This might sound like an off-the-wall suggestion, but waaaaaay back in the day, Trent Reznor was in on the torrent game, he had an account on Oink.UK way way way back. He described it as the best music store in existence.

It’s a shot in the dark, but reach out to him, that’s a person who could really help something like this become a reality who has the money and the knowledge of the music legal system to approach it. He also likely has similar ideology, as evidenced by his joy at Oink.UK. I know he cares about how much artists get paid and wants it to be better, he also understood the value proposition Oink offered. Anyway, perhaps the kind of famous person who could help this project really get off the ground.

https://www.wired.com/2007/10/trent-reznor-on/

** I’ll admit I had an account there and frequented it quiteoften. At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that itwas like the world’s greatest record store. Pretty much anything youcould ever imagine, it was there, and it was there in the format youwanted. If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but thereisn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now. iTunes kindof feels like Sam Goody to me. I don’t feel cool when I go there. I’mtired of seeing John Mayer’s face pop up. I feel like I’m being hustledwhen I visit there, and I don’t think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc. Amazon has potential, but none of them get aroundthe issue of pre-release leaks. And that’s what’s such a difficultpuzzle at the moment. If your favorite band in the world has a leakedrecord out, do you listen to it or do you not listen to it? People onthose boards, they’re grateful for the person that uploaded it — they’re the hero. They’re not stealing it because they’re going to makemoney off of it; they’re stealing it because they love the band. I’mnot saying that I think OiNK is morally correct, but I do know that itexisted because it filled a void of what people want.

This is a really interesting idea, sitting here reading the website. The main issue for current artists with deals with record labels would be needing to re-negotiate rights so they are allowed to “distribute” it in such a way.

But yes! I too have had the same thought for years about bittorrent as distributed cloud storage! Thank you for trying to make that a reality!

I will patiently watch this project with great interest. I am sorry to say I am far too broke to contribute at the moment, but I have high hopes that you succeed nonetheless!

Hey at least you can admit it, a lot of folks cant

The word “sovereign” is setting off alarm bells for me.

Yeah needing an account is antithetical to open source and an affront to piracy and if it was a private tracker they shouldn’t and wouldn’t be advertising like this.

No, no they did not. They thought Daddy Musk and Daddy Trump would always be there for them.

I just finished setting up Komodo because I couldn’t find other alternatives that seemed to fit my needs. I didn’t see Arcane amongst those ones I researched. Neat, thanks.

20 years ago a friend of mine mixed that old video with Cadence Weapon’s “30 Seconds” and named it “copy that floppy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6TD5iTTKQ

I wonder if they’re using any of the *arrs to do this since its a faster response time to get into the peerlist as quick as possible before anyone can complete the initial download.

A decent copy that someone was kind of enough to remove watermarks from. Still not sure it’s a great thing to be sharing here, but I don’t know how peertube works or if that makes it safer.

Interesting, but it also looks like it might be a paid service.

Those indeed can be fun but be aware they’re almost assuredly doing facial recognition on their users, and the whole system works by always retrieving the files themselves from a remote server, I’m fairly sure they don’t even cache on your phone (I could be wrong there, though). It’s really up to you if you think it’s all fun enough and worth having fun socializing with your friends with the risk of lack of privacy in that respect. Maybe you can keep it to a minimum of anything important being talked about? Unless you have a major reason to worry about being targeted, most people can probably safely dip in just for a handful of throwaway conversations with friends.

Sorry other folk don’t read modern slang.

Boy, George you sure are a cunt.

Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born.

So this reminds me of something I learned growing up in an area with a lot of Latino gang violence.

The people with these angry disillussioned attitudes were never first generation immigrants who have just arrived. Those are generally polite law abiding citizens who are glad to have gotten somewhere safer.

The people inovled with gangs were second and third generations who were caught between the culture of their parents and the culture of the nation in which they now live.

It was theorized to be related to feelings of isolation. Isolated from the world their parents come from, and through racism and discrimination, isolation from the world they exist in now. Two different worlds pulling at them and they don’t feel like they belong in either world.

So they seek out others like themselves, and like many lost young men, they begin to radicalize.

Who’d have thunk it

To be fair authoritarian attitudes are a problem in cops worldwide.

Hmm, well for one thing I’m on a Ryzen 7 3700x 8-core, 32gb of RAM, and an AMD RX 6600XT, so I do wonder if the differing setups has anything to do with it.

But yes, you grabbed the correct one, that wasn’t a hash, just part of the release name of the nightly build.

My only guess from here would be to try to check logs and/or use something different than Steam.

For example, I couldn’t even get the setup.exe running in Heroic, but it launched with no problems in Lutris. My go-to when things aren’t working is Lutris, and then launch every pirated game through Heroic Game Launcher, personally. I manually add it to Heroic after Lutris does all the work.

Since no one else responded to this yet… I grabbed a “non-legitimate” copy and installed it to test.

I have the menu pop up for me right away installing the voices38 version of Pragmata. Used the latest nightly build:

REF Nightly 01391 (a0e9010fb0449dc9d824b5978ee759eeaf50f7c6)

I read on the github to add these arguments when running in Proton: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8.dll=n,b" %command%

Anyway, I used the official current nightly, and as I said, REFramework popped up instantly on first startup. I added REFramework before I ever started the game up, and it just… worked.

Do you have more details about the system you’re running or anything to maybe narrow down why it’s not working for you? Maybe you missed it the first time it popped up and you need to use the default menu key (INSERT) to bring it up? First thing I did was change the menu key since with a 60% keyboard thats a tricky key combo ha.

Am I wrong or is Pragmata technically not on the list of supported games yet?

EDIT: It’s worth noting that REFramework hasn’t had an actual release-release in over a year. It’s been nightlies only since last may. Finally, all of the games have their own builds for REFramework and I simply don’t see a build that supports Pragmata on their github. I could be wrong though, I don’t really play the games built on this engine.

Did he forget they were struck down and that they had to do a flat 10% tariff for everyone under a different rule?

Or is he just forcing “tariffs” anyway that are actually just bribes?

Both sound plausible.