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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

Doesn't Jackett still need trackers such as Rarbg to function?

Yes - Jackett is just a search aggregator for multiple selected torrent indexers

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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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even cooler, someone start a hosting for legitimate businesses like RARBG.

> hosting for legitimate businesses like RARBG.

Not quite the same but PeerTube is P2P legitimate hosting.

I run a PeerTube instance myself and I like it a lot.

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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

Doesn't Jackett still need trackers such as Rarbg to function?

Yes, but Rarbg was both a tracker and a popular torrent search site.

Out of the box Jackett supports many popular public trackers like 1337x and you can configure private trackers too.

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What a shame. They could have asked for donations but me as an Eastern European, I get it -- usually if we get to the point of needing donations we feel ashamed and humiliated and just close shop. I hope somebody picks up the flag. Illegal and copyright-protected piracy aside, there were tons of royalty-free and non-copyright-enforced works of art there and it would be a big hit on humanity's culture at large for all…

I offered to donate money a while back, and they refused.

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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

imagine thinking that while what.cd existed.

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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…

A service and a pricing problem. All cases of piracy I have observed stem from one of 3 reasons 1. Too expensive. This encompasses several varieties, like the media in question being literally priced more than the person is willing to pay, or the pricing is acceptable, but the person can buy only one of several choices and wants to evaluate all before giving one their money. 2. The product is not offered for sale. Th…

With the globalisation, there is actually a 4th reason rising: availability of content in specific regions. I sometimes want/need content with audio and/or subtitle language X, which is not available legally where I live, but the exact same platform does have it available in the region that speaks this language.

pirating is in this case the best solution as I can pick the quality I want, with the audio and subtitle languages I need.

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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

When did TPB get shut down? I somehow missed that piece of news
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