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Rarbg Is No More
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#532Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, illegal with respect to the laws of the country, but there are many countries where most economic activity is underground/casual, not tracked by the state/outside of capital controls, and crypto is absolutely muscling into those spaces because it allows for complex financial infrastructure & also much better security compared to holding it.
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#533Earlier 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.
> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community It was the 4th largest according to TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/
Rarbg was also notable because it was public, you didn't need an account, and it was a lot more accessible (and safer) than other sites. Even TPB eventually required a bunch of JS just to see anything and they'd use that JS for shady things like crypto mining.
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#534Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You buy the accompanying bank account
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#535I 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?…
You can't build a decentralized search because there's no way to trust whatever results you get until you actually build it. If you don't want to rely on a specific community, your best bet is to crawl yourself and search locally: you can do that with magnetico ( https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/ ). Don't be frightened by the fact that it is archived, it works. The problem then will be, how do you make sure yo…
Very interesting, thanks for sharing your project. Magnetico is also integrated into Jackett I believe, which might be helpful to some people who use that
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#536Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better? Which ones?
Private ones that are invite only, like PTP, BTN, RED, Bib, etc.—the public tracker community really pales in comparison.
Public trackers have the advantage that they often don't even require accounts. If a private site ever gets raided, they'll have a ton of records like everything you've ever seeded, every IP you've used, the email address you signed up with, anything in your profile or comments that could be used to identify you etc. Way more risky than accessing a public website where all they ever see is a random IP address that viewed a page or made a search. If magnet links are available the site won't even have a record of what you actually downloaded.
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#537Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any private torrent sites for movies/tv that you can buy your way in without needing a seedbox?
Checkout sonarr and radarr together with jackett. Plenty of ways to find zillions of sites. Most dark streaming sites use these tools to fully automate everything
Yep. Although, I'd recommend prowlarr instead of jackett. Integrates with the other arr apps much better.
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#538Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Many corporations make billions. That isn't an argument to not pay for the goods or services they offer.
I'll add, since I'm not the person you were replying to, I don't care about who gets paid what. I don't care if the actors get paid or not. All I care about is some basic consistency if we're going to have morals about anything. Is it wrong to steal? Yes? Then piracy is wrong. (Or, no? Then let's skip this conversation entirely, you are my enemy.) Yeah, piracy is pretty easy. Yeah, it feels harmless when we do it. Should individuals get fined tens of thousands of dollars for infractions? No. But I'd say it's about as wrong as stealing a loaf of bread from a grocery store. To pretend it's a noble cause is transparent garbage, and unless you can pose an argument that doesn't complain about how much corporations make, I'm not interested.
There appears to be nothing underpinning your worldview for why the industry you work in ought not allow open thievery, but this one should. Yes, their corporations make billions of dollars, just like in every other industry where theft is not tolerated. Or perhaps you support open thievery everywhere at any time, in which case, like I said, you are my enemy.
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#539Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
This screams poor opsec to me. Accepting anything other than anonymized crypto (Monero, etc) is basically untenable in this era of mass surveillance. Going through a big tech company is a good way to get caught.
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#540Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not being nit-picky or contentious - I'm asking from a genuine point of curiousity ... but in the case of Google linking to the pirate bay, isn't the pirate bay the one linking to the pirated content? Google is 1 step removed in that node graph because they are just linking to the pirate bay. I guess if they directly linked to a pirate bay page that had a magent link on it .... maybe (?)
Google seems to refuse removing because, according to them, "Whole-site removal is ineffective and can easily result in censorship of lawful material." Instead of removing, they just remove links by request. Sources: https://torrentfreak.com/google-opposes-whole-site-removal-o... and https://www.scribd.com/document/286275022/TorrentFreak-Googl... - However they did ban Pirate Bay in the Netherlands after a Dutch cour…
Isn't this the same loophole that MegaUpload used? Only removing a link to a file, not the file itself with the claim that other links belonged to potentially lawful owners of the file.