Why does nobody talk about pirating anymore

By streaming sites I mean the sort of "upload a movie to some fourth rate video streaming platform like Openload then link to it from some central website through a million and one ad laden redirect pages. When it gets taken down just throw up another copy and continue the game of whackamole.

>obfuscate your torrenting from your ISP
The absolute state of America

You're country doesn't enforce their laws? P2P itself isn't illegal. Downloading copyrighted materials is.

since i'm from Serbia and no-one gives a fuck here, i can freely download any torrent without vpn or proxies through qbittorrent with default settings (unlike some "developed" and "free" countries that jail you for doing so)

Joe Sixpack is content with paid streaming services, that's why.

For games csrinru3c2ownkep.onion/forum and goodolddownloads.com/ everything else is shit

so the answer is yes, the hotties are banned from napster style pirating

the absolute state of 2018

>You're country doesn't enforce their laws? P2P itself isn't illegal. Downloading copyrighted materials is.
so are you saying people in the USA do that? if so how? do you have to get a high bandwidth proxy?

Young people don't pirate, they use legal streaming services instead.

thanks for the links

There's no real need for pirating in 2018

If any country actually enforced copyright to it's fullest extent there would be a literal revolution. Every single person would be fed into the legal system (even a profile picture is technically a breach, let alone half the rest of the stuff people do) and the law would end up getting changed in the face of mass civil unrest as every single household's children were dragged off to court.
So no, my country doesn't enforce it's laws, and thank god for that.

I think it became so common that there's no longer anything newsworthy about it. The public perception of it went from something that only hackermans in hoodies do to something that probably most people do.

I am 38, I have been on Jow Forums for 14 years

I always thought one of 2 things would happen: someone would build some kind of crazy unfathomable at the time cloud shenanigan app that worked like napster and hit some kind of fucked up different protocol encrypted network the way tor does but for high bandwith ftp style shit and you would in stall that like you do tor and just type in whatever you want and get free everything perfectly forever.

or

You would be able to effectively compress almost every song ever recorded on to one file so there would always be an huge file dated in the current year and you would just download that or get it physically on a drive from a friend IRL and move it to your computer one time in your life (in this scenario the copyrightfags would have "won" and we would be reduced to the sneakernet) and from then on just get one update file a year and if you just had to have some song right, you would buy it.

why have neither of these 2 things happened

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Because by most part, It has all moved to HTTP downloads and streams, and it's not that hard to find what you want anymore.

Also, the media industry has pretty much gotten on board, by most part, with the reluctant acceptance that piracy is not that big of a deal, and is mostly done by people that will legitimately consume the content by the bucket load anyway.

Just look at the people that still go on lawsuit binges. It's mostly porn studios and small failed projects that don't want to accept that their content was bad, therefore, piracy must be to blame.

Takedowns now days also go for the hosts, not the individuals, so that hole badass outlaw stigma has disappeared.

But all this is just me spewing my own opinion, I may just be talking jibberish from eating a cactus. >Pic related.

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kek at Jow Forums for blocking mless links and mega but not .onion

Depending on your ISP and luck you may never get an infringement letter in the U.S.
Not every swarm is being monitored. And even if you are logged you still may never receive a letter.

Streaming services nearly killed pirating. Though as they splinter and try to fuck you over by spreading content across multiple platforms, pirating is picking back up again.

I presumed as much it's like that here too and in most other places I've heard of (except for Germany, they've got it real bad looks like). I'm just pointing out why "enforcing it's laws" is such an absurd thing to imply any country ever actually does.

>The public perception of it went from something that only hackermans in hoodies do to something that probably most people do.
I very seriously doubt "most people" are purchasing or using ISP obfuscating VPNs or proxies to download material they get from finding trackers on shady torrent sites via a bittorent client

I just 2 days ago had a 25 year old as me where his kerbal space program went because he accidentally deleted the icon from his desktop and didn't know to find it in his file directory

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Because nowadays, new movies and songs are so shitty that people don't even bother with downloading them anymore

Well, scenario one has happened. Think Tribler and popcorn time.

