Posted 2 days ago! Finaly running from the new server, We had a problem with the last back up so we had to use the one we made the day before. I estimate that we have lost about 12 hrs of the last operation to old server before we stop the site. It will take at least another day till we set the site to operate properly. Update: Our restore was not complete unfortunately. So it does not matter if you put new request or new torrent up. It will be in the system but it's not available on the main pages. We are bleeding from many wounds. As our techs are working in their normal job, actual healing should be at eow only...

This site has updated the magic value calculation formula and added the invitee bonus coefficient. The maximum bonus factor for invitees is 1.0, which is related to the number and volume of official seeds currently seeded by all invitees of the member (commonly known as "harem"). After adding the bonus of invitees, the bonus factor of mana value can be up to 3.0, see the mana value page for details . We hope that this change will promote positive interactions among members and better improve the quality of species preservation on this site. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave a message for discussion.

A little update so you know we are alright. This is obviously taking longer than expected due to several reasons, the War in Ukraine being a major one. Just be patient. The project will absolutely be back online. Ignore any gossip you may stumble upon. The platform is finished and online yet requires more testing. The tracker and other backends are running. You can access the IRC server using your temporary password. Seed the torrents you already have in the clients. Higher the load the better. You can view current tracker peer numbers at the status page.

Movies and Series Scraper" is a nifty tool that allows people to watch and download films and TV series without much hassle. The developer shares the code for free, but when he noticed that someone had "stolen" his work, he asked GitHub to remove the infringing copy from the platform. GitHub is no stranger to copyright complaints. Last year, the developer platform removed nearly 20,000 projects in response to DMCA takedown notices. These takedowns can target all sorts of content. Major media companies often complain about software that allows people to access pirated content, for example. However, there are also instances where developers see copies of their own content elsewhere on Github, placed there by others without permission. A DMCA takedown notice sent to Github this week appears to fall into the latter category but also comes with an unusual piracy angle. Movies and Series Scraper The dispute revolves around “Movies and Series Scraper,” a basic app that allows users to stream or download films and TV shows with minimal effort. According to the project description, it’s even possible to download an entire TV series. “A console application to scrape a valid watching links for any movie or series with exact season and episode number, you can also download a whole season with one click,” the Egyptian dev writes. While many people will appreciate this kind of tool, the creators of the movies and series are unlikely to be happy with it. The GitHub repo shows how content such as “Game of Thrones” can be downloaded from pirate sources, making it especially problematic. The App in Action (image:via) got watch The software’s creator may or may not be aware of these sensitivities. What’s clear, however, is that he understands the concept of copyright infringement. Stolen Code In a DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub this week, the developer of “Movies and Series Scraper” complains that someone has ‘stolen’ his code and is passing it off as their own. “Someone stole a repo that was [private] and published it with his name as the author,” the notice reads, adding that “each line of code is copied” while requesting the reported content to be removed. The takedown notice also claims that the copied repository circumvents technical protection measures, which would be an additional violation of the DMCA. GitHub Complies After reviewing the request GitHub concluded that the ‘circumvention’ claims don’t hold ground. However, the copyright infringement allegations are valid and warrant the removal of the copied repository. “While GitHub did not find sufficient information to determine a valid anti-circumvention claim, we determined that this takedown notice contains other valid copyright claim,” the platform writes. Indeed, the ‘stolen’ repository has now been removed from GitHub. This shows that the DMCA takedown process works as intended but the same process could also be used against the “Movies and Series Scraper” as well. TorrentFreak reached out to the developer who defends the app by stressing that it’s merely scraping content from third party (piracy) sources. It’s simply a “middleman” that protects users from harmful ads, he says.

