Piracy General

[DavidS877]

Boot driver failed. Needs replacing and I need to reinstall Windows. What's the best place to get the stuff - words evade me rn - for free?

massgrave.dev ?

 

[Betonhaus]

https://mega.nz/folder/s04wnJJB#Aun09492STMGR_Jqufrscg

here's some science fiction and fantasy books in epub format. 1,000 books, 1gb
Ready for import into Calibre or Kavita or whatever

 

[moocow]

massgrave.dev ?

Can I say I just adore the fact that this is openly hosted on fucking GitHub of all places?

Microsoft owns GitHub, in case the joke wasn't clear.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I have to use the free VPN extension I use to download Skyrim mods from a South Korean forum to log in without getting a 500 error. Weird. I'm in 'Merica.

What's your ISP? Maybe there's a whole article on TorrentFreak about how the ISP blocks access to RuTracker among dozens of others and you just don't know.

 

[Betonhaus]

Can I say I just adore the fact that this is openly hosted on fucking GitHub of all places?

Microsoft owns GitHub, in case the joke wasn't clear.

India is one of the biggest users of Windalit and microslop is not going to prevent them from using an unpaid version of Windows otherwise there would be complete chaos

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

All this talk of open trackers made me realize that my fucking download of Monument Ave. is finally done, shit was stuck on, i kid you not, 99.9% for the past three days. Now i am waiting on a Nyaa download that started at max speed but dipped into 200-300kb/s territory halfway through. Being an open tracker pleb is suffering. Can't even make the effort of trying to join a private tracker these days because ratio building without a seed box is suffering on a different level.

Low-to-null risk of viruses.

I think this came up a couple of times already ITT but did anyone on here ever get a virus (not false alarms due to cracks for games) when torrenting? I've been torrenting since the first ever BitTorrent client released and i never "caught" something.

 

[SCV]

I repeat and stand by my "come the fuck on, lad," as you are entirely unreasonable to suggest I'm "better off sending it back and starting over," as if that's a trivial thing to do with a device now housing terabytes of data for me

It would be trivial if synology was using mainline btrfs and not a special snowflake filesystem. You would just move the drives to the other system and that would be it. Don't think too hard about why synology might want to prevent that, you might strain your thinkin' meat.

And, again, walked it back after criticism and feedback from their paying customers.

Has it ever occurred to you that if companies fuck up, and then actually listen to customer feedback, they might still be worthy of doing business with? That actually listening to customers deserves the reward of continued business from those customers? That perhaps if they fuck up, listen to feedback, and then all the customers walk away despite that, that maybe they won't listen to feedback the next fucking time?

Yeah lol. Sure. Synology made an innocent mistake and only realized trying to lock people to branded drives was bad after people pushed back. You know microsoft cancelled windows recall after people pushed back right? They re-introduced it 3 month later of course but by your logic microslop is great! They listen to feedback!

Synology is clearly looking for ways to enshittify their product. Buying from them after this means you are a retard. 'But they listen to feedback!' is just cope to justify your retarded purchase.

Anyway here's the Louis Rossman video from today about synology taking away advertised features and making them subscription services.

8:06

In fact, y'know what? Why don't you just come on out here and show this dumb ol' cow how to do it? I'll gladly apologize for being an asshole once you serve me up your less-than-"shiny" not-so-new system for me without a moment of downtime, data loss or inconvenience to me.

My apologies. With the amount of hardware you had I assumed you were competent. You can find many guides on youtube on how to assemble a computer and install truenas but if you're still having trouble DM me and I can try to help you find the PCIe slot to plug in the HBA or whatever is giving you trouble.

Additionally as a gesture of good will since you seem to be dead set on getting a few years of warranty support on a second 8-bay NAS with anemic hardware, please take this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Wx3BjG . It's $557 for new parts that roughly match your new synology. Unfortunately I couldn't make it quite as shitty as your $1125 synology with what's on pcpartpicker so that's pushing the price up.

How 'bout that, sport?

You're a corpo ball gargling faggot, sport.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

You're a corpo ball gargling faggot, sport.

That's it, you're promoted to Battlecruiser captain!

 

[SCV]

That's it, you're promoted to Battlecruiser captain!

fuckin' finally.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I think this came up a couple of times already ITT but did anyone on here ever get a virus (not false alarms due to cracks for games) when torrenting?

