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>According to anti-piracy group BREIN, traffic to The Pirate Bay suffered a 40% drop in traffic in the three months after local ISPs began blocking the site.
Have (((they))) finally killed piracy, bros?

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They started using a coin miner so fuck them

so? better than those awful pop under ads that start playing porn at 100% volume in the background at the worst possible times.

who cares

>According to anti-piracy group BREIN

I instantly believe.
Did you know btw that piracy cost the industry billions as every download is a lost sale? According to the industry group, and they gotta know it obviously.

40 domains down, hundreds more up

All hail the hydra bay

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I'm big pimpin on Apollo so idgaf

this. one pirated movie costs the studios millions of dollars. Thousands of pirated movies costs the studios TRILLIONS.

I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm.

I'm pretty sure you're a retard.

Wait was the interviewer wrong here? I barely know anything about conversion and lossless formats

>he doesn't use qBitTorrent's search engine
Plebs

>this is the shit private tracker people have to go though

I sorta hope online piracy dies out so people will host secret LAN parties where they share files, like the copy parties in the 90s.

Don't forget a seedbox, a good enough internet speed and a ridiculously long queue for these interviews.

lossy like mp3 to lossless like flac doesn't affect audio at all, it just makes the file bigger

Never feels so good to be a public pleb as when reading about this autism.

Interesting, i answered the same when i interviewed and i got accepted

Gotcha, thank you

No, only stupid people use tpb after 2010 anyway

Time to switch for a decentralized alternative

oy vey think of the 6 trillion

>Public trackers
And nothing of value was lost on this day

>You can debate this in your next interview
Hah get shit on son, he systematically dismantled each and everyone one of your points.

Because just about anyone can afford a seedbox and an internet speed of the private tracker's choosing.

>old torrents abandoned
>seeders leave left and right
>only capeshit released the last 6 months stay healthy

What do? What is the next big secret club? The evolution of torrents?
Is there such a thing? At least tell me it will get better if you don't want to show me the way.

Even with a seedbox my ratio is 0.05

I am positive that both were sarcasm. Nobody in their right mind can believe that these statements weren't such.

I fucking hate how you can't access the old torrent files from before they ditched them in favor of magnet links. A lot of interesting old stuff is impossible to get since you can't even get the metadata.

Is this why it is hard to find the actual .torrent files to download?
I too mostly use torrents with the hash keys or what the fuck or magnet..

>apooolooooo

What.CD was worth the interview process, and it had a good community in the IRC. Seeding was always a nope for me so I never used the service, always seemed too honeypot for me. Collect major distributors on one site, mandate seeding at least a 1:1 and then shut the trap closed and potentially nail every last user with lawsuits.

proof?

No. Blocking things online never work. The EU or whatever the fuck that did this can come suck my dick

>get nailed
Most people don't live in the US or Germany, so what jurisdiction do they have lol? Even then they've never go after users when they shut sites down.

> Muh sikrit invite-only club is the only thing that needs to work
What a shitty internet.

>torrentfreak
>public trackers
Absolute trash

>(((they)))

It's just paranoia. Realistically speaking I wasn't ever a target regardless of my behavior, but shutting people into a walled garden never made sense to me. Especially when I could grab 320 rips off mediafire faster and more reliably. The sole reason I interviewed was for a single album which someone sent me over IRC anyways.

Can anyone explain to me why a VPN doesn't just work?

It works, but people are too cheap and lazy to use them

No nononono that has to be a fake.

No, he's correct. What is lost is the information created during the original lossy encode.
It's like pasting a JPEG into MS Paint. You get the same pixels, but you can't turn it back into the original JPEG.

>Using your ISP's DNS service
Just means less leechers when I download things desu.

So metadata? That's not the issue
>But I'm very disheartened to hear that you seem to think converting a lossy file to lossless will yield no degradation in audio quality as it most certainly will

HAHAHAHAHA holy shit!

He is wrong, the quality will not degrade when converting lossy to lossless.

Whether you "lose" quality depends on how the codec works.
For example, imagine a crappy lossy codec that represents sound as the frequency of a single sine wave.
Obviously you can quantize a sine wave at various bit depths. If the decoder spec doesn't care about bit depth, you could end up with a square wave in your lossless file.

>40% traffic drop

Ziggo has a 40% market share.
They didn't account for TOR or other VPN connections.

Hurrdurr censoring works.

I know. What ever loss happened was with the lossy, not the lossless file. Loss of jpg/mp3/whatever encoding information is not quality loss.

Nvm I see what you're saying

It's not a DNS block.

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apooloo isn't any better lmaoooooo

So did Sup Forums yet you are still here.

(You)

Oh, damn that's some cuck shit. Time for a VPN!

Every fucking time.

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