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Pirating Basics Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 10:32:43 b62a16 No.4861

Hi everyone pretend I'm a massive old person who just got their computer yesterday and only just worked out how to get on the internet

How do I pirate?

Also what advice can ye give me so I don't get hackered?

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 11:39:03 731f27 No.4867

>get ye olde torrent client

>get torrent file/magnet link

>the client will start downloadin'

>leave the file there for a while after downloadin' to seed the torrent

also

>get a fuckin' VPN

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 11:40:23 731f27 No.4868

>>4867

Forgot to add that its helpful to have antivirus software.

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 14:58:41 64a58b No.4898

Another clueless pirate-wannabe here.

What's a "Virtual Private Network"? and what does it do?

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 15:35:57 424595 No.4904

>>4898

https://ghostbin.com/paste/fv76n

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 21:54:04 9a7f22 No.4945

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>>4861

Ben Garrison be that you?

Salty Dog 05/01/15 (Fri) 23:16:12 6599a3 No.4961

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What I so far gathered in the Pirate Book.

>>4898

>>4904

It seems like most people that get in trouble for piratin' are usually for movies and music. Avoid Disney

Even though Piracy has its origins in computer software/games, there seems to be almost no stories of anyone gettin' in trouble with the Royal Navy on video games.

At least here in The New World of America, plunderin' older PC games might not yield any trouble. It be like downloadin' roms and emulators.

Even if yer provider decides to take action, they will just send a letter that be essentially cut the crap and delete that shit. And in that case ye should stop and lay low for a while and perhaps get a vpn.

More recent games might be a problem as publishers of such games care more about it when it first releases as most the profits be when the game be full retail and an has an advertisin' campaign.

Most Important advice would be to research and be patient

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 02:59:41 710b74 No.5011

>>4945

I too be wonderin' if this be Ben "Creampie yer Merchant Wench" Garrison.

>>4861

Another piece of advise would be to stick with torrents that have been verified with comments on the tracker ye be using, or torrents that have been up for a long time with some comments and/or votes.

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 03:28:11 9b79be No.5018

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>>4961

What would some safe sites be then? I've been hearin' thepiratebay be a honeypot since it mysteriously came back up a few months ago. Anythin' other than kickass?

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 03:32:37 710b74 No.5020

>>5018

ISOhunt be another good one.

https://isohunt.to/

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 04:00:11 0c549a No.5030

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>>5020

Recommendin' https://torrentz.eu/ as well. isohunt seeders only were uploadin' the 5gb version of AC4 instead of the deluxe edition so I couldn't get it there.

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 04:05:05 e8eb18 No.5032

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>>5018

>I've been hearin' thepiratebay be a honeypot since it mysteriously came back up a few months ago.

This rumor be dumber than a drunk gull. Fer what reason would the Feds commandeer it? To collect IPs? To track clicks?

The current Pirate Bay be naught more than a sad shell of its former self, aye, but boobytrapped? No more than the new Demonoid be, and lads be usin' that too.

I'm not sayin' to trust it, but I would say to take that news with several grains of salt.

Salty Dog 05/02/15 (Sat) 05:26:20 008763 No.5054

Whatcha sayin be Demonoid be a trap?

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 12:51:57 b62a16 No.5271

>>5011

yarrg can ye tell me what a torrent be???

arrrg

im not good at pirate talk sorry

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 14:32:35 06e361 No.5280

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>>4861

1st

>you're not older than me

keep personal information to yourself, if ye use social media (facebook, twitter) do it on a separate browser like chrome and don't use chrome or google for anythin' but safe activities.

2nd use firefox/palemoon with duckduckgo as yer search engine, go to add ons for firefox and get ad blocker edge, self-destructin' cookies, no scripts, no flash(both can be annoyin' until ye get used to usin' them) use guerilla mail for fake accounts and confirmations.

3rd use malwarebytes and watch yer browsin' habits, when downloadin' shit watch carefully that they aren't tryin' to give ye "free" shit

4th use ccleaner to clear yer browsin' history and cache periodically …Important let ccleaner delete yer recyclin' bin don't do it yourself

5th use AVG for anti-virus it will give ye some false alarms with cracked files and patches but works pretty good

6th use a VPN cyberghost has a free version until ye can get somethin' better and on the firefox browser ad-ons get one-click proxy.

that be about all i can think of off the top of me head m80.

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 19:45:30 601f5b No.5318

>>5280

>usin' chrome

surely ye jestin'

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 21:06:50 06e361 No.5329

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>>5318

yeah, maybe i should rephrase that.

try not to use chrome for anything…

and try to only use yer social media/personal accounts on a separate browser than the one ye use for yer clandestine activities

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 22:58:52 a1ac71 No.5344

>>5280

>usin' AVG

What kind of shazbotry be this?

Use Common Sense or ESET, AVG sucks me parrot's cock.