Also, if you're not using some form of encrypted tunnelling nowadays after all the government spying leaks, then you must be living in a cave.

Normies who used to pirate have now settled for paid streaming services
The rest of us don't want our niche ruined so we try to keep it quiet

>Young people don't pirate, they use legal streaming services instead.
but there is a lot of shit that is just not available or only available at full fucking price. I know young people like game of thrones, it and most really good shit is not on netflix. I doubt they feel like paying $20-40 a season

what do they do

>Also, if you're not using some form of encrypted tunnelling nowadays
what service do you use for this? can you use it while posting to Jow Forums? most proxies are banned in my experience

how much does it slow down streaming porn?

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sharing. one person pays for an account and everyone chips in to use the same service. we share netflix, hbonow, google music family (or spotify family), even fucking wireless family plans. this makes it very cheap and incredibly affordable without the hassle of setting up tech.

which of those services has game of thrones for $9 a month

hbonow is $15 a month and if you share it with literally one other person it is $7.50 a month

but then don't you have netflix and hbonow and something else and even then you would not be getting all the first run movies you want like the new batman movies or whatever.

I just use copyright loopholes.

IGG Games because its "Educational".
Libgen.io because its Educational.

I just imagine all the companies who want to jew me out of my money but can't because they have no legal grounds on which to do it, and they get to see my activity in plain view, no VPN, no TOR, just normal internet.

I got a job and started buying games. A lot of content is legally available for free, for my music I just pay a small subscription fee and the piracy is left as a last resort measure when the content is not available.

Media control shifts from boomers with no grasp of the internet economy to zoomers with intricate understanding that people will gladly pay if you just make it convenient.

youtube, hulu, netflix, and major networks stepped up their game and offered plenty digitally with minimal cost. plus the bootleg movies went downhill drastically, people claiming 1080p "bluray" when it's just a handicam with washed out whites and tin can audio

for music, most people get their fill from free services like pandora, spotify, amazon music, and iheartradio

for games, developers made almost everything online multiplayer, there's very little you can play offline so since there's no way to play the game there's no reason to pirate it

tldr; there's not really a reason to pirate much anymore

>igg games
Enjoy your malware

the thing in the late 90s was there was no inbetween. It was $15.99 for a single compact disk or $0

those were your options

This op. Somebody showed niggers how it works and it ruined everything.

The ads have the malware, the game files don't. Even then i sandbox them before i run them.

You can not use it while on Jow Forums.
Although a Jow Forums pass will allow you to post even if an IP is in a block ban, it is still against the site rules.

Now that disclaimer is out of the way. When a VPN is allowed on a site, I use PIA when browsing. I get my full network speed of 50 Mbps down 5Mbps up. They also have a dedicated SOKET5 Proxy for P2P.

In my slav land they would sell pirated disks for like two bucks. Out of my entire (quite hefty) ps1 games collection there was exactly one licensed game, on a black disk, and even that one had a fucking pirate ROM pressed into it.

I also live in the UK. Considering that the government has mandated that all URL's you visit have to be logged for 2 years, and ANY government body can request the data. (NHS, Local Council, National Rail) I'm definitely using an internet condom where ever I can.

I kid you not, the police have investigated people for going on Jow Forums and flagged them as being vulnerable to extremism.

The UK is in a sad state. :(

>investigated people for going on Jow Forums
They'd only be able to do that if you didn't use HTTPS.

downloading isn't a crime.
uploading is.
don't be retarded.

>I also live in the UK. Considering that the government has mandated that all URL's you visit have to be logged for 2 years, and ANY government body can request the data.
wat

That is true, But say the government decides Jow Forums on its own, or a news site that is not mainstream is an extremist nest. Then boom. You just may get a knock on the door from the old plod.

