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| 14 | <title>Da Bikers | Acknowledgments</title> | 14 | <title>Da Bikers | Acknowledgments</title> |
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| 30 | <h2>Acknowledgments</h2> | ||
| 31 | <br> | ||
| 32 | <p>Fonts used:</p> | ||
| 33 | <ul> | ||
| 34 | <li class="nostyle"><a id="schizo" class="italicize" href="https://www.dafont.com/schizoid-personality.font" target="_blank">Schizoid Personality</a>, by <a href="http://www.woodcutter.es">WOODCUTTER</a></li> | ||
| 35 | <ul><li><b>Cool font but please for the love of god center it properly next time</b></li></ul><br> | ||
| 36 | <li class="nostyle"><a id="polski" class="italicize" href="https://www.dafont.com/courier-polski-1941.font" target="_blank">Courier Polski 1941</a>, by <a href="https://www.dafont.com/profile.php?user=409273">Tomasz Skowronski</a></li> | ||
| 37 | </ul> | ||
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| 29 | <h2>Acknowledgments</h2> | ||
| 30 | <br> | ||
| 31 | <p>Fonts used:</p> | ||
| 32 | <ul> | ||
| 33 | <li class="nostyle"><a id="schizo" class="italicize" href="https://www.dafont.com/schizoid-personality.font" target="_blank">Schizoid Personality</a>, by <a href="http://www.woodcutter.es">WOODCUTTER</a></li> | ||
| 34 | <ul><li><b>Cool font but please for the love of god center it properly next time</b></li></ul><br> | ||
| 35 | <li class="nostyle"><a id="polski" class="italicize" href="https://www.dafont.com/courier-polski-1941.font" target="_blank">Courier Polski 1941</a>, by <a href="https://www.dafont.com/profile.php?user=409273">Tomasz Skowronski</a></li> | ||
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| 37 | <h2>Preventing Piracy: A Guide On How To Avoid Pirate Activities</h2> | 38 | <h2>Preventing Piracy: A Guide On How To Avoid Pirate Activities</h2> |
| 38 | <br> | ||
| 39 | <h3>Foreword:</h3> | ||
| 40 | <br> | ||
| 41 | <p>I am a man who has despised piracy and the works of copyright thieves my entire life. As soon as I could | ||
| 42 | understand what copyright was, I became a massive proponent for it and for what it stand for: Order, a | ||
| 43 | bulwark against those who'd stoop so low as to steal someone else's idea and pawn it off as their own. | ||
| 44 | I can not STAND pirates, I get physically violent around them, my family has banned any mention of pirates | ||
| 45 | or pirate adjacent activities in my presence! Yet however much I hate pirates, I understand that some people | ||
| 46 | simply do not know better; some are ignorant to the damage they're doing by downloading a game or a book for | ||
| 47 | free. Seeking to better your knowledge is no excuse, even for those who are trying to learn about the law itself! | ||
| 48 | Yet again, it is understandable that some people may not truly grasp the gravity of their actions. That's what | ||
| 49 | this guide is for, for those who don't know how to avoid piracy!<br> | ||
| 50 | <br> | 39 | <br> |
| 51 | In this guide on avoiding piracy, I endeavor to teach you, the reader, on how to spot piracy in the wild, | 40 | <h3>Foreword:</h3> |
| 52 | how to resist the siren call of free stuff, and the most common / popular services currently used in modern | ||
| 53 | copyright theft. | ||
| 54 | </p> | ||
| 55 | <br> | ||
| 56 | <br> | ||
| 57 | <h3>What IS Piracy Anyway?</h3> | ||
| 58 | <br> | ||
| 59 | <p>The <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines piracy</a> as:</p> | ||
| 60 | <blockquote cite="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy"> | ||
| 61 |  <em>... The unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright</em> | ||
| 62 | </blockquote> | ||
| 63 | <br> | ||
| 64 | <p>While the <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piracy" target="_blank">Cambridge Dictionary defines piracy</a> as:</p> | ||
| 65 | <blockquote cite="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piracy"> | ||
| 66 |  <em>... The act of illegally copying computer programs, recordings, films, etc. to sell them at much cheaper prices</em> | ||
| 67 | </blockquote> | ||
| 68 | <br> | ||
| 69 | <p>Now these definitions, while succinct, are insufficient for truly understanding what piracy is and what it entails. | ||
| 70 | What does it mean to "illegally" copy a piece of media, or to "infringe" on copyright? Maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement" target="_blank">Wikipedia's definition | ||
| 71 | of piracy</a> is better: | ||
| 72 | </p> | ||
| 73 | <blockquote cite="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement"> | ||
| 74 |  <em>Copyright infringement <u>(at times referred to as piracy)</u> is the use of works protected by copyright without | ||
| 75 | permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted | ||
| 76 | to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, | ||
| 77 | or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other | ||
| 78 | business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological | ||
| 79 | measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement</em> | ||
| 80 | </blockquote> | ||
| 81 | <br> | ||
| 82 | <p>Ok now we can work with this. Summarizing, piracy -- or copyright infringement -- is when someone does something to a | ||
| 83 | copyrighted work without permission, like making a copy and redistributing it. This is, for the most part, the extent | ||
| 84 | of piracy for most internet users: the copying and redistribution of a copyrighted work. The actual details of real | ||
| 85 | copyright law are a bit too verbose and unnecessarily fine-grained for this guide, so I'll spare you the detail.<br> | ||
| 86 | <br> | 41 | <br> |
| 87 | TL:DR - Piracy is the unauthorized copying and redistribution of a copyrighted material | 42 | <p>I am a man who has despised piracy and the works of copyright thieves my entire life. As soon as I could |
| 88 | </p> | 43 | understand what copyright was, I became a massive proponent for it and for what it stand for: Order, a |
