Yikes.
This is especially awkward considering the top post on the our frontpage right now is a TorrentFreak article citing my best efforts to curb away copyright infringement on this community. Lets get down to what's going on.
Who?
On March 14th (9:26 PM UTC) we received a modmail from a Reddit Admin with the following message.
Dear Moderators,
TL;DR: This is an official warning from Reddit that we are receiving too many copyright infringement notices about material posted to your community. We will be required to ban this community if you can't adequately address the problem.
First, some background.
Redditors aren't allowed to submit material that infringes someone else's copyrights.
We (the Reddit admins) are required by law to process notices from people who say that material on Reddit violates their copyrights. The process is described in the DMCA section of the Reddit User Agreement.
The law also requires us to issue bans in cases of repeat infringement. Sometimes a repeat infringement problem is limited to just one user and we ban just that person. Other times the problem pervades a whole community and we ban the community.
This is our formal warning about repeat infringement in this community. Over the past months we've had to remove material from the community in response to copyright notices 74 times. That's an unusually high number taking into account the community's size.
Every community is different, but here are some general suggestions.
Consider whether your community's rules encourage or tolerate infringing content, and revise if necessary to be more clear.
Actively enforce your community's rules. If you need help, recruit more moderators to help.
Remove any existing infringing content from your community so Reddit doesn't get new notices about past content. If you can't adequately address the problem, we'll have to ban the community.
Sincerely, Reddit Legal
What?
This was my initial response to the modmail. Reddit Legal states that they have acted 74 times on these copyright notices through removals, but it is the first time we have been officially contacted regarding any infringement where it be through modmail or PMs. Considering our stringent rules against distributing pirated content through this platform, it is unclear what constitutes copyright infringement to Reddit or whether the simple mention of a release name falls under their broad interpretation. Another issue with this is that as moderators, we do not have the ability to see when a user or Admin deletes content. While "admins*" show up as a moderator in our moderation logs, there are 0 actions listed. This means that Admins can remove content at their own discretion and leave behind no notice or log for moderators. We cannot take any precautionary or preventative measures if we do not know what was removed.
Where?
As of now, we are unaware where all these infringements took place. Were they regular posts? Crossposts? Comments? PMs? We reached out via email inquiring on the most recent DMCA notices and Reddit's Legal Support replied:
Hello,
The most recent DMCA notices we processed (which led to the removal of content from your community) came from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Regards,
Reddit Legal Support
We replied immediately requesting a list of offending material that was removed and have not received a reply yet.
When? Why?
Reddit Legal states that these repeated infringements occurred "over the past months" but the timeline isn't concrete in helping us analyze when it occurred and through what means. It is also convenient that Reddit has permitted this number of DMCA notices to accumulate without reaching out to us at all. Had Reddit warned us earlier, we would have had ample time to revisit our current rules or make adjustments on what sort of content is permitted.
What now?
It has become abundantly clear in the past months and years that Reddit has never been the bastion of freedom that many people see it as. The many subreddit purges that have occurred in the past few days further confirm it. Reddit's passivity in enforcing its own rules is continuously tested whenever one of its subreddits are thrusted into the limelight by the media. As we wait for more information from Reddit Legal, there is one certainty that comes from all of this,
r/Piracy will be banned.
It is a matter of when. While we continue moderating the community to the best of our ability, should Reddit continue expanding its definition of copyright infringement and blindly react to every false copyright notice, this community's days are counted - not just us, but the many other related communities that openly permit the discussion of digital piracy or encourage it.
We will continue communicating with Reddit Legal in hopes that we can identify what content broken infringement but it would be naive to expect this will be the last time we hear from them.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Due to the current situation, I downloaded this WHOLE subreddit from 2016 to now. I spent the last 3 days archiving it and finding the right tools. Here is the final result:
https://github.com/nid666/PiracyArchive
I hope this contribution stops all the useful information on this sub from being lost.
Edit: Because everyone is asking for a copy of this, and the fact that the files will be avaliable on the eye anyway, im including a download link to the backup: https://pastebin.com/ZUK36pYv
Edit: Changed download link to a torrent And as a side note - the actual download is a pain to use because of all the directories, I recommend using the official website that I've linked above
I guess, I didn't need an inbox anyway...
Anyway, after more than a thousand votes I think it's pretty clear which way the community wants to move with more than a 10 to 1 ratio between 'Aye' to 'Nay'.
I'm going to lock the other thread as I don't expect a flip can possibly happen anymore and I'm going to investigate the best way to arrange a wipe of anything but the past 6 months of posts.
If anyone has already knowledge of a tool that can perform a task like this, please let me know so I don't waste my time.
EDIT: Scubbin' in progress. Thanks /u/Redbiertje. Given the speed, this might take weeks >_<
...Or maybe I'm just really high, but Tigole = short for tigole BITTIES(a childish yet humorous play on the phrase big ol' titties) But I just realized "bitties" in this context = bits/bittorrent
I can't belive I have like 3000 of their uploads and i'm just now realizing this
Hi, I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong place (I posted over @ r/IPTV and got not much response).
I am trying to find a method to get my own IPTV links. I have tried several ways that I have heard of, but no luck, e.g. wireshark, URL helper, and a few others.
