Lisa
HaileyThe Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
Viss
veetee@hailey if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
The Turtle@hailey gigantic hard disks are remarkably cheap.
Kabit Bunny ~ θΔ ~ 🔜🔜 Berlin@hailey willing to bet the internet archive losing that battle is followed up with Open AI winning theirs
They only care about copyright when it's big owners not small creators
bobocubedNAS + Plex + ???? = Archived, for life.
João S. O. Bueno
ErosBlog Bacchus has moved!@hailey Piracy is curation!
Woozle Hypertwin
Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈@hailey
Funny how I just downloaded surfshark two days ago, I started torrenting, and now this.
Funny.
@hailey
Also, I am going to have to buy some more external hard drives soon.
Also, I am going to have to buy some more external hard drives soon.
Possumantha
j_angliss@hailey that, along with large media orgs gobbling each other up and just turning off the "paid for life" digital access with no recourse, I think we'll find a lot of this kind of activity going on.
Jess@hailey https://github.com/MiniGlome/Archive.org-Downloader has been hugely beneficial to me. You get FAR higher quality output than the encrypted Adobe PDFs you can decrypt with Calibre tools.
I fear what may now be truly lost due to Archive being forced to hide things. At least a lot of books are 1hr rental so they can be downloaded, but who knows what'll disappear now
And archive has a looooot of books missing from libgen, z-library, and anna's archive.
Ambient Sponge
CyBuying ideas is not nice, never has been nice. It's as nasty as can be. You're a bad person for giving anyone a single dime over it, especially if you felt like it made you safer, not in danger.
If only there was a way to share files where random goons couldn't pin down your IP address...
If only there was a way to share files where random goons couldn't pin down your IP address...
MARIOiVARGAS@hailey "You can pirate to your hearts content with a VPN IP and its cheaper than any streaming service. Until we meet again!"
-Skeletor
Paul C.@hailey checksum everything.
@hailey "copyright" thing is only worth for bigcorps.
Remember a time before google IPO, when "do no evil" was at least spelled out by them, they had the "google books" initiative - that was also shutdown, becoming just an useless index, DESPITE having all the books digitized.
The Digital Polyglot™@hailey Oh NOW we can do that? Awesome. (slowly and laboriously plugs in and turns on eighty terabytes of storage that has been gathering dust on a shelf prior to this event)
Twice 
@hailey remember everyone, copying is not theft
@hailey
Also, for all your kindle ebooks - there is one "gray" way to remove DRM of them for personal use.
One'd rather _DO_ it will all their purchased books, before one day amazon just flag you account for, say, _one_ improper word in a review comment, and you get locked out of ALL books you may have purchased from them, during a lifetime.
Also, for all your kindle ebooks - there is one "gray" way to remove DRM of them for personal use.
One'd rather _DO_ it will all their purchased books, before one day amazon just flag you account for, say, _one_ improper word in a review comment, and you get locked out of ALL books you may have purchased from them, during a lifetime.
@melissawm - just spread this one as well!
Hackulaura Fang@hailey It's 's not piracy if it belongs in a museum! Then you're just a digital archaeologist!
Michael T. Richter@hailey I came to the conclusion that the only ethical consumption was pirated consumption over a decade ago.
astheroth
Shinjuku Nightdrive@hailey "Justice" systems always go against the people, freedom and knowledge sharing. They're a seminal part of the problem Itself.
That being said, let sail the digital seas. 🏴☠️
That being said, let sail the digital seas. 🏴☠️
Mystery Babylon 
@hailey I hope people follow your advice and rip off as much stuff as they can. SO much of the culture of the past twenty years is in two or three ephemeral places, and no one officially being allowed to archive it means that a bunch of us need to UN-officially archive it.
Anroth Elf@hailey That's want "AI" is doing, so why not?
Dragon-sided D@hailey this is why Tor exists
मानस Mānas مانس@hailey hell yeah
Keith 🇦🇺@hailey I have been considering keeping ebooks & PDF of all my books / graphic novels. I have this weird feeling it's going to be necessary... Is it wrong to say Anna's Archive ftw?
