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      this link puts c/piracy’s megalist to shame, it’s also a shame that it’s only movies. I’m guessing from the url that it’s not tho.

      edit: oh hell yeah, there’s a homepage! How well is it moderated?

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      It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.

      Funnily enough it didn’t have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don’t think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren’t finding it from search results, as I don’t think it even had the info that’d be grabbed, and probably didn’t even have SEO or anything like that)

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    When are people going to start hosting their own git servers ? It can’t seriously be that hard.

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      When they can afford to get sued by content owners and feel like coming off with that kind of money and/or bump their heads, I would imagine. Unless it goes to dark web.

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      What does it really change? If you’re in legal troubles, the same request will come from your hosting or internet service provider.

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        Host it in Iran or Cuba or Venezuela or something. Copyright law for western products don’t really exist in my country Iran. We have entire streaming service companies that provide you pirated content like Netflix here lmfao

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          “Host it in a country that your country has imposed sanctions on. What could possibly go wrong?”

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            How so? Contrary to popular belief, that the 14-eyes countries can’t do shit about civil-level stuff on other countries. Sure, but they can push and try fear mongering, but that’s as far as they can go.

            No government is stupid enough to go to war over some DMCA bullshit.

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          I mean, the hosting company would be the likely target then and they’d probably lock your account and switch off the server. Depending on your nationality and that of the hoster, at least.

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            The hosting company would refer LEO to the person renting the server. The hosting company would be a target of LEO in such a case only if they refused to cooperate.

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            But dont a lot of ISPs assign you a dynamic IP which makes hosting something that can access the Internet, and be accessed from the Internet, difficult?

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              my isp doesn’t assign me an ipv4 and i have a dynamic ipv6 prefix, I’m hosting stuff over ipv6 just fine with dynamic prefix (i even have a ipv4 proxy set up, but it doesn’t see much use), just need to update it like every week in dns records (automatically of course)

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    Shiiiit. I remember the site, movie-web.app, getting taken down months ago, I was meaning to self-host it. This year is a dark year for open source piracy repos.

    Also fuck github for taking down open source project they don’t like.

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    Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I’m genuinely curious.

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      Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there?

      There are handshake domains, which are distributed on a blockchain, but sites that use them won’t resolve in browsers by default

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          yah i forgor about that
          but technically you can, but with a self signed certificate only (ehich are less secure; or by asking people to set up the dns manually)
          with self signed certs you don’t lose encryption, but the client won’t be able to make sure that it’s connecting to your server specifically

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    They’re axing certain adblockers on youtube / Spotify. AND they just took down one of the largest paywall bypass extensions for Firefox.

    The billionaire class is scared as fuck this one last quarter of “profits” won’t he enough to satisfy wallstreet

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    There are so many forks though right? Hopefully they all keep going. I only found out about movie-web a couple months ago and it’s pretty cool.

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      ayyyy that’s been my go to! sometimes when the normal hosts don’t resolve it’ll start auto-playing russian dubs, it’s so silly.

      Fucken William H. Macy is all like “вот что ты пропустил на прошлой неделе в сериале Shameless” and I just lose it.

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    movie-web always seemed like such a sitting duck for takedowns like this. Any form of piracy that’s grabbing from a few centralized streaming servers is bound to be shut down.

    P2P torrents over a VPN is the most resilient way to do piracy.