I guess this is a reminder to support your pirated material source.
Thank God PTP is back on a good track.
Rarbg Is No More
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#22Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation…
Why would anyone fight on both sides? Seems ridiculous.
I think he means that employees/contributors exist on both the Russian and Ukrainian side.
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#24o7 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 and more insular streaming services to milk people $9/mo at a time.
"Piracy is almost always a service problem." — Gabe Newell
(If you need a semi-private tracker that's easy to get into, try TorrentLeech. Also /r/opensignups)
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#25Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation…
Thank you for your work so far. Out of curiosity - what kind of expenses are we talking before/after ad revenue?
How much would it have helped to have 1% of users chip in 10 USD/year? (1% is probably optimistic, but still...)?
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#26RARBG 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?
I think it's effectively just that they operate out of jurisdictions that just don't care.
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#28oh wow, sad news
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are these safe? being clones doesn't really inspire much confidence rarbg was my go to for years :S
They're not clones. Just proxies so they are down too.
This is usually done to make it harder for the courts to force providers to block these sites. Whack-a-mole..
PS: Why am I getting downvoted? Try clicking on the links, you will see the same goodbye message.
Edit: Oh the first 2 do seem to be clones, now I understand. The rest are proxies though. I do think even the clones basically skived off the original's database though so I doubt they will have much going forward.
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#30Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation…
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