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Love that you excluded HR
No one needs HR.
C-level execs love their on-message HR.
Rarbg Is No More
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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…
In fairness, somebody has to pay for the actors and the grips and the foley artists, and I'm not particularly convinced that the pirate's stance of "I want it for 20 cents, in 4k, and DRM free and if I can't have that then torrrenting it is my moral right" is either right or sustainable.
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#433Their 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.
Site IP is owned by Netsaap.
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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? 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 (?)
Google seems to refuse removing because, according to them, "Whole-site removal is ineffective and can easily result in censorship of lawful material."
Instead of removing, they just remove links by request.
Sources: https://torrentfreak.com/google-opposes-whole-site-removal-o... and https://www.scribd.com/document/286275022/TorrentFreak-Googl...
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However they did ban Pirate Bay in the Netherlands after a Dutch court ordered them.
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-google-removed-pirate-bay-from...
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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?
It's been 5 or 6 years ago now, but one night I searched for torrents for a particular movie, and Google returned hundreds of results from a dozen sites... and the next evening they returned 0. I think it was an October. While I don't doubt that a torrent link shows up once in awhile, Google no longer usefully searches for such things. Or really anything, legal or not. It's more like a purchase recommendation system…
And a terrible one at that, as it points to the lowest-quality blogspam sludge possible.
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#437RARBG was originally Bulgarian, like many other trackers and warez stuff. Eastern Europe - inside EU or outside of the EU - has always been major player in this scene. RIP. I'm still curious how it's possible to run such global illegal operations without being exposed or caught. How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised?
>> How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised? Because at the core, identity on the internet is not well defined. Authentication is a hard problem. You might wonder why it's hard, why better more secure protocols haven't emerged. Answer: that makes end to end encryption easy, among other things that give individuals too much p…
AI produced Obits, and death certs and detailed descriptions of the death, and then new documents produced via GPT6+ access to APIs to DMV, Embassies, etc to produce new documents sent to your new PO box in [place] etc...
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deep-fake assassinations are going to be a thing...
PHKahler
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#438I 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 :-)
r/usenet has a great FAQ about it[1]. In a nutshell, there are 3 things you need to use usenet. You need providers, indexers, and a software to download stuff. Providers are companies and servers where the data is actually stored, as opposed to peers in torrenting. Since they are for-profit, you need to purchase a subscription to have access to these servers. r/usenet has some nice deals on those[2]. Frugal is usuall…
Too many suscriptions. Pass.
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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
Unless I've known someone for a decade, they're not getting an invite.
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
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" :)
See also "youse".