I'm currently an Amazon Prime video member (Australia) and want to watch a show that appears to be only available on Amazon UK or Peacock US.

The show is a little gem of a show called Hapless that few people seem to know about and the pirating community has ignored or forgotten about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cz66za4X9k

There have been two seasons of six episodes thus far, and only parts of the first season (from 2020) are available as active torrents while the most recent season (2024) has been completely ignored by the 'community'.

I've tried to watch it online at the usual illicit places but it appears to unavailable. When I tried to watch it at Amazon UK, my VPN was detected and it wouldn't let me.

So my question is: is it possible to bypass the constraints at either Amazon or Peacock and watch this show? Alternatively, does anyone know of a private tracker that might have it as a download?

thank you!

I want to be able to download and/or access the resource The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118978238.

I can't seem to find a pdf version anywhere and was hoping to read it via an 'institution' that provides access.

Is it possible to access a university library that provides access (so to speak) to books otherwise only available via subscription?

Alternatively, does anyone know where hard to find books like these might be available?

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Sounds ominous.

Where to now?

Edit: The claim is that they're offline for maintenance - not sure how credible the source is though or why it was worded to intimate otherwise.

https://new.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1dfpetp/have_no_fear_tgx_is_here_it_to_stay/

Can someone please recommend a free pitch deck app or refer us to an easy to use guide?

I need to do a pitch and was told to use a deck.

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If someone were to try and download a song from (say) Youtube, Spotify or Soundcloud which site would provide the best audio version?

Sometimes the songs I seek aren't available via the usual places (like soulseek, electronic fresh or dj soundstop ) and I have to opt for a less desirable choice.

I'm currently using Media Human's incredibly versatile Youtube to MP3 ripper (it also rips songs off Soundcloud, Spotify, Vimeo, Bandcamp, Mixcloud etc) and is highly recommended.

https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3/31/

The sound quality of its rips are great (I usually only play these rips in the car or on my mac so I'm not sure I'd notice any degradation in sound quality).

This Afrobeat rip, for example, sounds fantastic when turned up and becomes a full on electronic song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEJ_m2HPXv8

Nonetheless, I still have a nagging feeling I might not always be taking from the best possible source.

So anyone know which service has the best audio encode in the first place?

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Apple's Music app (formerly itunes) is only playing half of the tracks of a recently downloaded album. It then inexplicably skips to (or through) the next songs similarly.

Is it possible this is an anti-piracy measure? Interestingly, the labelled source appears to be 'web' so I'm wondering if the app somehow detects that it's an illicit source.

The problem does not occur in VLC or with other downloaded albums (although I recall something similar happening with Itunes many years ago on a different computer and/or OS so I can only assume the problem is not me and the actual file or app).

Whenever I visit Facebook now, I get the following message or suspension warning (note the link is from someone else's instagram account posted on reddit and I only link to it because it's the complete warning at a glance)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/18bsjib/we_suspect_automated_behaviour_on_your_account/

I have no idea what they're talking about or why I'm suddenly getting the message. I originally assumed it was related to my VPN but apparently not.

Anybody else suddenly getting this warning or know what might be going on?

The images on the left don't seem to be loading and all I'm seeing weird 'bouncing' or glitching that sometimes extends to the torrents in the middle of the page too.

It's been like that for hours on my end.

I ripped a mixcloud stream using a great free MediaHuman app (Youtube to Mp3). I now need to rip the desired 6 minute song (in m4a format) from a 2 hour stream. The trouble is: I can't seem to find a decent app to do it.

I tried using a couple of online apps but the file was too large to upload, and I can't seem to find a decent app to use for my iMac anymore.

Do you know of an easy-to-use and/or free music trimmer/cutter app?

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Is anybody here also interested in electronic (techno, house, jungle, etc) dance music?

The kind of stuff that is usually - and often exclusively - sold on the likes of Beatport or Juno.

If so, do you know where we can source the latest releases?

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I've only seen screen shots so far, but something looks very amiss about all these rips (irrespective of the file size)

This is supposed to be an epic sci-fi blockbuster, but all the posted images appear to look very 'cropped' and/or low res.

Is the film supposed to look like it only takes up half of the available screen?

I frequently listen to electronic music programs that typically play tracks that musical identifiers (like Shazam or AHA) fail to recognise.

The DJ is also not a great help because they'll back announce multiple tracks that are also hard to recognise or pinpoint. My main concern, though, is that I'll often hear a track that I'm not likely to hear again or may forget by the time it's officially available and/or recognisable.

So my question is: is it possible to rip a single track from a long stream for future reference (so Shazam will eventually recognise it or we can play it at our own leisure)?

I really like a techno track from the following stream: https://www.mixcloud.com/KissFM/the-beautiful-drive-09-nov-2023/

It starts playing at the 13 minute and 46 second mark and was hoping to be able to isolate it (if possible). I was also hoping to be able to isolate any other tracks I might encounter in any other streams heard online (when failing to recognise it).

Alternatively, if you can make sense of what the DJ says around the 36 minute mark I'd really appreciate the clarification :) !

thanks

I read somewhere that it is possible to rip youtube videos (music only) without the need for converting it into an mp3 as such.

The online conversion process (naturally) results in loss of quality, and (apparently) it is possible to preserve the original video's audio quality via a direct rip. If so, how would it be done and what format would it be in anyway?

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I'm currently on the Imac using Deluge as my preferred client - it just seems so much faster than (say) Transmission, which has recently been struggling to connect to other pirates on the high seas.

The only problem is: Deluge appears to have issues with magnet links. Although the client will open when you click a magnet, the link doesn't automatically get added to the downloads. So you have to manually enter each magnet link.

Is there anyway around this? I'd appreciate detailed instructions if possible (or a link to a video and/or article explaining what to do).

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I'm curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.

For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn't reveal anything untoward going on in the background.

I'm not sure what's going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that's all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge, but a 'shadow' RARBG search engine went up when the site went down.

https://shadowbg-test.xav1erenc.workers.dev/

As far as I could tell, it provided direct access to all of its original torrents and/or continually seeded torrents by other dedicated seeders (or sites).

But the search engine has suddenly become inaccessible. Anyone know why? Is there an alternative?

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