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Piracy News DreitonLullaby 6 months ago 84%
Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/28549378 > **(MAJOR UPDATE: ONLY 10 HRS REMAIN BEFORE SHUT DOWN AT TIME OF WRITING THIS UPDATE)** > > Hello everyone. For everyone who owns a 3DS, 2DS, or even a Wii U, I'm sharing this out to as many places I can think of, where the awareness can make an impact. Please read if you own a 3DS or Wii U at all, or know anybody who does: > > The SpotPass servers by Nintendo will be shutting down on April 8th, 2024 (4PM PDT). [The SpotPass Archival Project](https://spotpassarchive.github.io/) has been created by the 3DS and Wii U Homebrew modding community, to make sure as much SpotPass data as humanly possible is preserved for the foreseeable future and not lost forever in the coming few days. A huge amount of SpotPass content is essentially free DLC for various games and apps, and they could have been installed without your knowledge. They are not required for most games to play, but without their archival, many games will lose DLC content permanently and some features may no longer work. This archival project can only be made possible by the donations of any individuals owning a 3DS or Wii U (not a donation of money, but rather a donation of SpotPass data stored on your system) > > This data can *only* be collected ***before*** April 8th. Any and all dumps made or sent after the end-date will be *useless* due to the nature of how the archive process works. The dump ***does not*** require you to have a modded or Homebrewed console, and can be done completely unmodded. All you need extra as an unmodded user, is a PC or laptop. There is also zero risk of having your console banned; so rest assured. The guides can be found here: https://spotpassarchive.github.io/#guides. > > *Update: For those who can't recall the difference, what we're archiving here is *Spot*Pass, not *Street*Pass. The difference between the two are: > *StreetPass:* Is a 3DS exclusive *offline* wireless tech which connects your 3DS to other systems and shares various bits of data with random people you pass on the street (in the real world). For example, in the game StreetPass Mii Plaza, the data sent to random passers are your Mii, along with your most recently played game, and your Mii can be played with in the various minigames that StreetPass Mii Plaza offers, and vice versa. > *SpotPass:* Is an *online* wireless tech available on both the 3DS *and* Wii U. Unlike StreetPass, it does not connect to other 3DS systems directly, but rather connects to Nintendo's SpotPass servers online. The data sent could be anything from notifications, to in-game content. This is what we're archiving; *not* *Street*Pass data. Streetpass is not an online service, and thus does not lose content after April 8th; but SpotPass data *will* be lost after the 8th if it's not archived. [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass).* > > Even if you make the dump *before* April 8, and send it to them afterwards, the dump will be useless regardless, this is why we are frantically trying to spread the word about the project as quickly as possible, as there is a lot of data that is still going to go away permanently regardless of the efforts of this project. The data is stored offline locally on your 3DS and Wii U, so you may be confused as to why you can't just make the dump after the date. For a better explanation, [here is a Discord message from the official Discord server which explains things](https://imgur.com/DBgHgTN). I am not a developer of the project, I'm just someone who is passionate about gaming and technology preservation, and wants to get this out there, and the 3DS was a wonderful part of my late childhood. > > The data is going to be used by the developers to put towards developing a replacement for the SpotPass network, similar to what was done by the Homebrew community who created the [Nintendo Network replacement, dubbed "Pretendo Network"](https://pretendo.network/). > > Even if you don't think you have much data on your system, *please* help dump it towards the archive as soon as possible (within the next couple of days), because you likely have some things you don't know about. The process does not require a modded console at all, and the official site [here](https://spotpassarchive.github.io/), has instructions for both users of modded consoles, and users of unmodded consoles. You can ask for help in the official Discord server of the project [here](https://discord.gg/2ddmRKpt) and people will be very willing to help. > > There are also many many niche, lesser known games, which have absolutely no data archived for them still to this day, so any help archiving them is vital. Thanks for reading, and I ask you to also share this out to as many people as you possibly can. Even if you don't own a 3DS or Wii U, please share this out to anyone you know who owns one, or even those whom you suspect might have one. > > ***Edit: added some extra information, removed some no longer relevant information, fixed some typos, improved some wording slightly.***

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Piracy News BrooklynMan 1 year ago 100%
RARBG clone launches: NQ-RARBG github.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1135020 > (via reddit) > > >**Stop Crying, Wipe Your Tears - Introducing…. NQ-RARBG!** > > > >Hello members of /r/Piracy, > > > >SlideMovies presents to you NQ-RARBG (Not Quite RARBG). > > > >The death of RARBG has been truly saddening for all of us. > > > >We have gathered developers and have started work on a RARBG clone. > > > >The clone aims to have all the torrents from RARBG (except XXX), and then open registrations, so more people can add torrents. However, this will be under strict moderation to prevent the spread of malware. > > > >GitHub: https://github.com/Not-Quite-RARBG/main > > > >Link: https://nq-rarbg.to/ > > > >We encourage more and more developers to contribute and help us with our goal. > > >Thank you, > > >The SlideMovies Team

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 83%
Sky Tries to Remove 'Pirate' IPTV App "CucoTV" from ClownHub https://torrentfreak.com/sky-tries-to-remove-pirate-iptv-app-cucotv-from-github-220406/

Same old story, [DMCA](https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/480bcf48b14472f2b078f6080c04a0eec2f44202/2022/04/2022-04-01-cucutov.md) the competition out of the game. ~~GitHub~~ Shithub name changed for fun and profit. 🤡🤥 ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/96c2fa17-dba1-47a9-bea1-d2c8f9d5c466.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 80%
Watch an Entire Movie in a Favicon www.moviefavicon.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/20861917-6426-45d3-a4d0-04f3931debff.png) Useless but unique and worth to mention I guess.

