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Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub
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- throw0101b 3y agoPirate Bay really has good name/brand recognition. Personally I can't really think of another site for torrents off the top of my head (though I don't really follow the space too closely).
- rabuse 3y agorarbg is a great one I use. Easy to filter on HDR/4k stuff.
- delusional 3y agoTPB is one of the very few (only?) torrent indexers to remain up since before netflix and the streaming era. The brand is a result of tenacity and good timing. They rode the torrent wave while it was getting big (arguably setting it in motion), and have kept that brand by just sticking around.
- stOneskull 3y ago> arguably setting it in motion i think it was suprnova
- ChikkaChiChi 3y agoFortunately, There are chatbots that will gladly tell you the best trackers to seed your Creative Commons content.
- somenameforme 3y agoThe easiest way is to let the RIAA, MPAA, and other such organizations tell you: https://lumendatabase.org/ https://lumendatabase.org/ Lumen collects and publishes takedown notices sent to third parties, including Google. It's searchable, handy, and informative.
- fatneckbeard 3y agoif only they had rebranded as an AI non-profit, they could have gotten away with all the enabling of copyvio they ever dreamed of.
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- uguuo_o 3y agoThe pirate bay is just about my favorite torrent site. Kickass torrents used to be good as well. For anything anything anime related, there is still the good ol https://nyaa.si/ https://nyaa.si/
- condensacion 3y agoHere is another alternative I found https://cloudtorrents.com https://cloudtorrents.com
- tiagod 3y agoTPB sucks now.
- voisin 3y agoWhy?
- tiagod 3y agoIt's pretty much dead. Nobody publishes quality stuff there anymore.
- SamuelAdams 3y agoFor a while they used crypto miners on their site. Not sure if it’s still in effect, but it caused me to look elsewhere. https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-bay-used-site-visitors-cpu-to-mine-cryptocurrency-without-asking-permission/ https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/the-pirate-b...
- lucb1e 3y agoSeems a lot less obnoxious than the ads they used to run (don't know what they run nowadays). Bit sad that JS is too limited to be a miner that can't be implemented more efficiently in something like X86 (randomX) or an ASIC (BTC), I imagine it would have caught on otherwise.
- willtemperley 3y agoInteresting it's the City of London police doing this. I wonder how many people here are aware the City of London has a government that is elected mostly by corporations, not residents [1] and is separate from Greater London, with it's own police force. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39283177 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39283177
- BillEllson 3y agoEverywhere in England and Wales has had local government since the 19th Century. City of London Ward Lists consist of c19,000 individuals, who have one vote each. Corporations voting = urban myth The City of London is part of Greater London http://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/section/2 http://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/section/2 Everywhere in England and Wales has its own local police force.
- chatmasta 3y agoInteresting. I knew it had a separate government but wasn't aware it was elected by corporations. (We have a similar system in the US, but corporations pick their two favorite candidates and then let the people choose ;))
- BillEllson 3y agoEverywhere in England and Wales has had local government since the 19th Century. City of London Ward Lists consist of c19,000 individuals, who have one vote each. Corporations voting = urban myth
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- jsmith99 3y agoPractically no one actually lives in the business district. It would be ridiculous for those few thousand people to set policy for the City. It would make more sense for it to be under the control of Greater London but no one wants to abolish the historic Corporation of London. In the UK different police forces have different specialities. The City force specialises in financial crime.
- dchuk 3y agoReposting an old comment of mine here just to see if it can get an interesting conversation going: "I was daydreaming recently after revamping and dialing in my home media server really well (Plex plus all of the *Arr services plus torrents automatically downloading shows and hosting a large movie library)… Shouldn’t it be possible to create a “virtual media library” that is actually BitTorrent under the hood, powered by people either contributing storage space or content or both, where no one ever hosts any in-tact media and it’s all encrypted enough where each storage provider is basically hosting useless shards of content, and then some client side software can put it all together on demand and serve it up to apps like Plex in a way Plex doesn’t even know it’s not a local file? Assuming everyone has decent bandwidth and there’s enough contributed storage for redundancy to power the torrent network, you could basically have an unlimited and resilient media library… There’s probably a way to craft an incentive scheme in there for both content submitters and storage providers, probably a decent use case for crypto honestly so it’s all decentralized. At this point, it seems like content capture and uploading to the torrent world is basically “solved”, and now it’s all about ensuring the network and storage health is there to preserve everything in perpetuity. There’s so many redundant torrents out there, should be possible to merge it all in a giant media library mesh network right?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35213039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35213039
- yebyen 3y agoIs it possible to maintain such a project? I thought it was called popcorn-time, but earlier I remember MythTV. Both projects have seemingly been hobbled from general use, the main idea is to watch whatever you want, when you want, and it doesn't have advertising in it. (If the original source recording had it, then it could be removed.) Maybe it's overly dramatic to say I think this should be a human right, but maybe it isn't? I don't need advertising in my life, I think.
- cortesoft 3y agoIf it becomes a human right to be able to watch any content for free and with no advertising, how would there be any money to produce content?
- doublepg23 3y agoI feel like the people still using TPB also use uTorrent. Both are good examples of the lasting power brand recognition can have.
- vlovich123 3y agoWhat do people typically use these days?
- enlyth 3y agoOlder versions of uTorrent (the newer ones have ads now), or qBittorrent mostly
- tough 3y agoAlways used Transimission.app
- eyegor 3y agoDeluge still works the best in my opinion, and it's open source. Not super popular though, most people use the *torrent named clients.
- mindslight 3y agortorrent with unbound to mitigate the UI hangs from DNS lookups (serve-expired = true). The rtorrent config file is extremely hacky and every time I have to muck with it I wonder it why a friendlier interface to libtorrent hasn't overtaken it. But it gets the job done.
- snvzz 3y agoI moved on to Transmission after getting tired of the synchronous DNS lookups.
- mindslight 3y agoI tried Transmission for a while, but it seemed to stall arbitrarily (maybe requiring restarting?) and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I know it's a popular option, it just didn't work for me, in the time I wanted to spend on setting it up.
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- hknmtt 3y agobtmet.com btdig.com filelisting.com
- known 3y ago[dead]
- jonathantf2 3y agoI moved to Usenet about a year ago, the difference is night and day. The downloads are so much faster and you can download stuff that's been up for years without worrying about seeds etc. Much easier to pay the few bucks a month for that then mess about with trying to appease private tracker ratios.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoI pay for a seedbox. That way I'm giving back to the community. Considering all the money I've saved over the years I'm still coming out ahead.
- hattmall 3y agoWhere do you find the files? Do you pay for an indexer too?