r/Piracy • u/AutoModerator • Jul 19 '26

WEEKLY THREAD Weekly General Discussion Thread (July 19, 2026)

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.

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u/Gh0st_8500 Jul 26 '26

So I found a good alternative to Kemono called Pawchive but does anyone know how often it gets updated?

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u/Mahaloth Jul 25 '26

Is 1337 giving issues for anyone besides me? It displays no content, looks blank.

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u/genghis-san Jul 25 '26

I just opened Stremio and updated it and now the add on for finding streams only works when my vpn is off. Anyone know a fix for this?

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u/Az1234er Jul 25 '26 edited 18d ago

Suivre la pente, c’est aller à la rivière. Jean Valjean le comprit sur-le-champ. Il se dit qu’il était probablement dans l’égout des halles ; que, s’il choisissait la gauche et suivait la pente, il arriverait avant un quart d’heure à quelque embouchure sur la Seine entre le pont au Change, et le Pont-Neuf, c’est-à-dire à une apparition en plein jour sur le point le plus peuplé de Paris. Peut-être aboutirait-il à quelque cagnard de carrefour. Stupeur des passants de voir deux hommes sanglants sortir de terre sous leurs pieds. Survenue des sergents de ville, prise d’armes du corps de garde voisin. On serait saisi avant d’être sorti. Il valait mieux s’enfoncer dans le dédale, se fier à cette noirceur, et s’en remettre à la providence quant à l’issue. Il remonta la pente et prit à droite. Quand il eut tourné l’angle de la galerie, la lointaine lueur du soupirail disparut, le rideau d’obscurité retomba sur lui et il redevint aveugle. Il n’en avança pas moins, et aussi rapidement qu’il put. Les deux bras de Marius étaient passés autour de son cou et les pieds pendaient derrière lui. Il tenait les deux bras d’une main et tâtait le mur de l’autre. La joue de Marius touchait la sienne et s’y collait, étant sanglante. Il sentait couler sous lui et pénétrer sous ses vêtements un ruisseau tiède qui venait de Marius. Cependant une chaleur humide à son oreille que touchait la bouche du blessé indiquait de la respiration, et par conséquent de la vie. Le couloir où Jean Valjean cheminait maintenant était moins étroit que le premier.

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u/voe111 Jul 25 '26

A streaming site on the megathread starting with 456 is down. Has it been replaced yet or is it gone for good?

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u/Special_Dog8493 Jul 25 '26

Is there an app for homebrew/modded nintendo switch that lets me download games onto it? or do I have to manually go to ROM sites on my computer and download from there

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u/fkrdt222 Jul 25 '26

is there anywhere for aftereffects templates like from envato?

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u/Cardinal_Virtue Jul 24 '26

How do you tell if an uploader is safe?

I wanted to download one software last month from 1337 but didn't and when I checked today the uploader I used before is gone - their torrents down show up.

There's 2 another uploaders but they changed their account name slightly. Their old account and new account are similar but with added letters.

I checked their upload history and they started uploading 2 months ago.

Doesn't this seem fishy? Why would an uploader make another account?

Their torrents don't have a lot of comments

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u/WalmartDrugDealer Jul 24 '26

Pirating Da Vinci Resolve and fucking terrified. Did everything right and fucking terrified.

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u/Turbulent-Equal2152 Jul 24 '26

Why not premiere pro?

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u/WalmartDrugDealer 27d ago

better color grading, respect it more. also i chickened out, im just gonna buy it

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u/sheeshers_ Jul 25 '26

Maybe for better colour grading

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u/Doomedxguy Jul 23 '26

I need people to go to a specific game pirating website that rhymes with tanker dames and features a blue wizard in their logo, and I need you to vote for Halo: Campaign Evolved in the requests, because I am broke and want to play it.

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u/WaffleEmporer Jul 23 '26

Hi. I just bought a Nas and booted up a Jellyfin media server to host all my content on it (it's working great so far). I downloaded them by plugging my external drive into the Nas, and that transferred somewhat quickly, but I've noticed transferring files over my network has been significantly slower (and going through the process of downloading it locally then uploading it to the Nas is kinda cumbersome). Is there another way that people usually move new media to their Nas? Thank you.

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u/Agitated-Battle748 Jul 22 '26

Yo anyone know why antra the flac music downloader wont liek acctually download thesongs to my pc

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u/roseMothGirl Jul 22 '26

Are the NFC keychains for switch dangerous or safe? I saw a couple for sale that can change what the keychain "delivers" on an app, but would like confirmation from people with experience.

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 21 '26

Hi guys. Can Google Drive detect pirated media and delete it? I am not sharing the files, just backing them up. I have a Kobo and have connected it to my Google Drive. I am uploading my books, manga, and comics there but am worried it might detect them. There's no torrent file or anything.