| 89 | <br> | 44 | bulwark against those who'd stoop so low as to steal someone else's idea and pawn it off as their own. |
| 90 | <br> | 45 | I can not STAND pirates, I get physically violent around them, my family has banned any mention of pirates |
| 91 | <h3>But Why Do People Pirate?</h3> | 46 | or pirate adjacent activities in my presence! Yet however much I hate pirates, I understand that some people |
| 92 | <br> | 47 | simply do not know better; some are ignorant to the damage they're doing by downloading a game or a book for |
| 93 | <p> | 48 | free. Seeking to better your knowledge is no excuse, even for those who are trying to learn about the law itself! |
| 94 | People pirate for a multitude of reasons, all unacceptable, but some more "valid" than others. Some of these reasons | 49 | Yet again, it is understandable that some people may not truly grasp the gravity of their actions. That's what |
| 95 | include:<ul> | 50 | this guide is for, for those who don't know how to avoid piracy!<br> |
| 96 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: The pirate may believe the copyrighted work is priced too high, or may be unable to afford a legitimate purchase</li> | ||
| 97 | <br> | ||
| 98 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: The pirate may wish to trial the copyrighted work, say in the case of software, to determine its "true" value</li> | ||
| 99 | <br> | ||
| 100 | <li><b>Availability</b>: The pirate may be unable to acquire the copyrighted work through legitimate means, and is | ||
| 101 | forced to pirate as a means to access the content</li> | ||
| 102 | <br> | 51 | <br> |
| 103 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: The copyrighted work may employ <abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> as a | 52 | In this guide on avoiding piracy, I endeavor to teach you, the reader, on how to spot piracy in the wild, |
| 104 | means to prevent pirates from exploiting their work, which may interfere with the legitimate use of the | 53 | how to resist the siren call of free stuff, and the most common / popular services currently used in modern |
| 105 | software/media</li> | 54 | copyright theft. |
| 106 | <br> | 55 | </p> |
| 107 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: Some people simply disagree with the concept of copyright, and become pirates as they do not respect the law</li> | ||
| 108 | <br> | ||
| 109 | <li><b>Etc.</b>: Other <em>(still invalid)</em> reasons not mentioned for lack of time</li> | ||
| 110 | </ul> | ||
| 111 | <br> | 56 | <br> |
| 112 | Again, none of these reasons are valid excuses to break the law:<ul> | ||
| 113 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: Many things are unaffordable to the average person, such as a jet carrier. Should I be able to | ||
| 114 | steal a jet carrier just because I selfishly believe the price I was given is "unrepresentative" of the | ||
| 115 | actual value of the jet carrier? No! That would be completely preposterous.</li> | ||
| 116 | <br> | ||
| 117 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: If a company wished to offer a demo of their software for the general public to trial their | ||
| 118 | software and determine if they should purchase it, then they would simply offer the trial. Furthermore, | ||
| 119 | acquiring a full copy of a piece of interactive media such as software or a video game is NOWHERE near | ||
| 120 | a traditional "demo", as the entire content of the media is contained within the pirated copy. If the | ||
| 121 | pirate didn't wish to pay for the real product, but still wanted to use it, there would be nothing | ||
| 122 | preventing them from simply using the copy they already have</li> | ||
| 123 | <br> | ||
| 124 | <li><b>Availability</b>: This is possibly the most understandable reason as to why someone would intentionally | ||
| 125 | commit piracy, however it is yet again unacceptable. There is plenty of media that has been rendered | ||
| 126 | exclusive to a specific piece of hardware, most notably game consoles. A game which is exclusive to Xbox | ||
| 127 | or Playstation should not be pirated just because it's otherwise exclusive! That's like saying you should | ||
| 128 | be able to steal one of the motors out of a Tesla brand car just because it has motors and your car doesn't!</li> | ||
| 129 | <br> | ||
| 130 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is implemented in a piece of software or media as a | ||
| 131 | way to prevent pirates from stealing their product. However, sometimes the measures taken impact user | ||
| 132 | experience and simultaneously fail to prevent pirates from stealing. This is unfortunate, yes, but wouldn't | ||
| 133 | be necessary if it weren't for pirates in the first place! You can't seriously blame the inventor of barbed | ||
| 134 | wire for the injuries of criminals who can obviously see the danger and still cut themselves on it. It's an | ||
| 135 | even more preposterous action to blame him for the injuries of innocents when it's the installer's fault for | ||
| 136 | the faulty use. Don't blame DRM, blame the pirates. And if you can't blame the pirates for some reason, blame | ||
| 137 | the companies who implement DRM in ways that harm the consumer</li> | ||
| 138 | <br> | ||
| 139 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: I shouldn't need to comment on this, but I shall regardless. We depend on law and | ||
| 140 | order to keep the peace in modern society. When someone willingly goes against law and order, they are naturally | ||
| 141 | enemies to society as whole and must be dealt with swiftly. While copyright infringement may feel like a | ||
| 142 | victimless crime, it is far from one, and it really does harm the companies it affects. Furthermore, if someone | ||
| 143 | is so willing to skirt the law when it comes to something like copyright infringement, what's preventing them | ||
| 144 | from skirting the law in other places? Pirates are already stealing, so what's to prevent them from shoplifting | ||
