Piracy General

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

Soulseek. Go back a page, you dumb niglet.

Sounds like hippie bullshit

 

[Firefox]

Academic institutions are so jaded when it comes to textbook piracy that they practically endorse it. The administration might moan at you for using pdf piracy sites but I was talking to my supervisor the other day and he reocmmended checking with 'Our Russian Friends' if I was having trouble finding something.

Just typing "<book name> pdf" into google finds you the full book easily and it's usually college websites with no care about who can access their pdfs

 

[fake farts]

Sounds like hippie bullshit

True, but it's the best thing for finding music. Rutracker is good too. Sometimes just googling a band or album name and blogspot works too, you can sometimes find active links for surprisingly obscure music.

 

[Coolio55]

Rutracker is good too

They had Kids of Widney High when no-one else did

 

[admiral]

Yandex unironically is really good for academic pirates. Front page results that Google would never permit.

I genuinely like Yandex, it's a fine search engine. The best databases of academic papers/books are genuinelly the Russian ones, something in the Russian spirit I guess compels them both to piracy and to fastidious filing systems.

Just typing "<book name> pdf" into google finds you the full book easily and it's usually college websites with no care about who can access their pdfs

Google is increasingly stingy with full book pdfs, but typing in [book name] dokumenpub had been successful 90% of the time in my experience. Some really obscure/ specific texts are much harder to find, however. Some subjects are more serious about uploading full scans than others.

 

[fake farts]

https://kemono.su/

Apparently there's some site that archives patreon/subscribestar/gumroad/etc content.

Kind of surprised how comprehensive the content is, it didn't have nearly a much under the old kemono.party URL. Much better navigation too.

 

[Fanatical Phrenologist]

Google is increasingly stingy with full book pdfs, but typing in [book name] dokumenpub had been successful 90% of the time in my experience. Some really obscure/ specific texts are much harder to find, however. Some subjects are more serious about uploading full scans than others.

Another avenue to try is [bookname]+ djvu.

Academic institutions are so jaded when it comes to textbook piracy that they practically endorse it. The administration might moan at you for using pdf piracy sites but I was talking to my supervisor the other day and he reocmmended checking with 'Our Russian Friends' if I was having trouble finding something.

This is not at all surprising, and it isn't uncommon to find pdfs for advanced texts hosted on the author's own website. After all, I don't think one writes an étale cohomology textbook to turn a profit.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

True, but it's the best thing for finding music. Rutracker is good too. Sometimes just googling a band or album name and blogspot works too, you can sometimes find active links for surprisingly obscure music.

what happened to the MP3s from napster?

 

[Spasiba]

It’s an automatic ban, I doubt it accounts for taste.

Auto bans don't account for taste, but personal bans do sometimes account for taste. I have had 2 separate guys DM me that i had an "emo" folder so they weren't going to share their files with me. Not accounting for the fact that it was a 90s emo folder. *insert real emo copy pasta* To add that 800 files is literally nothing. Most people on Soulseek have been building their music libraries for eons. I share almost 200 GB of music with more than 40,000 files and over 4600 folders and it is still nothing compared to what most of my peers share. I personally don't care who downloads from me, but i understand the mindset of some of the gatekeepers.

 

[S3y88]

Is there a way to share on Soulseek without portforwarding ?

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Just consolidated all of my media and it has managed to fill a single 8tb drive. Blueray ISOs take up a ton of space.

 

[Susanna]

Just consolidated all of my media and it has managed to fill a single 8tb drive. Blueray ISOs take up a ton of space.

That's pretty impressive. I've finally sorted mine into folders Jellyfin recognises, and it's up to 11.7T. Combined with my work dataset it's 80% use of my 24TB pool, so I'm going to upgrade it to 4x16TB (1 parity) for a total of 48T soon, so I'll have enough for another couple years.

 

[Chuck McGill]

Academic institutions are so jaded when it comes to textbook piracy that they practically endorse it. The administration might moan at you for using pdf piracy sites but I was talking to my supervisor the other day and he reocmmended checking with 'Our Russian Friends' if I was having trouble finding something.

I really love that in the 90s and early 2000s when the internet was a relatively new thing, everyone's head was reeling at the possibility of having the sum total of human knowledge at their fingertips. Now? What's that goyim? You want access to textbooks on mathematics and science that you need to get a degree so you can get a not-wagie job? That'll be $349.99 plus tip. I can somewhat understand copyright holders of movies/video games getting up in arms if I really squint, since that shit's just a brain-rotting time waster anyway. But the people money-gating the actually useful knowledge deserve to be strung up. Total Textbook Death.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

That's pretty impressive. I've finally sorted mine into folders Jellyfin recognises, and it's up to 11.7T. Combined with my work dataset it's 80% use of my 24TB pool, so I'm going to upgrade it to 4x16TB (1 parity) for a total of 48T soon, so I'll have enough for another couple years.

What brand of HDDs do you use? I'm looking to upgrade and future proof my next NAS build and am planning to use ZFS pools. I'm debating going for a couple 10tb+ drives or multiple 8tb depending on sale prices.

 

[Susanna]

What brand of HDDs do you use? I'm looking to upgrade and future proof my next NAS build and am planning to use ZFS pools. I'm debating going for a couple 10tb+ drives or multiple 8tb depending on sale prices.

Toshiba N300s. They're pretty good, very pleasant 90s sound when they're in use. ZFS pools is what I'm doing too.

 

[Top_Dollar]

What brand of HDDs do you use? I'm looking to upgrade and future proof my next NAS build and am planning to use ZFS pools. I'm debating going for a couple 10tb+ drives or multiple 8tb depending on sale prices.

I have a NAS built with 8 TB HD's for a total of 20 TB. I'm saving up to build a new one. I'll buy 18 TB drives and I won't need to upgrade for a decade. I use the SeaGate BarraCuda drive because they are cheap.

 

[Grin Machine]

What brand of HDDs do you use?

I like WD Red for my ZFS pool since they're "optimized" for NAS workloads but I'm no expert. Recently picked up 5 x 12 TB for 60 TB raw storage or ~46 TB in RAID-Z1.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Does anyone know of a site where I can download the premium/user generated templates for Goodnotes? The Goodnotes people are going to have me for £30 on an lifetime subscription for app that I admittedly use daily but I’m fucked if I’m going to be buying templates off Etsy without being able to at least try them first.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

Does anybody know where I can find collections of artwork from Gerald Scarfe, magazine stuff especially? Im not able to find any anywhere unless theyre paid artpieces. I thought Brian Bolland art was hard to find but this is fucking insane.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Even back then cracked programs were the way to go because it was less hassle. For any game a NoCD crack was a godsend even if you owned the game, for certain AutoDesk products it made sense to avoid fucking FlexLM or dongles even if you paid for the license.