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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by redundantly »

joe463369 wrote: post #432
redundantly wrote: post #377

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I love when soulless corporations bribe governments to keep a stranglehold on works of art that have impacted cultures around the world and prevent future artists from being able make more art and prevent the proper collection and preservation of these works and block the access to them, all so they can keep making money off of decades old IP. It goes both ways. There are no Saints to be found on either side. I don't…

In fairness, somebody has to pay for the actors and the grips and the foley artists, and I'm not particularly convinced that the pirate's stance of "I want it for 20 cents, in 4k, and DRM free and if I can't have that then torrrenting it is my moral right" is either right or sustainable.

> somebody has to pay for the actors and the grips and the foley artists

They are paid. If they're not paid enough then that's on the companies behind the production of those shows and movies.

These corporations make billions. Piracy isn't hurting them. However, these corporations are causing harm to society. It doesn't make sense to white knight for them.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by SergeAx »

xdennis wrote: post #292
unnouinceput wrote: post #156

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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.

> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community It was the 4th largest according to TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/

I wonder why there's no LimeTorrent on this list.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by doublerabbit »

adastra22 wrote: post #518

What is the best alternative? I know usually people use a seedbox + private torrent server. But which private server? RARBG was amazing because it had everything, but still curated the releases for minimum standards of quality. Is there an alternative out there?

For educational reasons I'm going to suggest Usenet. Sure you have to pay $ for a few providers to obtain most 100% but it has everything that torrent has if not more.

Not as convenient but you do get decent download speeds and if parts are broken you can normally repair with PAR2 which itself is alien tech.

Provider backbone/list: https://svgshare.com/i/oti.svg

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by tyingq »

madeofpalk wrote: post #290
moffkalast wrote: post #132

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I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?

Google does not return links to the pirate bay for me https://i.imgur.com/MkAPoFl.png . At the bottom there is a message that says "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 4 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at LumenDatabase.org" and links to https://lumendatabase.org/notices/27615507

In the US: https://imgur.com/a/VjlpwlN

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by mordae »

miroljub wrote: post #371
wahnfrieden wrote: post #334

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Can be both. Even Marx participated in the stock market

Marx always preached that the way to go is for the working class to become owners of the means of production. The only logical way to achieve exactly this is to participate in the stock market and own company shares. I still don't understand how the communists managed to convince people that Marx saw things exactly in the opposite way. Even now, you hear left leaning parties telling that "stocks are evil, one can los…

> "stocks are evil, one can lose complete retirements on the stock market"

Putting retirement money into "balanced portfolio" of stocks also destroys competition and pits corporations against their employees in a fight to get them more money after they retire minus the profits of the bookkeepers or how are those managers called.

> "rich are rich because they earned everything in the stock market"

Insider trading. :] And also just buying index funds, with the save issue as above.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by anjel »

waboremo wrote: post #138
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?

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…

AFOAF belongs to the same pvt tracker now for more than a dozen years. The admins amp and push the community feels and have periodic fund raisers. No ads, and if you want to donate, you buy a jpg of a flower on an different site. Seems to work out well for all concerned and while you have to maintain an u/d ratio, free leach and easy generous ratio reqts contribute to that community feeling.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by expertentipp »

cykros wrote: post #481
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #426

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>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…

Germany seems like they just do what involves the most policing. If it's going after companies for privacy invasions, they do it. If it's going after individuals for infringing on copyright, they do it. They got rid of the laws that targeted people by race and background, but they never bothered to dispose of the jack boots.

Meh that's why I stay away from German services. People who go apeshit on you for sharing one 64kb chunk of movie have lost their marbles. Service provider is GmbH, headquarters in Germany? Maybe someone from the other side of the world believes in their "privacy" lunatism.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by muti »

seanalltogether wrote: post #497
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.

The coverage by service for tv/movies is so much worse than games/audio, that's what makes it a service problem.

Netflix was killing pirating when it had "everything", pirating is seeing a resurgence as the landscape becomes more fractured.

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Post by worldsayshi »

kelnos wrote: post #515
moffkalast wrote: post #132

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I've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?

Google will only remove specific URLs, not entire sites/domains. Even if every copyright holder with content on TPB sent a DMCA notice to Google today, new torrents -- at new URLs -- would pop up tomorrow.

Hmm i guess torrent sites can also counter by just not having static URLs for content?

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Post by 2h »

asfdgaidfhfnio wrote: post #291
unnouinceput wrote: post #156

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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…

> Compare to YIFY/YTS, which uploads bitrate-starved "HD" schlock that looks worse than rarbg's 480p.

YES. I have always wondered why YTS is popular, as the quality is always overstated and always garbage. sorry but 1 MBPS is not "HD", no matter what codec you are using.

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