I wonder if there’s a way to obscure IPs on the side of a torrent tracker. Like an inverse VPN.
Tbh though, I feel like in this day and age they’re gonna have a hard time cracking down on torrents. VPNs are easier to use and more accessible than ever. Just remember to recommend VPN usage when someone asks about trackers, torrent programs, etc.
Edit: also this is pure bullshit, I can’t believe anyone actually believes this in this day and age:
In his speech on Tuesday, Rivkin highlights what a major problem piracy in the US has become, saying it costs “hundreds of thousands of jobs” and “more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales.”
Pretending it actually does hurt ticket sales, you know damn well companies wouldn’t use the money to hire more people, Rivkin. They’d use the money to find new ways of cutting costs, aka jobs.
If someone actually want to see the movie in a theater, they are going to buy a ticket since watching a shaky cell phone recording is in no way comparable to actually watching a movie on the big screen.
People who watch literal recordings of movies from inside a movie theater are psychopaths who really, really don’t care about quality. I highly doubt they are the target audience of movie ticket sales.
As we’ve seen the past couple years companies NEVER fire people! UNLESS people are STEALING their Products!
Also, they just translate estimated number of downloads to potentially sold tickets 1:1 (they always have). As if a pirate would actually watch all that shit if they had to pay for it. Many probably even don’t after download (like Steam games on sale).
Especially if it’s torrents on private trackers where you download stuff you don’t want just to build up ratio
Trackers that make users do that are plainly scams. Probably run by the mpaa to slow down piracy.
It creates a deadlock where nobody dowloads and nobody uploads. 500 seeds terabytes wasted, sitting with idle internet connections, nobody downloading.
Trackers that make users do that
You mean all private trackers?
They’re instituting this for the generation that grew up with Vpns so they could watch pirate streaming sites on their school Wi-Fi? Good fucking luck.
No one said they’re smart.
If they were smart, they would spend their money making their platforms more enticing than piracy. Instead, they spend it on lawyers.
The MPAA is a terrorist organisation and must be stopped with extreme prejudice.
It is far more convenient to pirate than to buy media legally, due to the extreme and purposeful fragmentation of streaming services and their constantly changing libraries. If you want people to pirate less, make your service(s) competitive.
They never learn, it’s amazing.
How does this work? Does he get notified because you tagged him?
Ah my fault. I don’t want to tag a user, I want to tag a community. I changed “@” to “!”
Yeah it’ll work this time, really guys. You nailed it.
They’ll get the government to
banrequire all VPNs that operate in the USA to keep logs. Cause the bad people in foreign countries use them to to the big bad anti American things.Mullvad has already blocked port forwarding likely to placate these same groups
How are they gonna site block? If they block through the ISP’s DNS, change your DNS. If they block through IP, well America is turning into China with its great firewall lol. Either way, if they manage to take down piratebay (good luck) we should run our own DHT crawlers like Bitmagnet (https://bitmagnet.io/), or torrent through i2p
This is to be expected, corporations will fight tooth and nail for every penny. We need to fight back to make piracy resilient regardless of the whims of the MPA and the law. Because piracy transcends the law.
Turkish guy reporting in: don’t worry we can teach you how to get around ISP blocks. It’s not that hard.
Maybe instead of spending more on lawyers, just consolidate the streaming services again so they’re more attractive than piracy?
I feel like that’s the opposite of what we want. Perhaps a storefront where one could choose what they want from different providers for a reasonable price would be good, but consolidation leads to *opolies, which are never good for consumers.
Wasn’t Netflix basically that? One store front for films and TV shows produced by different companies. Pay a flat monthly fee and get access to the libraries from every production company.
That was pre-enshittification. We are far beyond that point now.
Every report on piracy I read points out that the biggest pirates are also the biggest spenders on “legitimate” media, streaming, cinema tickets. This will only increase purchase of such things by a rounding error. It won’t be the money spinner they’re hoping for. It’ll reduce the number of people that view shows & movies, and have a more significant effect on viral and organic hype.
Its the whales and the people that can’t afford to buy more media than they already do.
If the industry actually got the big spenders to do away with their self-hosting/data-archive setups, they won’t actually put that money into more media, as they’re already budgetting a set amount for the media itself which is not going to increase.
