I read it too fast that I thought TorrentFreak was down. 😅
I read it too fast that I thought TorrentFreak was down. 😅
I used a seedbox some time ago to download a specific big torrent (at the time). I payed using Paypal, as I don’t consider seedboxes a low-hanging-fruit for rightsholders to persecute at the moment.
There’s too much redundant data on these services, so if they takedown one user’s data, there’s still lots of the same torrented data on other user’s. I don’t think rightsholders are willing to play wack-a-mole for such infractions.
They’d rather invest their resources on more centralized file sharing, such as big public torrent sites and cyberlockers.
I’m sorry but I don’t remember typing this LostRedditors stuff. I’m just as confused as you are. (some mod edited my comment?)
And it was never my intention being combative about the NewPipe competitors. I just think Vanced and ReVanced are in a completely different category of apps. As they potentially may step on some DMCA rule, they’re far more vulnerable of being taken out by Google. And most hobbyst devs just abandon their projects at the first sign of a DMCA or Cease and Desist.
This is extremely true for modern social media sites. Normal news sites used to push their apps too, but I guess this fad has passed.
In general, movie piracy is more targeted by rightsholders, so if OP is not interested in this category he’s pretty safe in a country the doesn’t care.
How will this migration actually work? The comments transfer over?
r/LostRedditors
Certainly it is illegal to distribute Vanced because it’s a modified version of Youtube official app, which is copyrighted.
Re-vanced may have found a workaround so that users modify the app themselves, but Google may claim DMCA’s anti-circunvention rule is being breached, and sue the relevant parties if they wanted to.
If the criteria of comparison is being open source and long-lived, no other YouTuber player app matches NewPipe. There’s Vanced/ReVanced, but they’re on another category and border the illegal.
If you’re asking because you’re tired of NewPipe’s UI, I read that the developers are planning to revamp it to get rid of some technological debt and streamline further development.
Instead of incentivizing people to continue posting on Reddit, maybe it’s better to start posting original content here first.
If Lemmy users know a post is an automatic mirror from Reddit, they’re less likely to engage with it.
If the fediverse gets too fragmented, I fear for what will happen to the servers that inevitaby close down due to lack of funds/users. All posts will be deleted? User accounts too?
It could be argued that some of the best content creators of Reddit have left, or are considering leaving out of disgust due to disrespect from the admins. If Reddit alternatives prove to have quality over quantity, Reddit might continue hemorraging users, and the ones that stay will be folks that appreciate dopamine-heavy content from TikTok.
No need to panic. I simply went to my uBlock Origin filter page, and clicked on the “house” icon of the Bypass Paywalls Clean. It redirected me to magnolia1234’s (the filter author) gitflic page that contains a more DMCA-resistant filter link. As this site is hosted in Russia, I don’t think Putin will care to help western newspapers. 😉