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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by andrepd »

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

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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 :)

Yes, you are a special flower and people are annoyed at you not because you're grating, rude, or arrogant, but because they are stupid and only want to talk about the Kardashians or whatever.

Yawn.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by poisonarena »

anticrymactic wrote: post #387
dmos62 wrote: post #310

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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

they sure did! every half a dozen clicks! immediately blocked by my adblockers but i would still dig into the dev tools to try and figure it out occasionally

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by andrepd »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #426
rocqua wrote: post #362

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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…

>In Germany they have to comply. Seriously, screw Germany here. The way they oppressively Gestapo your internet traffic just to catch you downloading an mp3 to treat you like criminal menace, is unheard of in the rest of Europe. Can't believe the so called "privacy conscious" German public are okay with this invasiveness of their internet privacy when they're the only EU country as hardcore on this "issue". If only t…

Does it need that many resources though? I thought just getting the list of peers in a swarm for an illegal torrent is enough.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Willish42 »

Seeing lots of mentions here in the comments about increased serving costs but the nature of the message sounds more like the community itself has fallen apart / lost people due to covid and war. I can't imagine the effort it must've taken to keep this site running for so long given the amount of traffic, especially during the hellish last few years.

I'm sad to see them go but I support their desire to spend time and energy/resources on something else after all they've done

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by theturtletalks »

joshspankit wrote: post #429
waboremo wrote: post #138

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It's very possible to run such without being exposed, but it involves patience and enough cash. Most of the time, these services aren't done in direct exchange for money or from people who have a lot of money in the first place. So what ends up happening is even if they can avoid the shallow legal issues by remaining private, they then run into the problem that nobody can pay for the service (not many options for pro…

Also: ad companies and payment processors are a weak link. They can provide de-anonymizing information to officials and cut off payments when their corporate values shift.

I always wondered this. Many piracy sites have Adsense or some sort of ads. Can't Google just fingerprint which Adsense account is being used and find the person getting paid?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by [deleted] »

anticrymactic wrote: post #387
dmos62 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by poisonarena »

tawayasdf wrote: post #224
CoBE10 wrote: post #87

I guess mirrors would stay unaffected, because they seem to be up right now. Someone will probably clone their torrents. They might not have been the best quality, but they were always better than YIFI (YTS). I always liked that you could search Rarbg using IMDB numbers. Also, their UI was really pleasing to me, plus, there were many userscripts that extended the functionality of the site. I wounder who will fill up…

what is the de-facto alternative these days?

rutracker

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by theturtletalks »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #418
justinclift wrote: post #395

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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.

> Google has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to. Google has paid something like 10 billions dollars of fines in the EU during the last decade. I don’t think they are giving the run around to anyone.

Are you sure they paid it or they were ordered to do so? Most times, the fine is reduced or appealed ad infinitum.
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