>>INTRODUCTION

After the strengthening of anti-piracy laws in Japan that took down the
anime streaming site Kissanime (r.i.p) and reading up on all the outrage and
drama surrounding that, I realized theres a whole generation of people who don’t
know how to pirate shit. I was actually shocked at this, I just sort of took it for
granted that it was common knowledge and every kid and their parent knew how
to pirate shit. I mean back when I was in middle school pretty much everyone
knew and there were so many people, irl and almost everywhere on the internet,
who were enthusiastic about teaching new people how to do this.

1 shudder to think about this new generation of broke and/or bored kids
missing out on casually committing 30 felonies a day and just getting away with
it. What kind of person would I be if at 12 years old I wasn’t up at 3 in the
morning pirating episodes of Inuyasha and Linkin Park albums? (dont judge me
both of those are still great.)

But I should probably have expected this to a degree, the internet that exists
now is not the same internet I grew up with. When I was younger the internet was
still kind of decentralized, but it was in the process of becoming centralized.
Facebook, twitter, youtube, reddit, etc. were all still getting started and
communities still coalesced around a thousand different forums. Things were
more difficult to find, internet forensics and govt. tracking was still young, kids
were still on the open internet teaching eachother how to hack. It was good times,
this was between 2006-2010. Things are much different now though. You can still
find some smaller forums if you look, but most of all internet communities are
centralized on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, platforms which are all heavily
moderated, profitable by selling user data to governments and advertisers, and
especailly for big social media platforms like Facebook, are essentailly another
arm of policing. Communities are centralized and you are constantly tracked and
survielled. It sucks.

Even in this state, piracy still goes on! But unfortunately, even piracy began
to centralize, and thats how we get websites like Kissanime and Kissmanga,
Popcorn Time, 123Movies, etc. They are more convienent than pirating it
yourself, but neither culture, communities, knowledge, nor piracy thrive in
centralized environments. The kind of convience these sites create reduces the
circulation of skills and knowlege of piracy and unlike decentralized piracy, when
these centralized nodes are taken down it’s all gone and we're left with a bunch of
people who don’t know what to do. It’s incredibly heart breaking.

And that's why im making this guide, because the skills and knowledge of
piracy were cultivated by everyone and belong to everyone. I'd be both a shitty
pirate and a shitty anarchist if I kept all of this to myself. People tend to feel
daunted by piracy, like you have to be some ultra smart tech specialist to do it,
but thats far from the truth. Like most illegal internet shit, it's actually incredibly
easy but a lot of time and money and effort goes into spreading myths about it all
being hard so specialists can keep their position and profit socially or monetarily
off of it and so states and corporations can keep some semblance of internet
stability and security.

>>TOOLS

You only need two pieces of software - a Bittorrent client
and a VPN.

>>BitTorrent Client<<

If you’ve been on the internet for a while you may have
heard of torrenting and may, like many people, mistake torrenting
for pirating. Torrenting itself is completely legal. BitTorrent is
just a peer-2-peer file sharing protocol that used pretty
extensively. The peer-2-peer nature of it means its decentralized,
so instead of a central server hosting and sending the files, the
files are basically hosted by everyone who downloads the file &

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act as a mini-server, everyone downloading and re-uploading the
file share bits of the file between each other. Because of the way
BitTorrent handles files by chopping them up and sharing the
download and upload between all users it’s a popular choice for
sharing large files.

The software for torrenting tends to be free, and I would
personally recommend qBittorrent because it’s open source and
unlike some of the popular clients like uTorrent, it doesn’t have
ads.

>>VPN<<

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network and it basically
obscures your location and network traffic by routing it through a
sever, or series of servers, somewhere else in the world and
encrypting the data. This is important because it stops your
internet service provider from seeing what you’re doing, and it
obscures your IP address, which is an identifier for your network
(though it doesn’t identify your personal device, thats a MAC
address that does). This is important because the IP address is
what gets people caught because it is publicly visible in
BitTorrent clients for everyone that is downloading or seeding a
torrent.

There are so many VPNs to choose from, so it’s important to
choose wisely. The whole impetus of choosing your VPN is that
you don’t trust your ISP, so you have to make sure you trust your
VPN. Some of the things you’re looking for are that it doesn’t
require personal information and it has a minimal data retention
policy, and you want one that is outside of the jurisdiction of any
of the 5 Eyes Countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand).

