note: this has no more information about the shut down than the blurb posted on rarbg's website
Rarbg Is No More
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then Google should be prosecuted.
Google takes down content when they get notified, rarbg doesn't.
I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even cooler, someone start a hosting for legitimate businesses like RARBG.
What is it with you and your extremely aggressive and yet unproductive comments?
>What is it with you and your extremely aggressive and yet unproductive comments?
Entertaining hypothetical edge cases to examine an argument's soundness has become extremely aggressive behaviour?
Anyway, my apologies.
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#134Not only they had clean, easy-to-navigate UI, they also produced tons of their own releases. As big fan of saving space, x265 1080p releases from them were taking minimal space with good quality, practically always bundled with subtitles.
That's how quality service looks like. Glad I pulled (here legally) all the movies I wanted in my private collection. RIP.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
A service and a pricing problem. All cases of piracy I have observed stem from one of 3 reasons 1. Too expensive. This encompasses several varieties, like the media in question being literally priced more than the person is willing to pay, or the pricing is acceptable, but the person can buy only one of several choices and wants to evaluate all before giving one their money. 2. The product is not offered for sale. Th…
With the globalisation, there is actually a 4th reason rising: availability of content in specific regions. I sometimes want/need content with audio and/or subtitle language X, which is not available legally where I live, but the exact same platform does have it available in the region that speaks this language. pirating is in this case the best solution as I can pick the quality I want, with the audio and subtitle l…
I think this is just the second reason rephrased a bit differently. And it isn't at all new — pretty much all Japanese game and animation studios have refused to acknowledge our region's existence for about as long as these industries have themselves been around.
For example, Nintendo consoles have been unavailable since the 90s — which is why we've been using these clones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_(console)
and are still unavailable now unless you're willing to buy consoles and games on ebay, overpriced and without warranty (which is what some of my friends have been doing, but I refuse to support publishers that consider my American dollars second class to those coming from actual Americans).
So torrents it is, then. 'Fuck you' can go both ways.
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#136Pray for https://nyaa.si/ that's the goat tracker for anything Japan
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never had any threatening letters in NL, so perhaps this varies by country.
Same in Sweden.
There have definitely been cases with letters in sweden
https://www.domstol.se/patent--och-marknadsdomstolen/om-pate...
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#138RARBG was originally Bulgarian, like many other trackers and warez stuff. Eastern Europe - inside EU or outside of the EU - has always been major player in this scene. RIP. I'm still curious how it's possible to run such global illegal operations without being exposed or caught. How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised?
It's very possible to run such without being exposed, but it involves patience and enough cash.
Most of the time, these services aren't done in direct exchange for money or from people who have a lot of money in the first place.
So what ends up happening is even if they can avoid the shallow legal issues by remaining private, they then run into the problem that nobody can pay for the service (not many options for providing that transaction privately). You might think "just run ads" but the problem there is multifaceted, most are likely going to be using adblockers, on top of that to remain private they'll be locked out of most paying ads and only get the most spammy garbage incentivizing more to use adblocker to visit the site.
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#139I have seen several folks on here mention Usenet subscriptions as another option. What I haven't found is any good Usenet tutorial on how to actually get from "I know the name of something I want" to "I have downloaded it". The irony that I used to run a UUCP node on the original version of Usenet does not escape me :-)
https://sonarr.tv/ https://radarr.video/ + https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra2/ + 1 or more https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers
Usenet is a lot of effort.
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#140RARBG was originally Bulgarian, like many other trackers and warez stuff. Eastern Europe - inside EU or outside of the EU - has always been major player in this scene. RIP. I'm still curious how it's possible to run such global illegal operations without being exposed or caught. How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised?
The problem appears to just be "it's too expensive to run" at least according to the banner
How expensive can a link sharing site be to run, genuinely? They're not serving any of the content (unless they are, in which case, yeah...) But if they're just serving up .torrent files or magnet links, these sites should be pretty cheap to run I would assume?