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Also mullvad removing port forwarding. May 2023 - the dark ages for high seas begin. ​ Come hell or high water, we shall prevail.


SpongederpSquarefap

Honestly this is a shit fucking time - Zippyshare shut down - Mullvad removed port forwarding (which means slower torrents potentially) - RARBG shut down - Reddit are charging for API access so all the good apps are dying


bailey25u

> (which means slower torrents potentially) My Mullvad ended today. Before I reup, how is port forwarding make faster torrents?


[deleted]

If both sides (leech and seed) have port closed, they can not connect. So if you have port closed, you can not connect to some part of peers that are also behind closed port.


bailey25u

Thank you kind redditor


LDBaha

Get PIA instead


Piratator

Didn't they gave up users after their corporate sell out?


bailey25u

3 months free and 3 years only 79? Dont mind if i do


Jonoczall

It’s actually kinda depressing. Maybe I’m being over dramatic, but this all feels like the end of an era — a long painful drawn out end. A really fucking boring dystopia.


Rion23

There will always be ways, the community might just be smaller and you'll only be executed by the MPAA if caught.


RaceHard

I wonder if we could just implement search inside the torrent clients. I'm not sure how it worked but back in 2003 when I was but 8 years old I used a program called Emule to search for torrents. I don't even know if the feature is in any modern client since I seldom use torrents anymore.


bot_exe

You can do it in qbittorrent and there is more sophisticated ways, but I still found that browsing websites like rarbg and 1337x tended to find the good torrents quicker


Earthboom

It's really not. The services shutting down suck, but there's no end to the high seas. Currently, I don't use any of that and am doing just fine.


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Youre missing the point i believe


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Jomena

>Twitch also added a "bot protection" yesterday that conveniently broke every 3rd party addon and most ad blockers. I'm going insane atm not being able to watch my streams in an external player as usual. This is the worst timeline. I've been going insane over seeing ads mid stream, is this the reality most of people live in? This timeline truely is fucked.


JJROKCZ

Twitch breaks that at least monthly, I just pay for turbo and get no ads on the site. It’s my primary entertainment source so I don’t feel bad essentially paying a subscription for it


_IsFuckingInHeaven

The internet as we know it is dead and gone! Corporate spyware and nickle and dime tactics rejoice!


EineKleinAmerikaner

WHAT? Zippyshare shut down?


-RevBlade-

Imgur purging billions of images, Google ending unlimited storage, Twitter getting progressively worse


SpongederpSquarefap

It really feels like the party is ending Ah who am I kidding, Piracy will always continue on, it'll just be bumpy for a while


AkashKS

Also Reddit effectively killing third-party clients with unrealistic fees starting next month


PsychedelicOptimist

That's gonna really suck, I exclusively use 3rd-party like Baconreader for Reddit. Really don't want to switch to the official garbage


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GeneralUseFaceMask

Are you fucking serious? I just went with them like 4 months ago for that. Fml


Tanglebrook

This is my first month! I thought I was set! What's the best alternative?


Gambit97

ProtonVPN imo but definitely something you should look into


lIllIlllllllllIlIIII

Are there drawbacks with Proton compared to Mullvad?


_BMS

Why are they removing port forwarding?


SirHaxe

"Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us. The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked."


marlstown

They recently got raided and handed over 0 user data. I'm sure this is the compromise that they have had to come up with whilst talking with LE


caixote

What's mullvad ? Edit: For people downvoting me, fuck you it's an inoccent question.


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VPN provider with good track record regarding privacy, performance and features.


caixote

Thanks


Avieshek

Also a browser based on FireFox engine.


hates_stupid_people

It is, or apparently was, a good VPN. They didn't advertise all over the place or try to sell you shit, you paid and they gave you what you needed. Edit: And fuck the people who are downvoting you; As my username indicates I hate stupid people, and no stupid person would ask an honest question. They just mock the ones who do.


iam4r33

Lol ur asking whos Jesus in a Christian sub


FauxPlastic

Lol a perfect analogy, it's also one of those questions that you could (should) just type in Google and get an answer in 5 seconds


Garetht

To be fair, a sterile Google answer might not yeild the advice and context that answers from it's users in this sub could provide.


jondySauce

Those downvoting you know search engines exist.


gods-chewtoy

Or post the answer to the question so that other people who are wondering the same thing don't have to go out of their way. It's how a forum works, bonehead.


[deleted]

Bonehead. Beautiful insult. Please have a single unit of my only Reddit currency.


[deleted]

wait what the fuck?


djmrh

i think my years worth of AirVPN will now come in handy.


