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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by maronato »

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 :-)

r/usenet has a great FAQ about it[1]. In a nutshell, there are 3 things you need to use usenet. You need providers, indexers, and a software to download stuff.

Providers are companies and servers where the data is actually stored, as opposed to peers in torrenting. Since they are for-profit, you need to purchase a subscription to have access to these servers. r/usenet has some nice deals on those[2]. Frugal is usually the most recommended for beginners since it’s pretty cheap and has most files you’ll want.

Indexers are similar to what rarbg was. They make it easy to search for files stored in the providers. They usually require a subscription as well, and some require invites, but are really cheap and easy to get [3]. nzbgeek doesn’t require an invite and is pretty complete. nzbplanet and drunkenslug have more content, but require invites. You can get invites for those on r/UsenetInvites

Finally, you need something to download the files. There are many options available for that, but I find that the best one is sabnzb [4]. It is pretty complete and has a lot of moving parts, so I recommend following the trash-guides article on it to get started[5]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Usenet/wiki/faq/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providerdeals/

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Usenet/wiki/indexers/

[4]: https://sabnzbd.org/

[5]: https://trash-guides.info/Downloaders/SABnzbd/Basic-Setup/

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by latchkey »

maeln wrote: post #199
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…

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 crea…

> 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)

In the Bitcoin world, Ordinals have started to make waves as they are a creative use of unintended consequences. This will likely spur other innovations.

In the EVM world, DeFi is still used all the time. It lost a lot of steam from the last bull run, but trading, be your own bank, interest arbitrage, options, perps, all of that is still going on quite a bit. New sites are popping up all the time. LybraFinance LUSD/eUSD is one of the more recent ones.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by inversetelecine »

__alexs wrote: post #139
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 :-)

https://sonarr.tv/ https://radarr.video/ + https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra2/ + 1 or more https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers Usenet is a lot of effort.

It's only as much effort as you want to put into it. Yes it's more effort than public torrent sites, but the tradeoffs are worth it.

Plus. most of these are setup once and forget. Automation & not having to seed is what makes Usenet worth it IMHO.

And of course, torrents still have benefits and their place as well.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by boomboomsubban »

misterbishop wrote: post #216

That site has been Comcast's honeypot for like 10 years.

Running a torrent site as a honeypot seems like a stupid move for an ISP given how cheap it would be to run a bot that automatically downloads every release and tracks the IP addresses. And Comcast would only bother with that as they own NBC, so probably have been running such a bot for about 14 years now.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by narag »

q1w2 wrote: post #215
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.

While we like to romanticize these groups, they often have ulterior motives in getting users to the site. Pushing ads from less-than-reputable ad-sources, and having a section with binaries where admins can push malware laden programs/games/files to increase the size of a client's botnet. The model is that as users become more comfortable on the site, they eventually browse to the more dangerous categories and downlo…

I wrote a blog post about a deep dive I did on one site...

But it wasn't this site, was it? The most salient feature of Rarbg was that they verified uploads.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by mrtksn »

weinzierl wrote: post #258
mrtksn wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even cooler, someone start a hosting for legitimate businesses like RARBG.

You mean like https://1984.hosting ? Or more like https://legittorrents.info , which shut down recently[1]? I had never heard of RARBG before, so I don't know if they were legitimate and you are being sarcastic or serious? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639370

They were the website I torrented the entire Succession series.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by inversetelecine »

MeltdownSpectre wrote: post #101

Really sad to hear this. I basically built my entire Plex server with RARBG. Anyone have any solid private tracker recommendations for movies and TV shows? After taking advantage of public trackers like RARBG, I feel like it's my time to give back.

check out /r/trackers

also watch entry level trackers for open invites. speed, iptorrents, torrentleech, etc

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by crumpled »

misterbishop wrote: post #216

That site has been Comcast's honeypot for like 10 years.

Someone already mentioned the Comcast angle, and they are correct. The ISP isn't involved until they get the notification from an agent of the owner of the content.

The honeypot isn't the torrent site. You can use any site in the world or no site at all and still get busted. It's a peer to peer network, and the people busting you are seeding the torrents themselves. They catch you when you peer with them.

Use a VPN, and read more.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

codetrotter wrote: post #102
pdimitar wrote: post #77

What a shame. They could have asked for donations but me as an Eastern European, I get it -- usually if we get to the point of needing donations we feel ashamed and humiliated and just close shop. I hope somebody picks up the flag. Illegal and copyright-protected piracy aside, there were tons of royalty-free and non-copyright-enforced works of art there and it would be a big hit on humanity's culture at large for all…

There’s also a problem for pirate sites specifically that if they accept donations then this fact can be used later on in a trial, where the plaintiff party may use this as evidence that the pirate site is being run for profit, and which in turn may lead to higher fines, more jail time, etc, for the defendants.

If they were to receive funds via Bitcoin or Monero, is it even possible to pay for hosting with those funds directly? Or would they have to deal with shady exchanges that would invite money-laundering enforcement actions?
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