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torrentfreak.com EFF Assists Critic's Fair Use Defense Over Kids' Religious Program 'Leak' * TorrentFreak

A man sued for copyright infringement after publishing details of a religious program, now has support from the EFF in his fair use defense.

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torrentfreak.com Google Asks Court to Gut "Kitchen Sink" Lawsuit Claiming it Profits From Piracy * TorrentFreak

Google says a lawsuit claiming that it profits from piracy amounts to a "kitchen-sink pleading strategy" that should be mostly dismissed.

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torrentfreak.com 17-Year-old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist * TorrentFreak

A 17-year-old student has launched a dedicated portal to exposing Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist to the public.

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Car Privacy is Shit
  • I don't really know much about that except for the fact that it does not have any form of a digital transponder that actively sends data it could be storing it though. Here is a site about vehicle privacy where I just looked up a random gen 3 Prius vin. (https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/report/?vin= JTDKN3DU1A000806#)

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    Car Privacy is Shit
  • Yeah with EVs it seems like improving the privacy would be a pain, since they are reliant on parts of the digital system that is causing the privacy problem in the first place. I'm planning on sticking with a gen 3 Prius for awhile.

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    Offflix - Series manager for your local downloads
  • It just tried using my system package manager, I will try with rustup and if that doesn't work I'll wait for the flatpak. Thank you for all your help!

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  • It fixed that issue but now there is a new one here is the error message that I am getting now. The message is so long that I have to put it on paste bin https://bin.disroot.org/?8c1747a08e3ce021#2i5ZpnjAjUrHQVrE8Q8Ea9hiWiJoe2V3XMePRHhdnbEs, but here is the start and end of the error message below.

    start : error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
    
    end : = note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpv: No such file or directory
              collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
            
    error: could not compile `offflix` (bin "offflix") due to previous error
    error: failed to compile `offflix v1.1.3`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installyRaq9u`.
    To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` to that path.
    
    
    
    
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    Offflix - Series manager for your local downloads
  • Thank you for helping me, I'm still having issues though. Now it is with openssl which I have confirmed that I have installed. Sorry Im sending a wall of text below but I wanted to include the full error message. Once again thank you for your help.

    error: failed to run custom build command for openssl-sys v0.9.102

    Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: /tmp/cargo-installZPoMt0/release/build/openssl-sys-47a67ecb49a60989/build-script-main (exit status: 101) --- stdout cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_LIB_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_LIB_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_LIB_DIR OPENSSL_LIB_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DIR OPENSSL_DIR unset cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_NO_PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_STATIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DYNAMIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_STATIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_DYNAMIC cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR run pkg_config fail: pkg-config exited with status code 1

    PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_CFLAGS=1 pkg-config --libs --cflags openssl The system library openssl required by crate openssl-sys was not found. The file openssl.pc needs to be installed and the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable must contain its parent directory. The PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable is not set. HINT: if you have installed the library, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory containing openssl.pc. --- stderr thread 'main' panicked at /home/et/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/openssl-sys-0.9.102/build/find_normal.rs:190:5: Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation, and this -sys crate cannot proceed without this knowledge. If OpenSSL is installed and this crate had trouble finding it, you can set the OPENSSL_DIR environment variable for the compilation process. Make sure you also have the development packages of openssl installed. For example, libssl-dev on Ubuntu or openssl-devel on Fedora. If you're in a situation where you think the directory should be found automatically, please open a bug at https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl and include information about your system as well as this message. $HOST = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu $TARGET = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu openssl-sys = 0.9.102 note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... error: failed to compile offflix v1.1.1, intermediate artifacts can be found at /tmp/cargo-installZPoMt0. To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable CARGO_TARGET_DIR to that path.

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    YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances
  • YouTube itself altered something on their end making it so that invidious does not work. Here is the post about it from their official mastodon page

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  • I got an hd6xx a few months ago since the headphones I've had for over a decade finally broke. They were definitely an upgrade and there are some differences with hifi headphones but nothing massive. I'm glad I didn't go for the super high end part of the market.

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  • www.dw.com France's competition watchdog hits Google with €250m fine – DW – 03/20/2024

    The French competition watchdog has fined Google €250 million for breaches of EU intellectual property rules and failing to uphold agreements with French publishers and news agencies.

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    torrentfreak.com Piracy Moghul Aniwatch Rebrands to HiAnime * TorrentFreak

    The massively popular pirate site Aniwatch has a new name. The site, which was known as Zoro.to just a year ago, just rebranded to HiAnime.

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    torrentfreak.com OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us' * TorrentFreak

    OpenAI accuses The New York Times of paying someone to hack OpenAI’s products to aid its copyright lawsuit.

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    torrentfreak.com ISP Suggests That Record Labels Can Sue Torrent Client Developers * TorrentFreak

    ISP Grande says that it's not liable for pirating subscribers. Torrent client devs are more directly related to piracy, the ISP suggests.

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    torrentfreak.com Tachiyomi Manga Reader: Threats Motivate Pirates & Boost Engagement * TorrentFreak

    Contributors to the open source Tachiyomi manga reader project were recently ordered to shut everything down. Here's what happened next.

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    Does anyone have good site recommendations for lossless files such as flac's specifically for music.

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    torrentfreak.com Internet Archive: Digital Lending is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak

    Internet Archive has filed its opening brief in its appeal of a court ruling which found its digital lending program copyright-infringing.

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    edri.org EP rejects mass scanning of private messages - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

    This marks a positive development for human rights in one of the most controversial draft European Union (EU) laws in recent memory.

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    Just saw this recommended somewhere else how is it as an app and is it safe? https://aniyomi.org/

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    torrentfreak.com LaLiga "Talks to Google" About Deleting Piracy Apps From a Million Phones * TorrentFreak

    LaLiga says it's talking to Google about "locating" and "eliminating" piracy apps already downloaded to a million phones.

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    I've noticed that dark reader on occasion phones home to darkreader.org, also with a increasing amount of sponsored links on their page. So what does everyone think, are they safe right now or should they not be trusted?

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    Hello, I am new here and am wondering where and how to learn and get into private torrent trackers?

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