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Re: Torrent meta-search engine

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Post by moomba » Wed, Feb 23, 2011, 6:41 PM UTC

sajithw wrote: 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…

Yea, usually these meta torrent sites act kind of like a massage parlor. You pay for the massage and any negotiations between you and the masseur have nothing to do with the parlor.

Hopefully some of these torrent sites can have a better UI like this place. It really has a lot of bite. I like it.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

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Post by cookiecaper » Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

maushu wrote: post #49

Yaggo wrote: 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?

Because they make more money by forcing you to go to the cinema and pay $12/ticket each time you want to see the movie for several months, before finally releasing on DVD several months later, and making money from that when everyone buys it again. The movie industry would also be opposed to this idea as one of the only ways they keep films from high-quality piracy for any reasonable time is by restricting the distribution and format of the film to something that's not easily ripped and uploaded. Even an encrypted stream would be much easier to break and redistribute in most cases than hooking up a projector and ripping from that.

Re: Torrent meta-search engine

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Post by richcollins » Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

luminarious wrote: post #41

richcollins wrote: post #35

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.

They have hideous UIs full of adds that pretend to be download buttons.