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That almost costs more than actually paying for the content.
I pay ~$100 year and it's a far better experience than I've ever had with torrents
It was a good site.
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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.
I've been using Jackett for torrents recently. It seems to work really well if anyone is looking for alternatives. https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
Prowlarr is another alternative https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr
Well it took rarbg going down for me to see that they actually started caching results for rarbg in the latest release... Too bad.
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 :-)
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 centr…
oh, some ppl do indeed want to.
thanks to encryption they can. but i agree that the likes of kazaa, edk and freenet are not for most ppl.