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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by asfdgaidfhfnio »

unnouinceput wrote: post #156
m4r1k wrote: post #92

Probably the largest blow to the torrent sharing community since The Pirate Bay got shut down. The impact of content availability will be noticeable for years to come

1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive. 2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.

"Better" is a matter of opinion, but it certainly isn't a "margin note". Rarbg was one of the most popular torrent sites in the world. Torrent Freak puts it as #4 most popular in the world, ahead of The Pirate Bay, though I am not sure of their methodology.

https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/

Of those most popular sites, I think it was by far the best. It offered consistently good encodes, with about the best achievable quality for a given file size, in a variety of formats and resolutions. Its files were well-organized with a user-friendly browser and a wealth of metadata. It was possible to quickly find a good version of anything not too obscure.

Compare to TPB, where searches just vomit a page of often-mislabeled files the user must comb through manually. Compare to YIFY/YTS, which uploads bitrate-starved "HD" schlock that looks worse than rarbg's 480p.

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Post by xdennis »

unnouinceput wrote: post #156
m4r1k wrote: post #92

Probably the largest blow to the torrent sharing community since The Pirate Bay got shut down. The impact of content availability will be noticeable for years to come

1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive. 2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.

> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community

It was the 4th largest according to TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by gobip »

latchkey wrote: post #272
maeln wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow. DeFi? Be your own bank? Ordinals? No dear, we are here to hate and give our opinion on something we don't understand!

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Post by George83728 »

bsaul wrote: post #48

i was always skeptical on people saying that torrentz are a symptom of bad legal streaming services.. Well, i recently got myself a videoprojector with an android tv included, and since i happen to have an amazon prime account, i installed the app, which is quite good. And yes, it's true, since i've done that, my torrentz usage has dramatically dropped..

Streaming is a content ghetto. 9 times out of 10, none of the streaming websites have the media I'm looking for. When I visit friends and family and am made to sit down with their streaming services and find something to watch, it always turns into a disaster of everybody sitting on the couch browsing the various catalogue on their phones, discovering that no service has whatever movie somebody just thought of and suggested.

If you treat streaming like old cable television; you turn it on then decide what you want to watch from what is available, I guess it might seem fine to you. But if you try to decide what you want to watch first, treating streaming as a means to an end rather than the end itself, then streaming is unmitigated trash.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by 8organicbits »

crumpled wrote: post #284
crumpled wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

Just to be clear, the rights holders probably aren't publishing torrents, they just also download them and monitor anybody that happens to connect with their seed. In a way, they are helping us with better download speeds.

I'd be interested in the legal argument that by sharing their media in this way, the rights holders are authorizing the download.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by jahewson »

best_one_there wrote: post #260
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.

Basically all of an actual software company is bullshit jobs unrelated to the core product like legal, marketing, investor relations, HR, maybe even developers for R&D etc. Running a website doesn't require that many people. I've worked at companies with 4 developers and 30+ "other stuff". The company would not be profitable and we would not get paid without them, but the actual product would work just fine if we wan…

Anecdotally, I’ve never met anyone who thought this way who’s product didn’t suck.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by traverseda »

sktrdie wrote: post #256

Why don't torrent site owners just release their sites as a torrent file itself? Like a sqlite dump with search indexes? They could either self-update the torrent [1] or just release the new torrent via forums/groups/chats etc. Would bring the costs down to zero. 1. http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

Because they make money off of ads and people who have the skills and resources to do that without profit motive also probably are afraid of getting entangled in legal battles.
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