| 145 | or snatching purses from frail old ladies?</li> | ||
| 146 | </ul> | ||
| 147 | There really is no reason to break the law and pirate. No rational one at least. | ||
| 148 | </p> | ||
| 149 | <br> | ||
| 150 | <br> | ||
| 151 | <h3>Avoiding Piracy In The Wild</h3> | ||
| 152 | <br> | ||
| 153 | <p> | ||
| 154 | Not everyone has as sharp an eye for piracy as me, and it can't be expected that someone with no experience | ||
| 155 | nor any idea of what piracy looks like in real life should be able to spot it and avoid it; You can't expect | ||
| 156 | someone who's never been taught that stealing is bad to avoid stealing. Luckily, piracy is rather easy to spot<br> | ||
| 157 | <br> | 57 | <br> |
| 158 | Piracy is usually an intentional activity, as it's fairly hard to participate in piracy on accident. It's | 58 | <h3>What IS Piracy Anyway?</h3> |
| 159 | possible to be a pirate ignorantly, but the pirate must take some action to infringe on someone's copyright | ||
| 160 | for it to be piracy. This is quite nice for us copyright respecters, as it means we don't need to worry about | ||
| 161 | infringing on anything in most daily activities. Piracy is <b>NOT</b>: | ||
| 162 | <ul> | ||
| 163 | <li>Listening to music</li> | ||
| 164 | <li>Watching a movie</li> | ||
| 165 | <li>Playing a video game</li> | ||
| 166 | <li>Interacting with a copyrighted work through its intended means</li> | ||
| 167 | </ul> | ||
| 168 | Piracy in most daily scenarios boils down to the dissemination of material through improper channels and | ||
| 169 | without permission of the copyright holder. This means most interactions with pirates will take place at | ||
| 170 | the point of distribution. This may happen online or offline, in-person or from half-way across the world. | ||
| 171 | One easy way to tell if something is piracy or not is to ask yourself it it seems sketchy. If you have | ||
| 172 | second thoughts about if this is what the owner would want, or if your safety is put at risk through the | ||
| 173 | activity, it's probably piracy. If someone offers you a magazine for significantly cheaper than you'd | ||
| 174 | expect, they're probably pirating the magazine. If you're offered cheap software through some sketchy | ||
| 175 | website, it's probably piracy. Really, just use common sense and stay away from those weird dark corners | ||
| 176 | of the internet. Here are some examples of what piracy <b>IS</b>: | ||
| 177 | <ul> | ||
| 178 | <li>Using a YouTube video downloader to download a song</li> | ||
| 179 | <li>Torrenting movies, software, video games, etc.</li> | ||
| 180 | <li>Using ad-free versions of apps that normally require ads</li> | ||
| 181 | <li>Using an ad-blocker on a website that normally serves ads</li> | ||
| 182 | <li>Recording a movie or video with a screen recorder or camera</li> | ||
| 183 | <li>Giving or receiving a copy of a game to/from a friend</li> | ||
| 184 | <li>Redistributing or modifying media in any way that you are not given express permission to do so</li> | ||
| 185 | </ul> | ||
| 186 | </p> | ||
| 187 | <br> | ||
| 188 | <br> | ||
| 189 | <h3>Links, sites, and tech to avoid</h3> | ||
| 190 | <p> | ||
| 191 | Despite my best efforts, there will inevitably be people who will end up as pirates if not given EXPLICIT | ||
| 192 | instructions on what to avoid, so that is what I endeavor to do here. I repeat, this section is intended | ||
| 193 | to be a list of things to AVOID, NOT THINGS TO USE! I do NOT endorse piracy in any way, if I haven't made | ||
| 194 | that obviously clear so far. Do NOT use these "services" (crime facilitators) to subvert the copyright | ||
| 195 | protections of others. This is simply a list of things to AVOID!!!!<br> | ||
| 196 | <br> | 59 | <br> |
| 197 | <h4>Torrenting</h4> | 60 | <p>The <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines piracy</a> as:</p> |
| 61 | <blockquote cite="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy"> | ||
| 62 |  <em>... The unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright</em> | ||
| 63 | </blockquote> | ||
| 198 | <br> | 64 | <br> |
| 199 | Torrenting, or the use of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent" target="_blank">BitTorrent Protocol</a>, is not inherently illegal. It is perfectly legal to use | 65 | <p>While the <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piracy" target="_blank">Cambridge Dictionary defines piracy</a> as:</p> |
| 200 | the BitTorrent Protocol to share files with your friends or strangers, GIVEN THAT THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS | 66 | <blockquote cite="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piracy"> |
| 201 | AUTHORIZED THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTENT!!! For example, sharing Linux ISOs is perfectly fine because of | 67 |  <em>... The act of illegally copying computer programs, recordings, films, etc. to sell them at much cheaper prices</em> |
| 202 | Linux's GPLv2 License. This is NOT the case for, say, "Spiderman: Into the Spideyverse". Unless Sony comes | 68 | </blockquote> |
| 203 | out and says "WE DON'T CARE ABOUT SPIDERMAN ANYMORE, GO NUTS!", it is piracy (and illegal!) to download or | ||
| 204 | redistribute any Spiderman movies using the BitTorrent protocol (or any information transmission protocol | ||
| 205 | for that matter) | ||
| 206 | <br> | 69 | <br> |
| 207 | Examples of illegal torrenting: | 70 | <p>Now these definitions, while succinct, are insufficient for truly understanding what piracy is and what it entails. |
| 208 | <ul> | 71 | What does it mean to "illegally" copy a piece of media, or to "infringe" on copyright? Maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement" target="_blank">Wikipedia's definition |
| 209 | <li><b>The Pirate Bay</b> [<a href="https://thepiratebay.org/" target="_blank">thepiratebay.org</a>]: A public | 72 | of piracy</a> is better: |
| 210 | torrent tracker which provides the .torrent files required to download files illegally. Curiously | 73 | </p> |
