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Post by Solvency »

unixhero wrote: post #192
Solvency wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I asked because the original question was around centralization (a tracker website) being the weak link in the chain. I suppose you could build a very simple decentralized voting system / index of sorts... but it wouldn't be a centralized hosted online "website" (..right?)

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Post by npteljes »

superph wrote: post #158
npteljes wrote: post #119

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I agree. It seems like an flippant opinion, and I'm sure many use it that way, but some services, and frankly, regimes have proven that convenience, comfort and ease of access is very attractive to people. If a service can navigate the obstacles such as copyright, they will be more popular than taking the thing for free with a bit of work.

im an IT and i developed a typical download -> playback workflow that works over my home network and its pretty much convenient too :) ^_^

No doubt! I'm in IT myself and it's second nature doing stuff like this. Most people have a different set of experience and knowledge though. I only experienced the convenience of streaming sites when I began using other devices for media, like my phone. On the phone, it was much easier to use whatever streaming than to search a torrent site, download on phone / seedbox, wait, navigate to the file, play the file. With streaming it's just search and play.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by npteljes »

bsaul wrote: post #151
npteljes wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. It seems like an flippant opinion, and I'm sure many use it that way, but some services, and frankly, regimes have proven that convenience, comfort and ease of access is very attractive to people. If a service can navigate the obstacles such as copyright, they will be more popular than taking the thing for free with a bit of work.

As a mentionned to someone else in the thread, i've realized that i was actually ok seeing less popular content straight from the remote control, than search for the top content in torrents. Ease of use and guaranteed video & subtitles quality can compensate to some degree to not having access to all the content in the world.

Absolutely they do. Streaming sites see huge traffic even now, being very far from their full potential, and being full of dark patterns.

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Post by lax4ever »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #228
abwizz wrote: post #227

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the "younger generation" (>2k) aren't used to the open net, they grew into moderated groups (fb), hence i suspect there is a massive number of hidden/private trackers

I think the younger generation just uses streaming sites. FMovies and 9anime work fine. I don't know anyone who torrents shows or movies now.

Those who don't want to be dependent on the whims of a conglomerate and would like to actually possess the data files.

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Post by CyberDildonics »

sbdaman wrote: post #205
CyberDildonics wrote: post #195

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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?

>Is it really surprising that a few people can run one? No, and I didn't say that.

What did you mean then?

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Post by yieldcrv »

zfxfr wrote: post #165

Wow that came as a shock. I used to check every couple of days if they had interesting movie I could watch with my wife. I wonder what is the cost of running such a site and I guess they must also earn some money in crypto with all the donation and also the advertisements. Well, that's the end of something

its probably not the money cost, its the effort involved with more manual hosting if you can't risk being cancelled in the convenient data centers or platforms

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by zirgs »

graftak wrote: post #184
jorvi wrote: post #113

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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.

Makes sense. If ISPs were allowed to share home addresses then a lot of creeps and scammers could abuse that system.
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