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Post by beardog »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #128
taopai wrote: post #69

I am not technical so maybe this questions sound stupid. But this topic really interests me. I read that Rarbg was like thepiratebay but safer. I guess that's due to moderation to check which torrents are safe, right? This people had a website that offered a nice UI to find torrents. Did they had ads to make money? So they offered their services to maintain healthy piracy in exchange of money and also to pay servers.…

Sites can't be offered as torrents, because generally torrents are immutable once they have been created. You can't say "oops, that version of the file is wrong" and start offering the new version within that same torrent swarm. However, there was an update to the protocol, BEP44, that did allow you to update the already-in-progress torrent. Furthermore, there is a protocol called WebTorrent that swaps out some of th…

See ZeroNet, which uses bittorrent to sync websites, including support for dynamic content and accounts. (Accounts are somewhat centralized last i checked) https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

The main/original author disappeared but there are somewhat maintained community forks.

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Post by boredcaveman »

grishka wrote: post #467
slazaro wrote: post #125

I keep wondering all the time why torrent search is based on websites (centralized), which can be taken down, etc., while once you have a torrent file or a magnet/hash everything is distributed. Is there a main reason why there isn't (AFAIK, even though I haven't really researched) a distributed search that wouldn't have these problems? Is it a tech problem that literally can't be solved? Or it just hasn't been done?…

Decentralized search is a complex problem and there exist different approaches to it with different degree of centralization and resource requirements. DC++ is a bit more decentralized than BitTorrent. There still are central servers ("hubs"), but they don't even host any metadata. Search works by the hub broadcasting all search queries to all online peers and them replying with results if they have any. The file tra…

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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by grishka »

poisonarena wrote: post #448
tawayasdf wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is the de-facto alternative these days?

rutracker

I second this but I'm not sure how much use it is outside of the former USSR. Most movies and TV shows there do come with original English soundtracks tho.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by omegaworks »

>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.

Long COVID is having a real impact on technical people.

There's a reason Google buys COVID rapid testing kits in bulk for any of their onsite events. One of my friends working behind the scenes was gifted a grocery bag full of leftover tests.

Governments around the world have largely abandoned us to a disabling virus.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by madars »

theturtletalks wrote: post #446
joshspankit wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes. For example, Z-Library accepted Amazon gift card donations using an email linked to their identities: https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fb...

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by cykros »

hippich wrote: post #381
abwizz wrote: post #219

Earlier 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" :)

You is always plural. The singular second person pronouns are thou (subject), thee (object), or thy (possessive).

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Post by cykros »

mrtksn wrote: post #39
_AzMoo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's effectively just that they operate out of jurisdictions that just don't care.

Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?

Does Iceland actually care much? I don't imagine they'd let you host an actual warez site a la 2000 or so, but a site just hosting magnet links seems like something they'd mostly allow, and they DEFINITELY have the infrastructure to handle it.

That all said, I'm always amazed that these sites don't just move to i2p/tor. The torrents themselves have been decentralized with DHT and magnet links for awhile. At the end of the day it seems like they've just been hanging on trying to avoid being so in the shadows that they get less traffic as a result.

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Post by abwizz »

andrepd wrote: post #441
abwizz wrote: post #219

Earlier 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 :)

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.

you seem like a special flower too :)

realizing that most of anything isn't special does not preclude every thing beeing uniqe and valuable

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