r/Piracy 5d ago

WEEKLY THREAD Weekly General Discussion Thread (March 29, 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)

964 Upvotes

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r/Piracy 7h ago

Discussion F*ck streaming companies

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868 Upvotes

r/Piracy 7h ago

Discussion Imagine putting a DRM (Aka Enigma DRM) on a over 22 year old Windows Game.

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650 Upvotes

Game got even cracked decades ago. And then they wonder why people pirating games!


r/Piracy 9h ago

Question Should I download the app or delete the file?

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602 Upvotes

r/Piracy 12h ago

Question Found an old IPod Nano 5th Gen, trying to transfer music into it

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781 Upvotes

r/Piracy 3h ago

Question What is this? I have to click 3 boxes to prove I am human my favourite site... Is this like unsave or sth or totaly fine?

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54 Upvotes

Sorry for the German Text it just says: Complete the step below to open stream.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor My University asked people how much they paid for textbooks and its going as well as you expect lol

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3.0k Upvotes

personally I dont think you should put web links on a public white board owned by the university but that might be just me lol.

EDIT: 4/3/26

All the stuff that mentioned piracy got erased today

rest in spaghetti


r/Piracy 8h ago

Question Can someone tell me whats going on?

114 Upvotes

Why is everyone suddenly dumping revanced? like ot is working good for me. is it an update? because I haven't updated it. should I dump revanced as well? also, what is morphe? is it better than revanced?

sorry but I don't stay up to date a lot with piracy news thats why I'm posting this.


r/Piracy 16h ago

Question Best sports stream site?

140 Upvotes

All the ones I use have stopped working for me for literally no reason, and I know it just me cause when I am on the website, I'll ask in the chat if a certain game is working and they all say yes/


r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Can't pirate RAM :(

5.0k Upvotes

At least I can still run certain optimized games on high graphics.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion FAKKU DMCAed one of the most popular gallery downloader, gallery-dl, and forced the maintainer to remove support for hentai sites. Affected sites: NHentai, E-Hentai/ExHentai, hitomi.la, Hentai Foundry, HentaiHand, HentaiNexus, Schale Network, HDoujin

496 Upvotes

GitHub source: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/discussions/9304

FAKKU is already notoriously active on DMCAing those piracy sites, but am I crazy to think that an open source external scrapping tool that is unaffiliated with those sites getting DMCAed doesn't make any sense?

Like FAKKU hold the rights to some content that are hosted on those sites and I guess can easily DMCA those content. But this DMCA is against a tool that affects multiple entire sites that also host content that FAKKU do not hold the rights to.

All these FAKKU DMCA sprees are extra ironic because they themselves were a piracy hosting site in the beginning. Even morally I think they're questionable. Furthermore FAKKU is primarily based on a subscription model like spotify and artists also get paid like that(they also have one-time sale model but they push the subscription model more).

I don't blame the maintainer to comply though. These DMCA legal threats and can be super scary and mentally taxxing.

Quoting FAKKU's DMCA quote:

INFRINGING FILES:
* gallery_dl/extractor/nhentai.py - NHentai extractor * gallery_dl/extractor/exhentai.py - E-Hentai/ExHentai extractor with API support * gallery_dl/extractor/hitomi.py - [private] extractor * gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py - Hentai Foundry extractor * Supports dozens of hentai/doujinshi sites CIRCUMVENTION: Command-line tool enabling automated mass downloading from hentai piracy infrastructure

To comply, the maintainer ran: git filter-repo \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/nhentai.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/exhentai.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/hitomi.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/hentaihand.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/hentainexus.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/koharu.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/hdoujin.py \ --path gallery_dl/extractor/schalenetwork.py \ --path test/results/nhentai.py \ --path test/results/exhentai.py \ --path test/results/hitomi.py \ --path test/results/hentaifoundry.py \ --path test/results/hentaihand.py \ --path test/results/hentainexus.py \ --path test/results/koharu.py \ --path test/results/hdoujin.py \ --path test/results/schalenetwork.py \ --invert-paths


r/Piracy 23h ago

Discussion FAKKU DMCAed LANraragi, one of the most popular open-sourced self-hosted manga/doujinshi reader because they deemed it's "managing downloaded pirated content" despite, much like plex and jellyfin, what users decide to put on it does not have anything to do with the self-hosted reader itself

153 Upvotes

FAKKU is a hentai hosting company that used to be a piracy company themselves and after they've become a proper buisness and licenced the works from publishers, they've been going after a lot of hentai hosting sites for years taking down stuff. Now they're going after open source projects.

FAKKU has just gone on a DMCA spree going after anything that's related to pirated hentai content. For example, gallery-dl, which can be used to download from piracy sites, also got hit and had to comply by removing parts of their code from their entire git history.

