Rarbg Is No More • Hacker News Board

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by rightbyte » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

George83728 wrote: post #297

bsaul wrote: post #48

i was always skeptical on people saying that torrentz are a symptom of bad legal streaming services.. Well, i recently got myself a videoprojector with an android tv included, and since i happen to have an amazon prime account, i installed the app, which is quite good. And yes, it's true, since i've done that, my torrentz usage has dramatically dropped..

Streaming is a content ghetto. 9 times out of 10, none of the streaming websites have the media I'm looking for. When I visit friends and family and am made to sit down with their streaming services and find something to watch, it always turns into a disaster of everybody sitting on the couch browsing the various catalogue on their phones, discovering that no service has whatever movie somebody just thought of and su…

Deciding a movie and then look for it on streaming sites is hopeless. Just rent it on a pay to view site if they don't want to download via torrents.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by lasc4r » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

asfdgaidfhfnio wrote: post #291

unnouinceput wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive. 2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.

"Better" is a matter of opinion, but it certainly isn't a "margin note". Rarbg was one of the most popular torrent sites in the world. Torrent Freak puts it as #4 most popular in the world, ahead of The Pirate Bay, though I am not sure of their methodology. https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/ Of those most popular sites, I think it was by far the best. It offered consistently good encodes, with about the best…

You could search using the IMDB ID/url suffix, which almost always gave you exactly what you wanted. RIP.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by drexlspivey » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

rg111 wrote: post #259

unnouinceput wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive. 2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.

> There are others very much alive and better. Can you please tell me which ones or point me to a place that does?

check the sidebar of r/trackers

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by drexlspivey » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:07 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #223

feyes wrote: post #47

That's pretty devastating. This was old reliable for a long time. I could never keep up with the demands from private trackers as streaming made it so I didn't need to utilize them as much.

Are there any private torrent sites for movies/tv that you can buy your way in without needing a seedbox?

Last I checked you can get in IPTorrents and HDTorrents with a donation. Still need to maintain your ratio but you can also boost your upload with donations.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by whimsicalism » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:09 PM UTC

maeln wrote: post #199

Solvency wrote: post #179

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This makes sense but...I'm being fully serious and earnest here and revealing my own naïveté: Couldn't some form of blockchain work here? Like couldn't some form of distributed/democratized community curation and moderation happen by using the blockchain to manage the arbitration of new torrents (and their successors, like when the community decides New Random Anime X encoding to be a superior copy)? Plus you have pr…

Bitcoin is going to be 15 years old soon and aside from this original usage, no real usage has really taken off for "blockchain" technologies (and no, I am not counting the occasional pump and dump / virtual scarcity scheme as a real usage of the tech). We really have to stop asking this question. And I say this having had some involvement with some web3 projects/company. Even if it is theoretically possible, it crea…

There are plenty of real uses for cryptocurrency that exist in the real world, but most of it is boring stuff: people holding their assets in stablecoins in countries that have capital controls.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by elorant » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:14 PM UTC

hattmall wrote: post #453

theturtletalks wrote: post #446

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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?

There's an entire industry of buying established accounts set up with an unsuspecting person's identity. Idk about Adsense specifically, but you can get Amazon selling and the linked bank account with docs for like $1000.

And how do you get paid? AdSense requires a bank account registered to the same name.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by mrtksn » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:23 PM UTC

mrelectric wrote: post #464

mrtksn wrote: post #276

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They were the website I torrented the entire Succession series.

Mate, you're being obnoxious.

I have no idea why explaining how I use the website to the question on what the website is about would be obnoxious but O.K.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Valgrim » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:27 PM UTC

whimsicalism wrote: post #505

maeln wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitcoin is going to be 15 years old soon and aside from this original usage, no real usage has really taken off for "blockchain" technologies (and no, I am not counting the occasional pump and dump / virtual scarcity scheme as a real usage of the tech). We really have to stop asking this question. And I say this having had some involvement with some web3 projects/company. Even if it is theoretically possible, it crea…

There are plenty of real uses for cryptocurrency that exist in the real world, but most of it is boring stuff: people holding their assets in stablecoins in countries that have capital controls.

This is an example of a real, yet illegal use of cryptocurrency (in the sense that it is used to circumvent the local laws). Also said cryptocurrency has to remain hidden like a treasure in a chest inside a secret cave, or it can be seized, and if the owner does not comply with the seizure, he can be jailed.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by rabuse » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:34 PM UTC

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

RARBG was my favorite for finding HDR/4k content. Anybody got an alternative?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by getcrunk » Wed, May 31, 2023, 8:35 PM UTC

robertoandred wrote: post #359

pengster wrote: post #67

so sad to read this - I know it's probably too late but if its a money question as they stated on the site, I would pay for it to remain!

You'd pay for the ability to steal?

Torrenting is not stealing. Stealing implies preventing the original owner use of the item