Confucius is that you?

I guess relatively few people still turn to piracy, it seems like all these streaming platforms are massively increasing their prices knowing that their customers will try to rationalise the extra spending somehow.

If you search on solidtorrents.to there is a version with ~17 seeders.

If you have slower internet or don’t seed 24/7, I would recommend just focusing on seediing torrents with a low number of seeders. It doesn’t really matter if you leech the latest episode of a popular new TV series, as there will be so many other seeders, (many with a better capacity to seed). However, for something older or more niche your decision to seed or leech could determine whether someone else gets to enjoy that content.

The first game is much creepier than the second, I think due to a combination of the character designs, the writing and the general plot. The second game feels more akin to Danganronpa, in that the characters and setting are a bit surreal. Because it was a 3DS game, it also uses cartoony 3D models that make everything a bit lighter and less gritty than the original game. I haven’t played the third one yet (still need to get around to 100% completing the second game).

I found 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors to be very unsettling. I played it in bed at night with headphones on and it totally sucked me in. I guess this is a different type of horror to many of the games suggested here, which I personally don’t find scary.

It’s actually 4 years now. Still terrible for the price, of course.

Not laughing at the paying customers

You literally changed the title so you could call them idiots.

Yes, people have had these existential crisis moments about piracy for many years. Just a couple of notable examples within my lifetime were the many issues of The Pirate Bay in the 2000s, the closure of KickassTorrents in the 2010s and RARBG’s shutdown last year. People panicked over the initial DeezLoader and YouTube Vanced project shutdowns too. Every single time, without fail, something new rises up whether it’s a direct clone or something entirely new. It’s not always as good initially, but I can’t really say any of these “crackdowns” have had a significant effect from my perspective.

Yes, the projects on GitHub were shutdown. That doesn’t mean the extension suddenly became “ineffective” or is no longer being worked on. It was simply cloned elsewhere and development continues. I think I am getting an idea of why you’re so pessimistic about piracy - you base your opinions on articles and forum speculation instead of lived experience. If you actually used this extension, you would know that at no point has it stopped working.

Almost all the ways to bypass news paywalls are currently ineffective.

What are you referring to here? Bypass Paywalls Clean is still being updated and covers a lot of stuff across multiple languages.

Is that actually a proxy or just a clone?

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*Nyaa-uh

It’s funny how similar these shutdown messages always are. They never state the real reason why the project is ending and always have some weird sentence at the end recommending everyone use paid services, even though their entire project completely undermined them for years. I guess they are advised (threatened) to use certain language by whoever is pressuring them.

One of my university lecturers uses this, I could see it in his bookmarks while he cast his browser lol

You act like this is a universally confusing concept, when it’s only Americans who seem to have difficulty understanding that different countries have different laws and definitions. In any case, it was reported as solitary confinement in both the EU and US at the time so I’m not really sure what you guys are crying about.

That is sort of like complaining that people think of the US when they hear “school shooting”:

No it’s not, because in this case it was quite clearly solitary confinement in Sweden and Denmark. If you read that and thought “oh they mean US solitary confinement” then you are retarded.

Ok so I think what most people think about when they talk about solitary confinement is the US version

“Okay so I think what most people think about when they talk about Sweden and Denmark is the US”.

He was held in solitary confinement in both Sweden and Denmark. This was reported on at the time. I’m not sure why you’re trying to second-guess me when you clearly have zero knowledge about the history of this guy.