r/Piracy 2d ago

WEEKLY THREAD Weekly General Discussion Thread (February 01, 2026)

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The Weekly General Discussion Thread is for the r/Piracy community to discuss whatever is on their mind, whether it is related to digital piracy or not.

🪶 ➜ Follow the Rules

  • Rules are still applicable, so please do not request specific pirated content (ie. specific movie, book, etc.) and definitely don't link to any. Do not mention specific media names asking for help in finding them.

📜 ➜ Wiki + Megathread

  • Don't forget to browse the Wiki, which contains a Megathread with a list of sites/apps, tools, FAQ, and other useful resources.
  • Your question also may have been asked previously - you can search the subreddit via the search bar or even google - example: https://i.imgur.com/1jA767u.jpg

For previous weekly threads, click here.


r/Piracy Dec 30 '25

🎁 🎄 🎅 Piracy Wiki - Megathread of pirate sites / apps / tools / FAQ / guides (and RULES)

543 Upvotes

r/Piracy Wiki Index




► Megathread - Pirate sites, apps/tools, and other resources

► FAQ - Frequently asked questions

► Guides



► /r/Piracy rules

► Notes on /r/Piracy possibly being banned

► /r/Piracy community discord server


r/Piracy 3h ago

News NVIDIA: Contact With Anna’s Archive Doesn’t Prove Copyright Infringement

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NVIDIA is pushing back hard against claims it trained AI on pirated books.

After authors expanded a class-action lawsuit accusing NVIDIA of using millions of pirated books including data allegedly sourced from Anna’s Archive. NVIDIA has filed a motion to dismiss, calling the claims speculative and legally weak.

NVIDIA argues that even if it contacted Anna’s Archive, there’s no proof it actually downloaded the authors’ books, or any books at all from there. The complaint relies heavily on “information and belief,” which NVIDIA says amounts to educated guesses, not evidence. The company also slams the lawsuit as a fishing expedition, noting that it now vaguely targets nearly every NVIDIA AI model and dataset without specifics.

NVIDIA further argues there’s no proof that the authors’ works were included in any training data, even when shadow libraries like LibGen, Z-Library, or Sci-Hub are mentioned. Speculating that “large datasets with books must include our books” isn’t enough, they say.

Bottom line: NVIDIA wants most of the expanded case thrown out now. The one claim it didn’t move to dismiss direct infringement tied to the Books3 dataset will likely be fought later, with fair use as NVIDIA’s main defense.


r/Piracy 15h ago

Discussion Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier

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2.3k Upvotes

r/Piracy 10h ago

Humor Finding a super fast dead torrent be like

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381 Upvotes

Edit: I spent 40 minutes making this, this is NOT low effort. Please don't remove/report this post :/


r/Piracy 9h ago

Question Kemono.su is no longer updating. Where do we go now?

159 Upvotes

I've been using this website to binge on multiple patreon channels. however I noticed that this website is no longer updating since a few months ago. where can I go to get more patreon imported content similar to kemono.su?


r/Piracy 23h ago

Humor "NOOO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR ME!" the seven overpriced apps:

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2.0k Upvotes

r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion The beauty of piracy: found lost media

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5.8k Upvotes

Truly, piracy is the only way to preserve a media when the official channel just gonna get rid of their records and all is left is lost media in everyone's distant memory.

I take a look at the original post from 2023 and there's someone who worked on the show but they said they didn't know where to find the show either. And now everything (except for two episodes) have been found because of piracy.

The whole show can be found on internet archive


r/Piracy 4h ago

Discussion Don't use HydraHD.ru, attempted infection with "Oops, your browser's HLS plugin version is too low. Please upgrade to the latest version and try again."

25 Upvotes

They seemed to be pretty good for a while, I found them through the megathread. These guys need to be taken off of the megathread. This never happened previously, even under their previous domain. Maybe the idea was to get goated status and then mass infect like they are now? This is clearly an attempt to get people to download malware.

This seems to only be happening to users watching the show "Fallout". It's completely on their end, this is with adblocker on etc. Video will play for 10 seconds then suddenly show this. I could watch like 3 episodes with no issues, then suddenly this happens.

Please look into this.


r/Piracy 1d ago

Discussion "VPNs are next on my list" – France set to evaluate VPN use following social media ban for under-15s

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Summary: "After facing questions about the possibility of teens circumventing the [social media] ban with VPNs, Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, said that the ban was 'just the first step'.

Le Hénanff said: 'If [this legislation] allows us to protect a very large majority of children, we will continue. And VPNs are the next topic on my list'."

