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Wow, this sucks, I love KAT, what now? TPB is rubbish.

by cocotino 10y ago

parthdesai 10y ago
Ip torrent! Granted it's a paid service though.
- amelius 10y ago
  Yikes. If it's paid, there is a money trail cops can follow.
johnmarius 10y ago
torrentz.eu
- ue_ 10y ago
  Unfortunately torrentz.eu takes a big hit to certain searches due to DMCA requests, it even says at the bottom of a page how many results have been removed. It's a real shame, and it would be nice to have an indexer on Tor or Freenet that isn't as susceptible to this sort of takedown.
  - lkjhgfdsa57 10y ago
    There is a freenet site that lists torrents, magnet links and inserts the file into Freenet but they use the kat API so I assume it's dead too. It shows that a Freenet based site could be workable though.
GadgetJax 10y ago
Whip out that credit card and start buying stuff instead? Who cares if you don't use it much, it's all relative. I like buying CDs and Bluray, then I rip them for everyday use. But its nice to have something tangible to back it up. Plus its all legal and protected, since I don't rebroadcast any of the content, just private enjoyment.
- derefr 10y ago
  Two instances where this isn't practical: • "Abandonware" — IP held by a company that wants to just sit on it and never release it again, and probably forgets it exists. Probably the company that produced the IP was acquired and shut down by the company currently holding it. It's nearly impossible to find a physical copy of most of this kind of stuff. I'm not a collector; I don't want to pay $1000 for the only surviving copy of some old book or NES cartridge or whatever. (Or, rather, I would, but only as part of a group-buy with the goal of giving the thing to a digital archivist who will properly preserve it and publish the results to everyone.) • "Isolationism-ware" – IP that only legally exists in some particular markets. Usually meaning "some Asian country, and no English-speaking countries." To acquire such, I'd—at the easiest—have to convince the iTunes Store that I have a credit card with an address in that country; for the more indie stuff, I'd have to find someone physically in the country willing to go be my proxy, searching used book-stores/record-stores for the item and then sending it to me. Either way, I'd then have to work pretty hard to consume the thing, given that I don't fully understand the languages involved. Translated release groups handle all these steps. (I wouldn't mind if I could donate money to them in a way that would in turn give money to the original IP owner; I've just never heard of such a setup.)
  - witty_username 10y ago
    > Usually meaning "some Asian country, and no English-speaking countries." In my experience a lot of content is only available in the West (due to georestrictions).
- ac29 10y ago
  Ripping Blurays isn't legal in the US, though I doubt anyone has ever been prosecuted for it if the resulting files aren't shared.
- dingaling 10y ago
  Recently I asked a friend to keep an eye out for issues of a British magazine of the 1970s / 80s. That he might encounter in charity shops or on eBay, for example. This week he mentioned to me that he noticed many of them have been scanned and torrented. I've never downloaded a torrent before but this looks like a great opportunity. So my quandary is: who could I legally pay for an equivalent resource? Many of the authors are now dead and the publisher went bankrupt.

Wow, this sucks, I love KAT, what now? TPB is rubbish.

parthdesai 10y ago

Ip torrent! Granted it's a paid service though.

amelius 10y ago
Yikes. If it's paid, there is a money trail cops can follow.

johnmarius 10y ago

torrentz.eu

ue_ 10y ago
Unfortunately torrentz.eu takes a big hit to certain searches due to DMCA requests, it even says at the bottom of a page how many results have been removed. It's a real shame, and it would be nice to have an indexer on Tor or Freenet that isn't as susceptible to this sort of takedown.
- lkjhgfdsa57 10y ago
  There is a freenet site that lists torrents, magnet links and inserts the file into Freenet but they use the kat API so I assume it's dead too. It shows that a Freenet based site could be workable though.

GadgetJax 10y ago

Whip out that credit card and start buying stuff instead? Who cares if you don't use it much, it's all relative. I like buying CDs and Bluray, then I rip them for everyday use. But its nice to have something tangible to back it up. Plus its all legal and protected, since I don't rebroadcast any of the content, just private enjoyment.

derefr 10y ago
Two instances where this isn't practical: • "Abandonware" — IP held by a company that wants to just sit on it and never release it again, and probably forgets it exists. Probably the company that produced the IP was acquired and shut down by the company currently holding it. It's nearly impossible to find a physical copy of most of this kind of stuff. I'm not a collector; I don't want to pay $1000 for the only surviving copy of some old book or NES cartridge or whatever. (Or, rather, I would, but only as part of a group-buy with the goal of giving the thing to a digital archivist who will properly preserve it and publish the results to everyone.) • "Isolationism-ware" – IP that only legally exists in some particular markets. Usually meaning "some Asian country, and no English-speaking countries." To acquire such, I'd—at the easiest—have to convince the iTunes Store that I have a credit card with an address in that country; for the more indie stuff, I'd have to find someone physically in the country willing to go be my proxy, searching used book-stores/record-stores for the item and then sending it to me. Either way, I'd then have to work pretty hard to consume the thing, given that I don't fully understand the languages involved. Translated release groups handle all these steps. (I wouldn't mind if I could donate money to them in a way that would in turn give money to the original IP owner; I've just never heard of such a setup.)
- witty_username 10y ago
  > Usually meaning "some Asian country, and no English-speaking countries." In my experience a lot of content is only available in the West (due to georestrictions).
ac29 10y ago
Ripping Blurays isn't legal in the US, though I doubt anyone has ever been prosecuted for it if the resulting files aren't shared.
dingaling 10y ago
Recently I asked a friend to keep an eye out for issues of a British magazine of the 1970s / 80s. That he might encounter in charity shops or on eBay, for example. This week he mentioned to me that he noticed many of them have been scanned and torrented. I've never downloaded a torrent before but this looks like a great opportunity. So my quandary is: who could I legally pay for an equivalent resource? Many of the authors are now dead and the publisher went bankrupt.