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pity seems like rutracker.org (ex torrents.ru) is gonna outlive everybody
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Amazon has provided the ability to obtain torrents of objects on S3[1]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...
Cool, someone re-start the RARBG on Amazon then. What's the fuss all about?
I've been using Jackett for torrents recently. It seems to work really well if anyone is looking for alternatives. https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
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Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?
They still don't quite care though. For example in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN. In eastern europe this is not happening. Perhaps because copyright infringement is not really a criminal issue but more of a civil law one. Without a private party starting lawsuits on behalf of the copyright owners there is nothing happening. It could be they don…
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Well, Bulgaria used to be a jurisdiction that doesn't care but this is no longer early 2000s. Are there really jurisdictions that don't care and still have connections to the rest of the world? I guess DPRK, Iran, Cuba and maybe a few more can do that but wouldn't they be a problem to the infrastructure provider to work with in first place?
They still don't quite care though. For example in western Europe it's quite common to get threatening letters as soon as you start torrenting without VPN. In eastern europe this is not happening. Perhaps because copyright infringement is not really a criminal issue but more of a civil law one. Without a private party starting lawsuits on behalf of the copyright owners there is nothing happening. It could be they don…
Maybe it's changed in very recent times, I wouldn't know.
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Cool, someone re-start the RARBG on Amazon then. What's the fuss all about?
It's deprecated and I believe it only used to work in very old AWS regions for legacy reasons. Not sure what the current status is but it clearly has no future.
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So these crawl torrent indexers and provide search functionality? Do they also search private indexers?
You can't search private indexers without having account on them.
Some private trackers do not set the "disallow DHT" flag, so those will be indexed as well. Most do, however, and it's impossible to scrape those without an account, yes