Piracy General

[Ghost88]

Partly why I did a massive purge as I was running low on space. Now after putting the essentials back I still have 45tb of free space

My 20 year collection 35tb, you're doing better than me. I have 10tb left

 

[Wraithdolf the White]

Don't forget to debloat JDownloader2 to get rid of all the ads for "premium" file hosting access and other bullshit. Makes things snappier too (because of course the ads slow things down).

I have had an absolutely crappy day and this made it wonderful.
OF COURSE IT LOADS NOW IN LIKE 3 SECONDS WITHOUT ALL THAT CRAP COMPARED TO NORMAL! I didn't know jdownloader 2 had the ad version of denuvo.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

My 20 year collection 35tb, you're doing better than me. I have 10tb left

Man I have two 16TB drives just for movies/show and one for my roms/isos/repacks and I still don’t have them filled halfway up.

And my collection is over 20 years old.

 

[moosemeese]

Does anyone know how to add a cracked Steam game to Steam? Adding as a non-Steam game boots but quits while it's loading and it shows up as a non-purchased game in my library.

 

[Ferryman]

"Man I love destroying repositories of knowledge for the sake of a few extra Shekels because I don't realize that people who pirate books probably weren't going to or even able to buy them in the first place!"
These same people would probably go after that one Minecraft map that hosts books for people who live in countries that banned said books if it wouldn't be seen in the worst light possible.

Always remember that authors and researchers alike make pennies on the dollar for any work that isn't self published. The greedy shekel grabbing mooks are all publishing houses that always get the lion's share of any literary or scientific work they push out. There is literally no moral argument against side stepping publisher greed. If you want to support someone, do it directly.

 

[Civillian 18]

Does anyone know how to add a cracked Steam game to Steam? Adding as a non-Steam game boots but quits while it's loading and it shows up as a non-purchased game in my library.

Apply Goldberg emulator or grab Steam Auto Cracker on cs.rin.ru

 

[moosemeese]

Apply Goldberg emulator or grab Steam Auto Cracker on cs.rin.ru

I tried the Auto Cracker already. I don't think Goldberg Emu has Steam Input support, does it? I was trying to get Steam Input for a game that SISR is giving me double inputs in

 

[Civillian 18]

I tried the Auto Cracker already. I don't think Goldberg Emu has Steam Input support, does it? I was trying to get Steam Input for a game that SISR is giving me double inputs in

Not sure, I do not use Steam input. Trying out Goldberg after stubbing out the SteamDRM with the autocracker would be your best shot. Otherwise, tracking down a portable version or best case a GOG copy if it exists.

 

[Dead Lion]

Always remember that authors and researchers alike make pennies on the dollar for any work that isn't self published. The greedy shekel grabbing mooks are all publishing houses that always get the lion's share of any literary or scientific work they push out. There is literally no moral argument against side stepping publisher greed. If you want to support someone, do it directly.

Matter of fact researchers make no money whatsoever even if they publish in paywalled journals.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

I am using downloading more like streaming with plex and download in sequential order at the moment. I honestly always thought HD prices would just keep moving down but they're actually fucking cooked right now. Hard times, upon Hoarders, hard times

Sequential downloads can lead to the downloads being marked by your ISP because the sequence is marked for copyright/the stream, unencrypted, can be seen as the literal thing you're pirating instead of various random 0's and 1's.

 

[Betonhaus]

Sequential downloads can lead to the downloads being marked by your ISP because the sequence is marked for copyright/the stream, unencrypted, can be seen as the literal thing you're pirating instead of various random 0's and 1's.

I’m not a networking expert but that sounds like it would add an extraordinary amount of overhead and costs to your ISP, as they would need to route or mirror your entire network usage to a server which then scans every packet to match with a database of every video file in every known encoding format known to existence. And they would have to decrypt all traffic and assemble it because hashes won’t work if they miss a packet or two.

 

[moocow]

I’m not a networking expert but that sounds like it would add an extraordinary amount of overhead and costs to your ISP, as they would need to route or mirror your entire network usage to a server which then scans every packet to match with a database of every video file in every known encoding format known to existence. And they would have to decrypt all traffic and assemble it because hashes won’t work if they miss a packet or two.

Not to depress you or anything but your ISP already does essentially this on behalf of the NSA. Whether they share that information with the copyright cartel depends on the general sliminess of whoever owns your ISP.

You're a fool if you're not using encryption for every communication between devices you own that crosses your ISP's threshold (i.e. SSH for shell, wireguard for any communication with internal devices from the outside, HTTPS for media, etc.).

 

[Ghost88]

Sequential downloads can lead to the downloads being marked by your ISP because the sequence is marked for copyright/the stream, unencrypted, can be seen as the literal thing you're pirating instead of various random 0's and 1's.