If you connect to a swarm with copyrighted material even without seeding you can still be logged. (You) don't be retarded.

Yep... -_-

Because the debate has never shifted into actual grownup territory, i.e. politics, and therefore it stalled.

You cannot transform the way in which a society at large produces and distributes media products by being le ebin haxxor maymay.

Political Economy is a realm of legislature, not one of technology. Techfags and Piratekids of course don't want to hear that, because it would actually adress the problem instead of curating the "cool" of their subculture.

>Yep... -_-
seems like a pretty stupid rule instituted by people who do not know how technology works that just ads 5mins of hassle to anyone who wants to break the law or be safe and spys on lazy normies and your grandma

and charged with what?
any competent litigator will shit all over their bed for that.

In its initial form, They did not even need a warrant. It then got changed to there having to be a Judicial Commissioner to consider if accessing the data is in the public interest.

But given our hate speech laws as well, all it will take is one person to think that you have committed a hate crime and to report it, for you to then be under investigation, and the avenue for accessing your personal data to be in the public interest in the investigation.

Anyway, this is now getting verry off topic. will stop talking about this now.

because the megacorps won. they realized it's better to jew tens of millions of people out of pennies rather than jew thousands of people out of hundreds of dollars, hence why streaming services were created. now you get people being actually proud of paying their netflix/spotify subscriptions and talking shit on pirates.

Hey it's much more convenient than pirating and the fee is basically two coffees worth and it funds more shit in the future, so I figure thats good.

>Did everyone decide on a method and not tell me?
you hit the nail on the head user

everyone streams now

good goy

because Netflix is the bigger threat now

but what about if you're into older films, or want to watch a specific film that doesn't exist on netflix?

>Why does nobody talk about pirating anymore.
western media is no longer worth pirating

>From 1996-2010 it's all you ever fucking heard about related to the internet and music. Now nobody talks about at all. Like ever.
That's completely related to your own personal experience, the communities you frequent and the people you talk to. Piracy is about as prevalent as it always was.
Please try to keep your navel gazing and stream of consciousness, anecdotal shit to yourself, or start a blog. This thread serves no practical purpose.

check out cafe movie
its where I watch most of my anime and movies and shit

then you pirate it or use one of the many streaming sites with pirated content. it's ok as long as you don't pay for it

tell me plox

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its called streaming
you listen to your music on youtube
you watch your movies and anime on a streaming site
very low risk

>That's completely related to your own personal experience, the communities you frequent and the people you talk to. Piracy is about as prevalent as it always was.
strongly disagree

if you think the same % of young people use VPN bittorent seedboxxy russian clearnet tracking sites as used napster in 1998 you are retarded

My 57 year old uncle knows how to pirate, knows android boxes and literally just streams or downloads everything, no tv no cable no nothing.
Its unbelievably easy if uou are not a complete retard, and even the idiots that download malware get it right 2 times out of 5

I think some secrecy is important, especially for stuff like this. Huge popularity ruins most things, and it extends to illegal practices and those in the legal/moral gray area like torrenting is. Having a majority that is serious about [its] usage and isn't short sighted nor greedy is important for longevity. To answer your question: No one is talking about it because we're mostly content with piracy as it is right now (barring shit like new laws and higher """"damages"""", despite people illegally downloading less and less). We've enough bait threads weekly about how downloading copyrighted material illegally is stealing, how the 'stalled' status means qbittorrent is a poor client, piracy on the high seas and using ad blockers means you're stealing. If you're looking for hip sites you've multiple options: Head to /t/ and check threads related to your interests, or wait for a newfag to make a meta thread; the stupid questions thread; search engines like searx and similar (apparently bing is great for this) to name a few.

well he was 27 in 1998, he is just one of the few who kept up with it. Not saying it's impossible

i buy drugs via tor with bitcoin but that does not mean it's easy enough for normies