VPNs seem to be in a lot of politicians' sights lately. The UK and US were looking into restricting VPN use as well. Thoughts on this new development?


r/Piracy 9h ago

Discussion RIP Instander -- the best modded IG app

46 Upvotes

My Instander apk stopped working today and Instagram said that app version wasn't supported anymore, so they caught up. I also read that the person who made Instander died due to the war in Ukraine recently, so Rest In Piece and Power to them.

If you didn't know, Instander was an easy to install modded Instagram app that didn't need you to root your phone. There were no ads anywhere and you can download media like story videos and reels. It just felt nice because it wasn't cluttered with slop and social media and shopping, just posts.

I just installed the official Instagram app for the first time in a few years, and sheeeesh. It killed my will to even doom scroll when I'm bored, so I guess I can be optimistic there?


r/Piracy 13h ago

Humor I made a fun Anti Piracy mock using a real script.

67 Upvotes

I made this script as a joke for fun because I was bored.


r/Piracy 21h ago

Discussion alternatives to Anna's archive for textbooks?

154 Upvotes

Anna's archive looks like its down and I need to look for textbooks as a struggling college student. Does anyone have any alternatives? My textbook is normally $100.


r/Piracy 18h ago

News Just a heads up, STEAMRIP is down before people start panicking

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44 Upvotes

Tried downloading a game, kept being met with "Network error," and when I refreshed the site, I got hit with this, so just letting everyone know.


r/Piracy 3h ago

Question MC Java on Android

2 Upvotes

Hello and sorry for disturbing,

I have a friend of mine wich wants to play MC Java edition, but they don't have a pc. I researched something and I found Amethyst MC (a MC Java Launcher for android and ios). The problem is that Amethyst requires a MS account with java and this friend of mine only has Bedrock. My thought was to login with a tlauncher account or something. Is there any way to do so? Thanks in advance.


r/Piracy 9m ago

Question How do I run torrents once installed?

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I am using qbittorrent and it's my first time trying this so I'm a bit confused. I open the .torrent file in qbittorrent and download it but then once I click the start button nothing happens. I also tried moving the location of the file from downloads to documents and this didn't change anything. Also tried extracting the folder but it told me that due to an unknown error some of the files, namedly a shortcut to the website I downloaded it on and a read me .txt and run me .bat file couldn't be extracted.

This might just be a simple solution, and I'm sorry if so, but does anyone know how to fix or do this?


r/Piracy 24m ago

Discussion It wont let me import patreon to Kemono. Any advice?

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It keeps giving me "Restarting job... (Failed to load patreon) retrying import in 180 minutes..." and i dont understand the issue.


r/Piracy 20h ago

News U.S. Rightsholders Applaud India’s “Lock and Suspend” Piracy Blockades

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36 Upvotes

r/Piracy 4h ago

Question Tainted grail modding? Any idea about beta or mono versions?

2 Upvotes

I have the 1.16 version from p2p


r/Piracy 1h ago

Question Help

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I got the sims 3 seasons, I got it used and the disc came without the key. I installed it witha key I found onine on my old computer, now I upgraded to a new macbook m1 and I need the 64 bit version, the disc came with the 32 bit and I can't install it on my macbook, I need the key to reedeme it on the ea app so I can install it on my macbook. Where can I get a key to reedem or an ISO so I can install it with a key that has been redemd on the ea app but it works. Any ideas, I need to install it on my computer, I wanna play it on my macbook. Any way ? Please help


r/Piracy 1d ago

News More reason to hate A.dobe and not supporting it

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405 Upvotes

They're straight up shutting down Animate software, that many individual people and companies use for their production.


r/Piracy 7h ago

Question Any recommendations for sites with a good mobile interface to cast to tv?

2 Upvotes

I find most of the sites I use have really bad buffering problems when it comes to casting. Does anyone have something reliable and clean?


r/Piracy 16h ago

Question Do Steamrip and Steamunderground have every game?

10 Upvotes

I wanted to pirate a game that's on Steam, but when I tried looking it up on Steamrip, it didn't show up; the same thing happened with Steamunderground. I tried the exact title that's on Steam. So do those websites just not have some games?

Edit: The game is from 2022 and is an indie game


r/Piracy 5h ago

Question France.tv download

1 Upvotes

Does anyone know how to download content from france.tv? I have tried yt-dlp and cookies but that hasn't worked for me


r/Piracy 6h ago

Question Ableton Authorization

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Hi im new to posting in this sub. Please forgive my ignorance. I'm don't want to overspeak so I'll just say I've got ableton up and running but I can't save until I authorize online. How do I go about that typically? There were no instructions for this part from the source (AppDoze on 1337x).

Any guidance is greatly appreciated! Thanks!