I use a VPN. I have got a letter once though, 12 years ago, before I got a VPN

 

[Betonhaus]

Not to depress you or anything but your ISP already does essentially this on behalf of the NSA. Whether they share that information with the copyright cartel depends on the general sliminess of whoever owns your ISP.

You're a fool if you're not using encryption for every communication between devices you own that crosses your ISP's threshold (i.e. SSH for shell, wireguard for any communication with internal devices from the outside, HTTPS for media, etc.).

That's still a massive amount of data and one that literally everyone would know is happening because it would be impossible to hide a project of that scope, it's really only remotely feasible if they do spot checks or choose targets to spy on, and that's still prohibitive enough that ISPs can't really do that for any random copyright holder who doesn't have a warrant

 

[gampboonerisms]

The problem isn't the isps watching you, it's a file having a payload. I got a notice from an open torrent site (like pirate bay or some shit) and it was only because the file had a payload in it. Also, I may have been using windows back then...
But I digress, sorry to op for abandoning that imslp project. Did anybody get that working?

 

[Betonhaus]

The problem isn't the isps watching you, it's a file having a payload. I got a notice from an open torrent site (like pirate bay or some shit) and it was only because the file had a payload in it. Also, I may have been using windows back then...
But I digress, sorry to op for abandoning that imslp project. Did anybody get that working?

Tracking torrents is fucking easy, just search the torrent sites for your owned properties and add them to your client and it’ll automatically show you everyone who is downloading and uploading that torrent and then you can send a letter to the isp that owns that ip address. Hell I can literally do that right now just by clicking on a tab in qbittorrent and it’ll show me the ip addresses.

That is something completely different, and why we have repeatedly recommended VPNs on this thread. It is vastly different then a black ops agency having a physical shunt to every ISPs network and trillions of dollars in equipment scanning every packet as it goes through.

Edit, I was replying to the wrong person sorry

 

[moocow]

That's still a massive amount of data and one that literally everyone would know is happening because it would be impossible to hide a project of that scope, it's really only remotely feasible if they do spot checks or choose targets to spy on, and that's still prohibitive enough that ISPs can't really do that for any random copyright holder who doesn't have a warrant

The only reason I don't feel too bad telling people about soul-crushing, nigh-impossible surveillance we undergo daily at the hands of our asshole government is how god damn annoyingly arrogant people are in their assumptions that "oh that *can't* be done" and how irritatingly insulting they are to the people who try to fucking tell them.

They literally split the fucking fiber links at the backbone to send a copy of literally ever fucking byte to the NSA for surveillance. Edward Snowden's leaks confirmed it.

Just ask Mark Klein, another whistleblower who enabled this Grok-sourced reply because you're not worth spending more than about five minutes replying to:

The "NSA room" (often called a "secure room," "SG3 Secure Room," or similar) refers to highly restricted, locked facilities installed in major U.S. telecom companies' data centers and switching offices. These are typically small, windowless, access-controlled rooms (e.g., ~24x48 feet in the famous Room 641A case) equipped with specialized surveillance gear. Only NSA-cleared personnel can enter.

Key Features and Purpose:
Fiber optic splitters (beam splitters) installed on the carrier's backbone trunks duplicate internet and communications traffic. One copy goes to normal routing; the other is diverted into the room for monitoring. Equipment like Narus STA 6400 (or similar high-speed analyzers) captures, filters, and analyzes massive volumes of data in near real-time — including emails, web traffic, calls, and metadata — on a bulk scale. They were part of post-9/11 NSA programs (revealed via whistleblowers like Mark Klein in 2006 and later Edward Snowden documents) for warrantless surveillance, often in partnership with carriers like AT&T.

Similar setups were reported or alleged in multiple AT&T (and reportedly other carriers') facilities across cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Jose, and others — not literally in every data floor, but common at major interconnection and backbone hubs. These rooms enable broad collection rather than targeted wiretaps, feeding data into larger NSA systems. Details remain partially classified.

Grok cited 24 sources, which I will copy-pasta if you need additional spoonfeeding.

As a 25th source, I know where the fucking room is in the downtown Denver Global Crossing NOC because I was one of two employees who escorted a pair of NSA goons to it during my tenure there (at GC, not the NSA) in the early 2000's.

ETA: For another nuisance, remember when the hard drive factories all "got flooded" in a tsunami in the early 2010's, prompting hard disk prices to skyrocket for awhile while manufacturing capacity was rebuilt and supplies "restored?" Remember how prices never went down after those new factories went online?

