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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

jokowueu wrote: post #157
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…

Most people have moved to Plex shares these days

Nobody I personally know have ever heard of Plex at all. Almost everybody uses BitTorrent to some extent.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by ajford »

Asooka wrote: post #71
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…

A service and a pricing problem. All cases of piracy I have observed stem from one of 3 reasons 1. Too expensive. This encompasses several varieties, like the media in question being literally priced more than the person is willing to pay, or the pricing is acceptable, but the person can buy only one of several choices and wants to evaluate all before giving one their money. 2. The product is not offered for sale. Th…

Exactly. I dropped out of the torrent scene for probably around 5 years when Netflix had a huge back-catalog and it just wasn't worth the hassle to manage torrents and a media server.

Then the Netflix catalog shrunk to originals, there's now 6 different streaming services I have to juggle to watch the usual content my family likes, and we're constantly using third-party services just to figure out what's available where. I hate having to switch from Netflix to Hulu to finish out a show because the last season is only on Hulu. Or things like Warner and Disney cutting shows because they don't want to pay residuals or whatever dumb accounting BS they feel like pulling.

If you make it more convenient to torrent and shove everything into Plex, why would I pay to get a worse experience.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by wkat4242 »

copperx wrote: post #380
zirgs wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Of course they have to obey court orders.

The Dutch ISPs fought this in court but they lost in some cases.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by justinclift »

moffkalast wrote: post #114
gersg wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linking to pirated content is illegal in many European countries.

Then Google should be prosecuted.

Google has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to.

For smaller players, they'd have to think really carefully about whether they want to engage in multi-year litigation with them.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by CyberDildonics »

mistercheph wrote: post #288
CyberDildonics wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are mostly serving text that can be cached and have a search function. Is it really surprising that a few people can run one?

see: google.com

Are you trying to say that 110k page views per day is the same as google executing 8.5 billion searches of the entire internet per day?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by oliwarner »

mxmilkiib wrote: post #289

A reminder that if you're using qBittorrent there is an in-client torrent search tab you can enable.

This seems to use EliteTorrent (by default) which has a strong bias towards Spanish language content. There might be other reasons to use qBittorrent, but if you don't want to switch, you could just use that.

https://github.com/iordic/qbittorrent-search-plugins/blob/ma...

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by B1FF_PSUVM »

happymellon wrote: post #122
moffkalast wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then Google should be prosecuted.

That's not Google's primary purpose.

Well, printing was going to be for instruction. And then radio. And TV. And the internet.

We're so instructed we've gotta wear ad-blockers.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by mh- »

DirectorKrennic wrote: post #378
madeofpalk wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that's a different search query. I did get that same result if I use your query instead. (I'm in the US)

edit: it's also for a "proxy" site. I don't really use torrents or follow TPB happenings and don't know how that is/isn't affiliated.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by jachee »

DirectorKrennic wrote: post #378
madeofpalk wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Linking to the site itself (especially when that’s what you searched for) isn’t the same as linking to a torrent to infringing content would be.
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