It is, piracy has always been relegated to the more "tech savvy" part of the internet community. Thing is, back in the 90's, that was the entirety of it. There's just more normies on the internet now.
Hell, even normies do it sometimes, read up on those horrible kodi boxes.

oops 37, still

>It is, piracy has always been relegated to the more "tech savvy" part of the internet community.
as someone who was around back then I can tell you this is just not true. Everyone had winamp and napster, every single person. You just downloaded napster and typed in radio head and played in winamp, took no skill effort or tech savvyness at all, just as easy as downloading chrome and going to youtube is today

This. It's a fucking nightmare when normies join anything. If they never know, it'll never matter

lol all these kids justifying stealing

did you read the sentence right after the one you quoted? fuckin namefags i swear to god

>There is no fucking way any 20yo girl is doing all that shit. Are they essentially tech banned from pirating?
There's apps and streaming. Software wise its not worth it if you consider the extra security issues we face.

>OH NO A THREAD ON Jow Forums GEE DIED FOR THIS!1

You are fucking delusional you are using a vpn that is within the whatever eyes program they can get your information through the VPN. I was going to get airvpn but I realized I would be tracked regardless. Too really be aecure you have to pretty much block the entire internet use multiple vpns and tor to get the first VPN use some crypto on a untrackable currency to buy the vpns . then you actually have to trust the VPN providers that they dont log you at all or your ip then its fucking pointless.

or just find wifi to leech off of or otherwise find some way to get on for your shenanigan purposes one way and personal purposes another way

i have never understood people who are trying to do illegal shit through the connection wired to their home billed in their or their family's name

pure insanity to me

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Why do I feel like no one uses TPB anymore?

That could be possible if you are hidden from cameras or whatever but its impossible to be secure i just gave the fuck up. Google and Jow Forums probably know all my shit at this point. When the laws change in the US and we have an actual way to do it I will be on it asap. I absolutely do not like that these shithead corporations know my shit but I cant do anything about it.

I disagree. I am not traceable directly to my connection. If I posted some racist shit or violated some copyrights that would mean they would have to trace alll my shit back through the VPN and wind up at another persons address then set up cameras there with a team of agents to fucking trying to locate me or hope i hook up again and then trace my wifi single with men and direction signal trackers, then actually physically find me and put their hands on me etc...

they are not willing to do that, if it was my connection they are willing to send me a form letter saying i was naughty and they are suing and they have my name and payment info etc..

big difference in effort on their part

For games I go straight to the 'source', cs.rin.ru
For music, Deezloader or similar
Movies: RARGB? I don't really use torrents that much anymore so I don't know any good sites.

there is a shti ton you can do about it vs just having chrome open and your porn in one tab and gmail in another you lazy cunt

>how out of touch am I
don't know
I avoid using tpb and other popular english trackers, instead use russian ones.

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Tor through a VPN. Now your thinking with portals.

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Honestly, it's just like a transitional period- when "pirating" was in the normie worldview, everyone was talking about it.

Now fast forward to the present day: any ol' wanker can go onto pirate bay or other torrenting sites and get what they want- you can even see kindergarteners with very little knowledge do this with ease.

It's all old hat now; You need to do something over the top to even get a reaction.

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I basically use one private tracker that has pretty everything I'm interested in the day it's available elsewhere.

I think the content creators basically came to the idea they can't stop it. So they stopped talking about it, as their law suits and commercial did nothing but advertise the very thing they wanted to stop.

no, just a simpleton

you don't read books?

>basically
>basically

first of all - pirating is reselling the material or ambushing ships on sea, not downloading the material for your own use
actually - downloading for your own use is very much legal in EU countries
and I'm not going to tell my fav sources in 50+ resp threads, that doesn't give me enough yous to achieve satisfaction

>you listen to your music on youtube
I seriously hope you don't actually do this, except in case of rare material not available elsewhere.

hello UE govt.
how is the 13 article ??

what is wrong with doing that