My VPN recommendation is Mullvad. It’s based in Sweden

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which has pretty solid privacy laws and isn’t a part of 5 Eyes.
They have a solid minimal data retention policy, you don’t even
have to sign up because they just assign you a random account
number when you access the website. You can pay by mailing
cash (which I do) or via crypto currencies. Its also cheap at just
5.50$ USD a month, and you can set it up on 5 different devices
5o you can go in on itwith a couple friends.

But one may ask, “Whats the point of buying a VPN to pirate
stuff? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?” and that’s a fair point,
but unfortunately there aren’t good free VPNs for torrenting and
it’s a shame. But if you, for whatever reason, really can’t or don’t
want to pay for a VPN, Windscribe is a decent free one that
generally meets the criteria however there are two issues. The
first issue is that you are limited to 10GB a month. The next issue
is it’s based in Canada, one of the 5 Eyes Countries. But I have
used it plenty of times before and have been okay, but if you are
uploading your own pirated shit or doing any other kind of
sketchy illegal shit I would not trust it.

5.50$ USD is much better that thousands of dollars in fines
and/or prison time.
>>RAISE THE BLACK FLAG [

You’ve got your tools all set up, so now you’re ready to
pirate? Not so fast! There’s a little bit of set up you need to do.
First of all if you’re using gBittorrent, open it up, go to Tools —
Options — BitTorrent and check Enable Anonymous Mode. This
enables some extra security features to help mask your IP and
such. I'm not sure if other Bittorrent clients have a similar option
so you may need to do a little research. Then shut down your
Bittorrent client.

This next part is incredibly important:

// BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR BITTORRENT CLIENT,
OPEN AND CONNECT TO YOUR VPN. //

Always make sure you connect to your VPN before you open
your BitTorrent client, and ALWAYS CHECK THAT YOU ARE
ACTUALLY CONNECTED BEFORE TORRENTING.

So, now you’ve connected to your VPN and opened your
Bittorrent client, you’re ready to pirate! But where does one find
pirated software on the internet? You’ll have to do some
searching around, but there are plenty of torrenting sites around.
If you search something like ‘whatever torrent’ you’ll probably
find something. But please please PLEASE do not use google to
search, google sucks and logs so much data its terrifying. Use
DuckDuckGo, it doesn’t log anything. Fuck google.
But for the sake of ease here are some torrenting websites I
tend to use;

« thepiratebay.org, the OG. It’s not as updated as often as it
used to be but it still works fine. Movies, games, music, software,
ebooks, if it’s digital you can probably find it there. It goes down
sometimes but it always comes back up.

+ 1337x.to, another very solid all purpose torrent site.
« yts.mx, a movie specific torrent site.

* nyaa.si, an anime specific torrent site if you’re weeb trash
like me.

You need to be a little discerning on torrent downloading
because sometimes assholes put viruses in them. ThePirateBay
tends to be where this happens the most. Generally the most
popular torrents tends to be virus free, as you pirate more you’ll
start to figure out which crews consistently put out quality virus
free shit, and on websites with comments be sure to read through
the comments to get a sense of if it’s legit. It’s hard to give solid
advice because it’s really about internet literacy — if on a
webpage you have trouble discerning real download links from
sketchy fake ones you’ll probably have some problems (and also
its 2020 why aren’t you using an adblocker?), but the only way to
learn is by trial and error!

So now you’ve found what you want and you’re ready to
download! All you do now is click the download link or magnet
link (which is just another from of download link but not attached
to the website to get around anti-piracy shit) and your download
will open up in your BitTorrent client and now you just sit back,
relax, and wait for it to finish! After it finished it will start
“seeding” which is just re-uplading and sharing the file to others

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who are trying to download it, and it’s generally considered a
dick move to not seed your torrents for at least 12-24 hours.
Remember, sharing is caring! :)

>>PARTING THOUGHTS

Why would anyone pirate anyway? People have all sorts of
reasons — because they’re broke as hell, because they believe data
should be free, because they can. I’'m not here to moralize about
or make excuses for piracy. What ever your reasoning is I'm for
it, much like I'm for shoplifting no matter what. Sure there are
strong moral and political arguments for it but it’s mostly done
for convenience and because people can, and I love that.

But what I've taught you here is only one part of piracy, the
other part is cracking and warez which is the actual act of
cracking, ripping, and bypassing security features on digital
media to be able to share them. This requires actual technical
knowledge and understanding coding, how to break things down
into machine code like hexcode be able to read that, and
understanding of cryptography. I'm not quite at that level yet but
I'm learning and when I’m able to do it know I'll be putting out a
guide on that.

So stay tuned for my Piracy Guide Pt 2 where I introduce
you to highway piracy by showing you how to do an armed

robbery of Amazon freight trucks!

-(A) Friend