Salty Dog 05/03/15 (Sun) 23:25:40 b57816 No.5350

>>5280

>duckduckgo

ixquick ye idiot

Salty Dog 05/04/15 (Mon) 00:12:54 21ea5a No.5357

>>5032

Are ye FBI or DMCA shill?

Salty Dog 05/04/15 (Mon) 21:48:59 e99a37 No.5506

>>5350

Quality over quantity, m80.

Salty Dog 06/21/15 (Sun) 08:18:48 bb61a6 No.7684

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>>5350

I believe Duck Duck Go and IXquick are both run by the same company.

Salty Dog 06/21/15 (Sun) 16:08:16 96448f No.7686

>>5280

>malwarebytes

I use Avast, why would I need malwarebytes with that?

Salty Dog 06/22/15 (Mon) 11:28:36 6c09e7 No.7697

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>>7686

>I use Avast, why would I need malwarebytes with that?

You need malwarebytes for when ye manually install somethin' that be wrapped in malware. Once ye tell yer PC (and avast, because it's lookin' at what's happening) that a program be safe to install, it ignores it. Malwarebytes will look more closely at mal/adware-common behaviors (things like hijackin' yer DNS settings or installin' browser add-ons) and compare it against their more extensive definitions.

I'm tellin' ye dude, ye want both. Install Malwarebytes and leave it be - the free version does not constantly scan or auto-update, so it uses no more than a few hundred MB of disk space. If somethin' starts actin' funny, like ye type "porn.com" into yer browser and when ye hit Enter it takes ye to "move2russia.ru", open malwarebytes, update the program, and run a scan. It will clean things up, then ye close it, leave it alone for another year or two.

Avast be great at keepin' things out, but if malware be in and marked as safe by you, malwarebytes be better at gettin' malware out. Trojans and other things Avast be great at, but malwarebytes and avast be the winnin' team.

Also, if ye haven't already, reinstall avast doin' a custom install and in the "Options" uncheck all the shit like "Software updater" "Gunk remover" and especially "Virtualization" or whatever it be - that shit be buggy and takes up massive resources. Optimize that shit.

Also ye should always be in silent/gamin' mode. No popups unless SHTF.

and

DONT USE FREE VPNS

What ye are doin' be makin' yer computer a node in their network, THAT's how they're free! They send and receive traffic from yer machine, and basically use yer computer's unused bandwidth as part of a botnet's resources for DDOSing, email spam, etc.

torrentfreak has a good guide to cheap and trustworthy VPN services, it's seriously worth it in this NSA era…

Salty Dog 06/22/15 (Mon) 15:14:07 4745b4 No.7699

>>7684

Ixquick and Startpage are run by the same company, DDG be unrelated.

Salty Dog 07/03/15 (Fri) 22:02:46 084895 No.7864

>>4867

>VPN

Do ye know if this one be legit? http://freevpn.me/

Salty Dog 07/09/15 (Thu) 15:24:21 29a560 No.7978

Ye best remember that some people have them torrent downloads blocked.

For Ye, I suggest JDownloader (best be careful, it came with Binkiland once…) and the various islands of Legitimately Obtained Copyrighted Material.

Of course this includes the use of VPN

Salty Dog 07/09/15 (Thu) 20:19:32 709aa3 No.7981

>>7699

What's the difference between ixquick and startpage?

Salty Dog 07/11/15 (Sat) 11:29:51 6431d7 No.8005

>>7981

Short version.

startpage - uses google as base.

ixquick - uses many search engines as base (not includin' googel I belive).

Salty Dog 07/15/15 (Wed) 12:37:06 45a610 No.8052

I see some people postin' infohashes around the board. How are ye guys downloadin' games with just an infohash?

Salty Dog 07/19/15 (Sun) 04:25:15 22f7d5 No.8116

>>5344

Stow those sails for a minute. What be the problem with AVG that's different from all the other virus scanners (e.g., it scans ALL of yer files)?

Salty Dog 08/04/15 (Tue) 06:57:28 e52165 No.8283

>>7864

no. Just use Private internet access it's like 3 usd a month

Salty Dog 10/27/15 (Tue) 12:46:56 b663ec No.9013

>>4961

>in that case ye should stop and lay low for a while

Entirely unnecessary. No business be goin' to send ye a letter sayin' that ye should stop givin' them doubloons for their service. They know very well that each location only has one or two service providers, and the one who doesn't harass their customers will win.

I've got century link, and I've been downloadin' ridiculous amounts of Legitimately Obtained Copyrighted Material for years. Movies, music, games, software, books, and so on and haven't got so much of a "pls stop" email.

Salty Dog 10/27/15 (Tue) 21:39:22 71e02a No.9017

>>9013

>and the one who doesn't harass their customers will win

I got a call from Grande regardin' me torrentin' NDS roms while the NDS be still current (I had a flashcart). Apparently Nintendo watches for stuff too if it's current.

Went to Time Warner the next month and I haven't had a call since