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We should go and save the useful info to re-post it here, it's a good opportunity to migrate all the information.

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[–] nusirojonel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 1 year ago

The newest post on /r/piracy gave "go wild posting links and tank this site" vibes.

[–] CumLord02@lemmy.fmhy.ml 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That is very weird of reddit to force open a PIRACY subreddit of all things

[–] nusirojonel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

They probably didn't directly target /r/piracy but blanket hit all subs of a certain size.

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
[–] mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de 11 points 1 year ago

Did not know about this site… very nice!

[–] Shamanalah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link btw

Dear googlers from the future after the-eye goes down: the archive can be easily downloaded from this magnet link assuming people are still seeding it

Oh wow, that's awesome. Thanks for the link.

[–] itskoka@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You gotta edit the link and make a spacing between the / and the ; Because the link doesn't work unless you edit the link itself..

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh incredible. I see some subreddits that sent my down nostalgia lane too link megalinks. How do you view zst files anyways? I've never seen that.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "zst" extension is used for files that are compressed with the ZSTD algorithm, usually you see them as ".tar.zst" files in the *nix world - tl;dr, they're Linux ZIP files.

As for how to open them on Windows or MacOS, idk.

[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ah learn something new every day. Good thing I've got I got linux on my laptop. Just never had a reason to use another archive format before and had only encountered the zip 7zip kinds.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Do you know of any good way of viewing the json data? Like a way that allows browsing it with submissions and comments connected?

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Moderation team being forced to moderate against their will? Would be a shame if people started posting site rule breaking content over there

[–] kyokiluna1@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Now theres an idea

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think that sort of engagement isn't exactly what reddit is trying to encourage lol

oh yeah, reddit is going to love getting all those DMCA's. I should post a nintendo ROM repository!

[–] Lorez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

forced to moderate against their will

How does one force unpaid jannies to keep working for free? Asking for a friend.

[–] d_bradr@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit staff wants to bring down stuff like piracy subs, they want you to break the rules en masse so they can shut it down. Sure we can say "oh boo hoo we have Lemmy" but how many people don't? How many people won't bother with Lemmy? How many don't know about it? How many people will DL from Steamunlocked? How many will torrent from the Bay using Bitlord? The Megatgread is still crucial info that needs to be accessible to as many people as possible

If you read the Megathread piracy will be second nature but if you don't and then get malware after malware, at some point you'll say "fuck it" and stop, which will deter a lot of people

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy has the megathread and the rest can stay there at their own risk.

[–] d_bradr@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I thought having more potential seeders (of good torrents) would be better than having less potential seeders. Maybe I was wrong in wanting information to be widely accessible

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The path to the Megathread will always be available wherever it goes, but people need to act. Reddit is no longer safe to be a pirate in entrapment or otherwise (might be negligence). If you keep complaining and perpetuating the status quo then you can be dead sure the information will never move off Reddit, where you can give these snarky neckbeard responses instead of quality answers.

[–] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there a link to this community in there yet? I'm not adding any traffic to reddit to check it out lol

Really needs to be if not. I suspect it'd be a major way for people to find this comm; this is now the main hub after all

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s in the sidebar under “fallback” or something like that.

[–] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still under fallback huh? That's a shame

[–] Shamanalah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone commented this place on the post about the subreddit reopening. That's how I got here. I backuped the megathread before realizing this community existed lol

I only discovered lemmy because, during the blackout, r/piracy linked here lol. Very useful, glad they did because lemmy is so good

[–] plexnose@u.fail 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an awful lot of TERRBILE 'information' on there though. What we don't need are thousands of posts from idiots who don't know what a torrent is, what a seeder is, what ddl is, why they receieved a warning notice, or a those idiotic 'why I pirate' shitposts.

[–] d_bradr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Why I pirate" was so annoying. It was like a lamp to the edgy moths who loved to bullshit how they're thieves and criminals and aren't afraid to admit it. Homie you're copying somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of a bunch of files, you aren't slicing Spanish sailors' throats and plundering sugar, rum, food and drinking water from merchants and trading vessels

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. We objectively steal stuff (the question if it is morally correct is irrelevant) so why do we need to justify it? To ourselves?

[–] d_bradr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We don't steal, we copy stuff we shouldn't. Big difference. Both are bad but different

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that most of r/Piracy seems to be on the fediverse now, maybe reddit's advertisers would like to know that they endorse digital piracy. Might fuck up their IPO.

[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

We need a home away from reddit for a long time. Always was scared of the ban hammer. Thank you Spez for giving us all the push we needed!

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I expect magnet links, i expect direct links

[–] Allan8795@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The humor / memes posts there are the most annoying. I hope we don't see such low effort posts here.

Can we just have a separate community for piracy memes?

[–] DanNZN@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago

Should be fine up until the point where lemmy takes off. Then the meme/shit-posts begin. Reddit was pretty on topic back in the day when it was smaller.

[–] authenyo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

the humor posts are my favorite tbh, but the guides n shit are also super cool

[–] Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Shirking my responsibilities

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