Just wanted to point out that downloading is no longer a grey area since an EU ruling a couple of years ago. Streaming as well as downloading from unauthorized sources is plainly illegal - you’re right about it being very unlikely to be prosecuted for it.
The one and only a absolutely necessary precaution is preventing your torrent client from accessing the internet when the VPN is not running.
This must be done by binding your torrent client to your VPN network interface. [1]
A “VPN Kill Switch” or similar is not enough to prevent your IP from leaking to law firms.
It’s also a good idea to use a reputable VPN company like AirVPN, ProtonVPN or Njalla VPN.
I’m also german and I’ve been using torrents for years, so this definitely works well for me. A friend of mine’s brother received an “Abmahnung” from a law firm, as well as a more distant person ended up paying around 1000€. I feel like almost any german somehow heard of people getting letters.
Ayaneo and GPD are too expensive for to be compared to consoles imo. They’ve been above a grand and in general similarly priced as a laptop with the same internal hardware. Edit: The Steam Deck basically halved the price for an powerful x86 handheld, and made it comparable to a Switch. This is imo the only reason it sells so well.
I’ve been lucky and have had only a few issues and none with the small amount of games I’ve launched over the last year or so.
There’s an issue where people report issues with games, although I don’t know how up-to-date it is.
wine-ge is patched wine which includes many patches proton has that make games work (well).
Also, the developer of wine-ge no longer has their focus on it, because UMU [1] makes it possible to use proton(-ge) directly. UMU is already included in Lutris, Bottles & Co., or you can use it standalone [1].
There’s two reasons why r/linux is popular on Reddit:
First of all thank you for hosting this instance.
PS: Irrelevant rambling without a point below.
I don’t know how French/EU equivalents to DMCA take down requests work and how trigger-happy OVH is. Given services like real-debrid still operate, it won’t be as bad. From what I’ve heard Hetzner is quite strict when it comes to complaints, so I assume OVH is better.
It’s good that you don’t allow direct linking to pirate content. It seems to me that on most platforms communities are closed prematurely to avoid further annoyances/complaints, even if they follow the law (like here).
I do wonder how Lemmy would be impacted by an influx of DMCA complaints. Instances would have to delete the content but I don’t think they have the manpower to do so.
Instances like dbzer0 could also get taken down by complaining to the VPS provider if the instance operators wouldn’t comply.
The group tiers you’re talking about exist and are called trash guides. If you’re only on public trackers the groups might not be as prevalent, but e.g. TorrentLeech is more likely to have them.
The letterboxing with ultra wide monitors might be possible to solve locally with your video player. For MPV there’s the dynamic-crop.lua script, which is not perfect but works quite well.
I’m using mpv with Jellyfin on my PC through jellyfin-mpv-shim.
Edit: For Windows you might want to check out MPC-BE. I’ve found some mentions of “View -> Video Frame -> Touch Window From Outside” but I never tried it.
[1] is a great usenet guide. For automation look at TRaSH guides (Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr) and their german section.
If you have questions the discord server in the linked [1] guide is quite helpful. They created the german trash guide.
You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.
You could, and unless you’re trying to profit off it the original devs likely won’t care.
And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…
They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.
I don’t care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.
For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it’s completely free to download by the original developer [1]. @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com
They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don’t like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don’t tell you about it.
[1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry
Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.
They create the world, but the player is the one controlling the action.
Yes, the streamer adds to the experience (i.e. how he plays, commentary, …), but a narrator put their own spin on a story. Intonation, the timing of pauses, etc. all requires skill and changes the end result.
Good point about fan fictions. I think fan fics are more like mods in the way that they expand on the world/media without distributing the original media itself.
But yeah I also think it’s dumb that playing a video game could be considered copyright infringement. The same goes for small clips from movies, which are the exact opposite of detrimental to the popularity of a movie.
GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it’s public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.
I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.
And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.
These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they’d provide me their source.
Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it’s users, especially not on distribution.
Really scummy on their part.
Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.
They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.
So what’s the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn’t want to get out yet?
Theoretically any streamer could get sued for copyright infringement by the copyright holders. This is because they own the gameplay, irrespective of whether someone plays it themselves or watches someone else play it. That’s why Nintendo sues for copyright infringement. Usually game companies understand streamers correctly as free advertisement (sometimes even paid) and don’t sue.
Edit: I can imagine they look at broadcasting playing their game in a similar way to someone reading a book out loud publicly. Which is also copyright infringement.
I agree with you on most of your points. And just wanted to clarify this.
If they’ve already installed Arch I don’t think there’s much difference to EndeavourOS. Both use the official Arch repos, and the latter mainly makes installation simpler.
I really hate how circumventing protection measures on their own device is considered illegal. It’s my device, I should be allowed to do what I want.
Even the term “protection measures” annoys me, as it tries to protect their interests on my device.
Also, linking to an emulator should not be considered “trafficking circumvention devices”. Making circumvention devices illegal is bad enough.
But the streamer is an idiot too as he was publicly streaming cracked games pre release. Streaming any game can be considered copyright infringement, although it’s usually not enforced (it’s free advertisement).
NixOS in LXC works great, although I switched to bare metal NixOS a few months ago. I didn’t see the need for proxmox as it hindered my ability of declaring the whole system.
Creating NixOS LXC’s is a bit of a pita. Some links that helped me two years ago:
BitTorrent v2 allows for per file hashing, which makes it easier to merge swarms. This could be used to keep individual episodes alive without splitting seeders between season pack and individual episodes.
But given how many tracker staff want to continue doing what they’ve always done, I don’t think it’s big enough of an advantage for them to allow v2.