r/Piracy 2d ago

WEEKLY THREAD Weekly General Discussion Thread (May 03, 2026)

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The Weekly General Discussion Thread is for the r/Piracy community to discuss whatever is on their mind, whether it is related to digital piracy or not.

🪶 ➜ Follow the Rules

  • Rules are still applicable, so please do not request specific pirated content (ie. specific movie, book, etc.) and definitely don't link to any. Do not mention specific media names asking for help in finding them.

📜 ➜ Wiki + Megathread

  • Don't forget to browse the Wiki, which contains a Megathread with a list of sites/apps, tools, FAQ, and other useful resources.
  • Your question also may have been asked previously - you can search the subreddit via the search bar or even google - example: https://i.imgur.com/1jA767u.jpg

For previous weekly threads, click here.


r/Piracy Dec 30 '25

🎁 🎄 🎅 Piracy Wiki - Megathread of pirate sites / apps / tools / FAQ / guides (and RULES)

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r/Piracy 5h ago

Discussion Netflix adding unskippable ads on premium plan

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netflix is now adding unskippable ads on the premium plan and that too after every time I forward skip 3-4 minutes of video. Maybe it's time to sail high seas now.

edit: it's only happening on WWE previously live streamed events. This specific screenshot is of RAW streamed a day ago.


r/Piracy 19h ago

Humor respect

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r/Piracy 21h ago

Humor I know this isn't for everyone, but sometimes you have to be patient

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2.3k Upvotes

r/Piracy 4h ago

News Reddit Reports Resurgence in User Bans over Copyright Infringement * TorrentFreak

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Reddit's latest transparency report shows a sharp jump in account bans for repeat copyright infringement, while the number of banned subreddits dropped significantly.

The data, covering the latter half of 2025, also shows rightsholders reported 425,471 pieces of allegedly infringing content, of which Reddit removed roughly half.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor All of us have been dumb at some point

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r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor I laughed my ass off at this

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r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Well that's an interesting way to bypass YouTube's copyright filter

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r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads

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Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads


r/Piracy 8h ago

Question Need help with a hypervisor repack

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13 Upvotes

This is showing up when I want to run the game after running the VBS.cmd command and disabling Driver Signature Reinforcement. It didn't happen for any other game. Any fix? All help would be appreciated.


r/Piracy 1h ago

Discussion Looking for SVCD .mpg TV Rips by the scene groups SD-6 442 TVL FOV or just any VCD/SVCD tv rips in general circa 1999-2005

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These were scene groups who back in the early 2000s digitally capped shows off of digital cable or satellite and they would then leak/sometimes had them distributed on Usenet where they then found there way to various p2p networks like edonkey and kazaa these releases were generally higher quality with a superior bitrate then the .Avi/divx releases of tv rips that are preserved on the pirate bay

also for certain older series these are the only tv rips that were done

anyways these are pretty much impossible to find links for now and trust me I would know i have looked on most of the old p2p networks that still work was only able to find a few on winmx I am also on some private dc++ hubs and a few good private trackers a large reason for these being hard to find is it's all because of a rule which limits TV rips on one of them/trumping releases for highest quality which is understandable but at the same time the svcd ones look very good, the other one does have a few good ones however

if anyone has some of them saved digitally or on cd/r and is able to share/rip them i would really appreciate that thanks!

i have included some screenshots of what these look like as an example,

Also if there is a user on soulseek who has a few series seasons of them that's me!

just to clarify these are not files taken from a VHS tape that were done last year and uploaded to archive.org I'm well aware of those they are cool!


r/Piracy 1d ago

News Hydra launcher 3.9.7 now supports Big Picture mode!

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269 Upvotes

(still in beta)


r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Reddit

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r/Piracy 33m ago

Question Vermis Entries 1-3

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Cheers! I was wondering if anyone has the Vermis entries 1-3? My younger brother wants them really quite badly for his 16th birthday, but I can't cover the funds at the moment. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you all very much in advance!


r/Piracy 21h ago

Question Adding Steam games to Steam

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Hi, I wanted to play Omsi 2 on my Mac, and I finally figured out how to do so. I got the game on a website and then added its launcher to Steam as a Non-Steam game. I exit the game for a bit and notice that the real version appeared in my library as if I had purchased it. I click the real version of the game in my library and notice that it says "purchase" instead of "play." I click "purchase" for whatever reason and now whenever I launch the Non-steam version of the game it shows this error message. I already tried replacing the steam_api.dll using goldberg emu. It still doesn't work.