Popular stream-ripping site Yout.com finds itself blocked again by Peruvian ISPs. Just a few months ago the service protested a similar blockade. The Government isn't easily defeated though, as it simply requested another temporary blockade, pending an investigation. And while the formal deadline has passed, getting the blockade lifted is easier said than done. yout logoWhen ‘pirate’ sites are blocked by ISPs, the operators often get creative and find ways to bypass these restrictions. In Peru, the opposite appears to happen. After the stream-ripping portal Yout.com challenged a local blockade, the authorities simply blocked it again. For the full context, we have to go back more than a year. Last spring local ISPs were ordered to block Yout.com and other stream-ripping sites as a precautionary measure, while the authorities conducted their investigations for potential legal action against the sites. Not So Temporary Blocking Injunction The temporary blocking injunction came at the request of the government agency INDECOPI, which works closely with rightsholder groups such as IFPI. In the application, it argued that the stream-ripping site allows users to download content from YouTube without permission. While the blockade was granted, it was only supposed to be temporary. According to the injunction, the blockade was valid for 30 days. The authorities could use this time to start a formal prosecution, after which the measures could potentially be extended. However, nearly a year passed without an official follow-up from INDECOPI. Meanwhile, ISPs continued to block Yout.com. To resolve the situation Yout hired a local lawyer to appeal the injunction at Peru’s Competition and Intellectual Property Court. The court confirmed that there is no legal obligation for the ISPs to block Yout. Despite this conclusion, the court couldn’t order ISPs to unblock the site either. Unblock and Reblock To resolve the status quo, Yout had to reach out to INDECOPI and the ISPs, urging them to lift the expired measures. This is exactly what Yout’s attorney did a few months ago, but soon after the authorities responded with a surprise move. On May 31st this year, INDECOPI obtained a new preliminary injunction. This time, Yout is listed together with dozens of other targets. They include pirate sites such as Anineflv, Cuevana and Cinetux, as well as NoTube and other stream-ripping services. peru blocked This injunction was again temporary in nature, but just like last time, ISPs continued to block the sites after it expired. Expired Again, but Still Blocked Yout’s Peruvian attorney informs TorrentFreak that they reached out to INDECOPI with a request to lift the precautionary measures, as the injunction is no longer valid. “In this instance, the defense requested that it is appropriate to declare the expiration of the precautionary measure issued by [the injunction] since Indecopi, AGAIN, failed to initiate a sanctioning procedure within 30 days. We are currently waiting for Indecopi’s response.” If the blocking measures are eventually lifted, in theory there’s nothing to prevent the authorities from requesting another preliminary injunction. This means that this reverse “whack-a-mole” can keep going for a while. For now, all copyright infringement allegations against Yout in Peru remain untested in court. No formal procedure has been launched, nor has the site been declared illegal. “There is no sanction by the Peruvian government against Yout.com, nor has the Peruvian government ever initiated a sanctioning procedure against the site,” Yout’s lawyer tells us.

Lean seedbox plan is very good in terms of speed and management. One has to remember that at alow price you are getting good speed and huge space. So there must be a catch and it is that you don't have root access. I am thrilled to use it. Wonder what are the performance of premium versions!! Definitely worth the money!!