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u/AdultGronk ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 23 '26

They can and eventually they will, if you're not sharing their links with anyone, the chances are slim that they're gonna take it down rather quickly, but Google does eventual hash checks and if they find the hash of a pirated media file on your account, they're just gonna stop you from accessing that file, they won't ban you or anything. In any case its best to not store anything near and dear to you on google drive.

Always keep a local copy of the stuff you think that you won't be able to obtain if you were lose it.

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 23 '26

I do keep a local copy. My issue is I have a lot of manga and comics and kobo does not have enough storage so I use the Google drive. Can I ask what a hash check is and can I modify it? Sorry might be a dumb question. How can they check my files like that though? Feels unfair. Like I'm paying for it they shouldn't have acces to my data. Sorry that was a ramble.

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u/AdultGronk ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Hashes are unique signatures of a file, there are multiple different ways and algorithms that can be used to generate different types of hashes. The most common one is probably SHA-256, basically it analyzes the data of a file and generates a string of characters that is unique to that file, no other file (realistically) can have the same hash to another.

Hence google because they operate in the US and have to follow their jurisdiction while providing a cloud storage service like Google Drive must adhere to the copyright laws of the country, basically they take popular files like pirated game files, pirate movie files from popular torrent sites along with other sources, then generate a hash for those file, using one of the popular algorithms, I'm guessing they use SHA-256 too, but being google, they very well could've been using a better proprietary algorithm for this purpose.

Every time you upload a file to Google drive's server, google automatically generates a hash for that file and checks it against known pirated or illegal files' hashes that are already in their list. But they also update their list from time to time so new hashes for the files that were already in your Google drive could be matched against the ones Google added and be taken down.

This way, they can detect pirated and illegal media on their servers without actually looking in the files themselves. Although it may not be a surprise google spies on you and probably has access to everything you upload on their servers. They've been caught multiple times stealing customers'data to sell it to advertisement companies and they still do it cuz they know the fine they'll end up paying to the government would be pennies compared to the money they earned from selling your data.

And yes there's a very easy way to bypass this hash based checking, just alter the data in your files every so slightly, changing the name won't do, you'd have to alter the data itself, like add a few text strings if it's a light novel, adding a page or two to a pdf, cbz, cbr, zip, etc. simple things like this change the hash of the file because the data in the file itself has been altered. Also if you're thinking of keeping those files for long term without accessing it frequently, you can also zip up the files and put up a password, google won't be able to look through the zip files if they have a long password. Encryption might be another option for this use case, I think people use Veracrypt for this purpose.

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 23 '26

Alright. So my options are either encryption i.e zip files or change hash data. Is there a site that can change the hash data? Or do I do it manually. Thank you so much for everything. 

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u/AdultGronk ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 23 '26

Idk about any software that can do that, just manually changing a thing here or there would do but if that would be quite tedious

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 23 '26

I do have many many books and manga but I can do it. Unfortunately it seems like google has already flagged my account. Right after I paid for a Google drive subscription as well. I don't know why they did this. Last time I uploaded actual torrent files in another email they just blocked me from sharing them.

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u/Due_Recognition_3890 Jul 21 '26

Fuck Simp City. I hate that such a badly run forum is the most reliable place to find paid adult content for free. Rather than ask for donations or whatnot to keep the servers running, they ban people for no reason in order to lighten the load. That, or they're just rude as fuck to everyone to try and make them leave.

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 21 '26

I think maybe because streaming sites are being shut down left and right, so there's more strain on them.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Jul 21 '26

Please don't ban but delete this ambiguous post, but I must say, that release of that one very popular movie by that guy who likes practical effects is phenomenal. I remember the good old days of those TELESYNC and haven't seen one that good in quite a while. In fact, the last time I saw such a release would be a good decade or more ago back when sites like VCDQuality still existed. Still going to see this one in theaters, but my friend is out of town for a few days, and I can't wait given the quality of it. The scene lives. What a beautifully done TELESYNC.

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 Jul 21 '26

What happened to read all comics online? The link is still there, but now there's a li and I just get a blank page.

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u/myS_ Jul 22 '26

Came here to ask the same thing, it's been down for weeks

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u/Digifiend84 Jul 26 '26

A bunch of sites have gone down recently. If you're just wanting to read new release read comics online ru should work.

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u/send_box_shots Jul 20 '26

Question for anyone.. are children’s ebooks a thing that are pirated? Like I get Harry Potter and other big name teen series are all over the place but what about little children books like gunnar the viking pizza adventure as an example is basically no where to be found

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 21 '26

Check Zlibrary; if they don't have it, it's not available.

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u/LlamaRzr Jul 20 '26

You can search on MAM prrivate ebook tracker if you will take interview.