| 211 | enough, <abbr title="The Pirate Bay">TPB</abbr> doesn't host any copyrighted material, they only facilitate the act of copyright | 74 | <blockquote cite="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement"> |
| 212 | infringement by offering a safe haven for pirates to congregate</li> | 75 |  <em>Copyright infringement <u>(at times referred to as piracy)</u> is the use of works protected by copyright without |
| 76 | permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted | ||
| 77 | to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, | ||
| 78 | or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other | ||
| 79 | business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological | ||
| 80 | measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement</em> | ||
| 81 | </blockquote> | ||
| 82 | <br> | ||
| 83 | <p>Ok now we can work with this. Summarizing, piracy -- or copyright infringement -- is when someone does something to a | ||
| 84 | copyrighted work without permission, like making a copy and redistributing it. This is, for the most part, the extent | ||
| 85 | of piracy for most internet users: the copying and redistribution of a copyrighted work. The actual details of real | ||
| 86 | copyright law are a bit too verbose and unnecessarily fine-grained for this guide, so I'll spare you the detail.<br> | ||
| 87 | <br> | ||
| 88 | TL:DR - Piracy is the unauthorized copying and redistribution of a copyrighted material | ||
| 89 | </p> | ||
| 90 | <br> | ||
| 91 | <br> | ||
| 92 | <h3>But Why Do People Pirate?</h3> | ||
| 93 | <br> | ||
| 94 | <p> | ||
| 95 | People pirate for a multitude of reasons, all unacceptable, but some more "valid" than others. Some of these reasons | ||
| 96 | include:<ul> | ||
| 97 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: The pirate may believe the copyrighted work is priced too high, or may be unable to afford a legitimate purchase</li> | ||
| 98 | <br> | ||
| 99 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: The pirate may wish to trial the copyrighted work, say in the case of software, to determine its "true" value</li> | ||
| 100 | <br> | ||
| 101 | <li><b>Availability</b>: The pirate may be unable to acquire the copyrighted work through legitimate means, and is | ||
| 102 | forced to pirate as a means to access the content</li> | ||
| 213 | <br> | 103 | <br> |
| 214 | <li><b>1337x</b> [<a href="https://1337x.to/" target="_blank">1337x.to</a> | <a href="http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion" target="_blank">l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion</a> *]: | 104 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: The copyrighted work may employ <abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> as a |
| 215 | Another very popular torrent site that provides .torrent files and magnet links without being a tracker. | 105 | means to prevent pirates from exploiting their work, which may interfere with the legitimate use of the |
| 216 | According to <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2020-200105/" target="_blank">TorrentFreak</a>, | 106 | software/media</li> |
| 217 | it is the 2nd most popular torrent site of 2023 </li> | ||
| 218 | <br> | 107 | <br> |
| 219 | <li><b>BTDigg</b> [<a href="https://btdig.com/" target="_blank">btdig.com</a> | <a href="http://btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion" target="_blank">btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion</a> *]: | 108 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: Some people simply disagree with the concept of copyright, and become pirates as they do not respect the law</li> |
| 220 | A torrent search engine that uses the Mainline DHT as a way to find and serve magnet links. Unlike other | ||
| 221 | sites it is neither a tracker nor an index as it does not store any information about magnet links, it | ||
| 222 | simply traverses the Mainline DHT to find torrents for pirates to download</li> | ||
| 223 | <br> | 109 | <br> |
| 224 | <li><b>rutracker</b> [<a href="https://rutracker.org/" target="_blank">rutracker.org</a> | <a href="http://torrentsru5dbmqszbdinnz7cjiubxsjngq52qij6ih3fmp3gn7hwqqd.onion" target="_blank">torrentsru5dbmqszbdinnz7cjiubxsjngq52qij6ih3fmp3gn7hwqqd.onion</a> *]: | 110 | <li><b>Etc.</b>: Other <em>(still invalid)</em> reasons not mentioned for lack of time</li> |
| 225 | The largest Russian BitTorrent tracker to date. Tracks an enormous number of torrents, and is often used | 111 | </ul> |
| 226 | by non-russians due to the sheer volume of content stored there</li> | 112 | <br> |
| 227 | </ul> | 113 | Again, none of these reasons are valid excuses to break the law:<ul> |
| 228 | There are far more torrent trackers that I could have listed, but they'd pale in comparison to these 3 titans. Generally, you'll know if a | 114 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: Many things are unaffordable to the average person, such as a jet carrier. Should I be able to |
| 229 | website is a torrent tracker because it won't be shy about telling you. If it IS shy about telling you, it's a private tracker, which you | 115 | steal a jet carrier just because I selfishly believe the price I was given is "unrepresentative" of the |
| 230 | aren't getting invited to without doing a lot of torrenting (which you wouldn't do, because you're not a pirate!)<br> | 116 | actual value of the jet carrier? No! That would be completely preposterous.</li> |
| 117 | <br> | ||
| 118 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: If a company wished to offer a demo of their software for the general public to trial their | ||
| 119 | software and determine if they should purchase it, then they would simply offer the trial. Furthermore, | ||
| 120 | acquiring a full copy of a piece of interactive media such as software or a video game is NOWHERE near | ||
| 121 | a traditional "demo", as the entire content of the media is contained within the pirated copy. If the | ||
