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Do those sites actually show you content while they install your malware? I've never seen them do the former - only the latter, and that plenty.
Yes, and they don't install malware. (At least, they've never infected me. But it's not like the media center PC is an unpatched Windows using IE and no adblocker. That'd be the honeypot (if I had one).)
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Has anything close popped back up yet? There was stuff that I couldn't even buy if I wanted to.
Yes actually: redacted.ch is the continuation of it. Quite a large community at the moment. I would however say that the original torrents that were uploaded when they first re-opened it (it was called Pass The Headphones) a lot of the torrents were junk, but the moderators have done a wonderful job allowing torrents to be "trumped".
Any observations you have about their apparent opsec would also be interesting.
I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?
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Yes actually: redacted.ch is the continuation of it. Quite a large community at the moment. I would however say that the original torrents that were uploaded when they first re-opened it (it was called Pass The Headphones) a lot of the torrents were junk, but the moderators have done a wonderful job allowing torrents to be "trumped".
Definitely would be interested in an invite. Alternately, some information on where any former what people should be looking for more info. Any observations you have about their apparent opsec would also be interesting.
Of course, like what, it's really hard to get your ratio up without uploading your own albums, or trumping others. They do however give freeleech tokens every so often.
I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?
>Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar? Just from personal experience, but here is my view of it. A good search engine for millions of torrents costs several hundred a month. Scrapers to keep torrent seeders / leechers up to date cost another fifty to hundred (depending on how up to date you want your torrents). Now add in a few website ser…
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Pretty much all torrent index that have closed ? They were in a very similar position (no content is hosted, but they help piracy) and we can see where that lead them. Your idea is probably even harder to defend, because you'd be sending the webtorrent code directly along the list of torrents, instead of having to copy-paste a link in another application. As a user, it feels like I'm just clicking on a button to down…
At some point I hope the media conglomerates sue Google and lose. Long has it been the case where I can search "watch x [for free|online]" and Google will helpfully point me to a site where I can do just that, no need to install torrent software or anything. The difference from a torrent/magnet link hosting site may just be one of broad vs specific searching purpose but is that enough to continuously keep Google clea…
- either you have no money at all, and you'll probably get a pass
- or you have some money, and you'll get sued until all that money goes into the rights-holders' pockets or your lawyers' pockets, whichever comes first
- or you have a fricking huge amount of money, so much that you can withstand any amount of trial thrown at you and probably come out victorious in the long run
It's an attrition fight, and Google is the clear dominant fighter in the arena
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>Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar? Just from personal experience, but here is my view of it. A good search engine for millions of torrents costs several hundred a month. Scrapers to keep torrent seeders / leechers up to date cost another fifty to hundred (depending on how up to date you want your torrents). Now add in a few website ser…
Also, accepting donations and sponsorships opens you up to being sued for profitting from copyright infringement.
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Also, accepting donations and sponsorships opens you up to being sued for profitting from copyright infringement.
Bitcoin donations was how I handled it at the time. A little more anonymous especially if you pay for anonymous hosting with bitcoin.
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Has anything close popped back up yet? There was stuff that I couldn't even buy if I wanted to.
Yes actually: redacted.ch is the continuation of it. Quite a large community at the moment. I would however say that the original torrents that were uploaded when they first re-opened it (it was called Pass The Headphones) a lot of the torrents were junk, but the moderators have done a wonderful job allowing torrents to be "trumped".
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Bitcoin donations was how I handled it at the time. A little more anonymous especially if you pay for anonymous hosting with bitcoin.
IANAL but purposefully hiding the transactions may just open you up to other legal issues.
EDIT: clarification