Tubthumping & Tooling I get knocked down, but I get up again You are never gonna keep me down Our site and tracker recently experienced a few wobbles; we want to thank you for your patience and support during that time. A special shout out to our developers and other staff, who work tirelessly to keep this ship afloat. While we are often busy behind the scenes, maintaining and improving the plumbing, many of our inventive users are also hard at work. Thanks to their efforts, this site has become an even better, easier place to congregate and contribute. Examples abound, and only some are noted below. Please do check out these tools, offer gratitude to their maintainers, and share in this thread what other tools improve your RED experience. DropSpec A fast, effective tool for generating SoX spectrograms on macOS. SoX is an invaluable command-line tool for generating spectrograms. These are graphical representations of audio, used by our users and staff to determine whether a song is lossy, or perhaps a transcode. This GUI application makes a somewhat complicated CLI tool more accessible to a wider range of users. Mofo Mofo, short for More Information, operates on a torrent group page, searching various online outlets for a release. Matches are neatly arranged in a list of links, appended to the bottom of a torrent group description. As with all automation, please review the results for accuracy before posting the results! Pollenizer As described by its author: pollenizer helps cross-seeding automatically, between RED & OPS. You might have snatched things on OPS or RED indiscriminately, or only on one side or the other. A lot of content is actually shared, thanks to the efforts of original uploaders using both sites, or thanks to other users using scripts to migrate releases from one to the other. In the end, you probably are seeding a lot of things that can be cross-seeded directly. pollenizer aims at making this effortless, in both directions. Propolis This tool closely analyzes torrents for common rule violations, such as excessive padding, inconsistent or missing tags, bad folder or filenames. Its author notes it can be used before uploading, to confirm your upload is conforms to the rules and best practices. Or, after downloading, to identify trumpable releases and further improve our catalog. We love this one so much that we have integrated it into torrent moderation workflows. Gazelle Edition Edit (GEE) Gazelle Edition Edit (GEE) is a simple, straightforward time-saver, especially for our ardent editors. It allows users, with a single click, to apply edition field changes to all torrents within the same edition. Yet Another Various Artists Helper (YAVAH) This tool, like the others highlighted here today, makes life easier. Specifically, it simplifies adding lots of artists to an upload/torrent group, especially when there is no listings for a release on sites like MusicBrainz and the like. downsampler-threaded.sh This is a Bash script that automatically resamples 24-bit FLACs, based on their sample rate, using multiple threads. Do not be deterred by the technical jargon, and review the full set of features and documentation in the thread. SpecDiff This utility simplifies spectrogram comparison of FLAC files. The most common use case around the site is to identify watermarks, or compare the same song across two different media types, e.g. CD and WEB. FLAC Upload Quick Buttons This one is for our regular uploaders looking for efficient ways to cut down their clicks. Head over to the thread for more, and take a look at this picture to get a sense of what's in store: https://ptpimg.me/6j4ae6.png Remove torrents from main collage, or torrent group page This tool allows you to remove torrents from collages on either the main collage page or the torrent group page. It is especially useful for removing torrents from larger collages as you no longer have to search a collage for the specific release you want to remove, nor would you need to use the 'Manage Torrents' interface. While on the topic of collages, we love when our users team up with staff to undertake special projects! A recent example is the initiative hypermodified undertook to explore where our cover art images were hosted. After finding that many were on questionable (or already dead!) hosts, he wrote a script to re-host them to ptpimg.me, while also sorting dead hosts and low-quality images into collages. This project prompted excellent collaboration among the community and staff in #red-dev. The group approached this with actual statistics from our database, thus avoiding undue strain on the site during the process. As of this writing, all HTTP-hosted art has been migrated, and HTTPS cover-art is about 70% re-hosted. Oh, there's one more project with which we need your help! Let us preserve some of our oldest lossless torrents. As of right now, all FLACs with three or fewer seeds, uploaded in the first three years of the site (before 2019-11-24 01:34:03) are freeload, and will remain so until around 23:59 UTC on 2022-09-24. As a reminder, users who were seeding such torrents within the last week will still receive credit for their upload during this event. Snatch and seed! s, RED Staff

