Meanwhile, me: Pirating since before Napster, has automated nothing at all, likes browsing private torrent trackers websites because it sort of makes me feel like I’m in Blockbuster video in the 90s walking the aisles and checking what’s available.
Makes me feel like I’m part of some secret VIP club or something
Larger board DDL sites are kinda like this. You can jsut browse new entries our look up what you want. It’s pretty nice. Good community, has that “Ohh look what i found” feel when looking around.
Although most of my stuff is 100% automated with *arr stack and Plex (jellyfin backup).
then there’s me, pirating for the last 20 years, but just a couple years ago switched from utorrent to qbit, still finds 99% of my stuff from 1337x, can’t be arsed to learn what trackers even are.
99% of my stuff from 1337x
what trackers even are
I also get stuff from there and inject trackers list took from github. If something gots peers then it must be good enough to download
I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.
Sitting on a mountain of complexities you don’t know anything about and probably don’t even know exists is basically modern computing in a nutshell.
Started pirating in the napster days. I was an expert for a long time…
Then netflix was actually pretty good for a few years… i stopped pirating stuff… then alowly slowly the enshittification crept in… i got sick and tired and quit legal streaming one day.
Then i realized, i had no idea where to look for torrents anymore… demonoid? Piratebay?
i’m still using 1337x, but apparently thats for boomers?
What are the cool kids using these days?
nice try fed
My friends: “Yeah so uh… What torrent sites are safe today? Anything?”
Me: “Piratebay”
My friends: “What? Haven’t they been down for over a decade?”
Me: “Nope.”
Honestly pirating through the browser has gotten so convenient that I can see why people don’t bother with torrents anymore. I’ve known about torrents for decades, but these days, there are sites you can instantly stream any movie or TV show in 1080p with subtitles right from your browser. No need to add it to a queue or wait for it to download, no need to fiddle with srt files or resync subs… and for gaming, OMG. If someone has a steamdeck they can visit any number of reliable sites found on fmhy and download preinstalled/cracked game folders right from the steamdeck browser, extremely fast direct download speeds, and then they just have to add the exe file to steam as a non steam game. No need to run an installer through Lutris, or free up enough space for the installer and installation. Way faster and way simpler. Torrents are great for archival purposes but direct downloads through the browser are so much more convenient, and they pop up faster than they can be shutdown.
Thats why Steamdeck is called the Ultimate Nintendo Piracy device, Valve made it for this
To be fair, it’s easier to emulate Switch stuff on an ARM64 device like the Steam Deck (or a Mac) because the games themselves are not that far removed from the platform. The Switch itself is just a modified Nvidia Shield tablet, and the OS was originally an Android fork (apparently, no production version was, but before it released that was the plan, since they were and did use an Android tablet). Translating to x86-64 is more work (but also not impossible because in 2016 when the Switch launched, it wasn’t a terribly complicated machine to start with).
