I wonder if there’s a way to obscure IPs on the side of a torrent tracker. Like an inverse VPN.
Tbh though, I feel like in this day and age they’re gonna have a hard time cracking down on torrents. VPNs are easier to use and more accessible than ever. Just remember to recommend VPN usage when someone asks about trackers, torrent programs, etc.
Edit: also this is pure bullshit, I can’t believe anyone actually believes this in this day and age:
In his speech on Tuesday, Rivkin highlights what a major problem piracy in the US has become, saying it costs “hundreds of thousands of jobs” and “more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales.”
Pretending it actually does hurt ticket sales, you know damn well companies wouldn’t use the money to hire more people, Rivkin. They’d use the money to find new ways of cutting costs, aka jobs.
I’m down 6 trilly in sales. I’m not selling anything but its the potential that counts.
If someone actually want to see the movie in a theater, they are going to buy a ticket since watching a shaky cell phone recording is in no way comparable to actually watching a movie on the big screen.
Who the hell is still watching cam rips?
I don’t know. I watched about 5 minutes of one once before deleting it and never downloaded another cam after that. Obviously the MPA thinks a lot of people are watching them if they are still whining about it.
That’s pretty much all you can find while a movie is in first run. Most sites I know of will actually delete prerelease movies (that aren’t cam rips) because they bring too much negative attention.
I remember watching The Purge in a movie theater with my dad. After the movie, i found out from my friend there was already a rip (clear copy) in torrent sites.
I’m not sure if my country (in SEA region) is just slower in releasing movies compared to the west or if the movie is just not good in theaters so theres already dvd for it.
Absolutely no one.
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Also, they just translate estimated number of downloads to potentially sold tickets 1:1 (they always have). As if a pirate would actually watch all that shit if they had to pay for it. Many probably even don’t after download (like Steam games on sale).
Especially if it’s torrents on private trackers where you download stuff you don’t want just to build up ratio
Trackers that make users do that are plainly scams. Probably run by the mpaa to slow down piracy.
It creates a deadlock where nobody dowloads and nobody uploads. 500 seeds terabytes wasted, sitting with idle internet connections, nobody downloading.
Trackers that make users do that
You mean all private trackers?
I’m leaving space for the possibility that some of them aren’t run by the average zero sum idiots that plague the internet and real life. But probably yes, all private trackers I’ve wasted my time joining, have been this kind of stupid shit, resource and time wasting shit.
Public trackers are far far superior and the only source of torrents to grace my seedboxes.
You don’t know what you’re missing, good private trackers are much, much better.
glances at my 8TB drive of which maybe 10-20% actually has been watched…
How did you know how much of my media I’ve actually watched?
People who watch literal recordings of movies from inside a movie theater are psychopaths who really, really don’t care about quality. I highly doubt they are the target audience of movie ticket sales.
I buy movie tickets and I also watch cams. Sometimes I watch before, because I can’t make it to the theater yet, sometimes afterwards so I can have a repeat watch. Sometimes I watch and the movie is trash, so I save money to spend on a different one. Sometimes the cam rips aren’t good enough to watch, other times, they are near DVD quality.
I have been watching cams and going to the movie theater since the 90s and I doubt that will change, but I never understand the hatred aimed at people who watch cams. Why bash on people who are enjoying something that you do not?
At this point it’s just a meme. I mean I definitely don’t get it, but I have nothing against you as a person lol.
Trackers already do this. It’s impossible to actually hide your IP without a proxy. Trackers insert fake/random IPs into the list. DMCA requests require the requesting party to actually download a chunk of data successfully because of it.
I wonder if there’s a way to obscure IPs on the side of a torrent tracker. Like an inverse VPN.
The torrent protocol is peer-to-peer, all clients connect directly to each other. The tracker is just there to tell how clients to connect to each other, and that requires IP addresses.
I don’t think that’s true for I2P torrents; there are a number of hops between you, the tracker and peers.
It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.
Not just competitive but available without platform limitations and special streaming contracts. Sports is the only thing keeping traditional cable alive and also drives digital TV subscriptions. The rest of the crap on TV is trash. Even then, it should always be on demand without restrictions. And blackout areas.
They’re instituting this for the generation that grew up with Vpns so they could watch pirate streaming sites on their school Wi-Fi? Good fucking luck.
No one said they’re smart.
If they were smart, they would spend their money making their platforms more enticing than piracy. Instead, they spend it on lawyers.
They are decrepit dinosaurs killing grandmas for an industry that died 10 years ago. A violent hate machine running on fumes that must be destroyed for humanity’s sake.
This time the glove come off from the get go. DIE MPAA FREAKS !
The MPAA is a terrorist organisation and must be stopped with extreme prejudice.
They never learn, it’s amazing.
VPs come and go, I guess it’s a new set of them.
Ah, the age old tradition of “pretending to work…”
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I still disagree with the notion made up by punlishers that you buy a dvd or cd you somehow only buy a license to view it. I never agreed to that and you can’t just print text on something to make it so.
Ofcourse I don’t have the right to make reproduction but owning the physical product should make me the owner.
Maybe not related to your comment but I wanted to rage about this.
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You DO have the right to copy it. It’s sharing that copy that becomes a potential legal problem.
Every report on piracy I read points out that the biggest pirates are also the biggest spenders on “legitimate” media, streaming, cinema tickets. This will only increase purchase of such things by a rounding error. It won’t be the money spinner they’re hoping for. It’ll reduce the number of people that view shows & movies, and have a more significant effect on viral and organic hype.
Its the whales and the people that can’t afford to buy more media than they already do.
If the industry actually got the big spenders to do away with their self-hosting/data-archive setups, they won’t actually put that money into more media, as they’re already budgetting a set amount for the media itself which is not going to increase.
The ideal process would allow creatives across the film, TV, music, and book industries to go to court, where they can request that internet service providers block access to websites with pirated content.
Surely the sites will actually have to host the content this time, right? Not just chasing harmless index files again?
Yeah it’ll work this time, really guys. You nailed it.
They’ll get the government to
banrequire all VPNs that operate in the USA to keep logs. Cause the bad people in foreign countries use them to to the big bad anti American things.Mullvad has already blocked port forwarding likely to placate these same groups
No, port forwarding removed because hosting threatened to kick mullvad out. Lot of shit hosted through that. No hosting, no vpn, so needed to remove to continue operate.
Pressure on host probably caused by those group though.
Algo then!
How are they gonna site block? If they block through the ISP’s DNS, change your DNS. If they block through IP, well America is turning into China with its great firewall lol. Either way, if they manage to take down piratebay (good luck) we should run our own DHT crawlers like Bitmagnet (https://bitmagnet.io/), or torrent through i2p
This is to be expected, corporations will fight tooth and nail for every penny. We need to fight back to make piracy resilient regardless of the whims of the MPA and the law. Because piracy transcends the law.
Turkish guy reporting in: don’t worry we can teach you how to get around ISP blocks. It’s not that hard.
Teach us your ways
Tor Browser would probably be the easiest if least performant way.
Just fyi:
- performant == effective
- performative == related to artistic/dramatic performance
Thanks. I literally slept on it and woke up thinking this :)
Imma tired of this shit!
*Yawns in Stremio/real debrid/torrentio/shield
Guys, their is a thing called I2P. You should check it out.
What is it
… It’s pied piper
how will they stop people uploading stuff to .ru websites?
I2P to the rescue 🤷
Anti Commercial AI thingy
How does this work? Does he get notified because you tagged him?
Ah my fault. I don’t want to tag a user, I want to tag a community. I changed “@” to “!”
