Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I’ve never seen that one.
Alt-Account: lemmy.world/u/Hubi
Matrix: @hubinator:matrix.org
Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I’ve never seen that one.
Qbittorrent is my favorite client but there are a couple of great alternatives like Transmission or Deluge.
You really shouldn’t use uTorrent. There are a number of safer and better open source alternatives out there.
It was probably the content moderators if it was a controversial movie like you said. There’s not really a way to find out what happened unless you contact the admins.
Nah, I watch a lot of videos about cars and most sponsors are legitimate businesses and some that I’ve bought from before.
VPNs and apps on the other hand…
Fair enough.
I mean… That essentially does the same thing but it’s much more complicated than just clicking a button in the qb GUI…
Adding to the qbittorrent recommendations: qb has Socks5 support and and supports binding traffic to a specific interface. It doesn’t get much better than this.
You’re right, I must’ve gotten that mixed up. Still, Ruud is based in the Netherlands and I’m not sure how the hosting laws work across country borders. Strangely enough, the-federation.info lists lemmy.world as hosted in the United States…
Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, which are notorious for going after people just for “promoting” piracy. They don’t care if you’re actually breaking the law, they will just make your life hard. And that’s not something I’d want to deal with in addition to hosting a free service.
Honestly, I don’t blame them one bit. People need to keep in mind that these instances and sites are provided for free by private individuals and not large companies with armies of lawyers. I wouldn’t want to fight a potential lawsuit for “enabling piracy”, no matter how much bullshit it is. If the admins of dbzer0 have taken the necessary precautions, great! Just join their instance if that’s what you’re looking for.
Yes, that is absolutely how it works, the compression or the files being distributed via torrents doesn’t make any difference. I have installed plenty of (Fitgirl) repacks just by setting up wine and double-clicking the .exe file. I’ve never had any issues whatsoever.
I don’t think there’s a guide for your specific use case, but it’s essentially no different from running any other windows installer on Linux. You will have to set up Wine (a guide is on their website) and once that’s done, it’s basically just double-clicking the setup.exe.
Absolutely. I used to rip movies myself for my favorite private tracker. It shut down a while ago though, so now I’m just back to regular seeding.
I’ve checked all my usual sites and none have it available. There’s apparently someone selling the DVD, but I have no idea how legit the site is:
https://www.truetvmovies.net/store/p1611/Menace_(TV_Movie_2008)_Henry_Czerny,_Brian_Markinson,_Waneta_Storms.html