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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by loeg »

mvanbaak wrote: post #99
Asooka wrote: post #71

Earlier 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…

This is covered in #2.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by boosteri »

mrtksn wrote: post #80
Joker_vD wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN What about the right of the privacy of communication? Oh, right, it's the state-owned postal services that have to respect that right, and only with regards to the paper letters, not the privately operated ISPs that can (and obliged to) wiretap at the slightest suspicion of crime.

AFAIK they don't actually inspect your comms, instead they leech from you to get your IP address and start the legal procedure. The way I understand it, they don't send you a letter for downloading but for sharing. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Is it they do illegal thing and then try to extort money from you for doing the same thing? Or have they received a royal blessing nowadays and can do so legally?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by moss2 »

__alexs wrote: post #139
EwanG wrote: post #129

I 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.

Your proposed alternative to downloading movies using torrents is to set up and maintain a torrent tracking service?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by loeg »

SSLy wrote: post #106
MeltdownSpectre wrote: post #101

Really sad to hear this. I basically built my entire Plex server with RARBG. Anyone have any solid private tracker recommendations for movies and TV shows? After taking advantage of public trackers like RARBG, I feel like it's my time to give back.

I recommend registering on some usenet indexer instead.

Hasn't binary Usenet been dead for something like a decade? Anything on the public NZB indexers got DMCA'd very quickly even many years ago.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by aaomidi »

moss2 wrote: post #143
__alexs wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your proposed alternative to downloading movies using torrents is to set up and maintain a torrent tracking service?

That software uses Usenet too.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by bsaul »

jeroenhd wrote: post #72
bsaul wrote: post #48

i was always skeptical on people saying that torrentz are a symptom of bad legal streaming services.. Well, i recently got myself a videoprojector with an android tv included, and since i happen to have an amazon prime account, i installed the app, which is quite good. And yes, it's true, since i've done that, my torrentz usage has dramatically dropped..

I got myself Amazon prime, logged in on my computer, and found out I can only watch 480p video because of DRM shenanigans. The app on my TV is no longer supported (TV doesn't run Android), my phone is rooted (Xiaomi stopped making updates after two years) so I sometimes can't even find the app in Google Play let alone play decent quality video and the Chromecast app is a buggy mess. So yeah, I went back to torrents a…

I get your point, and i may be in the same case as you in a few years (my projector is brand new).

But that doesn't really disprove my point : when the legal streaming service is working fine, then it does have an immediate effect on pirated content consumption.

I thought that not being able to have access to all the content in the world would be a no-go, but i'm surprising myself preferring to watch legal content directly in two taps of the remote than having to search for the torrentz, the subtitles, download it, plug the computer to my projector, etc.

This came as a surprise to me.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#147

Post by Joker_vD »

boosteri wrote: post #142
mrtksn wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK they don't actually inspect your comms, instead they leech from you to get your IP address and start the legal procedure. The way I understand it, they don't send you a letter for downloading but for sharing. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Is it they do illegal thing and then try to extort money from you for doing the same thing? Or have they received a royal blessing nowadays and can do so legally?

I imagine it's not illegal for them since they do have copyright, after all (unless when they don't).

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Tuna-Fish »

slazaro wrote: post #125

I keep wondering all the time why torrent search is based on websites (centralized), which can be taken down, etc., while once you have a torrent file or a magnet/hash everything is distributed. Is there a main reason why there isn't (AFAIK, even though I haven't really researched) a distributed search that wouldn't have these problems? Is it a tech problem that literally can't be solved? Or it just hasn't been done?…

The problem is not search, it's curation. Any system that accepts everything will be overrun with things you do not want (fakes, *very* illegal things), and so there needs to be some authority that determines what is allowed. At that point, you are centralized, and hosting a website doesn't significantly hurt you.

This is also the problem with all distributed social networks. In the end, your options are formal centralization, and informal centralization, because absolutely nobody wants to live in true decentralization.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by dmix »

Kinda makes sense the team was (partially) operating out of Eastern Europe and then had some issues with rising costs given the war and inflation.

Maybe it will come back in the future when things settle down or a new backer comes in.

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