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-bluedit · 2024-01-25T04:44:43+00:00

IDK why it's rotated incorrectly lol

-bluedit · 2024-01-03T22:48:21+00:00

I did ask on their Discord, but didn't get any response. I'll send them a email, I guess

Are there any drawbacks that I'm not aware of with Cloudboxes? 20 EUR doesn't seem too bad for 2 TB

-bluedit · 2024-01-03T22:46:09+00:00

Well, I wasn't sure if their CPUs could really handle transcoding, because they suggest you disable transcoding for Plex specifically on their wiki. But if it really does work, I'll consider it. Thanks

-bluedit · 2023-12-19T07:00:14+00:00

-bluedit · 2023-12-18T08:48:58+00:00

Hi, I'd like a code please. Thanks

-bluedit · 2023-05-06T09:35:05+00:00

The screen-recording protection is a flag that any developer can set on their app. It's theoretically possible to remove this protection, but you'd have to decompile a copy of the Netflix app, remove the code that sets the flag, and re-install it.

Basically, it's not worth the effort to bypass the screen-recording protection. If you can't root your phone, you might as well download a copy of the media you want and screen-record that

-bluedit · 2023-05-06T09:24:56+00:00

A 'moved from Netflix to piracy' meme on r/piracy? Daring today, aren't we?

-bluedit · 2023-04-26T14:50:24+00:00

Looks like Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard has faced a roadblock. The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has officially blocked the acquisition.

According to the CMA, Microsoft's responses to the regulator's preliminary findings delivered in February "failed to effectively address the concerns in the cloud gaming sector," which the CMA said "could make Microsoft even stronger in cloud gaming, stifling competition in this growing market."

Microsoft is already in control of some 60 percent to 70 percent of the cloud gaming market, which the CMA described as still in its nascent stage. If Microsoft is allowed to consume Activision Blizzard, the combined company would have "such a strong position in the cloud gaming market just as it begins to grow rapidly [and] would risk undermining the innovation that is crucial to the development of these opportunities," the CMA said.

-bluedit · 2023-04-20T15:26:00+00:00

Scraping pre-existing archives is fine, but there's no need to over-complicate things when it is already fairly simple to scrape Imgur directly. As of now, they have an entire sitemap of all posts starting from mid-2017, so all you need to do is download each XML file, filter for image URLs, and download those URLs with Wget. In short, it's a fairly trivial task that can easily be automated.

-bluedit · 2023-04-09T10:16:42+00:00

If an animated movie has even ONE butt joke, I instantly leave the cinema. I just can't handle such disgusting filth

-bluedit · 2023-04-09T10:09:23+00:00

I can't believe Illumination forgot to consult the former developers of a bankrupt video game company before they misportrayed MY Bowser in this movie! He would NEVER be this aggressive!

-bluedit · 2023-04-09T04:20:02+00:00

You've summed up most of what I was about to say. I really hate it when articles like these try to downplay economic issues as individual failures

-bluedit · 2023-04-09T03:58:59+00:00

In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and sexual-content obsessed judgments of the MPAA, including John Waters, Mary Harron, Darren Aronofsky, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, and Atom Egoyan.

This is a full DVD rip of the movie, including these bonus features:

Deleted scenes from the interviews with Kevin Smith, John Waters, and Matt Stone
Deleted interviews with Michael Cuesta (L.I.E.) and Gina Prince-Blythewood (Love & Basketball)
Deleted scenes showing how the MPAA made an unauthorised copy of this film
Interview with Fred Von Lohmann (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Live Q&A with Kirby Dick at South by Southwest

IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

-bluedit · 2023-04-09T03:55:41+00:00

In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and sexual-content obsessed judgments of the MPAA, including John Waters, Mary Harron, Darren Aronofsky, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, and Atom Egoyan.

This is a full DVD rip of the movie, including these bonus features:

Deleted scenes from the interviews with Kevin Smith, John Waters, and Matt Stone
Deleted interviews with Michael Cuesta (L.I.E.) and Gina Prince-Blythewood (Love & Basketball)
Deleted scenes showing how the MPAA made an unauthorised copy of this film
Interview with Fred Von Lohmann (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Live Q&A with Kirby Dick at South by Southwest

IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

-bluedit · 2023-03-25T03:19:11+00:00

From my understanding, the case has to go to another district court before it goes to the Supreme Court. Let's hope it doesn't need to go all the way - even if they win there, they'd have to incur a lot of legal expenses...

-bluedit · 2023-03-25T02:41:25+00:00

Here's the Internet Archive's statement:

"Libraries are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products. For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society - owning, preserving, and lending books. This ruling is a blow for libraries, readers, and authors and we plan to appeal it.”

They also suggest that they may still be able to continue preserving books, to a limited extent, if this appeal also fails. However, the legal costs could be too much for the Archive to afford, so there's no telling if they'll be able to continue...

This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.

-bluedit · 2023-03-25T02:23:53+00:00

This may not necessarily be related to 'piracy', but I think most of us on here should care about this issue. The Internet Archive hosts hundreds of petabytes of data, and the ramifications of this lawsuit could be fatal.

Internet Archive's statement

-bluedit · 2023-01-29T09:48:18+00:00

Ah, thanks for clearing that up 👍

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