Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Jeena @jemmy.jeena.net 1y ago

I had no idea that you could download movies from the 90ies from archive.org

I couldn't find the Flintstones movie from 1994 anywhere but googling it I found it here https://archive.org/details/the-flintstones_202304 and you can either download it via torrent or directly. On top of it it says that the movie is CC0 which means Public Domain. But that can't really be, it's only 29 years old.

That must be pirated, or not?

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Old movies and audiobooks is exactly the reason why I have archive.org in Prowlarr
- Oh shit, didn't know you could do that
- Thank you for this tip!!!
- Prowlarr?
  
  Indexer manager for the *arr stack of software. Alternate to Jackett.
  
  Indexer for Radarr/Sonarr etc look it Up, they're great
- I usually only use private trackers but am willing to give this a go as a low priority alternative. Thank you for your post.
The law is tricky. From Wikipedia "For works that received their copyright before 1978, a renewal had to be filed in the work's 28th year with the Copyright Office for its term of protection to be extended. The need for renewal was eliminated by the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, but works that had already entered the public domain by non-renewal did not regain copyright protection."
- I hope that's the case here. The sad thing is that not having the rights to something doesn't stops you from filling a claim, even scammers fill DMCA claims over original content, the movie is already down from archive.
I love ninety-ies movies
…aaand it’s gone
- Yeah wtf. How'd the DMCA bots find these posts :(
  
  If you think DMCA bots aren't trawling around in open piracy forums then I've got some swampland to sell you in Florida.
It's pretty easy to come across ©️🏴‍☠️, even roms and full games in some cases
- "In some cases"
  
  Entire romsets for basically every console.
- Yes and no. My daughter was trying to find Wii games with very little luck. Fortunately I have a bunch tucked away.
  
  Vimm.net has a huge archive of ROMs and I can see Wii counted among them.
  
  This is from /r/roms
  
  https://r-roms.github.io/megathread/nintendo/
  
  Has links to Nintendo games there and also shows archive.org source for them too.
  
  There's a wiki of the high seas that may help find a certain archive.
  
  Where the db is, I have zer0 clue.
  
  Are you still having a hard time locating a specific one? Let us know!
- I get my mame ROMS (and most others too) from them. I’ve also found movies and some other content. Their torrents max my line (1 Gbps).
Speaking of movies from the 90s, we just watched The Crow on Halloween (Devil's) night, and that movie is definitely a John Wick prequel.
- RIP Brandon Lee. So sad
- I remember seeing that movie when I was a kid, I also remember liking it a lot but can vaguely remember anything. Does it still hold up ?
  
  I was really worried that it wouldn't hold up, but it does! It holds up well.
- Prequel in spirit or are the events tied in?
  
  I just mean that the style of the movie is heavily copied by John Wick.
Damn its gone now.. I really think we need to backup IA. Contents frequently disappear because of copyrights..
Any random internet users can create an account and upload stuff to the internet archive. Just be careful when you download softwares there.
Yes, it's quite crazy. I found archive of old comics, the entire series of Outer Limits (1995), all ScummVM games, tons of ROMS, and books, a lot of books.
1994 flintstones was amazing

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