I have tried to scan the output from a few of the android apps out there, with bluestacks, and on a few actual android devices, but still cannot get it to work.
I haven't been able to find a definitive guide anywhere, that would be relevant today, to what I am trying to do (most of the sources of info are years old).
I also don't have access to a 'nix machine, only windows 7 and windows 10.
I'd appreciate the help.
RELEASE: How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World.2019.1080p.HDRip.X264.AC3-EVO
SOURCE: 1080p VOD - Thank you, King Warm 📷
ViDEO: 4400 Kbps (L4.1@High) *Slow -2 Passes
RESOLUTiON: 1920x816
RUNTiME: 1h 42m 43s
SUBTiTLES: No.
AUDiO: 384 Kbps AC3 5.1
Hello I got udemy access. I want to know how to download all the contents and save them. Like videos, exercises, documents from that site, so that I can share with others the complete package.
GFX Domain is awesome but as a designer sometimes it lacks content that I know its up ther but not in this site or the regular places like piratebay and so. So, do you guys know if theres other places like GFXDomain but covering other topics like design or so?
Feels weird opening my phone and it's but a white blank instead of album art in the background. Any app would be great (I know Spotify but don't think I'm subscribing... Ever)
Hello, I've been pirating for a long time (money is limited) and have a set of rules for myself. For example if I pirate a game and really enjoy it I usually buy the full version along with any other add ons. Also I dont like pirating from indie developers or small music artists. My question is if you guys have a similar set of rules
Hello, the issue I am having involves making the USB Audio Player Pro app beyond v. 4.2.5 work. I have tried using mobilism, Aptoide, AcMarket, and 4PDA apks. The error I keep on having is one stating “Verification Error. This app can only run when no software is installed on your device that is used to crack other apps. If you think this is not the case, please contact us at ….]. The apps that I tried using to patch UAPP is Lucky Patcher and Jasi Patcher. I’ve had no luck with Lucky Patcher. Jasi Patcher is able to patch until 4.2.5 but I have not been able to make it work beyond that. The only clue I have obtained so far is that some people in 4PDA have been able to install a higher UAPP app onto v. 4.2.5. and somehow made it work. I can install a more recent version but not make it work. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Pretty much title, just curious if there are any archives with a bunch of patron stuff
Found this while downloading an update for Tixati but this seems like a better alternative compared to other File Hosting things, we could probably make one for this Subreddit.
We should moderate it a bit though, we don't want people sharing a bunch-o fake cracks in there.
Edit: Pardon if the Chatroom isn't working, I'm new to this software. 7:55 PM: I've found something called UDP port in the settings, I'm looking further.
Update: I'm moving this thing over to Tixati itself, sorry for the confusion.
I use Sonarr to fetch TV episode torrents. I've been playing around with the minimum seed count it fetches - 1,5,10. But it seems whatever I put in, I run into a problem where the torrent site claims it has an ungodly amount of seeders, but when I go download that torrent, it has nothing.
I use rarbg, eztv, TPB, YTS. 1337x seems the worst, along with limetorrents.
I prefer not to use private trackers if I can help it.
I have this app when I searched for a Spotify Alternative, subbeat is good and syncs my playlists.
But all the songs it recommends me on homepage and in playlists all are Spanish, not English. I changed the language to English from Automatic, but still the recommendations stay the same.
How do I modify it to English?
Simple little batch script I made for qpdf. Simply drag & drop one or more PDFs onto the batch file and a new, scrubbed copy of the PDF(s) will be created in the directory where the original file(s) are located, with the added suffix:
*"-scrubbed.pdf" appended to the file name(s) to distinguish it/them from the original(s). Eg.
Input = "C:\Books\goypills\MacDonald, Kevin - The Culture of Critique_ An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements.pdf"
Output = "C:\Books\goypills\MacDonald, Kevin - The Culture of Critique_ An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements-scrubbed.pdf"
Sorry in advance to all the 1337 hax0rZ if the instructions seem overtly exhaustive. I just wanted to make sure this how-to guide was as comprehensive and accessible as possible so that even the unwashed, tech-n00b masses could utilize it, as well.
HOW TO SET IT UP:
1: Download qpdf here.
2: Extract the "qpdf-8.4.0" folder somewhere
3. Open the "qpdf-8.4.0" folder
4. ⊞ Win + R > notepad > OK
Is there a definite time for an announcement that the forum will be allowing new users to register? Why is access restricted in the first place when the point of moving was to keep the mega links for people to use? (Sincere question)
Edit: Why isn't it available for use* The website itself works but I don't understand why we can't access forum content
Maybe something that scans the files name(my files are the original from the torrent/ddl) and shows the best release for it?
i can't seem to find any good ones anymore so i hope someone here can help.
I hope this is the correct place to post (as r/kickasstorrents isn't really used).
There are many torrents which are like 6 days old and have comments, but for me it only said "*comments box temporarily disabled*" for a very long time now, so is there another way to access the comments?
I use the mirrors from kickass.how
I know about Flixgrab but is there a public option which is sort of lossless, that is, not compressing it more than it already is?
AMZN WEB-DL are vastly better from what I've read but I have NF video files DRM'd that I'd like to check out and compare to AMZN.
Keep getting this error when trying to download tweaks how do i fix it?
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