Rarbg Is No More

Post by cykros » Wed, May 31, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

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…

Post by abwizz » Wed, May 31, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

justin_oaks wrote: post #430

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…

The problem is people don't know if you're asking questions to indicate your disapproval (or to cause people grief) or if you're asking to understand. In other words bad faith questions vs good faith questions. People get offended when you're asking bad faith questions. And it can be difficult to differentiate the two, especially when people discussing don't know each other. I know someone who is often snippy with me…

Post by r3trohack3r » Wed, May 31, 2023, 7:39 PM UTC

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?…

Post by saiya-jin » Wed, May 31, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #329

ryandrake wrote: post #242

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Sorting by number of seeders will probably get you a file that is fast to download because of the number of seeders, but it will rarely get you quality. Let's go take a stroll over to a popular public torrent site and search for, say, a recent superhero movie. I see 100 (!) results for that movie's name. 49 of them have zero seeders at all. I don't know what even is the point. 29 of the results have one seeder. So al…

I often pick the 0 seeders results if there is even a slight chance of better quality, and quite often there is. 0 seeders now doesn't mean forever. Some seeders only hook to the network once in a while, long enough for a few leechers to fetch it all. If the content is in demand enough then a few seeders may be left and suddenly a 0 seeder search result becomes an attractive one. Even curating is complicated for the…

Post by Fordec » Wed, May 31, 2023, 7:48 PM UTC

LeeroyWasHere wrote: post #439

FalconSensei wrote: post #333

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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.