ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by srigi » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
torrentfreak.com

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by sleepychu » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

It's hard to imagine how you could operate a successful torrenting site in 2017; they represent such a loss of income to so many people with expensive lawyers.

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by sergiotapia » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :(

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down.

Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by dbg31415 » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

https://www.skytorrents.in/

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by photoGrant » Wed, May 17, 2017, 4:58 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #3

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

edit: SuprNova!

What was one of the first ones I'll never remember the name of? I swear it was part-run by the guy that actually invented Bit Torrent, but it also might've been a spin-off. I can visualise the website in my head but I can't place the name!

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by hart_russell » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #2

It's hard to imagine how you could operate a successful torrenting site in 2017; they represent such a loss of income to so many people with expensive lawyers.

I'd imagine that most people using them have adblockers on as well.

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by sotojuan » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:11 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #3

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

I spent all of high school and early college on What.cd. I felt the same way when it disappeared.

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by flavor8 » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #3

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

I've been imagining a grooveshark like site, run on magnet links, using browser based torrenting, and with all URLs and playlists user contributed. What's the legal precedent for suing that out of existence?

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by JTon » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

photoGrant wrote: post #5

sergiotapia wrote: post #3

I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?

edit: SuprNova! What was one of the first ones I'll never remember the name of? I swear it was part-run by the guy that actually invented Bit Torrent, but it also might've been a spin-off. I can visualise the website in my head but I can't place the name!

I was hit hard by btjunkie [1] going down. IMO, nothing yet has been able to replace it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTJunkie

Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good

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Post by Nadya » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:16 PM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #2

It's hard to imagine how you could operate a successful torrenting site in 2017; they represent such a loss of income to so many people with expensive lawyers.

Define "successful". Many of them are only interested in floating as long as possible. User donations pay for the server and users have motivation to help keep the site running to keep the ability to pirate. Development and moderation is volunteer work.

For many of these sites just their continued existence is a success - however many years it ends up being.