Anon needs Jellyfin.

I’m tired of pretending [piracy of lossless rips of] physical media isn’t still better than streaming digital.

It is fun to own a physical version for my favorites though. Especially when effort goes into crafting an actual souvenir and not just a money-grab.

I wonder if pirates can come to the rescue by providing uncensored textbooks to students.

arrr!

If I’m training my NI (natural intelligence), that’s fair use, right?

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my AI is so good, it generated one that’s 100% identical

plus my AI uses less than 99% of the electricity of Microsoft’s

If I were doing this and lived in a country that’s not hostile to piracy, I’d look up webhosting providers in my country. I’d then learn a little HTML and CSS at https://www.w3schools.com/html/ and just write pages in Notepad++ and upload them to the server.

If my host dumped me, it would be ridiculously simple to re-upload the files to a new host.

No worries. I already acknowledged that ripping or piracy were probably simpler.

For me, it’ll be a little more convenient to do the downloads than to spend time ripping. I’d have to go to the room with my computer that has a drive. Downloading I can do with my laptop anywhere.

I’ve been meaning to get better acquainted with yt-dlp’s settings for use all over the web, and the April deadline put on pressure to learn sooner rather than later.

And, although the disc version is undoubtedly better, the archivist in me also wants the digital copy version as it was available.

For others, they may not have a disc version at all and want to backup their purchases.

Edit: And, oh yeah, MakeMKV is awesome.

unholy offspring of lightning and death itself

Yeah I agree. I can always do that later though. The digital copies will be gone in a couple months.

Find a Usenet provider. A quick web search and some reading should get you to the right place. I’m not sure if any good free servers are available anymore, but there’s probably one that’s cheap enough.

Looks like https://sabnzbd.org/ is a free and open source Windows/MacOS/Linux client that can download files. I haven’t tried it, but it’s highly rated on alternativeto.net

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Obsidian

1. Find a tracker with open invites or a recruiting interview
2. Be a positive part of that community, seeding forever, and becoming (usually) Power User or higher
3. Look through the invites available in the PU+ forum section for other communities that interest you, and get invited from there

Too much work to delete the torrent.
Just let it seed forever.

It’s public domain to me.

Lionsgate TPB will be releasing Kevin Smith's Dogma in 4K

Yes. I cap upload and download, so the rest of my network runs smoothly. I then seed forever, so if anyone wants it, they can have it if they’re patient.

HTML is pretty fun and easy. Here are some example websites that explain why an HTML+CSS site is a good idea.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

And the drivatives:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

https://bestmotherfucking.website/

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/

https://thebestmotherfucking.website/