I did get infected a few months ago. It was a virus that would sniff for Bitcoin wallet information in your system and periodically phone home to report its findings. It would make two Powershell windows appear very briefly every couple of days and that's how I found out. I can't remember the name now.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

I did get infected a few months ago. It was a virus that would sniff for Bitcoin wallet information in your system and periodically phone home to report its findings. It would make two Powershell windows appear very briefly every couple of days and that's how I found out. I can't remember the name now.

jokes on them. crypto is gay af and i wouldnt touch it even if the country made it the default currency instead

 

[seri0us]

jokes on them. crypto is gay af and i wouldnt touch it even if the country made it the default currency instead

If I was given 0.01 XMR every time a myopic faggot expressed a pathetically ignorant anti-cryptocurrency opinion in a post on the Kiwi Farms, a site that wouldn't be alive if not for cryptocurrency, I could single handedly keep the Kiwi Farms in the black.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

If I was given 0.01 XMR every time a myopic faggot expressed a pathetically ignorant anti-cryptocurrency opinion in a post on the Kiwi Farms, a site that wouldn't be alive if not for cryptocurrency, I could single handedly keep the Kiwi Farms in the black.

its still gay

 

[seri0us]

its still gay

Thanks for the 0.02 XMR

 

[moocow]

That's it, you're promoted to Battlecruiser captain!

You know the faggot's just going to crash it the first time he meets a ship with a logo on it, right?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

You know the faggot's just going to crash it the first time he meets a ship with a logo on it, right?

Dearest Helena...

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I did get infected a few months ago. It was a virus that would sniff for Bitcoin wallet information in your system and periodically phone home to report its findings. It would make two Powershell windows appear very briefly every couple of days and that's how I found out. I can't remember the name now.

AI couldn't tell me the name, just that there's a whole slew of them.

Some well-known malware families that fit parts of your description include:

RedLine Stealer — steals browser passwords, wallet extensions, Discord tokens, etc.
Vidar — similar infostealer behavior with periodic C2 communication.
Raccoon Stealer — heavily targeted crypto wallets and browser data.
StilachiRAT — specifically targets crypto wallet browser extensions.
Torg Grabber — newer stealer using PowerShell delivery methods and targeting hundreds of wallet extensions.

 

[Jang Joo]

I think this came up a couple of times already ITT but did anyone on here ever get a virus (not false alarms due to cracks for games) when torrenting? I've been torrenting since the first ever BitTorrent client released and i never "caught" something.

I remember getting infected with something that erased things on the disk at random. It didn't touch any OS files but many games and programs had to be reinstalled. It was long enough ago that I don't remember if it was from torrenting or a shady direct download of...something.
Not to minimize that experience and others of other people like Hentai just said, but the malware risks in piracy are severely overstated. They are mostly fairy tales made up by rights holders to scare the cattle.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

AI couldn't tell me the name, just that there's a whole slew of them.

I don't think it was any of those. It would add a task in Task Scheduler, if I remember correctly. The issue with cracked software is that you have to trust other people when they say "it's just a false positive", especially since viruses have different mutations and can be labeled with different names by the likes of VirusTotal.

 

[D_Tractor]

Terrible news: FNP has shut down yet again.

Spoiler: Autistic faggotry

I've sat with this decision for weeks. I tried to push through it, ignore it, and wait for things to calm down, but it hasn't improved, and the personal cost has gone beyond what I can realistically continue carrying.


The constant harassment, the hostility that follows me across different communities, the uploads disguised as messages, certain individuals intentionally causing disruption, being effectively excluded through surrounding tools and communities such as autobrr, cross-seed, Prowlarr and others, the feeling of being watched whenever I try to participate elsewhere online, and the ongoing stress surrounding people who previously had deep access to parts of the project and infrastructure have all taken a serious toll on me mentally. I cannot continue operating in an environment where I no longer feel any sense of stability or trust.


What I can say is that over time I began noticing patterns and activity that seriously concerned me. Individuals who previously held legitimate administrative access to parts of the site and infrastructure had extensive knowledge of the platform, database structure, and internal systems. Even after access is removed, that knowledge does not simply disappear.


There have been incidents and activity that, from my perspective, no longer felt trustworthy or normal — including accounts behaving inconsistently, unusual seeding behaviour, and other events that contributed to my loss of confidence in the platform's integrity and security. Properly addressing all of that would require a level of auditing, rebuilding, credential rotation, and trust restoration that I am simply not in a position to take on anymore.


I am exhausted. I've had enough of the harassment, the pressure, and the constant conflict surrounding this project, and I no longer feel able to continue running a platform under these conditions.


To the members who supported FNP and treated me with kindness throughout all of this — genuinely, thank you. You were the reason I kept trying for as long as I did.


As for everything else, I think people already know what this situation became. I never expected to experience this level of hostility from online communities, but at this point I simply do not have the energy left to continue.


To the people behind the noise — congratulations. I hope it was worth it.