| 122 | pirate didn't wish to pay for the real product, but still wanted to use it, there would be nothing | ||
| 123 | preventing them from simply using the copy they already have</li> | ||
| 124 | <br> | ||
| 125 | <li><b>Availability</b>: This is possibly the most understandable reason as to why someone would intentionally | ||
| 126 | commit piracy, however it is yet again unacceptable. There is plenty of media that has been rendered | ||
| 127 | exclusive to a specific piece of hardware, most notably game consoles. A game which is exclusive to Xbox | ||
| 128 | or Playstation should not be pirated just because it's otherwise exclusive! That's like saying you should | ||
| 129 | be able to steal one of the motors out of a Tesla brand car just because it has motors and your car doesn't!</li> | ||
| 130 | <br> | ||
| 131 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is implemented in a piece of software or media as a | ||
| 132 | way to prevent pirates from stealing their product. However, sometimes the measures taken impact user | ||
| 133 | experience and simultaneously fail to prevent pirates from stealing. This is unfortunate, yes, but wouldn't | ||
| 134 | be necessary if it weren't for pirates in the first place! You can't seriously blame the inventor of barbed | ||
| 135 | wire for the injuries of criminals who can obviously see the danger and still cut themselves on it. It's an | ||
| 136 | even more preposterous action to blame him for the injuries of innocents when it's the installer's fault for | ||
| 137 | the faulty use. Don't blame DRM, blame the pirates. And if you can't blame the pirates for some reason, blame | ||
| 138 | the companies who implement DRM in ways that harm the consumer</li> | ||
| 139 | <br> | ||
| 140 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: I shouldn't need to comment on this, but I shall regardless. We depend on law and | ||
| 141 | order to keep the peace in modern society. When someone willingly goes against law and order, they are naturally | ||
| 142 | enemies to society as whole and must be dealt with swiftly. While copyright infringement may feel like a | ||
| 143 | victimless crime, it is far from one, and it really does harm the companies it affects. Furthermore, if someone | ||
| 144 | is so willing to skirt the law when it comes to something like copyright infringement, what's preventing them | ||
| 145 | from skirting the law in other places? Pirates are already stealing, so what's to prevent them from shoplifting | ||
| 146 | or snatching purses from frail old ladies?</li> | ||
| 147 | </ul> | ||
| 148 | There really is no reason to break the law and pirate. No rational one at least. | ||
| 149 | </p> | ||
| 231 | <br> | 150 | <br> |
| 232 | <h4>Torrenting Peripherals</h4> | ||
| 233 | <br> | 151 | <br> |
| 234 | Because of how the BitTorrent Protocol was written, it exposes your IP address to anyone else who's torrenting | 152 | <h3>Avoiding Piracy In The Wild</h3> |
| 235 | a file you're uploading/downloading. This is great news for us pirate haters, because this means copyright | ||
| 236 | holders can get a pirate's IP and report them to their <abbr title="Internet Service Provider">ISP</abbr> for | ||
| 237 | copyright infringement and get their internet shutdown. If someone is a big enough pirate they may even get a | ||
| 238 | visit from our boys in the FBI. Unluckily, most pirates know about this and use things to circumvent this<br> | ||
| 239 | <br> | 153 | <br> |
| 240 | Some of these services include: | 154 | <p> |
| 241 | <ul> | 155 | Not everyone has as sharp an eye for piracy as me, and it can't be expected that someone with no experience |
| 242 | <li><b><abbr title="Virtual Private Network(s)">VPNs</abbr></b>: A piece of software used to mask your IP, | 156 | nor any idea of what piracy looks like in real life should be able to spot it and avoid it; You can't expect |
| 243 | which can be used to circumvent a copyright holder's request to shut off your WiFi. Not all VPNs allow | 157 | someone who's never been taught that stealing is bad to avoid stealing. Luckily, piracy is rather easy to spot<br> |
| 244 | torrenting, however there are VPNs that are built entirely for piracy. VPNs in and of themselves are | ||
| 245 | perfectly legal, it's just that some people decide that they can commit crimes if it's harder for their actions | ||
| 246 | to point back to them </li> | ||
| 247 | <br> | 158 | <br> |
| 248 | <li><b>Meshnets</b>: A special form of internet that requires special software to access. Meshnets tend to | 159 | Piracy is usually an intentional activity, as it's fairly hard to participate in piracy on accident. It's |
| 249 | bounce internet traffic between multiple different computers in an attempt to make it nigh-impossible to | 160 | possible to be a pirate ignorantly, but the pirate must take some action to infringe on someone's copyright |
| 250 | track any individual user. Again, these services in and of themselves are not illegal, but people tend to | 161 | for it to be piracy. This is quite nice for us copyright respecters, as it means we don't need to worry about |
| 251 | do illegal things while on them. Some of these services include: <a href="https://torproject.org" target="_blank"><abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr></a>, | 162 | infringing on anything in most daily activities. Piracy is <b>NOT</b>: |
| 252 | <a href="https://geti2p.net/en/" target="_blank"><abbr title="Invisible Internet Project">I2P</abbr></a>, | 163 | <ul> |
| 253 | and <a href="https://www.tribler.org/" target="_blank">Tribler</a></li> | 164 | <li>Listening to music</li> |
| 254 | </ul> | 165 | <li>Watching a movie</li> |
| 255 | The earlier links that ended in .onion are links to Onion Sites, special sites hosted using <a href="https://torproject.org" target="_blank"><abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr></a>. | 166 | <li>Playing a video game</li> |
