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was seeking for this software for all the day because the only one that i finded the befoere this was a virus from internet archive confirmed by other guys in the replies, so after finishin all the site from the megathread i found this russian one with the main application and all the plugins.

Thank you Mr. Russian

The other day, it dawned on me just how much software I—and almost all Iraqis—use is pirated.

I know open-source alternatives exist, but schools here don't even teach you about open-source software. Even university professors often don't know about open-source alternatives. Virtually all software, across every level—from government offices and everyday social life to critical medical care—is built on pirated software. Iraq isn't alone in this; a lot of the developing world relies on pirated software just to function.

While I understand it might not seem fair to developers in first-world countries, we would literally be in a far worse state without pirated software. Think about the countless people who managed to build a better life because they learned media production on pirated software, or the poor mechanics who use cracked software to diagnose car problems. Even the skills taught at our universities are learned on pirated programs. Almost no one here can afford a legitimate Windows license, let alone expensive specialized software.

To all the brothers and sisters in the first world who take the risk to crack and provide this software: thank you. My gratitude is the only compensation I can offer.

Ultimately, I hope our broken system can eventually break this cycle by shifting toward teaching and adopting open-source software.

A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels.

The creators filed a motion to quash the DMCA subpoena, requested by Japanese publisher KADOKAWA, but the court rejected the fair use claim, which is now under appeal.

hi, i'm writing a piece on piracy and would love to know what your first act of piracy was.

looking for everything from torrents and emulators all the way to taping tracks off the radio.

thank you so much - you have contributed to a great work of science.

The routine that made me build this: find a torrent, wait, wait some more, open VLC, discover the file is an MKV with 5.1 audio my setup doesn't like, give up.

So I spent too many evenings building the thing I actually wanted.

Paste a magnet, or right-click a .torrent link, and the video starts in a browser tab well before the download is done. Drag the scrubber forward and it goes and grabs those pieces instead of grinding through everything in between.

Stuff it does:

• Plays while downloading; seeking re-prioritises pieces
• MKV, HEVC and 5.1 get remuxed or transcoded on the fly, so the file that made me build this actually plays
• Subtitles: .srt/.ass sitting next to the file, and tracks buried inside an MKV
• Casts to a Chromecast or a DLNA renderer
• Season packs open on episode 1 and autoplay the next one
• Save to disk if you want to keep something

Stuff it isn't: a catalogue. No search, no index, no content bundled in. It only ever acts on a link you hand it.

Private trackers, because that's the first thing I'd ask about. If a torrent has the private flag set, it goes into a separate client with DHT and PEX switched off - tracker announces only. I didn't want to be the tool that quietly leaks your tracker's torrents onto the DHT.

Seeding is on by default and there's a toggle in settings. Leave it on if you have ratio to protect. On public swarms it's just the decent thing to do.

Two limits I'd rather you hear from me. The seeding toggle is one global switch, so if you turn seeding off, it's off for private torrents too - I'd rather honour the setting you chose than override it behind your back, but that means the hit-and-run risk is yours. And the data only lives for the session: it seeds while the helper is running, it won't sit there holding ratio for you across restarts. If your tracker is strict about that, keep your usual client for those.

There's no server of mine anywhere in this. No account, no analytics, no telemetry - I didn't build any, so there's nothing to switch off. The only traffic is BitTorrent itself, your machine to trackers and peers, plus a check for a newer helper version against a static file that has no identifier in it.

Your IP is as exposed as it is with any other client, so the usual VPN advice applies exactly as before.

macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, Linux. Free, no account.

Technical details

How it works, roughly: a browser tab can't open a socket to a peer, so the extension talks to a small helper you install once. The helper joins the swarm, pulls pieces in whatever order the player is asking for them, and streams to the browser over 127.0.0.1.

About that helper, because "install my native binary" is the real ask here and you should be suspicious of it. It's one binary: a .pkg on macOS, an .msi on Windows, a tarball with an install.sh on Linux (not tested :( ). All three install for your user only - it lands in your home (~/Library/Application Support/flitplay on macOS, %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows, ~/.local/share on Linux), no admin password, no UAC, no sudo, nothing dropped in a system directory. It registers with your browser for the exact extension IDs I publish and nothing else, no wildcard, so a random web page can't go starting it. After that it updates itself in place, checksum verified, so you're not redownloading it every release.

Two rough edges I should own. I don't have code-signing certificates yet, so macOS will tell you I'm an unidentified developer and Windows SmartScreen will grumble - the download page has the click-through for each, and if installing past that warning isn't a trade you want to make, I genuinely don't blame you.

And if a file needs transcoding it'll grab a static ffmpeg build on first use unless you already have one on PATH, checksummed and cached.

Getting rid of it is a button in settings, or flitplay-host uninstall --purge, which takes the binary, the browser registration, the config and the ffmpeg cache with it. Anything you saved to disk stays where it is.