2022.08.25 - A letter to the Sky family Dear Sky family members, the recent adjustment of the rules has caused confusion and confusion among many members. Here, on behalf of all the members of the management team, I sincerely say sorry to the Sky family! Sincere apologies to all HD fans and affected brothers and sisters! At the same time, there are a few clarifications and clarifications that I would like you to know. Some members have doubts about the account guarantee rules, and hereby reiterate the account retention rules. The actor level and above are permanently reserved and are not subject to active login restrictions. It won't change now, and it won't change in the future! The original intention of the rule adjustment, I believe that many fans can also understand and understand. I believe everyone has some understanding of how relaxed we were before standing. Originally, I hoped that everyone would return to the essence of PT. Everyone is for me, I am for everyone, not for the sake of Brush and brush, and enjoy the download while actively maintaining species. We accept any reasonable and benign feedback, opinions and even criticism, and will actively respond and adjust. Therefore, after several days of statistics, we feel that the extent of our adjustment is indeed true. It's too big, and it really hurts some fans. This is something we don't like. In the end, we decided to adjust it back to the original level. Everyone's activity level is obvious to everyone. ? But the site should not only look at the data, but also pay attention to humanization. We really listened carefully from the standpoint of the members, considered it, and decided to adjust back to the upgrade rules. Some people say that this level adjustment is to move closer to interests. Is this true? Donation is voluntary, it has always been the case. I don’t want to explain much about donations. Many people also understand that the long-term development of the website is inseparable from these, and this level adjustment is not a single reform, and it is still hanging on top of the red letter Recruiting talents, and the measures such as the restriction box for the first hour that was implemented not long ago, are all separate measures? Not beneficial? Or is it beneficial? Don't you know that restricting the box is directly detrimental to donations? Many members donating inbound will ask if they can brush the box? Some members in the station will generally donate before brushing the box, guaranteeing that they can brush as much as possible within a certain time limit, etc. Is it because I want to slap myself again? Self-inflicted profit? So do you think this makes sense? Are you going to give me a hat? So what can I do? I feel that I am really not a person inside or outside. I originally thought that reform would always be painful, but it is true that sometimes reform is too drastic and unintentionally hurts the feelings of members. It is indeed something I should reflect on. Regarding this level change, some people directly abused, ridiculed, etc., thinking that we must be doing it for the sake of profit, etc. Then please, if it is only for the sake of your opinion, we will conduct a collective super-difficult assessment of the whole station. Are you done? And it is done every year, more than once a year. The saying is to improve everyone's enthusiasm and activity. Are you happy with that? What about level adjustment? What can we bring to ourselves? The original intention was just to want more people to be active and actively participate in uploading, downloading and sharing, but how does this adjustment actually affect you? Want you to spend? Are you unable to download? I hope everyone will think carefully about the original intention of playing PT. Of course, we have also reflected on it. Although it does not affect any download rights in essence, it does affect the enthusiasm of maintaining species and the hobby of "killing monsters and upgrading". However, we will not change the original intention of the reform. Among the many feedbacks received, some people mentioned that if you want to be proactive, you should conduct regular assessments, implement HR rules, etc. Unexpectedly, I didn't want to do this at first, I just thought about adjusting the lower level, which can also improve enthusiasm. Since many people have mentioned various opinions on improving enthusiasm in the feedback received now, we will also comprehensively consider the later stage. The reform system, but rest assured, it will be implemented more humanely, and it will never be at the expense of the vested interests of members, and I hope everyone can give more reference opinions. We are also grateful for the support and understanding of users, and want to find a balance point from the adjustment, so I hope everyone can give us more opinions. We will definitely refer to it comprehensively and handle it humanely. After all, it will grow. There are also remarks against fan groups such as PT Tieba in the past few days. Every PT station is actually not easy. PT is a small circle. Everyone uses love to generate electricity, heat around the stove, and enjoy their own small circles in this small circle. Hobbies, little fun, which PT station has not encountered a gangster? Haven't been threatened? Haven't been attacked, etc.? How would you deal with intimidation, threats, etc.? Back off? concession? Give in? still? If it is a reasonable voice of the group, I believe that any management group will not ignore it, and will make reflections and adjustments. After all, users are the cornerstone of a site. It is not the management group that a site can survive on, but the users themselves. Don't we understand? Want to go the opposite way? It is fundamental to ask questions rationally and then solve them, instead of ranting, cursing, or even waving the flag of reporting at every turn. Why do you let a site handle itself? What do you let the whole PT circle do? Although we can't represent the PT circle, we are also a part of it. Our rule adjustment is ill-considered and may be too radical, but I really don't want to hurt the whole circle or the interests of any fans. I admire some fans who really have the courage to speak up, and even users who committed suicide, even the one who raised the banner of reporting and defending their rights. I believe your original intentions must be good, and everything is a misunderstanding. I really understand your enthusiasm. If you still recognize us, you are welcome to go home at any time, please contact us, and we will take the initiative to lift the ban after statistics. We do not welcome those who are full of foul language and have been provoking and inciting! In addition, I would like to thank the pt bar administrators for their impartial management. We are always listening to the voices of users and calling on everyone to discuss rationally, understand more, and have less misunderstandings! Special thanks to member tomorrow505 (Author of Auto-Feed) for your contribution to the pt circle and your comments to us! We have adjusted the publishing authority back to the original level, and will strengthen standardized management later. A passage from the author that inspired me greatly, and I quote it here. This is a small circle, the quieter the better, or try not to hurt its roots. I personally think that PT needs to unite internally, share hobbies, and unleash hobbies, and the contradictions between the party, the party, the party, the party, the party, and the party, and the conflicts between them are all minor issues, which can be debated in small groups. PT is fundamentally based on rich resources, a healthy platform, and users who are willing to share. It may be more idealistic, but these are the things that support PT all the way. Moreover, the platform and users complement each other. When the platform is good, users come to share resources; when users are good, the platform has vitality. The sky is always everyone's, if it is any benign suggestion that is beneficial to the site, even if it is put forward, we are humbly taught. Sorry again for the brothers and users affected by this turmoil! This incident has brought many days of turmoil in the circle. I hope it will come to an end, starting from my stand, and I hope it will end with my procrastinating thousand-character text! The PT circle is a whole, not a small circle of self, I hope it restores its original tranquility! Whether it is a brother and friend station, or the majority of high-definition enthusiasts, let us go further together! Enjoy HD! enjoy life! Thank you everyone! ! !

