They actually won, didn't they?

They actually won, didn't they?
File sharing is now scattered, marginal, clandestine and only found in very specific ways.
Emule is gone. Rapidshare is gone. MegaUpload is gone. Torrent sites are being taken down one by one or simply becoming useless as unpopular files never get seeded.
We can't even point which blow of these is the worst one. Emule was great for very specific files. You could find roms, music, porn, cracks, .rars of all sorts. I'd literally share my download folder in it and was almost granted to be able to download what I wanted.

Want to find old software? Gone. Want to find a driver to an old device you wish to re-purpose? You may even know where to find it, but it's gone, it was a rapidshare link.

Want to download rare books? Good luck finding a site that has it. Also good luck entering a private tracker, good luck scourging google looking for scraps of what wasn't removed. Good luck waiting for the queue on soulseek.

They have impaired file sharing to this point. It's now easier to find where you should look for drugs on a new city than looking for files on the internet.

Other urls found in this thread:

reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with_pdfsebooks_of_college_textbooks/c1xrq44
opentrackers.org/links/publicly-tracked-torrents/
github.com/ngosang/trackerslist#trackerslist
ipfs.io/
zeronet.io/
github.com/GentooTeam/GTWebsite/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions
rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

thanks for correcting the record

Hurry and fill your hard drives before the November Surprise in the private tracker world. Shit is about to hit the fan.

>megaupload is gone
2017.

>Want to download rare books? Good luck finding a site that has it. Also good luck entering a private tracker, good luck scourging google looking for scraps of what wasn't removed. Good luck waiting for the queue on soulseek.

reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with_pdfsebooks_of_college_textbooks/c1xrq44

What?

>'correcting the record'
I don't know what that means. But I suppose it's equivalent to 'preaching to the choir' in a way?
There's always someone to bitch about that anyway.

How many people do you think would come live in Sup Forumsentooland if we bought our own island?

Just a Sup Forums shitposter shoehorning unrelated political crap onto the thread.

there's a Hillary PAC called Correct the Record which challenges people who dislike her on social media. It's become another phrase for a shill

We must pool our money for coax cables. Build a network totally separate from the Internet. Copper and short range monodirectional wireless links. Dial up for distances that cannot be spanned by our limited means.

>scourging
Don't you mean ``scouring''? No wonder you can't find anything.

>he doesn't use usenet
>he didn't use private trackers
>he didn't use vpn

>he can't just buy the media he wants to enjoy

>No wonder you can't find anything.

Mega is still used in certain communities as a replacement for megaupload. Also, the rise in streaming services has helped kill out piracy

its a good thing if pirating becomes harder for normies. its too popular now

Private trackers still running strong although I hope ptp gets taken down because of that faggot aspie mod that bans people merely for browsing Sup Forums

Its not though because less piracy means companies like Microsoft get more money and more free reign to create garbage like Windows 10

if content is only on private trackers then its same as it does not exist.
the things you want arent there when you manage to get a ratio high enough to download them.
private trackers arent meant for normal people ,not everyone has new content to upload and if someone has no one would download it.

underrated

what did he mean by this

dont know how well it works now but i used to download lots of things from a private tracker that is closed now with ratiomaster. theres no way i could have downloaded all that with 500mb upload in few months

Windows 10 was free

>Mainstream piracy and public trackers
And nothing of value was lost

It was only ever free to upgrade. If you don't understand what I was getting at then you're a pedantic retard

lol OP you are clueless

If you can't even type the name properly you're not gonna find shit.

>using DDL

I think this is the way to go personally.

Lol, no. Pirating shit is easier now then ever before. Tons of sites have MEGA, Openload and uptobox links which are 7+MBs per second with a mediocre connection. On top of that, HD vids are smaller than ever with mkv-hvec.

You're just not in touch with the latest generation of file lockers.

beyond how easy file sharing is at the moment, what is really sad is nothing is worth sharing.

Not finding obscure stuff in general is probably more down to not enough people knowing or caring about it to upload it anywhere, and to the few people that do not wanting to upload it so they force people to support the creator.

