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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by lostgame »

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…

>> "Piracy is almost always a service problem." — Gabe Newell

Once again; the media companies are absolutely doing everything in their power to drive even casual media consumers into piracy. I wouldn't be surprised if piracy was already more rampant than it's ever been - but it's only getting worse, due to ludicrous streaming fragmentation.

It'll never happen, but the only thing that can save piracy is an aggregate all-inclusive monthly subscription platform where all the films/shows from all services are available, just like Apple Music or Spotify. I pay $30-40/mo and I have access to all the stuff on Netflix, Prime, Max, Disney...

When you stream a movie from Netflix, they get the credit. Disney? The same.

Nobody is going to pay for all these services, and more and more are ditching them altogether. The response of the streaming services is to increase prices and reduce content. It's hilariously embarrassing. They are asking us to pirate.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by RektBoy »

mrtksn wrote: post #18

RARBG 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?

For example in my EU country, it's legal to download movies for own use. shrug

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#493

Post by expertentipp »

themagician wrote: post #456
mrtksn wrote: post #18

RARBG 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?

The answer to this is easier (and harder) than you might think: just don't say anything. You can get away with quite a bit just by being silent, and for longer than you'd think. A big way that people get away with things for so long is just by not answering questions. Someone says, "Is this [illegal thing] yours" and you say nothing. Now you've got to burn hours and dollars trying to prove someone owns something so t…

> Someone says, "Is this yours" and you say nothing. Now you've got to burn hours and dollars trying to prove someone owns something so that you can go after them.

The opposite is the German approach. Shower the cuntiest lawyers with money, lobby for laws allowing to easily pick a victim, bully the victim senseless. Lobby even more and if someone uses the word "corruption" in context of copyrights, bully the shit out of them as well. I'm so glad Anglosphere and German copyrights predators have been perfectly impotent for so many years. They know how to create faceless enemies.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#494

Post by youreincorrect »

izacus wrote: post #376
robertoandred wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love when thieves act like they're such noble saints.

Yeah, we all love Robin Hood books. What does your comment have to do with this thread though?

Uh, because it responded to a comment that wrote a bunch of 2009-era Guy Fawkes mask-wearing redditor bullshit that attempts to make piracy noble.

> o7 thank you for your service

(o7 would be a salute)

> Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse.

False and nonsense, especially in 2023.

> Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel...

Okay, I'll stop here.

I'm fine with piracy, personally. I'd prefer we just admit that you're mostly using it to download movies, music, and television shows for free. This isn't some noble fight for freedom. We're talking about watching mindless bullshit content like Star Wars, without paying for it. Piracy proponents, and comments like the one starting this thread, make it seem like we're entitled to this content. We're not. But I'll admit, I don't watch much in the way of tv or movies any more anyway, so the whole debate is lost on me.

I just rolled my eyes at the ridiculous tone of that comment, like they're freedom fighters. It's self-important bullshit.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by HlessClaudesman »

zolland wrote: post #486
HlessClaudesman wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always assume that the movie studios themselves hired some proxies to put out those 61gb files so as to waste everyone's time and bandwidth.

This is a proven fact, do not be fooled. For decades Big Movie have been propagating disks out into the public with giant movie files on them.

Just like how Big Music decided to fight their pirates by only releasing unlistenable music for the last 20 years.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

#496

Post by a1369209993 »

qersist3nce wrote: post #340

Sorry to see it go. While we are at it, an honest question: Why should _anyone_ undertake the legal risk, monetary cost and development time burden for maintaining a public tracker? What would release teams gain from setting up encoding pipelines and upholding their networking infrastructure?

> Why should _anyone_ undertake the legal risk, monetary cost and development time burden for maintaining a public tracker?

Try a more extreme example: why should anyone undertake the legal risk, monetary cost and logistical hassle of hiding Jews from the SS? It's not some psychopathic business decision; it's because some people stubbornly insist on doing the right thing despite it being unpopular, illegal, and clearly a bad idea.

If someone does manage to turn a profit doing it that's (all else being equal) great, but it's not the point.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by seanalltogether »

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…

> "Piracy is almost always a service problem." — Gabe Newell

I find this an odd argument in favor of pirating movies, because everything that steam offers for games, amazon prime or itunes offers for most tv shows and movies. In fact with amazon prime you can buy content and watch it on pretty much any kind of device out there.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by drexlspivey »

CodeArtisan wrote: post #197
mrtksn wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Vietnam is probably the #1 place for digital piracy today. https://torrentfreak.com/vietnam-could-kill-several-major-pi...

Also their close neighbor, The Republic of Kinakuta

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by rightbyte »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #315
8organicbits wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be interested in the legal argument that by sharing their media in this way, the rights holders are authorizing the download.

If it's a problem at all, it seems like they could easily bypass it by only offering a couple chunks rather than the whole file.

You can offer 0 chunks and still see the seeders, right? How would you otherwise start leeching.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by lasc4r »

qalmakka wrote: post #127
m4r1k wrote: post #92

Probably the largest blow to the torrent sharing community since The Pirate Bay got shut down. The impact of content availability will be noticeable for years to come

The reports of Pirate Bay's death have been grossly exaggerated.

Not really, it's a steaming pile of it's former self.
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