the malware has to be very advanced and specifically target your hypervisor version to escape a VM.

in the context of cracked software, it is highly improbable that you’ll find malware with this capabilities.

not exactly. You can of course still get existing works by pirating them.

But if the Tolkien works entered the public domain, anyone could use them for any creative purposes freely. And yes, a lot of the new material would be trash. But some excellent works would appear to.

A good example of this is Lovecraft’s works and the Cthulhu Mythos, that although not public domain until recent years, Lovecraft encouraged others to use his own creations on their own stories, thus expanding the literary universe of his own creation. Some stories are awful, but there has also been a ton of great works based on Lovecraft’s creations that couldn’t have existed otherwise.

Steam is the same. It’s just a license to play the game. GOG is better in this regard.

she’s providing games for free, who cares if she’s a narcissist.

yeah this bot is annoying as hell

I’m pretty sure there’s an import option. But I’ve never used it because I have no Google account.

Use Newpipe for Android. Best YouTube experience you can get.

There are tons of them

Edit: fmhy.net is one I recommend.

apparently in some cases uTorrent, BitSpirit, and libTorrent simply write your IP address directly into the information they send to the tracker and/or to other peers

These are just bad practices by shady bittorrent programs. Choose a good client and you’ll avoid those issues.

The reason why is that Tor doesn’t support UDP and it’s just harmful for the network to do bittorrent over it.

read OP’s post. if it not were for privacy in the first place and people ripping media, there wouldn’t be any copy left of those shows.

Of course not all pirates archive, but there’s an important percentage that do. Non-pirates are running out of options because each year less and less audiovisual productions release as physical media (old DVDs, more recently blue rays) and are only available through a subscription model where you do not own the actual content.

So piracy is pretty much the only route available to archive a lot of content.

I2P does connect to the clearnet, it just doesn’t by default.

Outproxies are available and you can even host your own routing it through Tor. That way you get the best of both networks.

this is great, thanks!

you can degoogle android. good luck removing apple from your iPhone tho

and it’s not free software. only source available with a license that doesn’t allow forking.

basically Newpipe but only source available, not really free software or open source, so they are restricting your freedoms.

Just keep using Newpipe instead.

I mean, as long as you visit libgen with https your ISP shouldn’t be able to tell if you’re uploading books. But yeah, if Tor doesn’t slow down the upload too much, it’s a good protection measure.

For checking on metadata, I recommend you to use Calibre. It allows you to view and remove undesired metadata and you might also use Calibre to automatically add the correct metadata to the PDFs so they are searchable in libgen’s database.

Depends on your definition of safe. But it’s way better than a VPN in every way. The only problem is that there are less people seeding over I2P