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Anti-piracy company Denuvo has announced a new product that aims to prevent pirated copies of Nintendo Switch games from being played on PC-based emulators. Denuvo says that 'Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection' will have no impact on the gaming experience and will ensure that anyone wishing to play a game will have to buy a legitimate copy. DenuvoMost video gamers will be familiar with the concept of an end-of-level or end-of-game ‘boss’. They take many forms but tend to present as an escalated challenge designed to prevent gamers from progressing any further. Anti-piracy company Denuvo embraces the ‘boss’ concept and drops it on its head. Anyone wanting to play a Denuvo-protected videogame without paying for it will have to defeat Denuvo’s protection right at the very beginning, before the game even starts. Worst still, only a handful of people in the whole world are up to the Denuvo boss challenge, so until they emerge victorious, nobody gets to play the game, unless they’re prepared to pay for it. This makes Denuvo very unpopular in video game piracy circles but very popular with its clients, some of whom have a new product to consider. Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection Providing there’s no obvious reuse of copyrighted code or trademark abuse, emulation software is mostly immune to legal attack. Emulators that mimic gaming hardware are mostly legal to develop, legal to distribute, legal to own, and even legal to use. In reality, most emulator gamers like to gloss over that last bit. In the time it takes the minority to shout “HOMEBREW”, the rest will have downloaded several hundred MAME ROMs, a few Nintendo Switch games, and will be playing them on a PC. Nintendo is concerned about all piracy, but emulator piracy is special in that gamers don’t need to buy games, and they don’t need to buy a console either. Denuvo announced today that it has a new product to bring this to an end. It’s called Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection and Denuvo wants game developers to start using it right away. Emulation Good / Piracy Bad Reinhard Blaukovitsch is the founder and Managing Director of Denuvo, a business owned by cybersecurity giant Irdeto. In an announcement on Irdeto’s blog today, Blaukovitsch acknowledges that PC emulators can bring old games back to life with a wave of nostalgia but warns of the piracy risks. The claim that hundreds of free emulators can play Switch games sounds a bit enthusiastic, but that’s not really important. Yuzu and Ryujinx are the most popular and between them cover Windows, Linux and macOS users. All three can be used with entirely legal software but Denuvo would like them to be less useful to pirates moving forward. Games Need Protection From Emulation “Your Nintendo Switch games need a protective solution. Emulating games may be harmless in some cases, but at the end of the day, it is still a major means of piracy,” Denuvo’s message to Nintendo developers reads. “Our brand new Denuvo Nintendo Switch Protection helps prevent emulation from the get-go and stops pirates from getting hold of your game via the PC.” Denuvo says its solution integrates “seamlessly and automatically” and works by detecting differences in the way a game behaves compared to what it was designed for. “In this way, our software can tell that your game has been tampered with – and will make it unplayable.” Denuvo says its solution will stop Switch games from being pirated and help to secure income for developers. As for gamers, they will “simply have to pay” if they want in on the action. The Switch hacking/piracy scene is likely to perceive that as a challenge.

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