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>> One Man's Death Is Another Man's Bread Who's bread is it? Most of the classic bt sites seem to have gone away from what I could see. Sad to see rarbg go.
by tawayasdf 3y ago
>> One Man's Death Is Another Man's Bread
Who's bread is it? Most of the classic bt sites seem to have gone away from what I could see. Sad to see rarbg go.
- abwizz 3y agothe "younger generation" (>2k) aren't used to the open net, they grew into moderated groups (fb), hence i suspect there is a massive number of hidden/private trackers
- thatguy0900 3y agoI think the younger generation just uses streaming sites. FMovies and 9anime work fine. I don't know anyone who torrents shows or movies now.
- lax4ever 3y agoThose who don't want to be dependent on the whims of a conglomerate and would like to actually possess the data files.
- thatguy0900 3y agoThat's not exactly a widely held viewpoint by the younger generation. Besides, it's not like the offshore streaming sites are engaging in revisionism or dropping shows to subscribing reasons.
- McDyver 3y agoNot everyone knows about alternatives to streaming. For the daily 10000 (xkcd for reference), that's all they know. It's up to "us" to show them there are alternatives. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- cykros 3y agoThe "streaming" referred to here referred to pirate sites a la Fmovies or Couchtuner. They're not quite as front and center as they were before Google decided to be the Internet police but there's always foreign search engines to light the way.
- Qem 3y agoStreaming is enshittifiying fast, with content fragmentation, and crackdowns on VPN usage and account sharing. People will start to migrate back to good old piracy, just because it's more convenient again.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoI looked at FMovies, it's all like VHS 320x240 quality streams, with rare 720p exceptions.
- thatguy0900 3y agoOn the Frontpage for me the only camrips are polite society and guardians 3,and both of those will be updated pretty soon I'd bet.
- throwawayadvsec 3y agotorrent is usually available a few hours before streaming sites and you can get higher quality, so a bunch of people are still using them
- easrng 3y agoYeah I do torrent sometimes (if the streaming sites have too low bitrate) but mostly I just use whatever FMHY links to.
- starkparker 3y agolots of password-protected plex/media servers shared in invite-only discords, like a regression back to the days of knowing the phone number and login of that one BBS you knew about from a friend of a friend that posted cracked software
- altairprime 3y agoI have been very excited to see us returning to private forums. This is not a harmful regression, certainly!
- freedomben 3y agoIf you don't know anybody in meat space who can invite you or tell you about it, how do you get in? How do you meet people?
- altairprime 3y agoHobbies and the social gatherings (both chat rooms and/or in person) that accompany them. See also the phrase Special Interest Groups, with context in both Brin’s “Earth” and Vinge’s “Deepness”.