Hey, Cohost! I'm enthusiastic about piracy, and though there are a lot of guides out there, I wanted to write up something that's both general-purpose and gets in-depth about how to pirate safely and efficiently, and hopefully, is clear no matter how little experience you have.

Getting pirated files

Before you can start pirating, you need to know where to go to find pirate media - there are a lot of sites out there, some quite obscure. r/Piracy maintains a masterlist of pirate sites that they consider trustworthy, as well as sites that are known to be malicious or likely to contain malware.

As noted in the masterlist, it's also highly recommended that you install an adblocker before pirating. Many reputable sites still have intrusive and possibly malicious ads. uBlock Origin is available for Firefox and Chrome, and well-regarded. The Firefox browser itself comes with some ad-blocking and privacy features.

Pirate websites can be loosely divided by whether they provide direct downloads, torrents, or both.

I am not an expert on community organizing so I want to be clear that I am open to suggestion, and criticism, re: how best to actually make change.

off the top of my head, I think we as a community need to, as a collective, push the message that sfw creators, clients and customers need to boycott Gumroad, and any other platform that bans NSFW content. I believe part of the reason why these bans happen at all is because they see simply complying with payment processors and tanking what they see as a temporary backlash (if any) from their userbase as the path of least resistance. We need to send a message that a porn ban will be a kiss of death for any platform that attempts one due to pressure from banks. That means alongside us nsfw creators pulling from these platforms (for those of us that arent already nuked), we also need as many sfw creators and users as well to pull their support from the platform.

My logic here is that, if we can successfully pull off a boycott and it effects businesses bottom line hard enough, then they will come to understand that these draconian anti-porn mandates from banks is a threat to THEMSELVES, and will not be the path of least resistance. If businesses are forced to see this as a threat against their own existence, then theoretically we may see them push back and throw resources behind lobbying against this kind of interference from banks.

once again, im not an expert here and I would genuinely like to hear suggestions about ways we can organize as a group. My idea here may not be the best one, i do not want to make the claim that is is foolproof. I know im definitely acting upon some assumptions and theories moreso than guarantees, and if im wrong and there is a better plan of action, then I want to know. I just want to use this as a call to action because we CANNOT just keep running, we are running out of places to flee to.

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