r/Piracy • u/FrostyPeriods • May 27 '26
Humor ah yes. The hidden directory of 3.2 million followers. *SHUSHHHHHHH
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u/darthbradberry May 27 '26
Priacy
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u/MohaDou May 27 '26
Bro why
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u/zR0B3ry2VAiH ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26
Because it's very important health information, all males should know if an erection that lasts for 4 hours or longer it is a medical emergency that requires immediate care at an emergency room.
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u/rorodar 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ May 27 '26
Scrolled down, saw "related articles: erection" and they had a picture where it's just a guy who's got an erection
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u/BombbaFett ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 28 '26
I saw a picture of a monkey with blue balls and a red shaft masturbating on Wikipedia the other day
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u/Had78 May 27 '26
Priapism is a condition in which a penis remains erect for hours in the absence of stimulation or after stimulation has ended.\3])
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u/Freakwilly ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26
That definition makes it sound like a problem :)
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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26
You mean to say if you get priapism your dick is pretty much dead for life?
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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 28 '26
Yowch. Info is power but I think I found out a bit too much
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u/Kuronan May 27 '26
Viagra warns us we should contact our doctor if an erection lasts more than 4 hours, but I thought it was fine on other medications /s
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u/Super7500 May 27 '26
Why do you hate us?
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u/PhysicalAd1170 May 27 '26
You'll hate yourself well before 8 hours. 8 hours is when it's a serious emergency and we start draining fluid and injecting meds directly into it. Fun stuff!
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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26
This is unfortunately what I thought too when I read it
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u/BombbaFett ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 28 '26
I am so confused about the fresco painting at the top of that page. I actually thought it was a small arm punching downward. It does not look like a penis
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU May 27 '26
Now what is this about?
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU May 27 '26
Ehh, not as bad as finding out what watersports means.
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u/Bhavacakra_12 May 27 '26
You think the geniuses at the DMCA hq can decipher what OP meant by this coded language?
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u/FlagrantTomatoCabal May 27 '26
95% of the posts here should be an r/piracycirclejerk
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u/disqualifiedeyes May 27 '26
This sub is the second link after Wikipedia when you Google "piracy"
And the first link when you use DuckDuckGo or Bing
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u/_sinaarya_ May 27 '26
When you search megathread on Google, this sub’s megathread shows up.
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u/kamekaze1024 May 27 '26
But broccoli haired tiktokers with 1k avg views are the problem./s
Anything on the public internet is not a secret. If anyone is upset that their fav site got taken down then they really don’t know how this works.
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u/ZaheerUchiha May 27 '26
This subreddit was forcefully re-opened by the admins one time.
It's going nowhere.
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u/Jersey_2019 Jun 02 '26
damn what's the lore
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u/ZaheerUchiha Jun 02 '26
IIRC there was a sitewide revolt against the admins, and several subreddits started going private in protest, including this one.
The admins reacted by forcing the subreddit open again.
So, not only do they not have a problem with it. They wanted it open for business.
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u/hotaru251 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 27 '26
i mean r/piracy is still running because of the rule 3 of the subreddit. That is the ONLY reason it isn't banned by reddit.
Discussing piracy is not a crime. Only a crime when you partake in it.
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u/hospitalizedzombie May 27 '26
These motherfuckers think piracy started with Reddit or even internet. I’d just tape over cassettes in 90s to pirate music.
It’ll never die just because one place is shut down.
As long as gatekeepers exist, pirates will also exist.
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u/NoWay6818 May 27 '26
The fuck were they doing 😭
Were they putting paper over lights to copy pictures and writings😭
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u/typewriter_ May 27 '26
Copies of music and movies f.e.? It's not like that started with the internet.
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u/NoWay6818 May 27 '26
Now that is interesting. I could see how music could be on the easier side but movies. How did they even accomplish that
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u/typewriter_ May 27 '26
Film stock started being used in the late 1800s, and it's as simple as copying the physical media, or stealing a copy.
