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Post by sktrdie »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #128
taopai wrote: post #69

I am not technical so maybe this questions sound stupid. But this topic really interests me. I read that Rarbg was like thepiratebay but safer. I guess that's due to moderation to check which torrents are safe, right? This people had a website that offered a nice UI to find torrents. Did they had ads to make money? So they offered their services to maintain healthy piracy in exchange of money and also to pay servers.…

Sites can't be offered as torrents, because generally torrents are immutable once they have been created. You can't say "oops, that version of the file is wrong" and start offering the new version within that same torrent swarm. However, there was an update to the protocol, BEP44, that did allow you to update the already-in-progress torrent. Furthermore, there is a protocol called WebTorrent that swaps out some of th…

Torrents are immutable but they could just give us new torrents (with updated indexes) via chats/forums/etc. Then thanks to https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0038.html we can just download the diff.

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Post by imran0 »

tejohnso wrote: post #285
unnouinceput wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Please indicate which is better. Where can I click on "top 100" or similar, and instantly see a page full of recent releases with screenshots, synopsis, and comments one click away?

1337x is a very good alternative.

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Post by no_time »

2007 - 2023 RIP

Is there a successful tracker founded after 2010? With all these old sites and their experienced crew quitting, things are not looking good for the long term of warez. The only one that comes to mind is the .si reboot of nyaa.se.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I looked at FMovies, it's all like VHS 320x240 quality streams, with rare 720p exceptions.

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Post by pixxel »

omniglottal wrote: post #217
paulcole wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is “completely irrelevant” accurate? In reality, the influence of the US extends far beyond where the jurisdiction of US laws ends.

In the case of DMCA notices, yes. 100.00% of those which are relevany are served within US jurisdiction.

KimDotcom?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by thatguy0900 »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #304
thatguy0900 wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I looked at FMovies, it's all like VHS 320x240 quality streams, with rare 720p exceptions.

On the Frontpage for me the only camrips are polite society and guardians 3,and both of those will be updated pretty soon I'd bet.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by dmos62 »

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?…

That's a good question, but the answers are somewhat sad. I see the other commenters saying it's not about the search, but about the curation. Curation or identification (as in, "who's the author?") is essential, but decentralized search is non-existent too. Yes, there is unmaintained, resource-hungry, locally-run, unscalable software out there that you can use, but there really isn't a public search engine for this. Which is a shame. I really hope someone will tell me I missed something, but I'm not holding my breath :(

Edit: found mentions of https://btdig.com and https://bt4g.org. I wasn't aware of the latter. A problem with the former is that it doesn't track number of peers.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by best_one_there »

jahewson wrote: post #299
best_one_there wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not an opinion.

Legal is very useful in the general case, but if you're an anonymous torrent site operator who fully intends to ignore the law anyway it's a waste of time.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by dmos62 »

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…

They did use aggressive popup ads via click-hijacking. So they were monetizing at least to some extent. Unfortunately for them, most people torrenting probably use ad protection.
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