The group tiers you're talking about exist and are called trash guides. If you're only on public trackers the groups might not be as prevalent, but e.g. TorrentLeech is more likely to have them.

The letterboxing with ultra wide monitors might be possible to solve locally with your video player. For MPV there's the dynamic-crop.lua script, which is not perfect but works quite well.

I'm using mpv with Jellyfin on my PC through jellyfin-mpv-shim.

Edit: For Windows you might want to check out MPC-BE. I've found some mentions of "View -> Video Frame -> Touch Window From Outside" but I never tried it.

[1] is a great usenet guide. For automation look at TRaSH guides (Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr) and their german section.

If you have questions the discord server in the linked [1] guide is quite helpful. They created the german trash guide.

[1] https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

Alle regelmäßigen Konsumenten die ich kenne, bauen entweder selbst an oder holen es über Apotheken.
Die, die selten Konsumieren, müssen aktuell noch auf den Schwarzmarkt (außer sie haben Kontakt zu regelmäßigen Konsumenten).
Deshalb sind offizielle Shops, die geringe Mengen verkaufen, sehr wichtig.

Vor kurzem habe ich mit jmd. gesprochen, der "THC-Vapes" von jmd. legal bekommen hat. Die Person war überrascht, als ich erklärte, dass das garantiert illegal war. Es war wohl ein Produkt von irgendeinem Rapper und scheint wohl HHC zu enthalten.

Well yes, it's not shocking given what the show is about. I wrote "awful" because their death was not necessary and more a result of an accident (guy hitting his head). But yeah, "awful" might be a bit strong of a word.

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.

You could, and unless you're trying to profit off it the original devs likely won't care.

And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason...

They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.

I don't care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.

~~For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it's completely free to download by the original developer [1].~~ @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com

~~They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don't like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don't tell you about it.~~

[1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry

~~Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.~~

They create the world, but the player is the one controlling the action.

Yes, the streamer adds to the experience (i.e. how he plays, commentary, ...), but a narrator put their own spin on a story. Intonation, the timing of pauses, etc. all requires skill and changes the end result.

Good point about fan fictions. I think fan fics are more like mods in the way that they expand on the world/media without distributing the original media itself.

But yeah I also think it's dumb that playing a video game could be considered copyright infringement. The same goes for small clips from movies, which are the exact opposite of detrimental to the popularity of a movie.

GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it's public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.

I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.

And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.

These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they'd provide me their source.

Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it's users, especially not on distribution.

Really scummy on their part.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

Well he already did do awful things like murdering those security personnel in S01E01 to not get caught. But yeah I also think we'll see how much they sacrifice for the rebellion.

So what's the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn't want to get out yet?

Theoretically any streamer could get sued for copyright infringement by the copyright holders. This is because they own the gameplay, irrespective of whether someone plays it themselves or watches someone else play it. That's why Nintendo sues for copyright infringement. Usually game companies understand streamers correctly as free advertisement (sometimes even paid) and don't sue.

Edit: I can imagine they look at broadcasting playing their game in a similar way to someone reading a book out loud publicly. Which is also copyright infringement.

I agree with you on most of your points. And just wanted to clarify this.

If they've already installed Arch I don't think there's much difference to EndeavourOS. Both use the official Arch repos, and the latter mainly makes installation simpler.

I really hate how circumventing protection measures on their own device is considered illegal. It's my device, I should be allowed to do what I want.

Even the term "protection measures" annoys me, as it tries to protect their interests on my device.

Also, linking to an emulator should not be considered "trafficking circumvention devices". Making circumvention devices illegal is bad enough.

But the streamer is an idiot too as he was publicly streaming cracked games pre release. Streaming any game can be considered copyright infringement, although it's usually not enforced (it's free advertisement).