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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by hippich »

abwizz wrote: post #219
mrtksn wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who are those people who are offended when you introduce an edge case against their argument? This is very weird behaviour because the whole civilisation is built on finding edge cases to demonstrate that a model doesn't work. For example, would it be offensive to say that a feather and a hammer will fall at the same speed on the moon to take down the Aristotle's theory of gravity? Is it OK to not talk about that kin…

it is very wired if you (plural) are looking for truth or consensus or progress. but normies are generally freaked out, because they are not used to real talk. i often crash into this barrier of non-sense talk for the sake of conversation as well, very painful for both sides. i'm sure aristotle wouldn't be offended but encouraged :)

> you (plural)

Texans would say "y'all" :)

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by LordShredda »

DoItToMe81 wrote: post #356

Their host charges 250 euro a month for 100 megabits and a one terabyte data cap. At the prices they're paying, I'm surprised this did not happen sooner.

Do you have a source for that? Curious how you found out. But yeah, that's basically a scam for hosting a static website.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by thescriptkiddie »

robertoandred wrote: post #348
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…

hahah paying to steal stuff

more like voluntary contributing to the maintenance of an invaluable archive project

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by altairprime »

freedomben wrote: post #337
altairprime wrote: post #324

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I have been very excited to see us returning to private forums. This is not a harmful regression, certainly!

If you don't know anybody in meat space who can invite you or tell you about it, how do you get in? How do you meet people?

Hobbies and the social gatherings (both chat rooms and/or in person) that accompany them. See also the phrase Special Interest Groups, with context in both Brin’s “Earth” and Vinge’s “Deepness”.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

FalconSensei wrote: post #333
well_actulily wrote: post #282

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Private ones that are invite only, like PTP, BTN, RED, Bib, etc.—the public tracker community really pales in comparison.

so... unless you can send us invites, your suggestions are not really useful to us

Let the kid flex, will ya

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by malux85 »

tivert wrote: post #177
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?

> 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? No. If you pay attention there can be a message at the bottom of the search results telling you how many results were removed due to takedown requests. IIRC, they used to even link directly to the request, but now I think you hav…

I'm not being nit-picky or contentious - I'm asking from a genuine point of curiousity ...

but in the case of Google linking to the pirate bay, isn't the pirate bay the one linking to the pirated content? Google is 1 step removed in that node graph because they are just linking to the pirate bay.

I guess if they directly linked to a pirate bay page that had a magent link on it .... maybe (?)

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by anticrymactic »

dmos62 wrote: post #310
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.

To my knowledge, they didn't. There were a lot of imposter sites, which were indistinguishable, where you'd be told to download a VPN or similar. But the main .to site never opened any ads for me

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by leovander »

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704654

I have since switched to SABnzbd from NZBget. I saw a comment regarding hard to find things, I am subbed to two indexers and either I am not looking for obscure things or I am letting the other tools I listed do most of the heavy work. Prowlarr is doing most of the heavy lifting doing the searches for me.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

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.

Your useless copypasted comments brought nothing to this discussion. You have changed nobody's mind. Have you wrote all that to make yourself feel good?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by rerdavies »

graftak wrote: post #184
jorvi wrote: post #113

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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

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.

The situation is the same for Canadians: we get proxied letters, but rightsholders have no access to our personal identification.
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