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Hello all,

I've heard many times that IRC can be incredibly useful for piracy, but I've never tried using it. Can someone recommend some IRC servers that I could join? I'm especially interested in joining servers that distribute TV shows.

Thank you!

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  • Sounds very much like my experience: a wonderful project, but not without its flaws that are kind of annoying, but not a big deal for the price. :)

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    Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?
  • Thank you for this. I set this up yesterday and started combing through my list of things that I've wanted to download but couldn't find even on my private trackers. I wish I knew about this sooner!

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  • What issues do you have with ReVanced? It works great! The only thing that's kind of a pain in the ass is that if you're rooted using KernelSU, you have to repatch the app every time you reboot. Fortunately I usually only reboot once a month when the new OTA gets released for my phone.

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    What is Swarm Merging?
  • Well, I might have to try it for the torrent that I'm trying to download. Merging may not be effective for most cases, but in this case, this peer was the only one that managed to get a full copy of the torrent content. They disconnected before I could grab all of it though, so now I'm stuck at 50%. :(

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    What is Swarm Merging?
  • That's awesome! I suppose it might also explain why this torrent has been sitting in my queue for several weeks and is now suddenly at 100% from this one seeder. Do you know if the process is automated? Or does the user have to do the work of finding the torrents with matching files themselves? It's a bummer that qBittorrent apparently doesn't support it.

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  • Every now and then, when I'm connected to a torrent a peer will connect that has a reference to "Swarm Merging" in their name. What is swarm merging?

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    **this seems to be the theme of the season mateys**
  • lol this is hilarious. I feel bad for Rohith, but the fact that it was possible for such a mistake to even be made is hilarious. The people being rude to him in the replies though all suck.

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    **this seems to be the theme of the season mateys**
  • lol I've seen plenty of social media drama, but this is probably the most hilarious drama I've ever seen. Imagine getting into a fight on the GitHub issue tracker. 😆

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    **this seems to be the theme of the season mateys**
  • I'm not so sure that this is anything to worry about. It's just another step in the game of cat and mouse. Is it annoying? Of course! But if/when it goes mainstream, ad blockers are just going to push updates that make it possible to block the ad block blocker. uBlock Origin does a really good job at blocking ad block blockers on most sites.

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    Why is thepiratebay not in the megathread, despite being so much better?
  • People can and have made sites that are better than TPB. Functionally, TPB's site is still usable (and also quite a nostalgia trip with its appearance), but in terms of the content, there are a ton of malware-laced torrents on there. I understand that you always have to be careful when torrenting regardless of where you get something from, but it's kind of a bad sign when you're looking for something, and most of the torrents you find are malicious.

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    Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.
  • lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.

    I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.

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    Almost 5K Pirates migrated to lemmy. We're now 4th in lemmy communities browser!
  • That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.

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