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Re: Rarbg Is No More

#191

Post by abwizz »

mrtksn wrote: post #39
_AzMoo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's effectively just that they operate out of jurisdictions that just don't care.

Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?

imo copyright is irrelevant in countries that either can withstand the mpaa's pressure, maybe via good relations to the state department, or in countries that have bigger problems.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#192

Post by unixhero »

Solvency wrote: post #179
maeln wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pr…

How would they? Torrents are fairly trivial to build a web site around.

Blockchain sounds lile experimental engineering

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#193

Post by cyberge99 »

moffkalast wrote: post #161
Zetaphor wrote: post #155

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I pay ~$100 year and it's a far better experience than I've ever had with torrents

You also have to associate credit card info with illegal activity that leads directly back to your physical self. Pass.

Nope. Most accept crypto.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#194

Post by abwizz »

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

almost like copyright enforcement goes hand in hand with your country's relation to the US

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#195

Post by CyberDildonics »

sbdaman wrote: post #178

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.

They are mostly serving text that can be cached and have a search function. Is it really surprising that a few people can run one?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#196

Post by throwawayiddqd2 »

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #148
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 centr…

Most of the time when I search for something, I sort by more seeders first. Some type of signature can be used too.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#197

Post by CodeArtisan »

mrtksn wrote: post #39
_AzMoo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's effectively just that they operate out of jurisdictions that just don't care.

Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?

Vietnam is probably the #1 place for digital piracy today.

https://torrentfreak.com/vietnam-could-kill-several-major-pi...

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#198

Post by jokowueu »

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.

Ofcourse, I'm not saying torrents don't have a place it's just that they seem less trafficked these days , online piracy streaming sites , iptv(with vod) and Plexshares have taken the front seat.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#199

Post by maeln »

Solvency wrote: post #179
maeln wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pr…

Bitcoin is going to be 15 years old soon and aside from this original usage, no real usage has really taken off for "blockchain" technologies (and no, I am not counting the occasional pump and dump / virtual scarcity scheme as a real usage of the tech). We really have to stop asking this question. And I say this having had some involvement with some web3 projects/company.

Even if it is theoretically possible, it create a huge barrier for entry, a lot of user friction, issue with governance and distribution of power, exploit, etc. And it is extremely hard to put in place for something that can be replaced by a generic phpBB forum in an afternoon. It is like trying to make a ICBM to kill a fly.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#200

Post by simse »

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 :-)

It's not too complicated. I heard from a friend, that all you need is a downloader like Sabnzbd, a usenet provider like Eweka or Frugal Usenet, and an index like Drunkenslug to find stuff.
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