| 256 | To access an Onion Site, one must use the <a href="https://www.torproject.org/download/" target="_blank">Tor Browser Bundle / Tor Browser</a>. The more tech savvy may know that sites hosted | 167 | <li>Interacting with a copyrighted work through its intended means</li> |
| 257 | using Tor are on the Dark Web. If that's not enough of a reason to avoid them, I don't know what is!<br> | 168 | </ul> |
| 169 | Piracy in most daily scenarios boils down to the dissemination of material through improper channels and | ||
| 170 | without permission of the copyright holder. This means most interactions with pirates will take place at | ||
| 171 | the point of distribution. This may happen online or offline, in-person or from half-way across the world. | ||
| 172 | One easy way to tell if something is piracy or not is to ask yourself it it seems sketchy. If you have | ||
| 173 | second thoughts about if this is what the owner would want, or if your safety is put at risk through the | ||
| 174 | activity, it's probably piracy. If someone offers you a magazine for significantly cheaper than you'd | ||
| 175 | expect, they're probably pirating the magazine. If you're offered cheap software through some sketchy | ||
| 176 | website, it's probably piracy. Really, just use common sense and stay away from those weird dark corners | ||
| 177 | of the internet. Here are some examples of what piracy <b>IS</b>: | ||
| 178 | <ul> | ||
| 179 | <li>Using a YouTube video downloader to download a song</li> | ||
| 180 | <li>Torrenting movies, software, video games, etc.</li> | ||
| 181 | <li>Using ad-free versions of apps that normally require ads</li> | ||
| 182 | <li>Using an ad-blocker on a website that normally serves ads</li> | ||
| 183 | <li>Recording a movie or video with a screen recorder or camera</li> | ||
| 184 | <li>Giving or receiving a copy of a game to/from a friend</li> | ||
| 185 | <li>Redistributing or modifying media in any way that you are not given express permission to do so</li> | ||
| 186 | </ul> | ||
| 187 | </p> | ||
| 258 | <br> | 188 | <br> |
| 259 | <h4>Non-Torrenting Piracy Sites</h4> | ||
| 260 | <br> | 189 | <br> |
| 261 | Not every piracy site uses torrenting to distribute their ill-gotten goods. Some sites distribute materials directly, | 190 | <h3>Links, sites, and tech to avoid</h3> |
| 262 | while others use other technologies to disseminate their illegitimate copies. Some of these sites include: | 191 | <p> |
| 263 | <ul> | 192 | Despite my best efforts, there will inevitably be people who will end up as pirates if not given EXPLICIT |
| 264 | <li><b>Scihub</b> [<a href="https://sci-hub.st/about" target="_blank">sci-hub.st</a>]: Scihub mainly | 193 | instructions on what to avoid, so that is what I endeavor to do here. I repeat, this section is intended |
| 265 | provides access to research papers, regardless of the copyright or licensing agreements held by | 194 | to be a list of things to AVOID, NOT THINGS TO USE! I do NOT endorse piracy in any way, if I haven't made |
| 266 | the paper's authors. Papers require <abbr title="Digital Object Identifier(s)">DOIs</abbr> to | 195 | that obviously clear so far. Do NOT use these "services" (crime facilitators) to subvert the copyright |
| 267 | access. I have personal experience with this site, as a (now fired, lol!) college professor recommended | 196 | protections of others. This is simply a list of things to AVOID!!!!<br> |
| 268 | it to me (disgusting!)</li><br> | 197 | <br> |
| 269 | <li><b>Library Genesis</b> [<a href="https://libgen.li" target="_blank">libgen.li</a>]: Another shadow library in the vein | 198 | <h4>Torrenting</h4> |
| 270 | of Scihub, but this one offers books instead of research papers. Libgen is one of the more popular shadow libraries, as it | 199 | <br> |
| 271 | has been around since 2008 and sports a very large catalog of pirated material. LibGen is unique from the other libraries | 200 | Torrenting, or the use of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent" target="_blank">BitTorrent Protocol</a>, is not inherently illegal. It is perfectly legal to use |
| 272 | in that if offers downloads using the <a href="https://ipfs.tech/" target="_blank"><abbr title="Interplanetary Filesystem">IPFS</abbr></a>, | 201 | the BitTorrent Protocol to share files with your friends or strangers, GIVEN THAT THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS |
| 273 | protocol another filesharing protocol similar to BitTorrent. Another funny fact is that LibGen came from the Soviet Union; only | 202 | AUTHORIZED THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CONTENT!!! For example, sharing Linux ISOs is perfectly fine because of |
| 274 | commies could bear such a terrible disregard of copyright law!</li><br> | 203 | Linux's GPLv2 License. This is NOT the case for, say, "Spiderman: Into the Spideyverse". Unless Sony comes |
| 275 | <li><b>Z-Library</b> [<a href="loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion" target="_blank">loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion</a> * | <a href="http://zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p/" target="_blank">zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p</a> *]: | 204 | out and says "WE DON'T CARE ABOUT SPIDERMAN ANYMORE, GO NUTS!", it is piracy (and illegal!) to download or |
| 276 | yet again another shadow library, but this one has been fully kicked off the clearnet and into the Dark | 205 | redistribute any Spiderman movies using the BitTorrent protocol (or any information transmission protocol |
| 277 | Web. Currently only accessible through either Tor or I2P (using the .b32.i2p link), Z-Library is possibly the most illegal site I've | 206 | for that matter) |
| 278 | covered so far. It sports a similarly large catalog of books to LibGen, and can be seen as an alternative. | 207 | <br> |
| 279 | Not that anyone should be looking for alternatives anyway</li><br> | 208 | Examples of illegal torrenting: |
| 280 | <li><b>Anna's Archive</b> [<a href="https://annas-archive.org/" target="_blank">annas-archive.org</a>]: Anna's archive differs | ||
