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I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something real
by sergiotapia 9y ago
I was about to add them to our tracker list. :(
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down.
Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?
- photoGrant 9y agoedit: SuprNova! What was one of the first ones I'll never remember the name of? I swear it was part-run by the guy that actually invented Bit Torrent, but it also might've been a spin-off. I can visualise the website in my head but I can't place the name!
- JTon 9y agoI was hit hard by btjunkie [1] going down. IMO, nothing yet has been able to replace it [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTJunkie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTJunkie
- j_s 9y agoIf you have time would you mind sharing the top 3 unique/favorite features? I'm not an expert in this space but I'm curious what it was that made BTJunkie so special.
- JTon 9y agoThe search results felt a lot like Google's. That is, the end user puts in minimal effort and automagically their torrents showed up with high ranking. The site itself was fast and minimal. The torrents had comments where an active community left notes (e.g. media quality, warnings, etc)
- seanp2k2 9y agoisohunt was later but was also really good for quite a while.
- jorvi 9y agoIn order of shutdowns: Suprnova > Mininova > IsoHunt > KickAssTorrents > ExtraTorrent They will be missed.. so much nostalgia. Of the old big ones only The Pirate Bay still stands.
- sotojuan 9y agoI spent all of high school and early college on What.cd. I felt the same way when it disappeared.
- duckarmada 9y agoHas anything close popped back up yet? There was stuff that I couldn't even buy if I wanted to.
- some-guy 9y agoYes actually: redacted.ch is the continuation of it. Quite a large community at the moment. I would however say that the original torrents that were uploaded when they first re-opened it (it was called Pass The Headphones) a lot of the torrents were junk, but the moderators have done a wonderful job allowing torrents to be "trumped".
- Semaphor 9y agoDoes it come close to Oink's pink palace? For me what.cd and waffles.fm never came close to the community there.
- simlevesque 9y agoCould you please send me an invite ? My email is in my profile. Thank you.
- citrusui 9y agoTo add on to what others have said: an invite would be nice to have, if it isn't too much trouble.
- electricant 9y agoCould I have anche invite too? The e-mail is in my profile. Thanks a lot
- Lordarminius 9y agoI'd appreciate an invite as well thanks. Email in profile
- flavor8 9y agoI've been imagining a grooveshark like site, run on magnet links, using browser based torrenting, and with all URLs and playlists user contributed. What's the legal precedent for suing that out of existence?
- deno 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinking_and_framing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlink... You could alternatively try to argue that it’s not a “website,” but an app. Google calls certain websites “progressive apps,” for example, so it’s very plausible. That would be interesting. Then again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14001903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14001903
- rakoo 9y agoPretty much all torrent index that have closed ? They were in a very similar position (no content is hosted, but they help piracy) and we can see where that lead them. Your idea is probably even harder to defend, because you'd be sending the webtorrent code directly along the list of torrents, instead of having to copy-paste a link in another application. As a user, it feels like I'm just clicking on a button to download (or play) music, so it feels like your site is directly distributing content (we can talk all day long about the technicalities, but we know they don't matter as much as we'd like)
- Jach 9y agoAt some point I hope the media conglomerates sue Google and lose. Long has it been the case where I can search "watch x [for free|online]" and Google will helpfully point me to a site where I can do just that, no need to install torrent software or anything. The difference from a torrent/magnet link hosting site may just be one of broad vs specific searching purpose but is that enough to continuously keep Google clean and torrent sites dirty?
- throwanem 9y agoDo those sites actually show you content while they install your malware? I've never seen them do the former - only the latter, and that plenty.
- j_s 9y agoPerhaps your project can include a "memorial" in the readme or some other wiki page as sites shutdown, including the site url, any claim to fame, and the date it died. This page may eventually serve this purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites As it is, if you were to [edit:actually link] the list of sites you currently support I'm certain your project would draw some unwanted attention!
- Prefinem 9y ago>Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar? Just from personal experience, but here is my view of it. A good search engine for millions of torrents costs several hundred a month. Scrapers to keep torrent seeders / leechers up to date cost another fifty to hundred (depending on how up to date you want your torrents). Now add in a few website servers and a load balancer for another hundred or two. You are looking at three to five hundred a month. Doesn't seem like a lot, but this is just a smallish torrent site. Isn't large enough to generate ad revenue or have enough donators to keep running. Maintaining that by yourself soon get's expensive unless you have a good job with plenty of disposable income.
- cryptarch 9y agoAlso, accepting donations and sponsorships opens you up to being sued for profitting from copyright infringement.
- Prefinem 9y agoBitcoin donations was how I handled it at the time. A little more anonymous especially if you pay for anonymous hosting with bitcoin.
- derefr 9y ago> Scrapers to keep torrent seeders / leechers up to date cost another fifty to hundred (depending on how up to date you want your torrents). This part could be eased if there was a protocol for search engines to subscribe to a push-based firehose of presence events on trackers, no?
- j_s 9y agoRelated project: https://github.com/kevinlynx/dhtcrawler2 https://github.com/kevinlynx/dhtcrawler2 DHT crawler written in erlang. It can join a DHT network and crawl many P2P torrents. The program save all torrent info into database and provide an http interface to search a torrent by a keyword
- borne0 9y agono RARBG? There was an article on HN recently about automatically bypassing their anti-scraping measures. Interesting read.
- sergiotapia 9y agoRarbg has an API, they actually let me know in my PR to include Rarbg: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/pull/45#issuecomment-275899720 https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/pull/45#issuecom...
- j_s 9y agoWeb Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357
- erentz 9y agoYou may want to remove EZTV from your support, it was subject to a hijack and unless that's changed (?) it probably shouldn't be trusted.
- smithsmith 9y agotry skytorrents.in does something similar.