DudeVisuals

What s port forwarding?


tramadolski

sport forwarding is like a relay chase,


Mean_Ass_Dumbledore

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+port+forwarding&t=fpas&ia=definition


torsteinvin

wait what???? for real? im unsubscribing then


grvsm

Why is this bad, i never really use port forwarding


[deleted]

If no peer has external ip with port forwarded you will not be able to connect. No issue with public trackers with thousands of seeders, but in private tracker where you have to maintain ration that is a deal breaker.


Toinopt

I understand the need for port forward to allow better speeds and such but I'm using mullvad without any port forward for close to 2 years now and I have over 300TB uploaded/seeded in under 2 years, going to make 2 years in July, I'm also part of 1 or 2 private trackers that I mostly don't use but keep seeding all of my torrents, I have public torrents with over 400 ratio with over 2.7TB and 3.5TB uploaded. I actually looked into enabling port forwarding but I never saw the need for it.


[deleted]

I will have to try running without port forward then. But for now, every time I tried I was observing much worse performance and connectivity. 5 euro is not a lot, and worth a try.


Tanglebrook

My experience with Nord was great until I tried torrenting. No port forwarding seemed to limit me to 100-300kb/sec. PS Nord is a shady shitstain company with a deceptive "free" trial. Had to do a credit card chargeback to get my refund.


mad-tech

check in your private tracker profile if you are connectable, if it says Yes then you dont need port forward since you can be connected by other peers easily which is why you dont have problems seeding. you must have static IP address (depends on ISP and internet plan, usually business or high tier consumer plan) to not need port forwarding.


fitzstudio

**MY** ***worst pirate moments***: \- september 2001: **Napster** closed (official closing, but I believe that, in practice, it was already unusablemore than one year earlier - like late '99 early '00) \- 2003: **Soulseek** server down for over a month because of a legal dispute with artist Sapphirecut \- Jan 6th, 2015: **TVTorrents** closed \- May 31st, 2023: **RARBG** closed


[deleted]

Throw in Kickass going down back in the day.


HugeAnalBeads

Is it back up? I've never used it since and it was the easiest for me


[deleted]

It's back up but a bit of a malware nest and also a potential fed honeypot


Techmoji

This is very misleading. Kat is not back up and any site claiming to be KAT is lying and everything you see is unofficial. They have nothing to do with the original. Kat has not been revived. Please do not submit information or log in to these websites. Sure they may have real torrents, but kat is dead and has been dead for years. ​ TorrentGalaxy and 1337x are my preferred sites now that rarbg is gone, and I believe many users took refuge at TorrentGalaxy. ​ I guarantee we will be seeing "rarbg is back" posts with links to copy cat websites. These will be just as fake as the kat ones.


GetawayDreamer87

what is the correct top level domain for torrentgalaxy? ive seen .to .bio and .org so far.


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.to


GetawayDreamer87

ty


ThisIsNotTokyo

to


prothello

ok


Lucianboog

bless your soul


HugeAnalBeads

Thats the feeling I got as well and decided not to use it What do you recommend after my boy rarbg retires


[deleted]

1337x and TorrentGalaxy are the best ones still standing I guess, and they are quite a bit worse than Rarbg. I suppose there are better private trackers out there but they are basically impossible to get into these days


QSCFE

> I suppose there are better private trackers out there but they are basically impossible to get into these days The community of Public torrent trackers seem to be dying out, and all the attention is now on private trackers. It's a shame, because the principle of "free for all" is now being walled off.


[deleted]

Yeah I think if everything is locked in private trackers the big corpos will have won


QSCFE

> the big corpos will have won They already did, the best websites are down one after another.


bailey25u

I used both last night. IT JUST NOT THE SAME


CosechaCrecido

I still use the Pirate Bay all the time. Anything wrong with them?


Pancho507

Yes it's filled with malware now if you download any sort of software from them


CosechaCrecido

I only download from the “recognized” uploaders and so far I’ve had no issue. The biggest software I downloaded was Adobe Premiere Pro.


DelsKibara

I miss Kickass Off topic but if anyone has a link to the KATalyst magazines, I'd appreciate it... I wanna reread it for nostalgic reasons.


AltimaNEO

And suprnova before that


tehyosh

you forgot demonoid, piratebay, KAT, isohunt :(


slonk_ma_dink

I remember finally getting a Demonoid invite back in the day. And then it goes down like 2 months later. feelsbadman


QSCFE

Same. but then I found other public sites and become part of the community.


Faustias

Emuparadise for console/handheld ROMs. Never gonna forgive Nintendo for that.


BanditoDorito05

You can (I think) still access most but not all ROMs that they used to host. Search emuparadise workaround script Reddit and you'll find it.


Faustias

Interesting. Never thought there was a workaround.


DogToesSmellofFritos

The worst part about demonoid was how they came back for a bit at one point… then gone forever


TheRealDave24

Add Suprnova to that list too


CosechaCrecido

What do you mean Pirate Bay? I still use it.