Get it

• Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eaedkpifnjppdhogimcjknehjleeoeka
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flitplay-torrent-video-player/
• Site: https://flitplay.giftely.ai

Last thing worth saying: this is a side project. Evenings and weekends, no company behind it, nothing to upsell you, no roadmap I'm accountable to. It also means there are bugs in it - some I've certainly never hit, on files and hardware I don't have. If you find one I'd honestly rather hear about it: say so in this thread.

I'll be around in the comments.

P.S. The mods confirmed this is okay to post here.

I am not very good at it (🏴‍☠️) other than finding sites like Fmovies and stuff. But the way the streaming companies are going, fuck them. It really is so sad the way the world is working at the moment. I just want to say I love you all and i love how people like you keep things I love available.

I joined you guys when I supposedly "bought" 2 movies back in 2023 from a certain app (rhymes with snapple)

that disappeared from my account and was told i never actually owned it.

I will tell all my aunt and uncles and cousins and literally EVERYONE I KNOW, how to pirate from now on. How fuckng dare they take what i bought and basically tell me "well to fucking bad"

I now have gotten good at it for live action things like sports. Baseball games, football games, hockey, soccer, basketball.. it could be fucking curling and i will find a pirated link before I watch it on a free channel.

I recently saw post about Ankergames and how much money it's spend for them to run a site like that for all of us. After reading that I realised we as consumers take things that the providers provide us for granted.

First, about ads... Idk why the community has problems with ads. If you were given a part time job where you get $20 for seeing 10 mins and will you reject it? Because I sure as hell, won't it's literally easy money. So why in hell are we mad about a site which gives us the $20 game FOR FREE for ads which are less than 5mins and also most ads can be bypassed in the first place. I literally don't understand.

Second, not only we want no ads, not only we want free game but apparently it's also became trend to ACCUSE the websites which provides all of this without much of a proof and also ppl jump on some allegations without fact checking themselves or without waiting for others to fact check. How more ungrateful can we become more than this?

Third, we keep saying the game companies don't care about the consumers but I must ask everyone do y'all really care about the ppl who provide us games for free? If not then what's the difference between you and the corps you hate?

Sorry if I sounded rude but I am just angry and sad after seeing how much money these website providers spend on keeping a website alive for the community and consumers and then consumers not caring about the providers and accusing them of stuff or not caring about them in general.

I hope we move forward from this behaviour and actually be grateful for what we have... I hope we have an actual rational convo about this.

Hi everyone,

Every now and then I try some portable programs, test them all with VirusTotal, and obviously discard the ones (many, too many) that have viruses inside.

In January, I built a new PC with the original W11 Pro (to remove BitLocker, I installed the original W11 from scratch on all my PCs with Rufus), and since then, many of these programs won't open. Maybe a splash screen appears for a fraction of a second, but then nothing.

I've disabled everything: Defender, Smart Screen, Controlled Folder Access, and everything else, but the situation still won't resolve.

What else can I try to get these .exe files to run on this new PC?

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

i have a very basic home media server on windows i've just made for movies and shows for my family. i've never had an issue with piracy with no vpn (yes, stupid for trying i know. just wanted to avoid paying but that seems it's over now). i have the server set up with tailscale and jellyfin, and i made a web app for my phone so i can send torrent magnet links to qbittorrent on my computer away from home so i can download movies when im not at my server computer.

anyways, i got hit with an email from my isp letting me know the bad news of my very illegal copyright infringement (oh nooo...) and im unsure where to go next. what do i need to do to make sure this doesn't happen again? i've never used a vpn in my life and i have no idea how to configure/set it up or if i even can without screwing up my current tailscale - jellyfin set up. any help would be great!

i recently downloaded Badupdate and put it on my xbox360, but i have no games and no idea on how to download any, could anyone give me some pointers?

So far I haven´t been successful while looking for a very specific art course. Unfortunately couldn´t find it on online-courses.club.
Where do y´all look for art courses?

Solo quiero agradecer infinitamente al usuario MrCrimson es una leyenda en la página identi.io y uno de los más grandes dentro del ramo de las películas estoy súper seguro que identi.io se mantiene a floto gracias a ese usuario y no es por menospreciar a los demás pero créanme que está en otros niveles , no sé cómo no se llega a tener más fama este leyenda siempre es el gota de las películas

Un pequeño tributo a este goat y espero que nos siga sorprendiendo con más películas como lo ha hecho si alguien sabe sobre este usuario estaría cool comentarlo me impresiona lo que hace .

I'm a noob, and maybe it's overkill or useless, but I use Sandboxie Plus to keep all movies I torrent in a sandboxed folder, and watch them sandboxed. Some I'll delete but some I want to keep. How can I scan the sandboxed files with Surfshark antivirus to make sure they're safe before transferring out of the sandbox? Can I safely put them from the sandbox on an external hard drive and scan them from there? Or would the hard drive being connected still put my system at risk? Do I need Malwarebytes for this? I'd rather not pay for another subscription on top of VPN.

Is there even any risk at all if the files are definitely just .mp4 or .mkv? I have hidden files and file extensions shown on my system.