https://content.minetest.net

There are mods, lots of mods, But not any that you’ve heard of before and honestly largely not of the same quality of the stuff you’re looking for that was available for Minecraft.

If you’re going to Torrent you need to keep one in your pocket at a minimum.

Public or private,you should be running hiding your ass through a VPN or seed box.

Private trackers run ratios to make sure that content stays available. Well you can find most of what you want on public trackers there are always a few things here and there that are much easier to find in private.

Security-wise I don’t really think there’s much of a difference. Private trackers get infiltrated and shut down they’re just much smaller when it happens so you don’t hear about as much.

Private trackers just lessen the surface area. When the companies decide to lobby enough to change the laws you’ll need to hide with private as well.

tech the law. You need rights. I’m not sure we can right-out the system, we probably need both.

Sounds like you’re trying to convince yourself pal

Your ISP is logging you. And everybody’s just sitting around waiting for the day that the feds decide to do something about piracy beyond icing a few domains there’s a difference between them knowing what you’re doing, and then being the handle the hand over exactly what you’re doing.

It’s the point that these jerk wuads are trying to run their own studios that’s causing the mainstay of the failure.

They’re expecting us to pay for their content failures.

Prior to everybody running their own crappy studio, They licensed what we wanted to watch, they negotiated decent prices and we watched it. If a studio didn’t make good content it didn’t get purchased.

It’s the whole discovery channel aliens, reality TV enshitification all over again.

They’re hemorrhaging, money they’ll stop producing the more expensive stuff they’ll produce the cheaper stuff people watch the cheaper stuff, the whole time screaming it’s the pirates fault.

You could go as far as virtual audio cables and audacity. No matter what changes they can’t stop that.

But if your library supports OD, go dig up the old PC app for OD. When you download the book to start listening to it it decrypts it as it throws it onto the drive.

Some books seem to have some weird duplicated audio here and there is a coffee protection method. Like there’s some secret M3U somewhere that skips around when it plays it, but most stuff comes out clean.

If you can’t get it to come out with the app use one of the virtual audio cable style applications wire the output into a line-in for audacity and just rerecord the whole thing compress it down. You lose individual chapters as files I don’t really pay attention to the chapters I’m on I care about the total distance to the book and being able to pick up where I left off. I suppose if you were trying to do some kind of hybrid read and listen back and forth it would be more useful to have the chapter numbers.

I can get almost anything from my library as long as it’s not the brand new hotness. Occasionally there’ll be a book here or a book there that’s got one person waiting in line, but our maximum checkout time is a week. I pull the book down rip the audio from it and free up my hold the same day.

“We sincerely thank you for your continued support.”

Not only are they not refunding, They seem to think you might purchase something else from them in the future.

I honestly took a shot at that. I didn’t have everything but I had most of it. I also had every channel available on cable.

The streaming wars have honestly ruined it. If you’re just looking for something to watch you of course will be able to find something. But if you specifically want specific content you might as well flip a coin. Oh it’s on Netflix, no Netflix lost lost that license, Oh Max has that, Wait no Max went under, no wait they’re back but they don’t have it anymore. Oh that’s a Disney property Disney+ should have it, nope Disney pulled that offline for the time being.

Screw it I’ll make my own streaming service with hookers and blackjack.

Oh Jesus no. I have enough of those.

Yeah that’s what my revanced looked like. Hard to tell…

Yeah it’s fine I reencoded almost my entire library into that as soon as my devices were able to play it.

But if you can wait a couple more years AV1 will be better