CharlieMopps
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-pirate-bay-sold-to-gaming-firm-for-1635m-1726215.htmlSurprised this hasn't made it on here yet. I've seen this confirmed by the owners of pirate bay in their blog. Also read that they seem to think the new owners are going to continue with the file sharing in some sort of 'legal' way by selling the tracker to 1 company and the file list to some other company so they company that owns the track will not know what's being downloaded? Personally I don't think a judge will be that stupid, but whatever. In any event, this is pretty much the death of the site. I don't know what the new owners are thinking they are going to do with it, they're going to get their pants sued off of them within the week while all the users of the site mount a mass exodus to other trackers. I'm going to miss reading about these guys in the news.
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Samwise
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Not like this will make any sort of dent. Google works better for finding torrents than Pirate Bay ever did anyway.  |
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FatuousTwat
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I guess the company that bought them out is being accused of insider trading. |
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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gryeyes
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Moral deviousness from someone buying Piratebay!?!?
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Fabricated
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Too bad. Any good trackers left out there? Someone needs to come up with the next great thing in piracy. Darknets are all I can really think of at the moment, but to be honest all Darknets will result in is the complete banning of "unlicensed" cryptology on the internet since there isn't a single politician that understands technology.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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schild
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Any good trackers left out there? Oh please. Pirate Bay was mostly crap anyway. |
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Samwise
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Just Google the name of the thing you're looking for plus "torrent". It'll turn up links to half a dozen tracker sites that have it, frequently with more seeds than Pirate Bay does (or did).
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Trippy
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Googling for Torrents is a pain cause the sites that get themselves listed at or near the top are almost always the "SEO" sites that have links that require paid membership or logins to download the Torrent files.
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calapine
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http://isohunt.com/ I guess everyone knows that site? The one year jail term is crazy. If this causes the 'content industry' to draw the conclusion that 'sueing works' we might see a chain of other cases against less well known trackers out there. :/ Cala
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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NiX
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Newsgroups still crush torrents and are much easier to work with. Astraweb still has their $11 unlimited package and then you just go to ISOHunt above or Newzleech. |
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Samwise
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The one year jail term is crazy. If this causes the 'content industry' to draw the conclusion that 'sueing works' we might see a chain of other cases against less well known trackers out there. :/
I don't remember the RIAA going after the other music P2P sites after Napster bit the dust. Either they don't really understand how file sharing works or they're just after symbolic victories. |
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Fabricated
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Newsgroups still crush torrents and are much easier to work with. Astraweb still has their $11 unlimited package and then you just go to ISOHunt above or Newzleech. Newgroups just took a huge legal blow since a provider lost in court on charges of copyright infringement. |
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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schild
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Newsgroups still crush torrents and are much easier to work with. Astraweb still has their $11 unlimited package and then you just go to ISOHunt above or Newzleech. Newgroups just took a huge legal blow since a provider lost in court on charges of copyright infringement. Yea, you can really tell. |
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CharlieMopps
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Yea, Newsgroups suck. They were really cool when downloads were under a couple hundred meg, but getting a file that's a GIG+ is really annoying. VPNs and private trackers are the only way to go. Btw, if anyone has any invites for a private tracker, PM me  |
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NiX
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Yea, Newsgroups suck. They were really cool when downloads were under a couple hundred meg, but getting a file that's a GIG+ is really annoying. VPNs and private trackers are the only way to go. Btw, if anyone has any invites for a private tracker, PM me Tell me that's green and I'm missing it. I max out my connection (1.5 MB/s) and have never had a problem finding a file. Clearly you do not know how to use newsgroups. |
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Trippy
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Usenet is good for recent stuff, as long as you have a reader that's good at dealing with the arcane Usenet binary file formats. For older stuff, though, you have to use Torrents (though seeding may be an issue) or poke through the file sharing services.
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Rendakor
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I never got into Newsgroups at all. I could not find a way to do so for free nor do I know how to use them.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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CharlieMopps
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I never got into Newsgroups at all. I could not find a way to do so for free nor do I know how to use them.
That's exactly the problem... It used to be $40+ per month for unlimited bandwidth. Now I think it's down to around $15/month. Still not worth it. Now... if your ISP still supports newsgroups... that's pretty awesome. They're going to be free, and REALLY fast. |
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Phire
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After doing the whole torrent/rapidshare thing for games and movies there is NO comparison with Newsgroups.
Nix and I share an Astraweb account and I can get anything up to 270 days old at speeds of 1.3MBS or more. 8GB 'files' ;) take me an hour to download. There is no way you can have that speed on items that were released 1-2 hours ago let alone older items with torrents. I tried to grab a movie on torrents this past week and it took me 2 1/2 days to grab a 1GB file. That just doesn't happen on Newsgroups. And once you figure out how to download and search on them it becomes incredibly easy to use.
And for those complaining about cost $11 a month is nothing to have the latest releases moments after they are released at speeds torrent users could only dream of.
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schild
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1.3MB a second is 4.6GB an hour. Just sayin.
But yea, Newsgroups or nothing.
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Jherad
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Thanks folks - signed up for an astraweb account, and yeah - I'm getting fantastic download speeds. Any recommendations on readers, and apps to decode files? I'm currently messing around with Thunderbird, and a trial of Newsbin pro.
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NiX
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Schild had found a really good one that's made by someone from the "scene" and it was on part with Newsleecher, which isn't worth the cover price, but considering the topic of this thread, I'm sure you can find it elsewhere.
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schild
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NiX
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There you go. Schild's service auto extracts files to their file server, but with other services you need to learn to use PAR2 files. It's easy stuff and you can set it so it repairs broken rars and then auto extracts. So nice.
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Phire
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I use Newzleecher because I can repair (Never needed) and extract from the same program and I can automate this process and leave the computer alone.
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Jherad
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I find Rachel Maddow seriously hot.
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Thanks chaps, appreciate it.
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Oban
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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CharlieMopps
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Why would mac users want to download a bunch of software they can't use?  |
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Moaner
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Usenet is great with 300 day retention. Not that I would know or anything.
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PSN: Happy_Hedonist, SteamID: Happy Hedonist
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Trippy
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Thanks folks - signed up for an astraweb account, and yeah - I'm getting fantastic download speeds. Any recommendations on readers, and apps to decode files? I'm currently messing around with Thunderbird, and a trial of Newsbin pro.
I use GrabIt. |
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FatuousTwat
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Back when I was using Usenet, GrabIt was my program of choice. It's been a while since I've used it though.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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gryeyes
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Most of the things I use torrents for are pretty old. Usenets dont help me much, if it is something newer a torrent is still more efficient for me.
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Righ
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Back when I was using Usenet, GrabIt was my program of choice.
Back when I was using UseNet, trn was my program of choice. It was that, rn, nn or vnews basically.  |
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Tairnyn
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The first rule of Usenet...
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NiX
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Most of the things I use torrents for are pretty old.
Like, 1990s old? Cause I haven't had a problem finding anything around 5+ years old. |
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