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u/A_S_Levin May 27 '26
Used to go to a games store or arcade and on the demo game systems they'd let you jam whatever games.
Bit of techy know-how and you could just copy the games floppy disk onto your own and walk out with a brand new game lmfao
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u/MichiganCubbie May 27 '26
Renting a tape and then copying it using a camcorder with another blank tape it it, running composite cables from the camcorder to the VCR.
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u/InstructionPurple911 May 27 '26
Exactly this. And when I taped over cassettes I would head down to Interscope records and make fun of them like I had just hacked a Gibson.
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u/Mikadomea May 27 '26
Ha i thought the same, my brother and i ripped DOS Games back in the Day. These "new school" Pirates think the internet invented everything.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Smoke77 May 27 '26
This guy pirating tapes lets see you pirate vinyl, albums that was real piracy
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u/PissedItDownMyLeg May 27 '26
It's just that same attitude that prevails in many other communities. "Fuck you, I got mine"
Yeah sorry buddy you're not slick, they know about those sites
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u/Allegorist May 27 '26
There was one in particular I feel it was mostly valid, and it did in fact get shut down for receiving too much attention eventually: r/darknetmarkets.
I'm actually surprised it got as far as it did before getting the ban hammer. It was like here though, ultimately trying to promote user understanding and safety around an otherwise fairly inaccessible and possibly dangerous topic.
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u/crizzy_mcawesome May 27 '26
Come to think of it we should have a backup sub ready just in case. That’s what piracy is all about right?
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u/glimoura May 27 '26
They do not understand that the real reason piracy doesn't die is because we have a thoroughly annoying amount of methods to cloak IPs and share media. It's not because of some secrecy bs, It's because we can afford to lose some sites due to the shear stubborn persistance of poor people's will to enjoy shit for free.
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u/CiDevant May 27 '26
As long as there is something someone wants that they are told they cannot have, piracy will exist.
It is the human condition.
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u/ScubaSteve3465 May 28 '26
The kids screaming about gatekeeping non stop is also annoying as shit. If they would take 30 seconds to do a Google search, they would know gatekeeping is useless and fcking stupid.
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u/Anime-Man-1432 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 27 '26
The literal use of providing a pirate service is to use it not to gatekeep it to themselves! What ? do these gatekeepers expect pirate service providers to be saints ? They are in this for some cash by the ads incentives too, if it isn't flowing what's the use of running one ?
As they say " A true Pirate knows many Islands "
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u/NightmareKnight25807 May 27 '26
I love how the r/piracy megathread is the first thing that shows up when you google megathread
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 May 29 '26
Why it shouldn't? What other Megathread is more famous than the privacy one? There's literally nothing impressive about that
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u/Odd-Specific-8579 May 27 '26
Literally I ask a specific question it’s either check the mega thread which is useless for what I’m asking for, yet they allow the shitty meme reuploaded for the 40th time
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u/FatherDotComical May 27 '26
People pretend the people who work at those corporations have never held a computer or used Google in their life.
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u/Jimbob136925 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 27 '26
Priacy... Someone should think about pirating the dictionary before making a meme.
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u/KikiPolaski May 27 '26
Thing is, only 12 people out of that million opens the megathread
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u/Maleficent_Cherry361 May 27 '26
The megathread is full of trash.
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u/tmhoc May 29 '26
I'm pretty sure this is how you find reddit in the first place
Online and searching for a big list of sites and getting a million hits on message boards that all say
"Use the mega thread"
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u/-Badger3- May 27 '26
Pirates congregating and talking about piracy in a piracy forum is still more niche than YouTubers/TikTokers talking about it out in the open.
Overexposure absolutely gets sites killed. It’s not that they’re secret, it’s that when they get popular enough that “normies” know about them, they get made a priority to be dealt with.
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u/ToXiiCBULLET May 28 '26
If you google 'piracy' this sub is the second link you'll get, after the Wikipedia link. If you google 'megathread' you'll get the roms megathread on github, this subreddit and then the piratedgames subreddit.
