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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Zanneth »

raincole wrote: post #347
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…

> bullshit jobs unrelated to the core product like legal, marketing, investor relations, HR, maybe even developers for R&D etc. Wow. You think legal, marketing, investor relations are all bullshit jobs...? Just wow.

Try working at a big company for a little while.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by rocqua »

Joker_vD wrote: post #66
wkat4242 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still don't quite care though. For example in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN. In eastern europe this is not happening. Perhaps because copyright infringement is not really a criminal issue but more of a civil law one. Without a private party starting lawsuits on behalf of the copyright owners there is nothing happening. It could be they don…

> in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN What about the right of the privacy of communication? Oh, right, it's the state-owned postal services that have to respect that right, and only with regards to the paper letters, not the privately operated ISPs that can (and obliged to) wiretap at the slightest suspicion of crime.

This isn't the ISPs detecting you torrent. It's rightholders joining a torrent swarm, getting an IP-address, and asking the ISP for the person behind that address. It differs between jurisdictions whether the ISP has to comply or not. In the Netherlands they do not, (but Surfnet, a university focused ISP complies anyway). In Germany they have to comply.

Lobbying is always happening to require ISPs to cooperate though.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by drexlspivey »

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?…

How is it distributed? Don’t you need a torrent tracker? How do you know which peer has which files to share?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by kuschku »

raincole wrote: post #347
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…

> bullshit jobs unrelated to the core product like legal, marketing, investor relations, HR, maybe even developers for R&D etc. Wow. You think legal, marketing, investor relations are all bullshit jobs...? Just wow.

If you're running a community funded website, you don't need any of this overhead. In the 90's, pretty much the entire internet ran without these jobs.

Sure, they're necessary if you have an actual company, but the point is that you can run a website without a company.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by recursive_loops »

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 :-)

It's hard to find stuff on Usenet. I subscribe to two different paid (and not super cheap) indexes, and it's still routine that I can't find stuff. If I look over at pirate bay, it will be there about 50% of the time

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by best_one_there »

raincole wrote: post #347
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…

> bullshit jobs unrelated to the core product like legal, marketing, investor relations, HR, maybe even developers for R&D etc. Wow. You think legal, marketing, investor relations are all bullshit jobs...? Just wow.

If you're not an official company with a legal presence, yes.

A lot of seriously dense replies to my comment, seemingly wilfully misunderstanding.

_Obviously_ the legal department at an actual company is not bullshit.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by mmh0000 »

zirgs wrote: post #237
graftak wrote: post #184

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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.

Welcome to America!

ISPs do that, but it's a lot worse if you consider your mobile provider to be an ISP.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/10/data-brok...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunte...

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by budoso »

raincole wrote: post #347
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…

> bullshit jobs unrelated to the core product like legal, marketing, investor relations, HR, maybe even developers for R&D etc. Wow. You think legal, marketing, investor relations are all bullshit jobs...? Just wow.

Love that you excluded HR

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by jorvi »

abwizz wrote: post #194
jorvi wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

almost like copyright enforcement goes hand in hand with your country's relation to the US

The Netherlands is very cozy with the US and yet enforcement is pretty lax, so I don’t think that’s the deciding factor.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

haunter wrote: post #136

Pray for https://nyaa.si/ that's the goat tracker for anything Japan

nyaa has already died once, and this replacement is nowhere near the old one wrt peer counts and content availability (the old one already wasn't great). I wish torrent trackers had kept their databases open, maybe by regularly publishing encrypted dumps with a dead man's switch on decryption keys. At least the new nyaa is FOSS, although the code isn't very useful without data.
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