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Post by miroljub »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #334
costco wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KickAssTorrents made millions of dollars a year in advertising revenue. I doubt their decision to start Rarbg was charitable or even ideologically driven. They probably just want out now. Lower margins may have been a part of that.

Can be both. Even Marx participated in the stock market

Marx always preached that the way to go is for the working class to become owners of the means of production. The only logical way to achieve exactly this is to participate in the stock market and own company shares.

I still don't understand how the communists managed to convince people that Marx saw things exactly in the opposite way.

Even now, you hear left leaning parties telling that "stocks are evil, one can lose complete retirements on the stock market" and in the same time "rich are rich because they earned everything in the stock market".

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Post by mpsprd »

maccard wrote: post #140
adql wrote: post #111

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The problem appears to just be "it's too expensive to run" at least according to the banner

How expensive can a link sharing site be to run, genuinely? They're not serving any of the content (unless they are, in which case, yeah...) But if they're just serving up .torrent files or magnet links, these sites should be pretty cheap to run I would assume?

I believe rarbg had many "official" torrents that they seeded. This must be part of their costs.

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Post by m00dy »

budoso wrote: post #368
raincole wrote: post #347

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> 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

No one needs HR.

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Post by izacus »

robertoandred wrote: post #352
sph wrote: post #24

o7 thank you for your service, keeping the Internet awesome and anti-corporate. Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse. Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel, allowing the existence of legal, paid streaming sites a-la-Spotify with access to 99% of the repertoire. Until then, torrent is how we protest while they create more…

I love when thieves act like they're such noble saints.

Yeah, we all love Robin Hood books. What does your comment have to do with this thread though?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by redundantly »

robertoandred wrote: post #352
sph wrote: post #24

o7 thank you for your service, keeping the Internet awesome and anti-corporate. Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse. Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel, allowing the existence of legal, paid streaming sites a-la-Spotify with access to 99% of the repertoire. Until then, torrent is how we protest while they create more…

I love when thieves act like they're such noble saints.

I love when soulless corporations bribe governments to keep a stranglehold on works of art that have impacted cultures around the world and prevent future artists from being able make more art and prevent the proper collection and preservation of these works and block the access to them, all so they can keep making money off of decades old IP.

It goes both ways. There are no Saints to be found on either side.

I don't care one bit about the pocketbooks of our corporate overlords, and neither should you.

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Post by DirectorKrennic »

madeofpalk wrote: post #290
moffkalast wrote: post #132

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I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?

Google does not return links to the pirate bay for me https://i.imgur.com/MkAPoFl.png . At the bottom there is a message that says "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 4 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at LumenDatabase.org" and links to https://lumendatabase.org/notices/27615507

Odd. Google always returns links to the pirate bay for me https://i.imgur.com/tNo6tbB.png

I'm in Canada though. But I did use Google.com.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by netfortius »

tokai wrote: post #13
0___0 wrote: post #2

Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation…

Why would anyone fight on both sides? Seems ridiculous.

Considering the recent events in the area previously known as Yugoslavia, and the fact that part of hosting is there, in addition to Russia - Ukraine conflict being over a year old, I'd think of other sources. ...that if we were to trust what's been publicized, of course.

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Post by copperx »

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.

Imagine being doxxed by your own ISP.
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