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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 t
by m4r1k 3y ago
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
- rabuse 3y agoRARBG was my favorite for finding HDR/4k content. Anybody got an alternative?
- GaggiX 3y agoI usually just try to find stuff on DHT using BTDigg.
- jasonfarnon 3y agoI'm very out of the loop at this stage of life, but one thing I have wondered--has software as a service, and all the online gaming, killed off all those kinds of warez? Are most of these pirate sites nowadays just for movies/tv? (One of the reasons I have been wondering about this is that I so f'ing hate windows etc updating and phoning home all the time I would prefer a version cracked a la 2007 to prevent that, over the legit copy I own.)
- BlueTemplar 3y agoOnline-only, heavily DRMed games are still a tiny minority of games. And even if you look at popularity instead, Minecraft (so far as the more open Java version is still popular at least) single-handedly skews the results enough for them not being a clear win for the locked down games.
- chickenimprint 3y agoWhere are you getting that from? On Steam, the offline title with the highest concurrent player count is Civ 6 on place 18, with 1/30 the amount of players of CS:GO. On Twitch, Minecraft, which almost all streamers seem to be playing on multiplayer servers, is in 20th place, behind 19 exclusively online games. I would estimate more than 99% of all playtime is spent on online games.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoRead again.
- chickenimprint 3y agoWhat did you not understand about my comment?
- jasonfarnon 3y agowhat metric are you using if not popularity? the raw # of games put out on the market? I can remember the online game thing starting way back when I was still playing. Quake had an ethernet option, and I remember something called "Unreal Tournament" spreading like wildfire around dorms when I was in school. My first though was "it's really fun shooting at real kids instead of barrels!" immediately followed by "this is going to be really hard to crack!" I figured every developer would move online by now just to kill cracking.
- JW_00000 3y agoI genuinely think Spotify and Netflix, and other streaming services, have been the biggest blow to torrent sites. For the average user, it's just so much easier to pay $10/month (or even less when you share your account with friends) and get easy & user-friendly access to the content (in a way that happens to be legal). 10-15 years ago, before Spotify/Netflix, people used to say: "As long as it's easier to acquire things illegally, people will continue doing so," and I think that has really been shown to be true.
- kyriakos 3y agoThere is still no worldwide availability of all streaming services which keeps piracy for media going. For example I have no way to legally access to Disney+, paramount, hulu or peacock content. I'm happy to pay but can't.
- SSLy 3y agoimagine thinking that while what.cd existed.
- SamuelAdams 3y agoShhhh, don’t tell him about RED.
- SSLy 3y agoi've been there since day 3.
- arp242 3y agoCan I bother you for a RED invite? My email is on my profile, or I can email you (your email is on your profile, but I don't want to bother you too much). I had a what.cd (and waffles.fm) account in very good standing, but I never got on to RED, because I never really did the interview on account of having to idle on IRC for a long time.
- jesterson 3y agoAnd may I do same - bother you for invite? If anything I should do - would be happy to
- jzb 3y agoOK, but tell me about RED... :-)
- nikanj 3y agoWhen did TPB get shut down? I somehow missed that piece of news
- Strom 3y agoIt didn't. Even the classic .org domain still works. However it is blocked by some ISPs, which may lead some people to think it has been shut down.
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoIt is not the same website.
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- thiht 3y ago> The Pirate Bay got shut down It didn’t happen though
- bscphil 3y agoEh. It got raided, was down for two months, and for a while it was unclear whether it would come back or not. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-back-online-150131/ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-back-online-150131/
- qalmakka 3y agoThe reports of Pirate Bay's death have been grossly exaggerated.
- lasc4r 3y agoNot really, it's a steaming pile of it's former self.
- bazmattaz 3y agoWhich one? Lol The problem is that since it became decentralised lots of good actors and bad actors have setup mirrors making it impossible to know which mirror is good or not. Ive been using 1337x for a few years now and it pretty much has everything I need
- unnouinceput 3y ago1 - Pirate bay still exists and is very much alive. 2 - Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community. There are others very much alive and better.
- rg111 3y ago> There are others very much alive and better. Can you please tell me which ones or point me to a place that does?
- skulk 3y agoYes, you just have to join a certain private tracker that makes you wait for an interview. Then, once you're in, you have to seed for a bunch of time or fulfill requests that others have. Once you have gained enough reputation (which will be tracked with some weird point system), you are given access to a forum where people give out invites to their cooler secret clubs. Rinse and repeat this a couple of times and you can be in the cool kids club private trackers.
- drexlspivey 3y agocheck the sidebar of r/trackers
- tejohnso 3y agoPlease indicate which is better. Where can I click on "top 100" or similar, and instantly see a page full of recent releases with screenshots, synopsis, and comments one click away?
- pessimizer 3y agoNot really. Only very current stuff stayed seeded, because there was both no obligation to seed back and significant danger. Very little that wasn't available everywhere else (and also highly commercially available) lasted for years on rarbg.