Valve argued in court that you do not own any title in your library and that they are a subscription based service. That’s not very ethical.

Windows being easy to pirate wasnt the reason for it’s popularity. It had market share because they allowed for it to be preinstalled on machines for virtually nothing. They allowed it to be preinstalled on machines for virtually nothing because the OS wasn’t the flagship product.

MS Office has always been the major flagship product for the company. This was true in 1994 and still is today. Office is so important to their revenue streams that it’s fairly common knowledge and has been mentioned by former employees that OS development would focus on compatibility with Office programs, not the other way around.

Specifically if you look at the years around Office XP and 2003, that suite is used very much as a CVS. They deprecate their operating systems using Office.

I had a few networking and docker guides up, but I nuked the account with shreddit. Still, the institutional knowledge that those guides were based on left with me. We can rebuild.

Suggesting a non-piracy option or providing links to non-piracy options is a violation of the community rules and guidelines.

Typically schools and universities have acceptable use policies for student VPNs. It is not very difficult to detect VPN setup on a network and universities almost always have at least some form of network monitoring happening.

That said, VPNs are often times blocked and so is SFTP. Most universities I’ve done work with have a requirement that the traffic will be blocked unless you can make a case to IT as to why you need that access.

There are few legitimate use cases for student VPNs and IT staff are usually not idiots and understand what you are up to.

Yep, that’s the one. You just set your upstream default to something like tcp-tls:1.1.1.1:853 for DoT (which is what I use anyway).

Good documentation on other features like adblocking,caching,etc: https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/v0.21/configuration/

Just throwing out a couple of other solutions I didn’t see mentioned for DoH/DoT:

1. CoreDNS
2. Blocky

Both of those support encryption and allow for DNSBL. If you are wanting to hand out DNS entries over DHCP it may a problem with your ISPs router there. Either replace it, sit one you do control between it and your network, or run DHCP snooping from a switch to restrict it’s DHCP.

I believe even linking or indexing can be problematic. I know Google receives DMCA notices to remove entries from search results. I think your solution is probably the better solution though compared to a lot of others.

One point I would make though is that no one is hosting in this instance pirated material and therefore the other instances are not hosting pirated material. The pirate community is having very open pro-piracy discussions though. Discussion of illegal activity is not the same as illegal activity.

I don’t understand the block either. That community doesn’t share copyrighted material. From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t link to copyrighted material. It does have very open pro piracy discussion and discussion about tools that would be used, but neither of those things are illegal.

I’m not really familiar with Wii U emulation, but the cdecrypt github page says you can compile it on Linux. It isn’t Windows only.

I read through the wayback link you had, but it really just sounds like admin are busy with their other lives and getting frustrated with new users spamming “trojan found” which is an extremely common thing to see from new users and they don’t have time to verify everything out there. Even saying it has “unpacker.exe” wouldn’t mean anything as the release was packed. Unless the wallet address can actually be tied to admin/mods, then that’s just heresay.

That VitaminX user sounds shady as all hell, but that doesn’t mean admin are doing backhanded deals with some users.

What evidence has been found that links the crypto-mining wallets with the 1337X admins?

If you get a nice projector you can play it on the side of your neighbors house and they won’t know.

Some DRM systems abuse security designs. Regular applications aren’t meant to be running at kernel level (ring 0) and should be running sandboxed at a user level. There are kernel dev blog posts that talk about this. It’s basically like making an arm move by poking a brain with a stick. Anything that can then access that stick or the hole you created can make at brain do whatever they want.

They keep responding that way because OP is looking for a magic bullet. They are basically wanting something that is only positives and has no drawbacks.

You’re either going to increase latency in the app, increase latency across the network, have to pay for something, have to use an app you don’t prefer, etc.

Oh man, you brought up a really good point. There’s the albums, and then there’s the merch. Metallica junkies would have like 20 band shirts and so much Metallica swag all over their places. Those guys would drop thousands of dollars. They lived for that music. When Lars came out and was basically “it’s about the money” so many fans stopped caring about the music. When they stopped caring about the music they stopped buying the merch.

Anymore it’s a roll of the dice whether the game is functional to a point where you would enjoy it. Most publishers don’t seem to bother with demos anymore (probably because their games are half broken) so we are largely left to create our own demos.

Fucking Lars. Metallica just did not get it and attacked their fans. Nobody had a problem paying for the music, they just wanted to be able to download it. They didn’t want a CD they wanted an MP3.

They were the gold colored All-In-One guides written by Mike Meyers. I don’t know the current CompTIA test numbers, but you might search for those.

I’ve worked IT for probably the last 10 to 13 years, and kind of drifted off after CCNA/CEH type stuff, so things obviously may have changed in that time, but I do remember doing the Net+ and A+. Cert books are probably one of the only things I would not skimp on or pirate. I went with the all-in-one gold books. Those don’t get you the vouchers to take the tests, but they do have really excellent practice software to go along with the reading.

Read the chapters, do the exercises, and do all of the software training. Keep retaking the tests until you score 100% continuously. Once you have a continuous 100%, then schedule your test. Some people schedule it a month out and then do prep just so they have a deadline, but either way works. If you are not scoring 100% do not take the test. And don’t get stressed out when you do, if you’ve done that prep work you’ve got it. Good luck man.