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Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by icebraining »

throwaway160722 wrote: post #33
AnbeSivam wrote: post #13

> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA. When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA: > The issue you are experiencing is relate…

reCAPTCHA does have an audio option, and it seems to be accessible to screen readers, as detailed in this blog post: http://terrillthompson.com/blog/682

When the checkbox is clicked, a visual puzzle appears; right below, there's a button that can be clicked to switch to the audio captcha. Here's a demo: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by icebraining »

chippy wrote: post #55
janitor61 wrote: post #21

Why do people assume these sites are honeypots? Would there be a point to the FBI operating a torrent site? I thought copyright violations were handled at the ISP level.

> Would there be a point to the FBI operating a torrent site? Possibly for the same reason they end up operating other sites such as illegal pornography sites. But why do they do that? Because these sites have users who sign in and upload things. In this case, they could have access to the releasers account details. usernames, emails, passwords. It's generally the releasers that are the same people or groups that do…

I really doubt the scene members are releasing anything on public sites like KAT. The users uploading torrent files to KAT are probably just users of private sites where the original releases happen.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by icebraining »

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #53
daurnimator wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recall seeing figures for other sites and they weren't making millions. Infact they were barely scraping by. These sites seem to be run by idealistic individuals, rather than as a profit making enterprise.

> These sites seem to be run by idealistic individuals, rather than as a profit making enterprise. You really think people advertising adaware 'Improve PC performance now' and 'watch XXX live with donkeys' are idealistic individuals fighting draconian copyright laws? Also I don't know about kickass - but for example the /scrape endpoint is blocked on the piratebay tracker (and most other 'commercial' trackers) -- mea…

The common ad networks usually have TOSs banning torrent sites and such, so unless you can bankroll the site yourself, you'll have to resort to shadier networks.

By the way, TPB hasn't had a tracker for seven years now.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by ScroogeMcDoug »

supergreg wrote: post #7

> "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare." Isn't Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn't trust them to hide that information from the American government.

Seems to work well for carder forums.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by asdfzxc »

tn13 wrote: post #63
speeder wrote: post #6

The old kat, that had nothing to do with USA, complied with dcma requests. Now that this obviously doesn't work, what prevents new kat to ignore them? Also, why USA can force random people from random countries that doesn't do business in USA to follow their laws? If they keep doing that, they will end with random dictators pulling a Turkey and demanding arrest of political opponents that live in USA

This is pretty much like the drug war. El Chapo's interview was extremely insightful in this regard. He basically asked if he going to jail had any impact on the drug trade in first place. The answer is resoundingly NO. There is a huge market for drugs and if not El Chapo, Chloe Epa would take it over. Same goes for torrents. They will always exist, American law thugs just want to justify their own existence jailing…

I loved Kat and have used it countless times to get things I can't afford or just can't buy even if I could because of where I live. I wish the founder hadn't got caught.

That being said, the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime, not to end it. El Chapo is a violent criminal. It is extremely optimistic to think that putting him in jail ends drug trade. The point is to punish the crimes that he had committed.

Finally, I agree that torrents will exist for a long time to come. And thank God for that.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by throwaway160722 »

icebraining wrote: post #71
throwaway160722 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA. When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA: > The issue you are experiencing is relate…

reCAPTCHA does have an audio option, and it seems to be accessible to screen readers, as detailed in this blog post: http://terrillthompson.com/blog/682 When the checkbox is clicked, a visual puzzle appears; right below, there's a button that can be clicked to switch to the audio captcha. Here's a demo: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

Thanks! That should have been Cloudflare support's answer. I did not detect the three pictograms as they were contrast-"enhanced" away. The non-visual reCAPTCHAs I now get are even passable without sound.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by tn13 »

asdfzxc wrote: post #75
tn13 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is pretty much like the drug war. El Chapo's interview was extremely insightful in this regard. He basically asked if he going to jail had any impact on the drug trade in first place. The answer is resoundingly NO. There is a huge market for drugs and if not El Chapo, Chloe Epa would take it over. Same goes for torrents. They will always exist, American law thugs just want to justify their own existence jailing…

I loved Kat and have used it countless times to get things I can't afford or just can't buy even if I could because of where I live. I wish the founder hadn't got caught. That being said, the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime, not to end it. El Chapo is a violent criminal. It is extremely optimistic to think that putting him in jail ends drug trade. The point is to punish the crimes that he had committe…

> the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime

True when the definition of crime and the procedures around punishing crime borders on even serious crime I would question if the crime should be crime in first place or not.

If USA had unleashed its capitalistic hounds and allowed Target and Wallmart to deal in drugs El Chapo and many people like him would either be selling tacos on a food truck (euphemism for honest hard working job) or be shot dead in some alley as result of their non-lucrative crime.

Drug industry has been super innovative and invested their mental energies in drugs. If the drugs are channelised they will get invested into something else which might actually lead to good result.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by ktta »

jeeceebees wrote: post #59
drops wrote: post #3

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror / follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

The future is an IPFS mirror where the entire magnet list and web frontend are peer to peer. When everyone can host the site individually on their own computer there won't be a way for authorities to seize servers or domains.

But there will be problems with those serving the web pages being served a notice as they do today whenever someone torrents without a VPN. It isn't inherently anonymity focussed like tor.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by jeeceebees »

ktta wrote: post #78
jeeceebees wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The future is an IPFS mirror where the entire magnet list and web frontend are peer to peer. When everyone can host the site individually on their own computer there won't be a way for authorities to seize servers or domains.

But there will be problems with those serving the web pages being served a notice as they do today whenever someone torrents without a VPN. It isn't inherently anonymity focussed like tor.

IPFS works over tor! The implementation is pretty rudimentary at this point, though.

I guess the main issue is actually distributing the tracker.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by thatcat »

jeeceebees wrote: post #59
drops wrote: post #3

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror / follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

The future is an IPFS mirror where the entire magnet list and web frontend are peer to peer. When everyone can host the site individually on their own computer there won't be a way for authorities to seize servers or domains.

Zeronet has analogous functionality.

https://torrentfreak.com/play-p2p-impossible-shutdown-160301...

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