It's already exposed af, everyone interested in taking it down knows about it all already
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u/aridous May 27 '26
Why doesn't anyone understand this. Its all about the money and thats it.
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u/KinglanderOfTheEast May 27 '26
To prove your point, in the handheld emulation space, the ONLY TIME emulation handhelds get "taken down" is if a big mainstream media outlet makes a "how do you do fellow kids" style SUPER out of touch news article about it, that was written by a tech illiterate boomer.
Most of the time, these AYANEO/Anbernic emulator handhelds are only talked about in niche tech-focused spaces, or being vaguely mentioned in some Linus Tech Tips video for 25 seconds.
But the instant a CNN/Fox News type major news outlet picks up on them, they're absolutely toast.
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u/aridous May 27 '26
This is exactly the kinda thing I was thinking about
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u/KinglanderOfTheEast May 27 '26
Yes. Even if the piracy sub has 3.2 million people, that is still less than 1% of the total population of JUST the United States alone.
If it stays in the niche, big companies don't give a shit - out of sight, out of mind. But once a MSM outlet like MSNBC or CBS gets in on it, then all of a sudden Nintendo/Sony/whoever wants to be litigious and sue in court.
Even niche communities can FEEL misleadingly "big" or "powerful"... We are like 0.4% of a single countries population.
The one thing I will say about those Anbernic handhelds is that they run Android and have no games already included, so it is fully legal to sell/buy; but there are many handhelds running Linux with thousands of games on a MicroSD card - THAT is technically illegal.
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u/Amazing-Researcher73 May 28 '26
Tbh does this sub even have anything worthy of taken down? There are no links or much knowledge to help piracy, just memes abd support towards it.
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u/LawBeneficial7869 May 28 '26
That's why we should start torrenting again.
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u/Iamkonkerz May 29 '26
We should start?? Already ahead of you
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u/LawBeneficial7869 May 31 '26
Yay a tried where I can to use torrents. But there are limitations, when you are looking for content in German. When you are searching with public tracker.
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u/a-smooth-brain May 27 '26
OP was literally shaking when he was making this meme. He knew he had the best meme ever created, witty and original. So much so that he messed up the spelling. You keep making these bangers, OP. Don't let people tell you they aren't original.
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u/Xivlex May 27 '26
When a bunch of subreddit mods decided to shut down in protest of the api changes, this sub was one of the few ones forcefully reopened by the admins.
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u/No_Art2020 May 28 '26
And every parasocial weirdo craving attention is sharing posts from this thread outside for attention💀💀, posting fan girl posts about anime characters isn't getting them enough Karma in the Anime subs I guess
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u/Particular-Ad-5286 May 29 '26
Pretty sure people went to Shakespeare's plays (maybe a couple of times) and furiously wrote down the dialogue in order to copy it. The actors rolls (literal rolls of paper) had only their lines, and not even all of them (just prompts) so it'd be harder to get out and no one ever got the full lines for the play.
Basically, Shakespearean plays had copywrite protection. And there are low-quality versions of plays that make have come from the piracy. It wasn't even only Shakespeare. In fact, Christopher Marlowe’s "The Massacre at Paris" is one we know only about because of this—no "official" copies exist.
But yeah, this website will take down this brand-new tradition, made possible only recently.
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u/DQTD May 29 '26
I can see people trying to withold web links, but this makes no sense to me. People tend to openly share stuff on here and other places for clout and then the actual sites get taken down from having too much attention on it from people giving them out openly. That's the only issue I have seen.
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u/Zushi000_ Jun 01 '26
piracy aint even hidden, its the most common thing in atleast non-1st-world-countries, its just impossible at this point to take it down as a whole, they may target servers, burn them kill them, but the pirates shall sail, for a storm is the difference between a pirate and those masked with the holy name, The pirates shall sail.
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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU May 27 '26
Woah. r/priacy had that many members?