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Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by scotty79 »

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.

> In fairness, somebody has to pay for the actors

Using open source software is stealing because in fairness somebody has to pay software developers.

Also watching ads and not buying the product is stealing because somebody has to pay the actors in those ads and people who make those ads.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by scotty79 »

protocolture wrote: post #577
robertoandred wrote: post #352

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

I love it when noble saints steal

Creating fake meanings for old words doesn't make them real.

They even had to go through one level of indirection to make people believe what they made up.

They couldn't just say, watching digital copy witout paying for it is a theft because people would just laugh at them, no it's not.

They had to do a two step process through obsure old crime to confuse people. Using a digital copy without paying for it is piracy. And piracy is theft.

Consuming didgital content on your own terms has as much to do with theft as it has with actual piracy that got some resurgence around Africa in recent years.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by Tuna-Fish »

Paul-E wrote: post #544
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…

Has anyone tried to decentralize curation? Here is straw man proposal, similar to cert chains and webs of trust: Say I'm a "curator". I say on HN/Reddit/Discord "here is my key hash 'p2pcuration:185da2bc59167692f596404fd83235f9bcb4e107b041f2e6e8d972da6dba00b7'". Any user that clicks the link or copies it into the search app adds the key to the trusted user list. With my private key I can sign torrents after I downloa…

What happens when you do this is that a few or one people in the system become trusted above the others, network effects do their thing, and the whole thing becomes informally centralized around them.

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Post by bazmattaz »

lasc4r wrote: post #500
qalmakka wrote: post #127

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The reports of Pirate Bay's death have been grossly exaggerated.

Not really, it's a steaming pile of it's former self.

Which one? Lol

The problem is that since it became decentralised lots of good actors and bad actors have setup mirrors making it impossible to know which mirror is good or not.

Ive been using 1337x for a few years now and it pretty much has everything I need

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by bazmattaz »

pantulis wrote: post #160

From the released note: > Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES What an absurd tragedy this is. I think it bears mention between all this conversation about sharing torrents.

Yes my heart broke reading this. Likely two young people who worked together around a common goal. All be it illegal. Now they’re hiding in bunkers and told to shoot each other if needed.

Such a tragedy. Fuck Putin

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Post by hirako2000 »

saiya-jin wrote: post #487
hirako2000 wrote: post #329

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I often pick the 0 seeders results if there is even a slight chance of better quality, and quite often there is. 0 seeders now doesn't mean forever. Some seeders only hook to the network once in a while, long enough for a few leechers to fetch it all. If the content is in demand enough then a few seeders may be left and suddenly a 0 seeder search result becomes an attractive one. Even curating is complicated for the…

Yes it sometimes works but usually for smaller stuff like ebooks or music. You dont want to download gigabytes if not more from 1 spotty seeder, the chances it wont take days of 24h online and source being obline too are tiny. Sometimes disconnect from site seeder count is bigger, and say 1 seeder mentioned is actually 15. But that was never rarbg's case, it was reliable and dependable like no other similar service.…

It is sad they didn't take the care to open source their stuff with whatever doc may be floating in their chats, for a resurrect

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by lottin »

latchkey wrote: post #655
lottin wrote: post #649

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I don't think this is correct. Let's say you have one bitcoin. Your funds available for spending are $27,000 (we're assuming bitcoin has perfect liquidity, for the sake of the argument). If you borrow $13,500 against your bitcoin, your funds available for spending are now $13,500. So, less than what you started with. This isn't a loan. A loan increases your funds available for spending, not decreases them.

If you have $13,500 that you didn't have before, isn't that an increase? I do see the distinction you're trying to make though. That's why I qualified it with the word "collaterlized". Let me also correct you: "Let's say you have one bitcoin. Your funds available for spending are $27,000". No, we're not talking about selling the bitcoin. There is no 'spending' here. What you're doing is borrowing against the value of…

You started with more than $13,500. You started with $27,000. Then you used those $27,000 as collateral to borrow $13,500. Once you pay back the $13,500, you get your $27,000 back. So, you never have more than $27,000 at your disposal, which is what you started with.

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by chickenimprint »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #633
chickenimprint wrote: post #622

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Where are you getting that from? On Steam, the offline title with the highest concurrent player count is Civ 6 on place 18, with 1/30 the amount of players of CS:GO. On Twitch, Minecraft, which almost all streamers seem to be playing on multiplayer servers, is in 20th place, behind 19 exclusively online games. I would estimate more than 99% of all playtime is spent on online games.

Read again.

What did you not understand about my comment?

Re: Rarbg Is No More

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Post by latchkey »

lottin wrote: post #667
latchkey wrote: post #655

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If you have $13,500 that you didn't have before, isn't that an increase? I do see the distinction you're trying to make though. That's why I qualified it with the word "collaterlized". Let me also correct you: "Let's say you have one bitcoin. Your funds available for spending are $27,000". No, we're not talking about selling the bitcoin. There is no 'spending' here. What you're doing is borrowing against the value of…

You started with more than $13,500. You started with $27,000. Then you used those $27,000 as collateral to borrow $13,500. Once you pay back the $13,500, you get your $27,000 back. So, you never have more than $27,000 at your disposal, which is what you started with.

No, I started with 1 BTC.
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