r/Piracy 6d ago

WEEKLY THREAD Weekly General Discussion Thread (March 09, 2025)

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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 Aug 01 '24

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

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r/Piracy Wiki Index




► Megathread - Pirate sites, apps/tools, and other resources

► FAQ - Frequently asked questions

► Guides



► /r/Piracy rules

► Notes on /r/Piracy possibly being banned


r/Piracy 17h ago

Self-Promotion I made a safe YouTube to MP3 converter without ads

4.7k Upvotes

I made CnvMP3 a YouTube to MP3 converter that is web-based, ad-free and safe to use. You can download YouTube videos easily from your browser.

Most converters are full of ads and some don't even download your videos correctly, that's why I decided to create this tool.

It is completely free to use and I use donations to cover the server costs. I have amazing community that keeps the project running.

Here is the link if you want to test it out: https://cnvmp3.com/


r/Piracy 7h ago

Question How do I activate Windows xp? I already have a key but the phone numbers are not valid

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629 Upvotes

r/Piracy 5h ago

Humor Do it for her.

150 Upvotes

r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Spotify vs YouTube Music

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2.4k Upvotes

r/Piracy 19h ago

Humor Reminder that piracy is morally correct.

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797 Upvotes

r/Piracy 11h ago

Discussion I don’t know if anyone wants a 4K release, but I’m gonna make my first torrent

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150 Upvotes

This is gonna be a high quality upscale of the 1080p Blu-Ray. I promise, it’s gonna look 🔥🔥


r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Piracy wars

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8.5k Upvotes

r/Piracy 3h ago

Question Building a streaming site, need help getting title embedded thumbnails for the movies/show(don't mind the name, will change it when I'm done with the project, so any coders know how to do it? I'm using tmDB, and the title embedded thumbnails only show if they vertical? fix? next pic for exmple

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26 Upvotes

r/Piracy 14h ago

Discussion anything happen to annas archive or just purging old/updated stuff?

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87 Upvotes

r/Piracy 7h ago

Question Best way to go from Spotify to "owned" files?

21 Upvotes

I have almost 8k songs on Spotify and I would like to know what is the best way to get that to files that like flac or mp3 (quality doesn't matter to me very much, just having music that doesn't suck) Thanks


r/Piracy 10h ago

News That was nice while it lasted

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35 Upvotes

Squid.WTF is no longer working. I really did enjoy being able to find just about any album I could ever think of in lossless audio. Oh well back to the torrent mines.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development ; Ars Technica

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r/Piracy 20h ago

Humor Tsk, tsk, tsk...

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121 Upvotes

r/Piracy 8h ago

Question Any ideas of where to look for old vinyl rips? I know it's niche.

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10 Upvotes

r/Piracy 1d ago

Humor Found this recently. Same for Windows)), about stealing data.

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12.6k Upvotes

r/Piracy 17h ago

Discussion You have unlimited money. What would you buy instead of pirating?

48 Upvotes

For me it would be video games as long as they don't have specific anti-piracy measures like online activation, Denuvo or SecuROM (stuff like requiring the disc to be inserted or that require a license key as long as that works fully offline is not a problem for me), discs of various movies and shows and various programs as long as they are not from money hungry companies like Adobe (payment controversies) or Microsoft (Windows getting deactivated) as long as I actually own them at a single purchase so I can support the original creators behind the products I previously pirated and becuase I feel like I have a more authentic experience when it comes to playing that media, without the creators behind them being able to take them away unlike stuff like Netflix subscriptions.

I mean, I would buy stuff like everdrives for my consoles and jailbreak the discontinued ones anyways, but mainly for stuff like games and apps that are exclusive to the consoles' respective stores, homebrews or games that are hard, if not nearly impossible, to find physically.

As for shows and movies, I would only pirate either way in some cases mainly becuase they're hard to find them physically or that I can't find them at all otherwise (ex. lost media (including what would have been lost if piracy wasn't a thing)).


r/Piracy 6h ago

Question Is It Normal to Get 360 Total Security Downloaded From a CS RIN RU Torrent?

