigilante's right-wing hype by posting it for free on X for ~48 hours, a bit under 1 of which has elapsed. https://x.com/CitizenVMovie/status/2070144987224743956

Posted to Piracy General because yt-dlp grabs it trivially, but if you wanna be boring, you can just watch it for free.

Quality info:

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Citizen Vigilante - The movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see.  Uwe Boll's #CitizenVigi... [2070139883226607616].mp4':
  Duration: 01:28:46.06, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3949 kb/s
  Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 1920x1080, 3816 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 2400k tbn (default)
  Stream #0:1[0x2](und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)

3800kbps is pretty good for something you can "officially" get for free. I will never understand 128kbps for audio, though. Nobody should use bitrate this low for music or movies. This isn't 2003.

 

[analrapist]

Nobody should use bitrate this low for music or movies.

Opus at 128 is decent. I aim for Opus at 144k for my portable music collection. AAC, eh. I wonder what the encoder was. AAC is very encoder-dependent. 128k gets a bad rap from MP3. But the failure cases are usually in musical contexts.

 

[0da2]

3800kbps is pretty good for something you can "officially" get for free. I will never understand 128kbps for audio, though. Nobody should use bitrate this low for music or movies. This isn't 2003.

Is it a Twitter thing maybe?

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Fuck Sony

https://archive.is/oKlLw

 

[Anonitolia]

Hello, does anyone know if PM2G is a good place to be grabbing repacks from? The guy's on rinru, so I'm not expecting him to be malicious, but his .zips make me nervous (pic rel) and FMHY doesn't endorse nor condone him. Seems like there's just a dearth of information on the guy. I went through like 20 of his repack threads to see if anyone was pointing out issues or anything off with his repacks, but the most I got was one guy thanking him for his work in broken English.


Just wanted to know if anyone else here has experience with him and knows that I'm just being paranoid again. Thanks.

 

[Most Wanted Banana]

The US government seized nearly 400 websites that were streaming FIFA World Cup matches.

The Department of Justice announced today the seizure of nearly 400 sites that were engaged in the unauthorized streaming of matches in the FIFA World Cup Finals in violation of U.S. copyright law.

“We have seized hundreds of domains, used to illegally stream World Cup matches for profit, to disrupt the international networks that profit from the global popularity of the World Cup,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This operation illustrates the Department’s respect for intellectual property rights and the responsibility of the United States as a host nation to protect the FIFA World Cup from criminals. The Criminal Division will continue to disrupt and, where appropriate, seek to prosecute these sites and the subjects responsible for this criminal activity.”

“The unauthorized broadcast of World Cup matches violates intellectual property rights and fuels criminal organizations,” said Director Ivan J. Arvelo of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. “Through Operation Offsides and strong partnerships with law enforcement and the private sector, we identified and seized hundreds of domains, disrupting those who steal and distribute copyrighted content. Our ongoing efforts ensure that the excitement of the World Cup reaches fans through legitimate, secure channels.”

Servers and domains linked to illegal streaming of World Cup games were targeted in Peru and Bulgaria, two known centers of online piracy activity. Additional ICHIP-supported disruptions took place in Croatia, Romania, Poland and Colombia.

 

[moocow]

Fascinating how fast foreign governments can act when they want to. Guess they really just don't care about muslim rape gangs as much as they care about people watching soccer without paying.