Katlah

very wiki

True, but it’s better than nothing. :p

For Spotify see https://github.com/zotify-dev/zotify. Rips songs directly from Spotify (no weird youtube downloader bullshit)

Taiwan is a country

Correct, doesn’t change the fact a lot of stuff is still made in mainland China.

No Russia in my house

You do realize where 99% of pirated anything comes from, right?

No China in my house

You do realize where 99% of stuff is manufactured, right? The device you are using right now has components made in China.

I just use Mullvad with wireguard, not very hard to setup.

xmanager

Just download the official client and use SpotX

megathread in question

I’m not sure how uplifting this really is.

This is pretty cool.

As far as I know you don’t need a VPN to use Soulseek, but it’s obviously always recommended to use one over not using one.

And if not, how has Youtube not been cease and desisted/sued into absolute oblivion?

Because YouTube is owned by a trillion dollar conglomerate.

Most private trackers allow VPN usage. They track ratio through your unique key that is part of every torrent you download. Yes you have to maintain ratio (up to a certain point, and it heavily depends on the tracker). See Private Tracker List by -HDVinnie- for details on trackers.

id say its more ethical to pirate adobe software than pay for it

Just wanna say that Spotify’s DRM sucks. Plenty of scrapers out there.

I think it also shows that DRM is completely useless.

I use Mullvad because I don’t need port forwarding. If you are using a VPN specifically for piracy I would use a seedbox, cheap ones aren’t that much more expensive.

yes

RED or OPS are the two best options in my opinion, and they both have interview processes.

Side note: Soulseek is good, but I’ve found that a lot of the FLACs on it are transcoded.

I don’t even have antivirus on my computer. I almost exclusively use private trackers and download music/shows/movies.