Jac@hailey people have been paying for stuff all this time?
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For I am CJ 
Elías Fraguas@hailey oh yes.
Pēteris Krišjānis@hailey I have pretty much resigned to:
* buy more indie stuff in PDF/FLAC format and store it offline;
* get some classics which I have owned over the years ripped, or gained from unsavoury arrrrrr sea shippin arrrr sites;
* give zero fucks about "copyright is sacred" in any shape or form. Authorship is sacred, copyright is pretty much dead to me;
* buy more indie stuff in PDF/FLAC format and store it offline;
* get some classics which I have owned over the years ripped, or gained from unsavoury arrrrrr sea shippin arrrr sites;
* give zero fucks about "copyright is sacred" in any shape or form. Authorship is sacred, copyright is pretty much dead to me;
Tagaziel
big fan of tangerines whirls 
rakoo@hailey
To add to your pouint: societies change when the equilibrium about an idea changes. If sharing becomes so common that everyone does it and it is seen as a normal activity, the equilibrium changes.
Share your obscure bootlegs, but also your torrenting tutorials.
To add to your pouint: societies change when the equilibrium about an idea changes. If sharing becomes so common that everyone does it and it is seen as a normal activity, the equilibrium changes.
Share your obscure bootlegs, but also your torrenting tutorials.
araly@hailey i hear a whisper in the winds of an archive, one from someone named anna, you could even say it was anna's archive, even maybe dot org.
i'm not saying you can't find any books you want on it easily, newspapers, comics..., and i'm especially not inviting anyone who has some hard drive space to help hoard it all. by total coincidence there might even be a neat little tool on the website to generate files in need of a torrential new home
if only such a project existed
Nick's world@hailey Oh great. At least there's justification now.
Riley S. Faelan
nicki xaphania mouse 🐁@hailey me, seeding torrents for all four seasons of infinity train with no share limit
Brad Patrick
ch1n3du
Pxl Phile@hailey that also means we need to have directions not only to pirate warez/artefacts/etc but also services that connect there. We need that too but the landscape is so effing broad
CuriosityCatNO. Backup of websites, books & other media out of copyright & in the public domain, yes - but NOT artists’ / authors’ copyrighted material. That is THEFT. That is taking the food from their mouths & tearing down the roof over their head.
There are so many LEGAL ways to get so much, incl the despicably low prices A will sell for; if you can’t find a legal way, MAKE one, such as campaigning for PLR (public lending rights) in your country.
NEVER SUPPORT STEALING SOMEONE’S LIVELIHOOD.
#1 Eris Hater @hailey it would be a shame if people looked at the r/zlib megathread for ways to pirate books
Captain Twinkie Bucket@hailey it hasn’t lost its appeal to me 😉
Mjack@hailey If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft
🖤 vea 💖@hailey any thoughts on music?
i see the piracy discussion kinda frequently but usually only in the context of books, sometimes movies.
is music something that people should be pirating? and if so, any good app recs for using those files?
i see the piracy discussion kinda frequently but usually only in the context of books, sometimes movies.
is music something that people should be pirating? and if so, any good app recs for using those files?
Arne Brasseur@hailey I was just reading this this morning which seems timely
“I am of the firm belief that we are hitting a watershed where economics and morality are coming to a head, like, ‘Look: intellectual property law is based off some ideas that came out of 1400s Venice. They’re not applicable and they’re being abused and people are dying every day because of it, and it’s not OK,’”
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
@plexus In English-speaking world, 1700s' London. You know, the kind of world where the queen would want to deny any publisher the right to copy a book that the queen didn't like, but when codifying it, she tacked on a wee bit of le droit d'auteur kind of stuff to reduce the Parliament's push-back.
sortius@hailey just stuck another 4TB in my server to cater for my digital sea sailing
Steven Sandoval@hailey I wish US Congress would simplify #copyright and say media over 25 years old is in the #publicdomain. #25isplenty
Odo Tournesol@hailey Usenet now and forever