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 83%
Plex launches feature to discover content across streaming services www.plex.tv

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/53a4a39f-eb2d-4208-9678-e2650b37adb1.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 85%
5.2 Million Book Illustrations Deleted from Flickr — Help Get Them Back publicdomainreview.org

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e2814ca9-4b2a-47be-8345-7db42de9a343.png) Upload started, friends ..

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 87%
Calibre Web – Browsing and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database github.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e8a5e8c8-fa4b-4924-b096-a38d13717ed3.png) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/84f2a414-d958-442e-b24b-9bdf72c3ac0d.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 83%
Netflix Codes List - Complete List of Netflix Category Codes netflixcodeslist.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e39125e2-d85a-43de-83e4-547fcd7fbd84.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 83%
The Reliability of Optical Disks blog.ligos.net

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b9741d13-4047-4844-aa93-a19f47a84384.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
The Ugly Truth of How Movie Scores Are Made www.vanityfair.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f58839ca-f466-44e0-a4c9-6de101cedaad.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 62%
Vanced Manager app was possible malware www.androidpolice.com

Two options - Author lied when it comes to the reason why Google really removed it. - Google lies and pretend it is malware to justify the removal from their store.

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 83%
4K Video at SD Bitrates with AV1 bitmovin.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cec11755-945c-424e-8d4b-d1fea8785082.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 85%
Skyline – Run Nintendo Switch homebrew and games on your Android device github.com

At time of posting it, there are no binaries because it is still work in progress project. ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f2374c64-6fec-4c7a-90de-9e9c5e772434.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 50%
Pirating the Oscars 2022: The Rise and Fall of the Screener over 20 Years waxy.org

- [Awardedfilms.com](https://www.awardedfilms.com/) – Complete collection of all the Oscars nominations

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
ReVanced - YouTube Vanced reboot project. github.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cead292e-f57d-4561-80ea-5aa2a4fedd84.png) Background - [Google shutdown Vanced YouTube Android app](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-shuts-down-youtube-vanced-a-popular-ad-blocking-android-app/)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
TorrentFreak - We're Turning Off The Comments... https://torrentfreak.com/were-turning-off-the-comments/

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ff86660f-ed00-4ff3-9b5e-48b3f9d67f05.png) In other words... people made the kindergarten out of the comment section, as always, and now TF decided to close it. My own observation 90 percent of all comments I read are BS, no matter what platform. Does not surprise me a bit, would do the same I guess. Most intelligent people usually do not hang around on platforms or waste their lifetime commenting, just my observation of 30 years internet.

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
YouTube is letting you watch 4000 episodes of TV for free, in the US blog.youtube

- US only - for now... - [FreeShows links ](https://www.youtube.com/freeshows) including Hell’s Kitchen, Andromeda, Heartland and more. - I think there is no DRM, only geo-IP check + account check to see if you are from the US but using VPN or Proxy should be enough to fool the system.

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
The Wisdom in the 2008 Animated Movie “Kung Fu Panda” moviewise.substack.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/08e25241-68e8-4553-873c-40658b0f94e4.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 100%
NAPS2 – Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible https://www.naps2.com/

- [Source Code](https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6c29ca84-2baf-4a16-81da-fe247cd5dc2e.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 2 years ago 86%
How to Tell If a Movie Is Going to Suck http://0at.org/blog/movie_suck

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4d56655b-1923-4e85-862f-82932bb3da9b.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 100%
Internet Archive Netlabels: 75718+ free music tracks https://archive.org/details/netlabels?tab=collection

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7fac593e-6c64-487a-9d54-281b9ed849b2.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 100%
RuTracker has clarified that it is itself now blocking Russian IP addresses https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1504742699638968321

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d35891cb-f8d4-443b-a789-009ecc2f6c8a.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 100%
xdm: Powerful download Accelerator and Video Downloader github.com

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/067167a5-c8d5-4aed-be13-4fbc1f7940e0.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 80%
How to scrape pages behind login with Python https://www.trickster.dev/post/how-to-scrape-pages-behind-login-with-python/

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/018987b8-a1cb-42c3-a09e-8f614c7e9160.png)

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 66%
You can now install Android TV 11-based LineageOS 18.1 on your Fire TV Stick www.androidpolice.com

Needs - FireOS v7.2.7.3 or lower - Fire TV Stick 3rd Gen. - Hard brick possible

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Piracy News CHEFKOCH 3 years ago 33%
LimeWire, former file-sharing site, to relaunch as NFT marketplace www.cnbc.com

Last time I used LimeWire was ... lemme check ... never.

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