Idk, when I wanna pirate something I still usually find a way. Tho I don't do it very much anymore.

:(

>not using private trackers
Lol U deserve it fagg.

Bandcamp is full of free music if you download Audacity.

I usually listen to music in youtube tbqh.

...

Not the guy you're responding to, but it was literally free, you could get an actual legit license upgrading with a pirated copy of W7.

>can't buy old game because it's not on sale anymore
>can't download game because torrents are gone

Thanks pirates.

That would be against EULA, so it's piracy again. Also
> "free"
> all the data you give to MS for ad targeting

>
>I usually listen to music in youtube tbqh.
Youtube-mp3.org

But it worked, and that's all that matters.
>all the data you give to MS for ad targeting
Freedom ain't free :^)

file sharing may at this time be crippled but serving content is a multimilllion dollar proposition. tell a crook there's millions to be made and they'll stop at nothing to make it. that's what file sharing boils down to: a shitload of money to make off page views.

OP is one of those underage idiots who just came to the Internet in the past 4 or 5 years, and thinks big pirate sites going down is something "new" or "special".
And he is too stupid to visit IRC channels to get updated on new places, or emerging places.

I swear, too many such retards on Sup Forums lately.
I blame Sup Forums. All the dumbfuck gaymer GPU shitposters hauling their stupid uneducated brains into this board to shitpost about devices they never cared to actually learn the ins and outs of, and then contaminating the rest of the board with their underage gaymer retardation.

I dont want to live on a world where i cant get stuff for free what i'm not able to physically touch.

came into the thread to say this

piracy is just fine, the reason you think it's all going to shit is because you're just reading news articles about how KAT and piratebay got taken down and didn't bother to find out their new domains. Or use private trackers. Or just use the search function in qbittorrent. There's a lot of ways filesharing works, the big sites are getting taken down but they always come back or get replaced.

Rapidshare is a shame though just because of the amount of broken links around the web now.

Wait what how does he know or are people silly enough to reveal their email/user on here?

im sure that no one would want the shit i have anyway so its easier to just not upload it. you can be banned from private trackers for the smallest mistake.

normies do not know how to stay anonymous

>get more money
A person who wishes to pirate something won't buy it if they can't obtain in in any other way, they'll just use another free alternative. Most people pirate stuff because they don't want to pay, denying them the opportunity to pirate something won't change their mind it will just make them find another way to obtain free software. Hopefully 3rd world and poor countries will be torrenting gold mines even if everything else collapses.
Just because you can pirate something it doesn't mean it is free. I've never bought any software myself but I never say anything I had was actually free, it had a price I just didn't pay for it.

so why is there so much CP on eMule

Linux is even more free than windows

buying discs is expensive. they still cost >20 per disc. poorfags cant afford that.

>to find out their new domains.
TPB changed domain names ? lol what

acting elitist is what underage idiots do

Nothing. They are just trying to fearmonger.

I am 100% sure that at most, one site will go down rofl.

>Emule is gone

You are 100% correct, it's the videogame fags that ruin it here. They're the only ones bitching, because muh game trackerz all suck, and because denuvo or however it's spelled is kicking their ass in.

Gamers are literally the cancer of the tech world.

not many and those that bought into it would probably anhero from the copious amounts of body odor and cynicism.

usenet revival when

its prime and the big servers are gone.

didn't think I'd have to dumb down that to anyone here.

Filesharing won't be going anywhere for a long, long time. We're just in a recession now as far as normie level piracy after KAT and Torrentz got shutdown. Seriously, look at all these public sites and trackers that are still up:

opentrackers.org/links/publicly-tracked-torrents/

github.com/ngosang/trackerslist#trackerslist

That's not even touching private trackers... Also, check out these promising new decentralized protocols: ipfs.io/ and zeronet.io/

>And he is too stupid to visit IRC channels to get updated on new places, or emerging places.

