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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by iLoveOncall » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

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.

You're correct on the methodology except that (in France at least) they also seed, to get the IP of users that download. And you do get letters for downloading.

Initially the plan was to ban those people from internet for a period of that but it got removed since it was anticonstitutional.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by abwizz » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #133

ulfw wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

beeig edgy and exploring edge cases for the sake of the argument has indeed become somewhat anti-social. i guess it has something to do with the width of the audience, as the bigger the crowd, the more likely it is that someone will take you serious and make a fuss about it.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by westmeal » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

Damn there goes another titan RIP to real ones

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by graftak » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

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

Note that in the Netherlands right holders can request ISPs to proxy their letters but those ISPs are not allowed to share the home addresses or any other personal information so it’s neigh impossible for a right holder to get hold of a torrent user.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by abwizz » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

Gasp0de wrote: post #44

mrtksn wrote: post #18

RARBG 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?

What are they doing that is illegal? I thought they were just a torrent tracker?

imo they were a fairly popular and long-standing tracker. someone had to make a statement perhaps? (pb was downed multiple times)

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by userbinator » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #154

I notice that "anti-piracy efforts", DMCA notices, etc don't figure at all.

DMCA would be completely irrelevant as they are not in the US.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by abwizz » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

dunmalg wrote: post #171

maccard wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

true. but there were also some images on the site

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

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 :-)

That's because the first rule of Usenet is you don't talk about Usenet.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by e12e » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

CoBE10 wrote: post #87

I guess mirrors would stay unaffected, because they seem to be up right now. Someone will probably clone their torrents. They might not have been the best quality, but they were always better than YIFI (YTS). I always liked that you could search Rarbg using IMDB numbers. Also, their UI was really pleasing to me, plus, there were many userscripts that extended the functionality of the site. I wounder who will fill up…

> I always liked that you could search Rarbg using IMDB numbers. (...) I wounder who will fill up their place, because TPB was always the last resort for me.

https://thebay.cf/search.php?q=tt2906216&cat=207

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by calmoo » Wed, May 31, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

JohnBooty wrote: post #180

jokowueu wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Plex Shares (like ones you buy on the internet from a stranger) are mostly fully automated and pull from private/public trackers + usenet. I don't see the supply of torrents really having any effect in this regard.