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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

TF = (what) the fuck

Sometimes people drop the "what" part

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

I was hoping that it's some kind of piratey alternative to Netflix.

I've stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and "buying" content is getting worse and worse.

Now I'm just downloading older movies from YouTube and similar services or look it up on archive.org.

Pirating was quite simple in the olden donkey / emule / kazaar etc times. BitTorrent was simple at the beginning as well. Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.

IRC seemed complicated as well and I can't bring myself to ever look into usenet because to me it was my first "social media" and it breaks my heart to see what it turned into.

Also it's super weird because it's not meant for this purpose. It's like using twitter to share base64 encoded warez. It kinda works but it's not meant for it.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now it seems to be done via invite only forums and special rules and quotas.

This isn't really true. Maybe you have that impression because piracy communities tend to be filled with snobs who constantly humble brag about all their private trackers and paid services. You can still find good quality versions of almost everything through public trackers.

[–] bebabalula 8 points 3 weeks ago

Depends. Like OP I stopped pirating when they made Netflix available in Denmark, and like OP I’m also feeling the deteriorating device. But finding danish content in the public trackers seems a lot harder than it was in ye old days

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