• HereIAm@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Usenet more used for newer releases and items are hosted by individuals, not p2p? Since I stopped using Spotify I’m constantly backfilling older music, and with TV shows and movies I’m usually 5+ years behind the release. It was just something I read, the content on Usenet is usually revolved around newer things

      • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Unfortunately, or fortunately, not a whole lot of places discuss Usenet to not draw too much attention to it. I know it’s reddit, but /r/usenet is a really good resource both for providers and indexers as well as for setting things up for personal use. Some guides exist on YouTube too.

        If you’re looking for media, look into what an Arr stack is and how to set that up for a media server you’re running, for example. Although not exactly necessary, that’s what many people use and set up.

        • Bobby@leminal.space
          3·
          3 hours ago

          I’ve been to r/usenet and it is incomprehensible. I now know I am supposed to download an app. I’m sorry.

            • Bobby@leminal.space
              1·
              53 minutes ago

              Thanks, I will look at all that, however

              It has been my experience that when someone understands something, they are capable of explaining it to someone else. For example if you asked me how to make tea, I wouldn’t give you a youtube video and tell you I can’t explain. I’d tell you that you’ve got to get a cup, boiling water, tea leaves, one of those little metal balls with holes in. Do you know what I’m saying? I’m having a really hard time comprehending the tools utilized by typical usenet users because I do not understand how it works. When I ask for clarity I am pointed back to the same confusing materials. There has to be at least one person who knows what usenet is and can explain it to another person, without telling them to get the explanation elsewhere.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    51·
    12 hours ago

    This hasn’t been true for a while. Unless you are constantly looking for only the most mainstream stuff, huge swathes of material is lost with every shutdown, especially now that the costs of servers and storage have quadrupled.

    The idea of piracy being invincible is a myth from a different internet era along with old patterns like “platforms spring up and die constantly”.

    Yeah, in the 2000s that was true - but the main platforms we have today have been around for 20 years and have a stranglehold on users. The internet logic of the aughts no longer holds.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      12·
      11 hours ago

      Kinda ironic that russian and iranian sites are the ones most likely to survive current purges. No wonder they’re almost impossible to find when using most western search engines

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    18·
    12 hours ago

    If it weren’t for piracy, the Internet would not exist

    Well, it would, but it was still very much to look like the ARPANET, because, otherwise, it would have no reason to exist

  • judgyweevil@feddit.it
    58·
    15 hours ago

    The Italian government is strange because it goes only against pirated football TV streaming. They completely ignore all the other forms of piracy, except for the nautical one

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    14 hours ago

    Given recent events, all cloud-based LLMs should have been included here. In the history of humanity, there has never been a more profitable piracy operation.

  • gegil@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    14 hours ago

    In ukraine, piracy is technically illegal, but nobody cares and its not enforced. In 2022 after full scale invasion, ukraine banned most popular russian piracy websites as a “sources of propaganda”. Absolutely nothing has been done to foreign and especially local services.

    • tourist@lemmy.world
      15·
      14 hours ago

      in south africa piracy is also technically illegal

      but I only heard of one case of someone being prosecuted

      someone was filesharing a locally produced film and the director sued

      that was over a decade ago, and there might have been other cases where people were prosecuted for digital piracy since

      but uh… someone I know… has been rawdogging torrents for years, no VPN, no fancy router settings or whatever

      zero complaints from Hollywood nor ISPs

      I doubt the police service will bother doing anything about it anytime soon

      “Okay, today we could either monitor the TCP traffic of some guy downloading terabytes of copyrighted adult films… or we could go stop a gang shootout and do some state brutality to innocent citizens on the way back…”

      “…last one to the squad car has to use that old R4 with the fucked barrel!”

  • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
    6·
    12 hours ago

    I may as well just ask here, I would love to have a digital copy of a specific book, but I’m struggling to find it on Annas or Zlib. It’s very academic but also quite new. I do not have access through the university and I’m not finding it on scihub yet either. Are there like, places where people can request academic titles or something? You can dm me if you want!

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 hours ago

      For academics journals, supposedly you can just ask the author for a copy, with a decent sucess rate. That’s probably significantly less likely to work for a whole book.

      Being a new book, it could be a while before it becomes “available”. Someone has to be both interested in the topic enough to buy the book, and willing to upoad it somewhere. I’d say this could be your chance to contribute to the high seas, but academic books are expensive.

      • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Thanks! And yeah, definitely. It starts at somewhere around 110 euros, and I’m poor lol. If I could I would love to contribute to the high seas though!