They had a mysterious supply crisis even after all that new capacity came online: the NSA, building their new state-of-the-art "Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center" near Bluffdale, Utah, spanning 250 acres on federal land. 1.5 million square feet, over $1.5 billion to build and equip as of May 2014. It's the "primary data storage facility" for the US Intelligence Community, particularly the NSA, supporting the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). They ordered more hard drives than was known to be commercially available worldwide at the time of construction. To date it is rumored to be one of (if not the) largest data storage facility (in raw capacity) on Earth.

It is rumored to have yottabytes of storage capacity. You can thank the NSA for hard disks being ass-raping expensive even as SSDs skyrocket further thanks to the AI faggots.

 

[Betonhaus]

he only reason I don't feel too bad telling people about soul-crushing, nigh-impossible surveillance we undergo daily at the hands of our asshole government is how god damn annoyingly arrogant people are in their assumptions that "oh that *can't* be done" and how irritatingly insulting they are to the people who try to fucking tell them.

They literally split the fucking fiber links at the backbone to send a copy of literally ever fucking byte to the NSA for surveillance. Edward Snowden's leaks confirmed it.

Just ask Mark Klein, another whistleblower who enabled this Grok-sourced reply because you're not worth spending more than about five minutes replying to:

Grok cited 24 sources, which I will copy-pasta if you need additional spoonfeeding.

As a 25th source, I know where the fucking room is in the downtown Denver Global Crossing NOC because I was one of two employees who escorted a pair of NSA goons to it during my tenure there (at GC, not the NSA) in the early 2000's.

and some research on the hardware:

Raw Traffic vs. Filtered Data​

If the system were to record the entire raw data stream passing through a 10-gigabit link, it would generate approximately 129.6 terabytes (TB) of data per day (1.5 GB per second). At this rate, even massive storage arrays would fill up in hours or days. For instance, the Sun StorEdge T3 array identified in the Room 641A documents held a maximum of 168 TB (in 2003), which would be exhausted in roughly 30 hours if recording full traffic continuously.

Consequently, the STA 6400 is typically used to filter traffic in real-time. It discards non-relevant data immediately and forwards only "interesting" packets—those matching specific selectors like keywords, phone numbers, or protocols—to storage. This process reduces the volume from terabytes per day to a manageable gigabytes or low terabytes of actionable intelligence, depending on the strictness of the filters applied.

It still has to prioritise what information it retains, as it physically cannot store an infinite amount of information. Since we have had unimpeded assassination attempts on the President and mass shootings that were telegraphed online before the event, it's safe to say that either their capacity is overstated or they are using fairly rudimentary filters - and such they aren't going to spare the bandwidth to pass a list of pirated movies and shows to copyright holders so that they can go after the pirates. Plus regular usage of ssh makes the job somewhat harder. At best, they're reading the emails so they see all your spam messages and password reset emails.

 

[moocow]

It still has to prioritise what information it retains, as it physically cannot store an infinite amount of information. Since we have had unimpeded assassination attempts on the President and mass shootings that were telegraphed online before the event, it's safe to say that either their capacity is overstated or they are using fairly rudimentary filters - and such they aren't going to spare the bandwidth to pass a list of pirated movies and shows to copyright holders so that they can go after the pirates. Plus regular usage of ssh makes the job somewhat harder. At best, they're reading the emails so they see all your spam messages and password reset emails.

You have no fucking idea 1) how much capacity they really have (it's more than publicly claimed), 2) how bought-and-paid-for these pricks are and 3) just how compromised and petty these faggots are.

Remember half the "deep state" hates Trump. What do they care about trying to stop a real assassination attempt?

The other half is incompetent and lazy, and would much prefer hunting down easy wins than go after hard-to-catch targets, while ingratiating themselves with the copyright cartel people (who are remarkably well-funded, especially for a private sector concern).

The only reason casual piracy hasn't been clamped down on harder than it has been in the US is, as you eventually get around to implying, they have bigger fish to fry at the moment. But they absolutely can come down on it harder once it tickles their fancy.

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.

By all means, carry on believing they can't possibly be keeping copies of every byte flowing over the networks you use. You don't seem willing to entertain the alternative anyway, which is probably for the best, as it's much less infuriating than the reality (that they really fucking do it and piss away endless taxpayer dollars doing so) and you'll sleep better.

 

[The ATF Disliked That]

That's still a massive amount of data and one that literally everyone would know is happening because it would be impossible to hide a project of that scope, it's really only remotely feasible if they do spot checks or choose targets to spy on, and that's still prohibitive enough that ISPs can't really do that for any random copyright holder who doesn't have a warrant

The only reason I don't feel too bad telling people about soul-crushing, nigh-impossible surveillance we undergo daily at the hands of our asshole government is how god damn annoyingly arrogant people are in their assumptions that "oh that *can't* be done" and how irritatingly insulting they are to the people who try to fucking tell them.

Reminds me of this classic:

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