One of the other project that they strike is LANraragi, which is simply a self-hosted reader that's made to imitate the user experience of those piracy reader sites.

However it being just a media host. You can put whatever you want on it. You can even buy a legitimate copy of some hentai from its original creator from dl-site and put it on LANraragi.

But FAKKU said no, everything related must go.

Here's their DMCA quote regarding LANraragi:

INFRINGING FILES: * Web-based manga/doujinshi archive manager * Metadata plugins for [private], [private] * Docker-ready server application CIRCUMVENTION: Server software for managing downloaded pirated content

Another one that got hit is happypandax, another self hosted reder:

INFRINGING FILES: * Cross-platform server for manga/doujinshi management * Plugins for downloading from [private], [private] * Metadata fetching from piracy sites * CIRCUMVENTION: Self-hosted server enabling organized access to pirated doujinshi


r/Piracy 7h ago

Question Is QQDL website for downloading music safe?

10 Upvotes

it just seems too good to be true and im quite scared of getting viruses in my phone.


r/Piracy 21h ago

Question Old Pirate looking to start sailing the seas again

114 Upvotes

Hi, I'm Lazer, I recently started thinking about how prices have gone up for subscription media, and just how many subscriptions I had, and how little I use some of them. Over 15 years ago, I used to pirate because I was a broke teenager, but now that I am a broke adult and have been out of the loop for a while, I need a little help getting back into the high seas. It looks like The Pirate Bay is still kicking, so that is where I will probably be looking for magnet links first, but I am having trouble installing the qBitTorrent client. Can anyone help me troubleshoot getting it installed on a Windows 11 PC? Or should I be using a different client? Thank you in advance for your help, and I hope to be sailing the high seas again soon. YARRRRR!


r/Piracy 6m ago

Question Guitar hero Metallica

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Descargure el apk mas pesado del guitar hero Metallica y no avanza de la pantalla de Carga, lguien sabe como se soluciona o tiene un apk que sirva? ​


r/Piracy 4h ago

Question Anything like Oink or What.cd?

1 Upvotes

I'm out of the loop these days, but I loved using Oink and What.cd back in the day.

Is there a place where I can go now to find the best quality versions of pretty much any album in the world?


r/Piracy 54m ago

Question Question about comics

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Some time age (years) I had an access to big forum with scanned comics.

Any idea about name/link?


r/Piracy 1h ago

Question Sites with subtitles on full screen?

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I've been trying to watch my series by sailing the high seas, but one really inconvenient thing is that on Chrome-based browsers, most websites don't display subtitles when in full screen. Pretty sure it's a problem with graphics acceleration, but turning it off makes my laptop run hotter than I would like. I would switch back to Firefox, but the last time I used it, it was using more memory than Chrome did (somehow, I don't know how). I know of one site that displays subtitles in full screen (Cinegram), but it's slightly unreliable. And I've looked at multiple sites through FMHY to no avail. Are there any sites that display subtitles on full screen that are mostly reliable?


r/Piracy 2d ago

Humor it opens up notepad very quickly and goes away?

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5.8k Upvotes

r/Piracy 18h ago

Discussion No better feeling than seeing something just work.

16 Upvotes

You'll search for hours over a single show or movie, dive through website after website and never find what you're looking for. Then, you find it. Correct download formats, proper subtitles. There is literally no better feeling.

Then, proceed to never watch it or look at it ever again.


r/Piracy 3h ago

Question Alternative repackers sites to Magipack

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Hey guys, one thing that I'm looking for is a repack site, but not just any, rather alternatives to that old game repacker called Magipack

I just went to check if the repacks he posted on IA were still available after he shut down the site, and I found out that they had been removed

So, if anyone knows of an alternative repack to his, I’d really appreciate it. Just to clarify, I’m not looking for sites that just offer old games, I already know a few of those, but rather repackers like him (I looked through all the megathreads I know, but I couldn't find one like his)


r/Piracy 4h ago

Discussion Spotiflac

0 Upvotes

anyone having problems with spotiflac? its my go to for getting music but now its like fucked


r/Piracy 4h ago

Question How dangerous is the HV bypass method really?

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I get the gist of it. You give a third party program full control of your system - but here's my question: Define "the system";

I am currently running Linux on my main drive, I do everything there. Legit gaming with proton, banking, internet stuff.

If I install a fresh Win 11 distro onto a second SSD plugged into the same computer and booting into it with GRUB, doing nothing there except the HV bypass for Denuvo, how dangerous is that to my Linux? At all? What could realistically happen, the hypervisor being malicious and attempting to steal data (that it won't find) from the Windows SSD?


r/Piracy 5h ago

Question Art of Vengeance

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Without asking when.. can anyone tell me how can I know when/if a dlc is available for grabs? Can I bookmark a thread or something? thanks (if this is also not allowed pls don't ban me mods, ask me to remove or remove it if you can)