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ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
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Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
#82My memory might serve me wrong, but I recall very interesting article years ago about playing monetary-gain games in Japan. Hazard where you win money is banned, so as a loophole what they did instead is that you were still playing but instead of wining cash, you were winning tiny white plastic balls (with serial numbers). Those balls were technically worthless and just made of cheap plastic. But once you won some, on the other side of the street where you played, was unrelated business owner, who all business was buying sad white plastic balls for hard cash from you.
No law is broken here. You can run a casino as long as people don't win money or anything worth a lot. You can run a store where you buy out white plastic balls at a premium value. And life goes on :)
I think Japanese government had hardship proving that one business is somewhat owned or operated by another and eventually AFAIK they gave up, giving birth to Japanese biggest mafia.
So.. long story short... run a torrent site where all you have is a database of copyrighted content (only names such as IMDB) and provide half of a magnet link :) Quietly find someone on the other side of the world who will host website that does the same thing just provide second part of magnet link. Don't know each other, don't talk with each other; wait until third person builds an app to glue both link and viola! Long live ExtraTorrent/PirateBay/Whatever about to die next.
Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> none of that is relevant if you're not using index sites in the first place One of the reasons that bittorrent has been successful and all the other protocols have failed is precisely because it allows for the use of private index sites. This allows for the creation of custom software that can provide all those extras (forums, comments, ratings, descriptions, etc.), but most importantly, user tracking. If you track…
The "hit-and-run" problem turns out not to be that big of an issue really - there's so many public torrents out there and so many people that want the files that things mostly seem to work out just fine. Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare. In fact I've occasionally found files with only a single peer or two o…
> Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare.
Well, that's kind of the point. If you can download something that's 3GB in two minutes, it fundamentally changes how you deal with media.
There's also the issue of security that I didn't mention. Public torrents are visible to everyone, so your download or upload is an action viewable to everyone. With private trackers, your actions are only viewable to the members.
Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "hit-and-run" problem turns out not to be that big of an issue really - there's so many public torrents out there and so many people that want the files that things mostly seem to work out just fine. Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare. In fact I've occasionally found files with only a single peer or two o…
> Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare. Well, that's kind of the point. If you can download something that's 3GB in two minutes, it fundamentally changes how you deal with media. There's also the issue of security that I didn't mention. Public torrents are visible to everyone, so your download or upload is an a…
> Well, that's kind of the point. If you can download something that's 3GB in two minutes, it fundamentally changes how you deal with media.
Not really in my experience. I'm a big usenet guy, but I still horde a local collection - if you're using a private tracker you don't want to be re-downloading things all the time because that'd cost you ratio and you still need to hold them long enough to upload them a fair bit. Usenet is really the closest you get to not needing to hoard, but there's still a risk with that, so you often keep it around.
I wouldn't say having something in 2 minutes vs an hour, but still needing to keep it around "fundamentally changes how you deal with media". Especially when you can freely stream a torrent using peerflix off a public tracker, but can't off a private one due to ratio concerns.
Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I spent all of high school and early college on What.cd. I felt the same way when it disappeared.
Has anything close popped back up yet? There was stuff that I couldn't even buy if I wanted to.
Yeah, some users created a channel on Soulseek and it's now the biggest channel on it.
Re: ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has anything close popped back up yet? There was stuff that I couldn't even buy if I wanted to.
Yeah, some users created a channel on Soulseek and it's now the biggest channel on it.
Well there is the public channel but there was initially a private channel recruited from the early public channel that was much better and more useful but we all got into redacted and things died down.