keep the tapes circulating 🏴‍☠️☠️⚔️

💿 OP is 21 and goes by he or she pronouns | icon by angelsgravess | asks open 📀 💿 please note that i do not take requests for media i'm not familiar with or interested in, and they will likely be deleted. i just don’t have the storage space or resources. 📀 💿 i don't block anyone here because i don't treat it like my personal space. i believe everyone should be able to access these resources. if i dislike you, or vice versa if you know who i am, i won't return the interaction (but that's not necessarily why - i'm disabled and only have limited spoons - so never assume). 📀

[file-saver]

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frequent tags:

#piracy ─ discussing such

#keep the tapes circulating — popular phrase on here that means “spread the word and share the media around to preserve it”

#definitely don't do this ─ you should totally do this (but i didn't say that)

#resources ─ stuff you can save & do for benefit

#privacy & safety ─ concerns and how to protect yourself

#anti capitalism ─ exposing corporations and the like. also serves for anti-copyright purposes

#streaming — streaming services, such as disney+ plus & netflix, or otherwise somewhere online to watch shows & movies (typically corporate-owned, but sometimes illegal websites too)

#media to save — direct links to download such

#media preservation ─ saving media from being lost and inaccessible, namely via pirating/torrenting & sharing

#physical media — a materialistic device which you can play videos on. HDDs, SSDs, USBs, DVDs, blu-ray, VHS tapes, etc.

#internet archive ─ archive.org & wayback machine

recommended resources:

r/piracy reddit megathread — everything you need to know

fmhy (free media heck yeah) — one of the best online resources for piracy. you should check out the beginners' guide & glossary, and there is also a discord server!

here and here — easy and reliable tutorials where i learned to torrent from

↑ (eyestrain warning for the second link) ↑

post links to shows/movies you can download that i recommend watching:

nimona

she-ra | [internet archive] | dubs/subs version

kipo and the age of wonderbeasts

arcane

rwby (haven’t watched it yet but i’m very interested)

voltron (i don't lmao iykyk #vslur)

infinity train (haven't watched it yet but apparently it's beloved; also a great example of why media preservation is so important)

the owl house

amphibia

hazbin hotel (just download helluva boss & the pilots for both shows directly from youtube — i use 4K video downloader but usually choose to save in 1080p)

[file-saver]

today marks 2 years since the hard drive i'd spent years making a hobby out of collecting videos on failed in a way that could not be repaired (dust on the platter).

it's kind of ironic really, because i'd literally only made this blog 5 days before, and went inactive already afterward for a few months because i was so devastated over losing ~2.5TB and didn't see the point in starting over.

but i didn't really start over, except for all the torrenting of shows because i'd set my destination folder within the drive instead of in my laptop's direct downloads - in fact, what i didn't mention above was that it had failed while i was fucking torrenting throughout the day, and it was my first time in doing so since i'd finally learned the night before. it was extremely unfortunate, to say the least!

anyway, other than that, all the other edits and stuff i'd been collecting by the fandoms i'm in were archived on a previous HDD that i'd upgraded from, though it only went up to april 2023 (and keep in mind, i lost the rest of it in july 2024). the weird conundrum i had was that the most important content had thankfully been saved before the backup, but i'd spent so many hours overall downloading & organizing at least double the amount since then (of lesser sentimental value to me) that i felt super discouraged for a while.

anything i wanted to access again after the cutoff had to be found via memory of when i saved it, from who and which social media site (likely instagram), and whether i could easily search up any parts of it if i'd linked to it in my private discord server in which i used as a storage space (i know that's not a great idea, you don't need to lecture me, but my world won't totally end anymore if something bad happens ─ also this was back before they implemented AI).

eventually after the year ended and i only had my shows in 1080p back, i decided to carry other files over to a new 4TB SSD from either the archive, my phone's camera roll, or just wherever i'd re-downloaded them from originally. then i started adding new ones again as they were posted online. it'll always feel like something is missing because i'm a perfectionist, but my collection feels complete enough again (2.33/3.63 TB) and in hindsight the depression of losing my time & effort wasn't as life-changing as it felt like it'd be.

all that to say what i now know and need everyone else to learn so that they don't repeat the same mistake (it's never a guarantee, but it's pretty solid in effectiveness): make backups of your treasured stuff and keep them consistently updated! i just copied everything i currently have to my house server a couple days ago and i may be able to again on a free:ddns server too.

also, i always recommend following the 3-2-1 rule if you can!

[hukiboukeryy]

today a kid at work climbing up a tree felt the need to tell his friend “this tree is for ONLY BOYS and GIRLS”. so obviously his friend was like um that means it’s for everyone, to which i responded “some people aren’t boys or girls!” and the boy climbing the branch added his hot take of “YEAH! some people are PIRATES.”

[krwzprtt]

Well, you heard it right here. New non-binary pride flag:

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

[file-saver]

shout-out to nonbinary pirates!

[bonnot]

SPOP has sold out all over the internet this week. Only a hand full of places have the official seasons 1-3 set release available for purchase. So, this is a good thing because it shows that people are still buying the hell out of it, but it also could mean that maybe the production of the set is slowing down, stopped etc. It's best to push DreamWorks and Universal (as I believe they are the ones that handle the production portion of this) to give a full season 1-5 release. So, keep the petition going. Bother DreamWorks at 1000 Flower St Glendale CA 91201. You can bother Universal at these offices. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York NY 10112 100 Universal City Place Universal City CA 91608 You can also go the online route here. https://www.nbc.com/contact

Sign the Petition

Get She-Ra and The Princesses of Power Seasons 1-5 Released On DVD / Blu Ray.