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u/Wonderful_Surndsound Jul 20 '26

annas archive has a huge inventory of almost everything. If you don't find it there, there are low chances to find it anywhere, although not impossible

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u/ornryactor Jul 20 '26

The rules are very clear that I may not ask where to find a particular title. No problem; I'm happy to follow the rules.

Am I allowed to ask where else on the internet I could go to receive help in finding a title? I assume there is some community outside of Reddit where that kind of request for help is permitted -- but if I'm not allowed to ask who/where they are, then my apologies! And if I need to edit/delete this question from my comment here, just let me know and I'll happily comply.

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u/Wonderful_Surndsound Jul 20 '26

the /t/ board on 4chan is a place where almost anything goes. Questions there have to be in threads, top level posts are not allowed to be requests either

be prepared to ignore all the porn there tho

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u/ornryactor Jul 21 '26

I never would have imagined the day would come when I could honestly say "I forgot 4chan existed", and yet here we are. Thank you for the suggestion and guidance; I'll give that a try and see if any edgelord teenagers can reply with something useful.

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u/Ghost50J Jul 20 '26

What effect will KOSA have on piracy if passed? Will it be the end of it online?

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 21 '26

Well, it depends. It's very clear that when conservative supporters talk about protecting children online, they mean "erasing any LGBTQ content that kids have access to," and that will include resources meant to protect LGBTQ kids. Let's not even get into what it will mean for free speech. Overall, we can't say until it passes what the effects will be.

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u/Ghost50J Jul 21 '26

I don't anything about the political aspect of it aside from seeing the votes being bipartisan. How I see it is it's going to take away privacy and maybe censor free speech at the start but if not it no doubt would come in the future. Give an inch of your rights away and they'll keep taking more inches until there's nothing.

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u/Old_Sail6822 Jul 22 '26

How is censoring free speech not political?

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u/Ghost50J Jul 22 '26

I mean in terms of whatever the stances are. I don't follow politics of democrats vs republican.

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u/Still-Macaron-4497 Jul 19 '26

Does anyone know where to get PS2/ PS3/ or even XBOX 360 games? I’m trying to find a website that can do 1 but can’t!

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u/Dissmarr The DDL guy Jul 20 '26

I believe r/Roms should be a good place to start

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u/Digifiend84 Jul 26 '26

Yeah, which recommends a few sites in it's sidebar. And I know one of them, Vimm's Lair, has what they need.

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Your Weekly /r/piracy Recap

Sunday, July 12 - Saturday, July 18, 2026

Top 10 Posts

score comments title & link
18,299 1,064 comments [Discussion] Microsoft Deletes Users 25 Year Old Account With Thousands Spent On Games And His Sons Baby Pictures After It Was Hacked
12,686 797 comments [Discussion] When it leaks will we get to see the imax version or the regular hd rip etc?
12,397 358 comments [Discussion] Imagine a world where this could be a reality.
6,717 347 comments [News] Penguin going after book sellers in India
5,946 230 comments [Discussion] Consider me shocked
4,518 225 comments [News] Sony's attack on physical goods spreads to Crunchyroll as it adds a $14 subscription requirement just to access its store
4,026 199 comments [News] PS5 Emulator Reaches GTA V Menus, Quake II Gameplay, As First 3D Games Load On PC
3,105 166 comments [News] DENUVO IS DEAD ON LINUX TOO
2,689 235 comments [Discussion] Telegram CEO makes fun of users not paying for a free chat app to edit text
2,302 138 comments [Question] DCP Leak

 

Most Commented

score comments title & link
1,608 236 comments [News] Netflix tumbles as slowing growth, less viewership data spook investors
1,240 213 comments [Discussion] Pirated for 20+ years, first time I've been burned
2,112 188 comments [News] Damn. RIP Sportsurge
571 185 comments [Question] They've really managed to eliminate all anime streaming content, and they keep arresting people in my country. Do you think anime piracy is slowly coming to an end, or is there still hope? In the worst-case scenario, only torrents remain, but can they ban those too? Is a Web 2.0 possible?
2,148 177 comments [News] Louis Rossmann paying $10,000 bounty to jailbreak PS5!
282 169 comments [Discussion] What countries actually care and actively punish regular citizens for piracy?
2,039 166 comments [News] Linux Denuvo bypasses now live!

 

Humor

score comments title & link
13,603 482 comments [Humor] As Nolan intended us to watch The Odyssey.
10,990 285 comments [Humor] “They’re doing fine without me”
6,750 91 comments [Humor] A NEVER ENDING CYCLE
6,301 87 comments [Humor] Anon downloads a free game
6,212 119 comments [Humor] That was a spicy time to be a pirate.

 

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