| 281 | from the other shadow libraries in that it is not a shadow library in and of it self, but a search engine for the rest of the | ||
| 282 | previously mentioned shadow libraries. It does not host any copyrighted content, much the TPB, but facilitates piracy by making | ||
| 283 | it trivially easy to find media across the different libraries. Anna's Archive claims that they do not wish to hurt the authors | ||
| 284 | of the content they link to, in their about page, but fail spectacularly by simply existing!</li> | ||
| 285 | </ul> | ||
| 286 | Again, there are many more examples of non torrent-based piracy sites, but if I were to list them then we'd be here all day. Pirates regularly | ||
| 287 | have their domains seized and are forced to either go dark and take their site down or switch to another domain. It's likely that all the | ||
| 288 | domains I've listed will be different or defunct within a year (here's hoping!). Going on a pirate hunt is a lot like trying to kill the hydra, | ||
| 289 | kill one pirate and 3 more hop out of the hole you blasted through their ship. The only way piracy can end is if people are made aware of the | ||
| 290 | harm they're bringing; only through willing refusal to pirate can piracy be defeated, and I hope that I've helped in achieving that. | ||
| 291 | </p> | ||
| 292 | <br> | ||
| 293 | <br> | ||
| 294 | <h3>Closing Remarks:</h3> | ||
| 295 | <br> | ||
| 296 | <p> | ||
| 297 | While piracy may never come to an end, I hope I have convinced you to give up any future piracy you may | ||
| 298 | have potentially committed. Maybe I was so convincing as to have you share this article around and spread | ||
| 299 | the word of anti-piracy to the masses. If I can have even one person swear off piracy forever, I will be | ||
| 300 | satisfied with my efforts. I hope this guide has been helpful in your journey to become a better person | ||
| 301 | and better netizen. Remember, piracy kills! | ||
| 302 | </p> | ||
| 303 | </div> | ||
| 304 | |||
| 305 | <div id="bottom-bar"> | ||
| 306 | <footer> | ||
| 307 | <nav id="bottom-flex"> | ||
| 308 | <ul> | 209 | <ul> |
| 309 | <li><a href="acknowledgments.html">Acknowledgments</a></li> | 210 | <li><b>The Pirate Bay</b> [<a href="https://thepiratebay.org/" target="_blank">thepiratebay.org</a>]: A public |
| 211 | torrent tracker which provides the .torrent files required to download files illegally. Curiously | ||
| 212 | enough, <abbr title="The Pirate Bay">TPB</abbr> doesn't host any copyrighted material, they only facilitate the act of copyright | ||
| 213 | infringement by offering a safe haven for pirates to congregate</li> | ||
| 214 | <br> | ||
| 215 | <li><b>1337x</b> [<a href="https://1337x.to/" target="_blank">1337x.to</a> | <a href="http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion" target="_blank">l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion</a> *]: | ||
| 216 | Another very popular torrent site that provides .torrent files and magnet links without being a tracker. | ||
| 217 | According to <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2020-200105/" target="_blank">TorrentFreak</a>, | ||
| 218 | it is the 2nd most popular torrent site of 2023 </li> | ||
| 219 | <br> | ||
| 220 | <li><b>BTDigg</b> [<a href="https://btdig.com/" target="_blank">btdig.com</a> | <a href="http://btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion" target="_blank">btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion</a> *]: | ||
| 221 | A torrent search engine that uses the Mainline DHT as a way to find and serve magnet links. Unlike other | ||
| 222 | sites it is neither a tracker nor an index as it does not store any information about magnet links, it | ||
| 223 | simply traverses the Mainline DHT to find torrents for pirates to download</li> | ||
| 224 | <br> | ||
| 225 | <li><b>rutracker</b> [<a href="https://rutracker.org/" target="_blank">rutracker.org</a> | <a href="http://torrentsru5dbmqszbdinnz7cjiubxsjngq52qij6ih3fmp3gn7hwqqd.onion" target="_blank">torrentsru5dbmqszbdinnz7cjiubxsjngq52qij6ih3fmp3gn7hwqqd.onion</a> *]: | ||
| 226 | The largest Russian BitTorrent tracker to date. Tracks an enormous number of torrents, and is often used | ||
| 227 | by non-russians due to the sheer volume of content stored there</li> | ||
| 310 | </ul> | 228 | </ul> |
| 311 | </nav> | 229 | There are far more torrent trackers that I could have listed, but they'd pale in comparison to these 3 titans. Generally, you'll know if a |
| 312 | <p id="copyrightnotice">Copyright © 2023-2024 Dabikers.online, All rights reserved.</p> | 230 | website is a torrent tracker because it won't be shy about telling you. If it IS shy about telling you, it's a private tracker, which you |
| 313 | </footer> | 231 | aren't getting invited to without doing a lot of torrenting (which you wouldn't do, because you're not a pirate!)<br> |
| 232 | <br> | ||
| 233 | <h4>Torrenting Peripherals</h4> | ||
| 234 | <br> | ||
| 235 | Because of how the BitTorrent Protocol was written, it exposes your IP address to anyone else who's torrenting | ||
| 236 | a file you're uploading/downloading. This is great news for us pirate haters, because this means copyright | ||
| 237 | holders can get a pirate's IP and report them to their <abbr title="Internet Service Provider">ISP</abbr> for | ||
| 238 | copyright infringement and get their internet shutdown. If someone is a big enough pirate they may even get a | ||
| 239 | visit from our boys in the FBI. Unluckily, most pirates know about this and use things to circumvent this<br> | ||
| 240 | <br> | ||
| 241 | Some of these services include: | ||
| 242 | <ul> | ||
| 243 | <li><b><abbr title="Virtual Private Network(s)">VPNs</abbr></b>: A piece of software used to mask your IP, | ||
| 244 | which can be used to circumvent a copyright holder's request to shut off your WiFi. Not all VPNs allow | ||
| 245 | torrenting, however there are VPNs that are built entirely for piracy. VPNs in and of themselves are | ||
