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Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#41

The design is terrible. I don't care about cover art. I want to quickly find what I'm looking for.

Then you're better off using any of the other torrent (meta)searchers. This kind of view is excellent for those without access to any nifty streaming services.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#42

The design is terrible. I don't care about cover art. I want to quickly find what I'm looking for.

Then you're better off using any of the other torrent (meta)searchers. This kind of view is excellent for those without access to any nifty streaming services.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#43
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From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big trackers and (conveniently) don't discriminate between illegal and legal content. I feel like when you are dropping torrents into buckets more specific than "video" and "audio" (e.g. link…

Hosted in Canada (netelligent.ca) might buy them some time...

It's a .com site. I would expect the domain to get seized by ICE in the near future.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#44
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hosted in Canada (netelligent.ca) might buy them some time...

Or create a strong enough legal precedence to help transform Canada into less of a piracy haven.

"Piracy haven"? I've read the news stories that contained those allegations about Canada and they were completely absurd.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#46
post #5

From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big trackers and (conveniently) don't discriminate between illegal and legal content. I feel like when you are dropping torrents into buckets more specific than "video" and "audio" (e.g. link…

The only way they could last is to host inside Tor or I2P. I think that'd be fine for what the site is, a bunch of links to internet-facing torrents.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#48

The fact they use a hushmail address for contacting them made me actually laugh out loud.

Why? Honest question, I have no idea. I haven't heard of hushmail in over 10 years, but I just encountered a guy I'll be working with that uses one, I honestly thought they shut down.

Still used heavily by the criminal world I hear.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

#49
post #34

This will be taken down sooner or later, while no legal alternatives¹ exist in many countries. Ridiculous. Movie industry: Okay, apparently you don't want my money, that's fine, but then please don't complain about piracy. [1] Cross-platform, HD quality, easy to use, etc.

I would pay to watch movies recently released on cinema.

I mean, why the heck do I need to go to cinema when I have the comforts of my home and I'm alone at the moment?

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