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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by IgorPartola »

terminalcommand wrote: post #520
Mountain_Skies wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Law firms must love how many billable hours such quests generate for them.

In my experience law firms would not hop through these. That is the job of hired ethical hackers, police and prosecutor's office. A law firm would be useful in (a) applying to remove illegal content, (b) seize any profit generated by illegal use of clents' content, (c) (if the client requests) horrify users identified of such illegal services, (d) pressure the authorities to crack down on the operation. Most lawyers…

> My advice would be establish a good working relationship with a lawyer in the firm that you trust, continuously send work. Ask estimates if you are on a tight budget. But do not be cheap and try to get things done with less budget. Law firms provide a service you need, if you pay them decently you'll receive your money's worth. Lawyers will literally take a bullet for you to make things happen when you need them.

What’s the order of magnitude here? There have been times in my life where I would have found having a lawyer on standby to be incredibly helpful (e.g. car purchase gone bad, property usage rights dispute, etc.), but at the same time spending $100k a year to have a lawyer on standby to resolve an issue of $5-10k in magnitude is foolish.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by theptip »

Solvency wrote: post #179
maeln wrote: post #152

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There is many search engine that use the DHT to retrieve the metadata and share torrent via the magnet. The main issue here is not the tech, it's the trust and discoverability/curating and also not spreading the seeding capabilities. When downloading from "reputable torrent tracker XYZ" you can trust the quality of the torrent, that it is virus free, etc ... It is also usually make searching for particular torrent ea…

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…

What you propose sounds broadly like it could easily be built on IPFS and Filecoin. I think you find that there isn’t enough financial incentive to go decentralized here; groups get together and host/curate for community and kudos more than for profit.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by megablast »

diath wrote: post #546
traverseda wrote: post #460

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Pretty sure I remember there being ads.

Even so, if they earn less money off ads than it costs to keep the site running, they're not making money, they're losing money.

What is this comment? So they were losing money you suggest they should lose more money?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by jasonfarnon »

abwizz wrote: post #169
Tuna-Fish wrote: post #148

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The problem is not search, it's curation. Any system that accepts everything will be overrun with things you do not want (fakes, *very* illegal things), and so there needs to be some authority that determines what is allowed. At that point, you are centralized, and hosting a website doesn't significantly hurt you. This is also the problem with all distributed social networks. In the end, your options are formal centr…

> because absolutely nobody wants to live in true decentralization. oh, some ppl do indeed want to. thanks to encryption they can. but i agree that the likes of kazaa, edk and freenet are not for most ppl.

I seem to remember kazaa being extremely popular (especially after napster was gone) and moreover centralized. The client was local. gnutella sounds like what you're describing?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by jasonfarnon »

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

I'm very out of the loop at this stage of life, but one thing I have wondered--has software as a service, and all the online gaming, killed off all those kinds of warez? Are most of these pirate sites nowadays just for movies/tv? (One of the reasons I have been wondering about this is that I so f'ing hate windows etc updating and phoning home all the time I would prefer a version cracked a la 2007 to prevent that, over the legit copy I own.)

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by protocolture »

robertoandred wrote: post #352
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…

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

I love it when noble saints steal

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by fomine3 »

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…

For US, it's natural that they are aggressive to arrest pirates because US have some biggest content holders in the world. I wonder is Germany content sold well?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by ipaddr »

internetter wrote: post #560
gersg wrote: post #123

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Google takes down content when they get notified, rarbg doesn't.

Can't speak for rarbg, but plenty of piracy adjacent sites have a DMCA takedown program[0] to operate under this loophole. That way, most content survives but they are "protected" [0]: https://annas-archive.org/copyright

Changing the url daily works as the dmca complaint refers to a specific page.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by themagician »

IgorPartola wrote: post #571
terminalcommand wrote: post #520

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience law firms would not hop through these. That is the job of hired ethical hackers, police and prosecutor's office. A law firm would be useful in (a) applying to remove illegal content, (b) seize any profit generated by illegal use of clents' content, (c) (if the client requests) horrify users identified of such illegal services, (d) pressure the authorities to crack down on the operation. Most lawyers…

> My advice would be establish a good working relationship with a lawyer in the firm that you trust, continuously send work. Ask estimates if you are on a tight budget. But do not be cheap and try to get things done with less budget. Law firms provide a service you need, if you pay them decently you'll receive your money's worth. Lawyers will literally take a bullet for you to make things happen when you need them. W…

$2-5k for a retainer. Less in many places.
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