Speaking of which:
github.com/GentooTeam/GTWebsite/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

as long as i can still get my animes in HD and day-of translations i don't care

>tfw freeware movement is basically dead
>no more stumbling onto obscure rom hacks or .wad files randomly discovered whilst looking online

Where does one buy DRM-free media?

rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
FTFY

>And he is too stupid to visit IRC channels to get updated on new places, or emerging places.
Social IRC seems pretty dead to me. Only active channels are those specialized to free software projects, and those are all topical

normies posting le ebbin Sup Forums maymays

>Just because you can pirate something it doesn't mean it is free. I've never bought any software myself but I never say anything I had was actually free, it had a price I just didn't pay for it.
What's the price of free software?

Someone originally had to pay for whatever software was put on torrent. If it has a price tag it isn't free, no matter if you torrent it or not. It's only free to you and anyone else smart enough to torrent it.
If you still don't get it:
Getting it for free =/= the actual software is free

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

is this your first day on Sup Forums?

>claims Windows 10 is free software
What was being argued was the price, not freedom.

No there isn't. It's literally fucking cancerous Trump shills false flagging.

>lurkmoar
piece of shit

The rich want an entirely disposable society, and they're getting it. And soon they'll get beheaded. I honestly see a full-scale revolt against the rich parasites again within our lifetimes. They're simply making life unbearable for too many people.

I think also that it's time we started seriously talking about internet independence. With telecom companies serving the wishes of these corrupt Hollywood bastards more all the time and pushing for the end of net neutrality, I believe it's seriously time for internet independence technologies like wi-fi meshes to become more commonplace. We need a good IP anonymizer though. Current proxies and VPNs are basically garbage.

I don't know whether you're confuse, inept at posting or if you just can't get your ideas across, but: if that 'lurkmoar' was imperative, I'm glad to ignore it.

Why has nobody hosted a server in memezuela? Or Bolivia? How do sites hosted in Russia get shut down?

Wouldn't it be a no-brainer to host piracy sites on countries that oppose the EU or the US and have different levels of respect for copyright from those countries?

Over here you can still find plenty of stores that sell cracked software, CDs and DVDs with burned music and movies (if not outright just drag and drop files inside the discs which is not even properly formatted).

>Literally can walk into a store and buy a copy of Doom 3 or the latest call of duty with a crack already on the disc/s.

It's pretty silly imo because I can find them for free online, and I like to buy my shit legit, but at the same time I can still share those programs with people IRL very easily, something that a lot of legit media, particularly games, don't allow me to do anymore, everyone knows about these places, they're everywhere, and nobody gives a shit, I wouldn't be surprise if a vast majority of normies from here didn't even knew that it's illegal to pirate, and they'll surely be surprised to learn in other countries you can land on jail for doing so.

I'm not saying they post here, the user just asked what the phrase meant

spot the cuck.

You people are literally insulated morons who can't grasp basic fucking math. You WANT torrenting to be mainstreamed, you fucking faggots. That's how you get enough peers to download something within a fucking day. All the retarded shit you're shilling is obscure and will be down in a year. But what's unforgivable is that you're not paying attention to what's happening now. ISPs are literally calling their customers and threatening them now for downloading files. In some countries you will be sued for literally THOUSANDS of dollars for downloading something worth $5.

>Dat wut u get 3 not using VPNs
VPNs suck ass and nobody wants to pay for that shit to get decent functionality. That defeats the purpose of torrenting, you morons.

If you can't see the trend of filesharing dying, you're simply ignorant. Someone really needs to inform Sup Forums that being an autistic asshole doesn't make you enlightened.

>Also good luck entering a private tracker, good luck scourging google looking for scraps of what wasn't removed.

Most private trackers aren't that hard to get into bro. I'm in a bunch.

Oh, the fucking Trump shills post NON-FUCKING-STOP at Sup Forums. Literally anyone who tells them to fuck off gets:
>$.02 has been deposited into your account
>Thank you for Correcting the Record
They've made Sup Forums utterly unbearable at this point. You can't even discuss any fucking thing without Trump shills horning in and screaming that everyone is a "hill shill" when nobody fucking asked them to be there in the first place. The worst part is, the entire CTR thing is a blatant hoax perpetrated by Trump shills to do this very thing. The original post included a fucking meme address ffs.

