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Looking for good USENET primer by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Is it the same uuencode as ages ago?

Anywho, I know nntp was not designed for file sharing, but USENET supposedly hosts some more obscure content, often impossible to find on torrents.

Looking for good USENET primer by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Haha, since Google searches are increasingly garbage, I asked Chat GPT about USENET and Eweka was one of the recommended providers :)

Looking for good USENET primer by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Thanks! At this point I don't yet know what an indexer is, so I guess I have much to learn!

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Looking for good USENET primer (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AltF4@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I used to spend a lot of time on news:// protocol back in the 90s, but haven't touched it for good 20 years or so.

Could anyone point me to a good primer on how to use USENET for piracy? Looking for advice on client software, or webapps, good services worth paying the subscription that will give me access to all the right newsgroups and archives.

Last time I used news, all this stuff was free, so I'm at a bit of a loss on what's worth paying for.

Btw, I did try looking for answers before turning to Lemmy, but ended up with just a ton of SEO garbage articles designed to serve ads, waste time and provide no real answers :(

Where can I find translated Visual Novels? by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

Nyaa is great, especially if you want full volumes. For weekly chapters you may also want to check https://w15.mangafreak.net

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PSA: AI can help you decode file names (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by AltF4@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I used to be much more knowledgeable about releases, groups and naming conventions. As I mostly moved off piracy and only use it occasionally, the release titles started getting less and less readable to me.

What was TS versus TC? How about IT, etc.

Dropping any release to Chat GPT and asking it to break it down works surprisingly well. Open AI's model is apparently very versed in release naming conventions - so if you're ever stumped like I often am - now you have a tool to help you out.

songs are unsorted in album, how should i fix this? by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

MP3tag is a great app for fixing ID tags on audio files. You can pull info from online databases, add album art, add tags based on file names, or rename files based on tags. https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal by AltF4 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] AltF4@lemm.ee 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To everyone ready with their pitchforks, here is a scenario: lemmy.world may receive a court order (subpoena?) mandating they disclose data on people actively accessing pirate communities. As it happened with Reddit, they may ask for logs and IP addresses of people commenting, posting or perhaps even up/down voting content.

Even though none of the content is being posted/hosted with this instance, admins may be asked to betray user trust - or to go battle claimants in court. It's a lose-lose for them, so maybe let's cut them some slack, eh?