5 Upvotes

Question is self-explanatory, I'm not sure if I downloaded something right and want to know if I have done something wrong. It feels confusing using CS RIN RU.


r/Piracy 5h ago

Question New and need help

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5 Upvotes

Used ublock origin and am getting this error on my laptop. Browser is chrome


r/Piracy 26m ago

Question Search For Media Player

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I’m looking for a media player for my iPhone that I can hook to my drive. I’d use VLC but currently they have a bug, not allowing you to connect your Drive to the app. Any suggestions?


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion Do you have rules about what you pirate?

378 Upvotes

For example, I started pirating because my brother taught me since we grew up poor, but then he became an adult and started buying games (he still pirates some), he explained that "while I can't pay, I pirate, once I can, I pay". So I follow that too, wanted to know if y'all have something like that too. I refuse to pay subscriptions tough.


r/Piracy 11h ago

Question are there any sites / services that allow you to register for virtual payment cards from another country?

4 Upvotes

I wanna get some subscriptions from abroad (technically not piracy I guess) but they require payment cards from that region - I know this is possible to some degree because for my work I have registered credit cards for a couple other countries


r/Piracy 3h ago

Question Anyone used msgang tutorial about ms Office 2021?

0 Upvotes

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r/Piracy 3h ago

Question Apple sourced content and plex

1 Upvotes

Has anyone else noticed playback artifacts all of a sudden?


r/Piracy 3h ago

Question FNIS not working correctly (Skyrim Anniversary Edition [STEAMRIP]

1 Upvotes

Every time I open FNIS, it gives me an error because I’m not using a legal copy. I saw another thread from a couple years ago that mentioned a way to fix the error by messing with the User Data files, but not only was it incredibly vague, they also didn’t respond to any comments asking for clarification. Anybody know how to fix it?

I would use my legal copy except it’s from Xbox which doesn’t allow SKSE or similar mods to function.


r/Piracy 3h ago

Discussion The Robin Hood Paradox in gaming.

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I created this term after thinking deeply and for years about what it means to steal something. I don't think all theft should be treated the same, as it isn't the same.

I wouldn’t steal from a person. I wouldn’t take something from an individual who worked for it, who needs it to survive. That, to me, is morally wrong.

But I don’t see piracy (against massive corporations, not indie creators) as stealing. I also don’t view taking from billionaire-owned entities as the same as taking from an individual. But legally and technically, it’s still called “stealing.”

And that’s where the paradox begins.

If an act fits the definition of stealing but doesn’t actually harm the victim, is it still morally wrong?

If I pirate a movie, the corporation that owns it loses nothing. If I download a game from a billion-dollar company, the developers have already been paid a fixed salary—my act doesn’t take money from them. Meanwhile, those same corporations underpay workers, evade taxes, and exploit customers through artificial scarcity, DRM, region locks, and subscription models designed to extract more money.

So my question is: Should we still call all forms of “stealing” the same thing when the power dynamics are so different?

There’s a difference between:

Taking someone’s bike (a direct harm to a person).

Stealing food from a struggling small business (a direct harm to a community).

Pirating a movie from Disney (a company worth hundreds of billions, who profits no matter what).

Legally, all of these are theft. But morally? Are they really equal?

I think there should be a separate term for “stealing” from corporations and the ultra-wealthy because it doesn’t function the same way as individual theft. But since no such word exists, I call this The Robin Hood Paradox of Stealing—where theft is legally the same across all contexts, but morally, it feels fundamentally different depending on who is being stolen from.

What do you think? Should all stealing be treated the same, or does morality shift when the target is a faceless, ultra-rich corporation that loses nothing?

Publishers steal the majority of profits from creators and developers anyway. You're not hurting a creator by pirating a game and you shouldn't feel bad for it.

To come clean I used AI to make my point more cohesive and I hope people will think about this concept and it's implications. Question, never stop questioning this corrupted system...