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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by dunmalg »

maccard wrote: post #140
adql wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Comparatively cheap because you're just handing off magnet links, but when you're serving millions of unique visitors daily, it all adds up.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by nickthegreek »

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 :-)

Research 'nzb'

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Goz3rr »

jorvi wrote: post #113
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.

It is not that clear cut for Western Europe. - Germany sends letters and fines - Czech Republic doesn’t send letters or fines - The Netherlands doesn’t send letters or fines (unless you share an absolutely ludicrous amount) - Belgium doesn’t send letters or fines - UK sends letters and fines - France sends letters (tiny chance of a fine) - Switzerland doesn’t send letters or fines

It should be noted that (as far as I know) none of those are actually fines. It's private companies that track down pirates, and they cannot give out fines. They send you a settlement proposal, saying either pay this or risk being sued.

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Post by abwizz »

moffkalast wrote: post #132
gersg wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history.

indeed. as it should, if it's relevant for the search.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by bscphil »

thiht wrote: post #107
m4r1k wrote: post #92

Probably the largest blow to the torrent sharing community since The Pirate Bay got shut down. The impact of content availability will be noticeable for years to come

> The Pirate Bay got shut down It didn’t happen though

Eh. It got raided, was down for two months, and for a while it was unclear whether it would come back or not. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-back-online-150131/

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by tivert »

moffkalast wrote: post #132
gersg wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> 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?

No. If you pay attention there can be a message at the bottom of the search results telling you how many results were removed due to takedown requests. IIRC, they used to even link directly to the request, but now I think you have to jump through hoops to see it.

The "loophole" is that a takedown request has to be for a specific URL, so it requires a lot of constant effort to even try to get them all. Pirate Bay always had dupes and a million mirrors.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by sbdaman »

It's absolutely insane how many of these incredibly important torrent sites are just managed and hosted by a rag-tag group of people with the site barely clinging to life.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Solvency »

maeln wrote: post #152
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?…

There is many search engine that use the DHT to retrieve the metadata and share torrent via the magnet. The main issue here is not the tech, it's the trust and discoverability/curating and also not spreading the seeding capabilities. When downloading from "reputable torrent tracker XYZ" you can trust the quality of the torrent, that it is virus free, etc ... It is also usually make searching for particular torrent ea…

This makes sense but...I'm being fully serious and earnest here and revealing my own naïveté:

Couldn't some form of blockchain work here? Like couldn't some form of distributed/democratized community curation and moderation happen by using the blockchain to manage the arbitration of new torrents (and their successors, like when the community decides New Random Anime X encoding to be a superior copy)? Plus you have proof of stake or whatever the leading mechanism is to help combat and filter out fakes/illegal activity (etc)?

Then you'd have blockchain managing the trackers and torrents managing the file sharing.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by JohnBooty »

jokowueu wrote: post #157
sph wrote: post #24

o7 thank you for your service, keeping the Internet awesome and anti-corporate. Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse. Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel, allowing the existence of legal, paid streaming sites a-la-Spotify with access to 99% of the repertoire. Until then, torrent is how we protest while they create more…

Most people have moved to Plex shares these days

My experience is that 100% of what I see on friends' (and friends' friends') Plex shares is.... movies that they downloaded via TPB/RarBG/etc torrents.

If the supply of torrented content dries up, it seems like many Plex shares will start to become very stale.

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