Fortunately, they've made such a nuisance of themselves for so many months that Sup Forums is starting to evict that irritating little shits. American elections have always turned Sup Forums into pure cancer with all the fucking paid shills, but this election is the worst so far by a large margin.

>good luck entering a private tracker
PROTIP
Go into steam friend threads and add a bunch of random Sup Forumsirgins to your friends list. Turn conversation towards music and ask where they download music from - delete everyone who doesn't say WCD. Drop subtle hints that you want an invite and hope the guy you're talking to is desperate enough for companionship to give you one.

Took me like 3 hours, and once you're on WCD you can get into literally every private tracker.

Piracy is illegal, you're probably never going to gather enough people to push against your shitty governments taking those extreme measurements against you.

Best you can do is try to hide as much as possible while you do it if you live in one of those cuck countries.

>usenet

Usenet is fine. Who said it needs a revival? Better without plebs.

And destroying the biosphere and raping Western civilization into the third world is legal. What's your point. I take an ethical position that stealing from the rich even in hypothetical profits - which is all "piracy", which again, is neither piracy, nor theft, is - is every single citizen's obligation. I encourage people to pirate as much as possible, even if they don't want the media.

>Best you can do is try to hide as much as possible while you do it if you live in one of those cuck countries.
No, the best we can do is turn on and rape, then genocide the rich. And that day is coming sooner rather than later. That's why the rich are shitting their pants trying desperately to distract everyone with reality tv, race-baiting and other propaganda.

so how about we talk about our fav kat alteratives? like piratebay or rarbg?

We are winning, and there is nothing you cursed pirating goys can do about it!!!!

Kim plans to re-launch Megaupload in 2017. Apparently he doesn't hold any shares of MEGA anymore.

You could always make your own file sharing service. Something completely new.

I kind of want to see bakabt or nyaa get taken down just to see what would happen. How much salt if any will be unleashed?

The problem isn't technology. The problem is politics. The political climate of this planet is moving more all the time in favor of the rich and against everyone else.

I haven't really paid attention to IRC since efnet and dalnet got gutted or went dark.

Shouldn't you be thanking them? We know CTR gets paid per reply.

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you happy, civilization will collapse again, and it's not even necessarily the fault of "the rich" but of small political groups, "the people" won't do shit about it.

We'll just have to rebuild once again from what's left.

all them rare kat comments. hey guys this torrent is missing episode 44 thought u should know.
GONE

The rich are the only ones left who have some real freedoms. Censorship and good ole authoritarian/totalitarianism are apparently alive and well in most of the western countries. You can see all the censorship and the crap with arresting people for facebook posts among other things. Huxley got it right apparently.

This. We need invasive system inspection that bans users with a discrete gpu or numale mac products from posting. The cancer level here is reaching terminal levels. It can't go on line this. Normies have to get out REEEEEEEEEEEE!

>Keep telling yourself that if it makes you happy, civilization will collapse again, and it's not even necessarily the fault of "the rich"
Of course it is. This shit didn't happen by accident.

>"the people" won't do shit about it.
Not as long as gas remains cheap and the beer, doritos and football flow, but that time is about to come to a screeching halt because it physically must.

>We'll just have to rebuild once again from what's left.
That's the part that bothers me, honestly. I already know what's going to happen because it's happened countless times before. The rich destroy society and get killed off in a revolution, then society collapses, then the dumbfuck citizenry follows another demagogue into even more stupidity which sets up a new business as usual class model and the process repeats. I just wish that humans weren't so fucking evil and stupid so at least I wouldn't have to live through the hell you morons insist on making over and over again. This world has absolutely no excuse to not be paradise but stupid, evil people are always the ones who get their way because they're always the majority and they always fuck everything up for everyone including themselves.

>not just doing the WCD interview

I've seen some compelling cases that women are larger factor to a civilizations failure. I'll also point out that rich or even just people who we deem as more intelligent usually mean well and think they know better which is a common theme at least in the USA.