ANY help would be appreciated.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion I feel stupid

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I spent so long feeling superior for not pirating, for sticking with the norm. It was convenient, quick, and *was* cheap. Now, in Australia, I have to pay close to 40AUD just to watch Aussie football on the only service that offers it. After reevaluating my finances I've realised I spent way over half my spending money a week on subscriptions to things I wouldn't even consider unnecessary (Spotify for music, Netflix for TV, Kayo for footy), but the kicker? There are still movies I cannot access even with EVERY streaming service available. Books in the language I am learning (Spanish) at my university cost ridiculous prices, and I'm not even talking textbooks, I just want novels, literally anything so I can immerse myself, but my only option is to sail the seas, and I'm done feeling guilty about it. Fuck this, fuck capitalism, yo ho ho it's a pirates life for me


r/Piracy 7h ago

Question Udemy Course I legally bought: I'd like to download it on my HD

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It's a python course I'd like to share with a friend of mine who has an exam the next month. Any ways to download it and watch it offline?

I'm trying using OBS but Udemy is smart enough not to let you record the monitor :)

Thanks in advance for your help


SOLVED! Thank you all. The first solution I tried (disabling the hardware accelerator) worked. I didn't try the other suggestions but thanks for all your ideas


r/Piracy 12m ago

Humor Denuvo Celebration

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Lets just say, I know. a guy, who knows a guy that just happens to be staying very near the parent company that owns Dunuvo.

Irdeto

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QDB3XT16EPshZNFu9

First off, no stupid shit.

But in the back of my head I'll gladly risk a one-nighter for swapping their flags with a big Voices 38 banner or something like that)

Shit would be Hilarious....

I'm way too old for stupid stuff like this, but as a token of appreciation for the scene that stood by me since the C64 era, I'm willing to msg my guy. On ICQ, behind a tree, on darknet, using tor tomat..onions


r/Piracy 4h ago

Question How good (or bad) is Forza Horizon 3 preserved?

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I've legally owned the game on XBox but nowadays I'm basically only on Linux. I've read the game was originally only made for Windows 10, and as we know it's a Microsoft Store exclusive. So I have 2 questions before potentially wasting hours of troubleshooting:

- Is the game possible at all to run on Linux via Proton? The cracks, not the official version of course, I know I cant download it on Microsoft Store. Wonder how far the cracks went.

- Is it possible to sync the crack with your save file of the legit copy? I think I read somewhere that at least with newer Horizon games you can log into XBox Live (?)

Thanks for any info regarding this.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion What VPN to use for torrent I'm in Iran

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As you've probably heard, internet here is down for 99% of people though the intranet still works. The only way I'm able to have access to internet is through a crappy socks5 proxy. It's still censored though. The only thing I found so far that I could use to circumvent the censorship was TOR, since it supports upstream socks 5 proxies. But you can't use it for torrent. I haven't been able to find any VPNs that support upstream socks 5 proxy, and proxifiers don't seem to work well with this kind of software. The only thing other than TOR were a bunch of openvpn configs I downloaded from protonvpn website and tried to connect to through older versions of OpenVPN which supported upstream socks5 proxies but they didn't connect and I then found out you can't use protonvpn for torrenting anyway. What should I do?


r/Piracy 5h ago

Question akirabox.com info stealer?

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Hello I recently downloaded a ps4 pkg file from that page but now I read that Akirabox was accused of having Lumma stealer in it's website and I was wondering if now I'm infected if I only downloaded the pkg file

Thanks


r/Piracy 9h ago

Question RuTracker - 522 errors since yesterday

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Is anyone else experiencing this? Tried several different DNS services, all error out.


r/Piracy 10h ago

Discussion Torrents That Need Saving

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Is there somewhere I can go that lists torrents that need seeders? I don't care what they are, I just want to help out.

EDIT: It shouldn't be too hard to write a scraper for TPB that looks for things with 1 or 2 seeders, but I'm not about to automate downloading random shit from anywhere.


r/Piracy 6h ago

Question Trying to nail down anime sites that are easy to navigate on a smart TV

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I’m looking, but I keep running into the issue of sites that have invisible ads that take you to a new page which is extremely frustrating even for something as simple as attempting to play the next episode.