[file-saver]

pirate everything that you care about owning & preserving.

recommending a youtuber i quite enjoy! 🫶

[file-saver]

we now have a set date for kipo's removal from netflix ─ that is, just under a month away from now on june 26th!

don't forget: the series has been archived & shared on google drive in both english + spanish dubs, however you can still support/stream it officially until then!

[file-saver]

REMINDER that TODAY is your last day to watch on netflix!

goodbye, kipo! your gorgeous scenery and unapologetic racial/queer representation has done wonders for animation, and i wish your franchise wasn't so underrated!

[therapatical]

so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

[therapatical]

I'm honestly tempted to try to make a massive backup of it all, but my drives don't have the amount of storage that would be necessary

[sugar-petals]

listening to CDs in the kitchen i always brace myself for the ad between songs but then it just keeps rolling. skipping around how i like without interruption feels heavenly. we're in such a commercial angst prison that books and CDs are luxury now 😭

protect, pass on, thrift, gift, and store physical media, it's worth it

[parkayquarts]

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[parkayquarts]

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

[theheroheart]

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

[team-thickness12]

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

[lucarleigho]

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

[mctreeleth]

ol' Zachary Zoetrope is back in business!

[file-saver]

Hello!

I'm not sure if you're the one that owns the Amphibia drive and files from your post about it but if you do, I wanted to let you know that there's an episode missing

Season 1 Episode 19 Toad Tax

Not sure if there's anything you can do about it but I thought I'd let you know in case you were unaware

Thanks so much for sharing these! It's so great

i'm so sorry i took a while to get back to you!

i went through the trouble of torrenting the season again from elsewhere just to borrow that episode, but when i pasted it into the folder on my SSD and tested the next episode to see if the credits looked the same, it turns out S01E19 is actually NOT missing; it's just included under E20 (and only partially named) as a full 24-min video like on disney+ streaming!

i cut it into two different videos and reuploaded them to the drive as S01E19 & S01E20 (+ their titles) ─ so it should be fixed now!

[file-saver]

positive news following she-ra's removal:

ALL 52 EPISODES ARE NOW STORED ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE!

720p

1080p

thanks to reddit user u/Pokesnap682 for pointing that out!

this means that you will always be able to watch/download the show, even (and especially) when third-party direct download servers (such as google drive), among other piracy streaming services, are unavailable!

[sometipsygnostalgic]

All the 1080p archives were removed.

It would be appreciated if somebody could restore a 1080p archive or submit a link to one.

[itsaboringname]

swatchseries.vip has 1080 (on the vidfast server) but not the dubs

[file-saver]

the original post has already been edited a while ago to say 1080p was no longer available, @sometipsygnostalgic. the problem is this does not change old versions that have already been reblogged, and people tend to find it through those.

that being said, although i find it easier to watch/download through the internet archive, there are still plenty of google drive folders for the series in 1080p going around (and in my pinned there is also a dubs/subs version).

+ FWIW, if you're not watching on a giant screen, 720p is decent enough quality so you won't really notice the drop too much (assuming you're not eyeing over every detailed pixel up close).

[sometipsygnostalgic]

the 720p is perfectly fine for casual watching, but yeah, i needed the highest definition version pssibloe for my services.

i managed to get it all from an app called SoulseekQt Build

[file-saver]

understandable! i tend to be resourceful and go the extra mile to always get 1080p of everything for my media collection (4K may be an option but i'd never need it on a laptop), plus i prefer bluray over DVD for physical copies. the average tumblr user who isn't into piracy as a hobby doesn't really tend to care, and in fact my mutual uploads in 480p for the sake of saving others' storage space.

and yes, if we're referring to the same thing then i use soulseek too! that's where the language dubs for SPOP come from, actually!

[file-saver]

positive news following she-ra's removal:

ALL 52 EPISODES ARE NOW STORED ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE!

720p

1080p

thanks to reddit user u/Pokesnap682 for pointing that out!

this means that you will always be able to watch/download the show, even (and especially) when third-party direct download servers (such as google drive), among other piracy streaming services, are unavailable!

[sometipsygnostalgic]

All the 1080p archives were removed.

It would be appreciated if somebody could restore a 1080p archive or submit a link to one.

[itsaboringname]

swatchseries.vip has 1080 (on the vidfast server) but not the dubs

[file-saver]

the original post has already been edited a while ago to say 1080p was no longer available, @sometipsygnostalgic. the problem is this does not change old versions that have already been reblogged, and people tend to find it through those.

that being said, although i find it easier to watch/download through the internet archive, there are still plenty of google drive folders for the series in 1080p going around (and in my pinned there is also a dubs/subs version).

+ FWIW, if you're not watching on a giant screen, 720p is decent enough quality so you won't really notice the drop too much (assuming you're not eyeing over every detailed pixel up close).

[file-saver]

we now have a set date for kipo's removal from netflix ─ that is, just under a month away from now on june 26th!

don't forget: the series has been archived & shared on google drive in both english + spanish dubs, however you can still support/stream it officially until then!

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

There's more to do actually, now

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google

[vortex-vt]

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

[file-saver]

i don't know what this link leads to but if you see someone reblog my post with something like it, DO NOT CLICK IT! at best it's just spam!

[esarity11]

life is good because all of she-ra is on the internet archive <3

[lnkset]

Intro, I guess..?

I know everyone and nobody knows me. I go as the Observer occasionally.

"Pirating is bad because it's a crime and illegal."

Ok, now that I've said that:

I'm one of those people who commits crimes almost daily (piracy should not be a crime, and it's easy enough to do with nearly zero repercussions). Thank you many times over to @file-saver and @lawfully-abiding-citizen for teaching me.

Anyone want movies, go to this Terabox link.

I might end up switching to @file-saver's method of using many google drive accounts or a MEGA storage account, but Terabox works for now. Sorry for any undue latency!