J-Bone

Only an occasional manga reader, but I thought this post was funny. 😄

and it has updatable torrents

Did not know that. This would be a very a useful feature.

Interesting, I’ve never used usenet (no pun intended), but this does seem like a pretty big drawback.

I speak fluent English, but if I am not in a mood for subtitles, I prefer non-US/UK media in my own language. Torrents are pretty flexible on this front. Sure you need to know what you are doing, but if you know what usenet is, that means you can figure it out.

You can find the DVDs on rutracker.org. It’s a public tracker.

You can either use a service like google translate or simply put “smurfs 1981” (season by season) in the search.

The DVD releases also include russian audio in addition to english. There is one torrent with all seasons, but it has Russian audio only. There is a decent amount of torrents, just look through anything that says “mediainfo” to double check that English is included (original audio track is almost always included, I was surprised to see the full compilation without original English audio).

Private trackers also have this show (all seasons).

Ah sorry, I thought this was a movie series. TV shows makes more sense.

Are you only looking direct download source?

There were 33 smurf movies within a period of 8 years, am I getting this right?

He is an American oligarch, bad faith and dishonesty are to be expected in everything they say or do.

Appreciate the comparison to the Taliban. Makes you look very reasonable and not all unhinged.

I have already read the first link you posted. As I mentioned in my OP for this thread, it is not convincing or logically sound. He literally says “It is not a bad thing that Republicans have moved so far on this issue”. Zero critical thought about this.

Keep on acting obtuse. Hitler/Bitler. “You didn’t ask “what did the attempts accomplish”, did you?” Asking for outcomes on anti-trust is the same thing as “they completely obliterated Big Tech”. Small steps? What small steps are you talking about? We both know there are none and if any future action will happen it will be for show only and will never have any real impact.

This sort sleazeball rhetoric is why I don’t trust people like Yen and you.

I am done here.

What you seem to be saying is: “he didn’t criticise Trump, therefore he went against his client-base’s belief system, and that’s a bad thing”.

Am I getting this right? Maybe elaborate on what’s your exact stance on Yen if I’m getting something confused?

As I mentioned earlier, try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics.

I don’t buy into Yen’s (and seemingly your) statements about little guys, big guys and anti-trust. From my perspective, this makes no sense.

An oligarch gang does not engage in good faith with respect to anti-trust. This is not up for discussion as far as I concerned (remember that I said I am not American).

To try and imply otherwise (and be all high and mighty about it) is essentially mocking your customers.

The examples you cited mean nothing, if they did mean something, then you would actually highlight some real world results (can you cite an outcome not preliminary actions, I don’t believe in American polemics about their judiciary and so on). But there are none, so instead you go with calling childish.

Although I will say there is a beautiful irony in the following phrase:

Don’t be childish. We’re not talking about completely redefining the tech landscape, we’re talking about reining a couple of “too big” companies in.

Maybe you have your answer here (one that, I repeat, is not tied to internal US political matters).

The disrespect I am referring to has nothing to do with US politics or tribalism.

It’s disrespectful because he think his customers are stupid enough to buy his ruse about “genuinely” thinking that a Trump admin would be concerned about anti-trust.

In a global context, skepticism of oligarch groups is not a “minority position”. In many countries, if you start spouting random polemics about how “Oligarch X actually cares or might do some good”, people will think you hit your head or you’re trying to launch a new career as a standup comedian with a focus on politics.

You referenced the current US admin assigning someone who is allegedly anti-trust? So what? What does this have to with anything? This is not some sort of silver bullet and it’s a bit sophomoric to claim this is of any significant importance.

But, again, we NOW know what the true intentions were. In 2024, looking at the first term, you COULD honestly say that Trump did some good in a fight against Big Tech.

In 2024, you couldn’t, because his previous admin, as bullshit-filled, corrupt and dishonest as it was, DID do some good things (mostly in a bad way - if it was all good, it was usually by accident). The anti-trust stuff was some of those good things.

This is not at all convincing. There are multiple examples of two-stage oligarch/authoritarian takeovers in flawed democracies (I can come several of the top of my head). This is not unique to the US. An oligarch regime is not going to suddenly have a massive change in heart.

What exactly were the good things? Which major company was broken up? Which executives went to jail?

Try and look at what I am saying outside the lens of internal US politics. As I said earlier, I am not even necessarily saying that the Proton CEO is a Trump supporter, that doesn’t make the situation any better.

I am not American, but this doesn’t sound particularly convincing.

Irrespective of where you stand on the political spectrum, you can reasonably state that Trump and his regime are extremely corrupt and are unlikely to have any good faith interest in targeting American technology oligarchs via anti-trust.

Yen almost certainly knows this. So there had to be something else going on. Doesn’t necessarily have to be support for Trump, could be an attempt to gain favour.

At any rate, Yen clearly disrespect his customers by engaging in faux-anti-trust polemics.

One thing to consider is that your interpretations of the polemics around “echo chamber” and “safe space” are rather provincial.

This sort of phrasing can in good faith be dismissed as politically defined regional demagoguery.

Handbrake is designed for CPU based transcoding. You want slow CPU based encoding for archival storage.

You can mux into MKV via MKVtoolmix (available on all major platforms/linux distributions). You encode video via the x264 and x265 codecs, while I use handbrake, I do believe there are many other frontends that likely allow you to switch to GPU encode.

There are also non-english language public trackers that don’t leverage western style filename rules.

E.g. mazepa.to (Ukrainian) and rutracker.org (russian). The sites require registration (open to all), but the torrents are public (no ratio requirements and torrents do not have the private flag).

The search functions support English language titles with no issues at all. You can find any mainstream movie/show on both trackers. Rutracker has some niche content that I’ve not been able to find on specialized private trackers.

One drawback is that the trackers require local language dubs/VO, so some some content is never released on them.

if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene.

This is not really true. I tried a few searches of more obscure movies and they don’t have releases that are available on multiple private trackers.

That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

This looks like an interesting tool/service.

Surprised the authorities would go after users of a private tracker, seems like a low impact area compared to public trackers or even pirate movie streaming sites.

These are private trackers, right?