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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com

AnActOfCreation @programming.dev

8mo ago

The end of movie-web

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Just a reminder that there are tons more options like this (and this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to movie piracy).
https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide
- Bookmark and forget. Thanks
- this link puts c/piracy's megalist to shame, it's also a shame that it's only movies. I'm guessing from the url that it's not tho.
  edit: oh hell yeah, there's a homepage! How well is it moderated?
  
  It's moderated very well, they change things every month.

The hell is movie-web
- It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.
  Funnily enough it didn't have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don't think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren't finding it from search results, as I don't think it even had the info that'd be grabbed, and probably didn't even have SEO or anything like that)
  
  It's available as a docker image isn't it? So we can just self host it
- I found a Firefox extension that no longer exists.

When are people going to start hosting their own git servers ? It can't seriously be that hard.
- When they can afford to get sued by content owners and feel like coming off with that kind of money and/or bump their heads, I would imagine. Unless it goes to dark web.
- What does it really change? If you're in legal troubles, the same request will come from your hosting or internet service provider.
  
  Hosted on I2P, it can't be found. Cease and Desist will be sent to some anonymous party that can immediately ignore it.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  My guess is Russia and China and other countries aren't giving a fuck about laws of the USA and the UK
  
  Host it in Iran or Cuba or Venezuela or something. Copyright law for western products don't really exist in my country Iran. We have entire streaming service companies that provide you pirated content like Netflix here lmfao
- It costs money
  
  You can rent a vps for 4$ / month, Forgejo for server is open source.

Hydra effect pls

Shiiiit. I remember the site, movie-web.app, getting taken down months ago, I was meaning to self-host it. This year is a dark year for open source piracy repos.
Also fuck github for taking down open source project they don’t like.
- Just noting that Microsoft acquired Github back in 2018.
  
  was just about to mention this, github literally has a vested interest in killing inconvenient open source projects whenever it sees fit
- self hosted git ftw always
- Give Up GitHub!
  
  What a thicc article but it’s probably the best critique of github in the internet

Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I'm genuinely curious.
- i2p or tor addresses. Which aren't popular because it's hard for both admin & user.
- Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there?
  There are handshake domains, which are distributed on a blockchain, but sites that use them won’t resolve in browsers by default
- I think one way is to use a domain host that is located in some country that doesn't care at all.
- just don't use one?
  host shit on bare ips
  
  You can't have valid HTTPS on bare IPs.
- From what I know, the for network fits this
  They need to have access to the private key to seize (and even then, the site can be taken back to warn others)
  Lack of centralised link buying service
  (My knowledge comes from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ua8HrgZsAg)
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=0Ua8HrgZsAg
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

They're axing certain adblockers on youtube / Spotify. AND they just took down one of the largest paywall bypass extensions for Firefox.
The billionaire class is scared as fuck this one last quarter of "profits" won't he enough to satisfy wallstreet

As long as someone backed up the repository, it can still be forked, right?

There are still a few instances about such as https://mw.lonelil.ru/
- ayyyy that’s been my go to! sometimes when the normal hosts don’t resolve it’ll start auto-playing russian dubs, it’s so silly.
  Fucken William H. Macy is all like “вот что ты пропустил на прошлой неделе в сериале Shameless” and I just lose it.

There are so many forks though right? Hopefully they all keep going. I only found out about movie-web a couple months ago and it's pretty cool.

streaming site
Oh well

We need to get more stuff into darknet.

sad yarr

As I don't see it here mentioned enough: sudo-flix is a fork
It is hosted at https://sudo-flix.lol/ for now :)

Does anyone have a mirror of the repository?? I want to self host it
- I think they have a mirror at https://docs.sudo-flix.lol/ Also https://erynith.github.io/movie-web-instances/

movie-web always seemed like such a sitting duck for takedowns like this. Any form of piracy that’s grabbing from a few centralized streaming servers is bound to be shut down.
P2P torrents over a VPN is the most resilient way to do piracy.

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