| 246 | perfectly legal, it's just that some people decide that they can commit crimes if it's harder for their actions | ||
| 247 | to point back to them </li> | ||
| 248 | <br> | ||
| 249 | <li><b>Meshnets</b>: A special form of internet that requires special software to access. Meshnets tend to | ||
| 250 | bounce internet traffic between multiple different computers in an attempt to make it nigh-impossible to | ||
| 251 | track any individual user. Again, these services in and of themselves are not illegal, but people tend to | ||
| 252 | do illegal things while on them. Some of these services include: <a href="https://torproject.org" target="_blank"><abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr></a>, | ||
| 253 | <a href="https://geti2p.net/en/" target="_blank"><abbr title="Invisible Internet Project">I2P</abbr></a>, | ||
| 254 | and <a href="https://www.tribler.org/" target="_blank">Tribler</a></li> | ||
| 255 | </ul> | ||
| 256 | The earlier links that ended in .onion are links to Onion Sites, special sites hosted using <a href="https://torproject.org" target="_blank"><abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr></a>. | ||
| 257 | To access an Onion Site, one must use the <a href="https://www.torproject.org/download/" target="_blank">Tor Browser Bundle / Tor Browser</a>. The more tech savvy may know that sites hosted | ||
| 258 | using Tor are on the Dark Web. If that's not enough of a reason to avoid them, I don't know what is!<br> | ||
| 259 | <br> | ||
| 260 | <h4>Non-Torrenting Piracy Sites</h4> | ||
| 261 | <br> | ||
| 262 | Not every piracy site uses torrenting to distribute their ill-gotten goods. Some sites distribute materials directly, | ||
| 263 | while others use other technologies to disseminate their illegitimate copies. Some of these sites include: | ||
| 264 | <ul> | ||
| 265 | <li><b>Scihub</b> [<a href="https://sci-hub.st/about" target="_blank">sci-hub.st</a>]: Scihub mainly | ||
| 266 | provides access to research papers, regardless of the copyright or licensing agreements held by | ||
| 267 | the paper's authors. Papers require <abbr title="Digital Object Identifier(s)">DOIs</abbr> to | ||
| 268 | access. I have personal experience with this site, as a (now fired, lol!) college professor recommended | ||
| 269 | it to me (disgusting!)</li><br> | ||
| 270 | <li><b>Library Genesis</b> [<a href="https://libgen.li" target="_blank">libgen.li</a>]: Another shadow library in the vein | ||
| 271 | of Scihub, but this one offers books instead of research papers. Libgen is one of the more popular shadow libraries, as it | ||
| 272 | has been around since 2008 and sports a very large catalog of pirated material. LibGen is unique from the other libraries | ||
| 273 | in that if offers downloads using the <a href="https://ipfs.tech/" target="_blank"><abbr title="Interplanetary Filesystem">IPFS</abbr></a>, | ||
| 274 | protocol another filesharing protocol similar to BitTorrent. Another funny fact is that LibGen came from the Soviet Union; only | ||
| 275 | commies could bear such a terrible disregard of copyright law!</li><br> | ||
| 276 | <li><b>Z-Library</b> [<a href="loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion" target="_blank">loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion</a> * | <a href="http://zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p/" target="_blank">zlib24th6ptyb4ibzn3tj2cndqafs6rhm4ed4gruxztaaco35lka.b32.i2p</a> *]: | ||
| 277 | yet again another shadow library, but this one has been fully kicked off the clearnet and into the Dark | ||
| 278 | Web. Currently only accessible through either Tor or I2P (using the .b32.i2p link), Z-Library is possibly the most illegal site I've | ||
| 279 | covered so far. It sports a similarly large catalog of books to LibGen, and can be seen as an alternative. | ||
| 280 | Not that anyone should be looking for alternatives anyway</li><br> | ||
| 281 | <li><b>Anna's Archive</b> [<a href="https://annas-archive.org/" target="_blank">annas-archive.org</a>]: Anna's archive differs | ||
| 282 | from the other shadow libraries in that it is not a shadow library in and of it self, but a search engine for the rest of the | ||
| 283 | previously mentioned shadow libraries. It does not host any copyrighted content, much the TPB, but facilitates piracy by making | ||
| 284 | it trivially easy to find media across the different libraries. Anna's Archive claims that they do not wish to hurt the authors | ||
| 285 | of the content they link to, in their about page, but fail spectacularly by simply existing!</li> | ||
| 286 | </ul> | ||
| 287 | Again, there are many more examples of non torrent-based piracy sites, but if I were to list them then we'd be here all day. Pirates regularly | ||
| 288 | have their domains seized and are forced to either go dark and take their site down or switch to another domain. It's likely that all the | ||
| 289 | domains I've listed will be different or defunct within a year (here's hoping!). Going on a pirate hunt is a lot like trying to kill the hydra, | ||
| 290 | kill one pirate and 3 more hop out of the hole you blasted through their ship. The only way piracy can end is if people are made aware of the | ||
| 291 | harm they're bringing; only through willing refusal to pirate can piracy be defeated, and I hope that I've helped in achieving that. | ||
| 292 | </p> | ||
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| 295 | <h3>Closing Remarks:</h3> | ||
| 296 | <br> | ||
| 297 | <p> | ||
| 298 | While piracy may never come to an end, I hope I have convinced you to give up any future piracy you may | ||
| 299 | have potentially committed. Maybe I was so convincing as to have you share this article around and spread | ||
| 300 | the word of anti-piracy to the masses. If I can have even one person swear off piracy forever, I will be | ||
| 301 | satisfied with my efforts. I hope this guide has been helpful in your journey to become a better person | ||
| 302 | and better netizen. Remember, piracy kills! | ||
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