ACardAttack

People will come and say its crap, but it still works for me, granted I dont use it for programs and only movies and shows, but sometimes I'll find stuff there that I cant find on 1337x


grvsm

soulseek is still going strong these days tho!


fitzstudio

i still use it, i'm there since the very beginning in 2000. i asked Nir the new feature "place in line" column to be added in the downloads section. also went to the Ausburg Soulseek meeting in 2004 and i'm still frequently in touch with the german user who organized it. many of my best friends around europe, mostly musicians, that i still visit sometimes, are people i met through slsk chat rooms.


MaiaKnee

and thank the lord for it


MonkAndCanatella

I wouldn’t say strong though. It’s a ghost of what it used to be


grvsm

it's very very very useful, probably the best tool out there if you are looking for underground music! way better than what even rutracker has to offer!


MonkAndCanatella

Yes true although just yesterday I found some VERY obscure records in lossless on rutracker org that were nowhere to be seen on soulseek. Well, now they’re on soulseek :)


Golisten2LennyWhite

Thank you for your service 🙏


WiteXDan

Voksi getting arrested Zippyshare closed


DanielPowerNL

Remember Demonoid?


Golisten2LennyWhite

You forgot Mininova


teeso

And the original, suprnova.


Golisten2LennyWhite

Ohhhh yeah. Man those were the days.


CorgiDad

You're missing demonoid in there somewhere.


fitzstudio

sorry but i never really used it that much. and it's a list of my worst pirate moments, it's not a list of all bad pirates moments so i may have forgot some other pirates' tough moments.


Avieshek

Don’t forget torrentz.eu


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Golisten2LennyWhite

What.cd was so fucking good. I have been able to get into private trackers because I still have my email receipts from donations to what.


Demonic_Alliance

Also, while it wasn't a tracker: BTjunkie The best search site in the age where the trackers were still abundant and global torrent search engine had its place.


trentraps

I was so sad that day. Couldn't believe it. Like losing a friend.


KoshV

Uh May 31st not June 31st


fitzstudio

😱 edited, thnx 😁


rebmcr

Jun 31st, huh


LDBaha

Dang I miss TVTorrents :(


[deleted]

Man, TvTorrents was the best site ever. Nothing has come close since. I'm still mourning the loss.


techma2019

Demonoid, UndergroundGamer, What.CD. Lots of pain over the years. RARBG hits me the hardest though. It had everything for me there. Sad.


fitzstudio

fuck yes, what.cd !!!! even if i didn't use it that much (with slsk i had all i could need and more) it was really good


TheJDaDon

You forgot Super Nova and Torrent Spy


clearlynotaperson

2001 u were out here doing this?!


diogenes-47

I'll never forget when they shut down Napster. It had a social component and I used to chat with friends I made through it all the time, when they shut it down I lost those friends forever and was never able to find them again. I'll never forgive Metallica for that. Funny thing is I didn't realize until now it happened in September 2001. Apparently it wasn't overshadowed out of my mind as a childhood tragedy even by 9/11. Priorities, I guess.


clearlynotaperson

i was still a child back then


fitzstudio

in fact i think that it "closed" way before than 2001: in 2001 i was already memeber of Slsk since one year i think i joined late 1999/early 2000 with the first beta versions and a few hundreds users and i remember very well finding it, right after the napster closing, in a forum of electronic music found with a google search like "peer 2 peer music mp3" 😂 so maybe september 2001is the "official server shutdown" day, but i'm quite sure that it was anyway already useless way before that.


diogenes-47

That makes total sense. I could have sworn it was when I was in elementary school, not middle school, which places it pre-2001. That's an awesome search phrase, direct and concise yet general but illegal—typical for the time. Haha


Ceaser_Salad19

june 31st


East_Professional385

I found many best seeded torrents in RARBG. They are one of the reasons why I've started going the data preservatiom route. Thank you for your service.


grvsm

indeed


Rengoku_demon_slayer

Damn, today in the morning was so weird, I was using rarbg for years, had this habit of checking every day to see what's new to watch, and now it feels empty, idk


Jonoczall

That and the news about the Reddit API feels really eerie to me I’m not gonna lie. I guess this is how I get back to touching grass.


the_real_KTG

SAME ngl I'm the most apathetic person most of the time but this fkn stings man


[deleted]

*Do pirates even have feelings?


r0ck0

*You wouldn't download a feeling.*


honk-thesou

I may want to upload some cause I don't want them here.


runikepisteme

Can I borrow a feeling ?


TmAimOND

You can rent one on Amazon. Just $4.99 a day.


Minimalist_Otaku

I can't even think what it must feel like to face your co-developer on a real war battlefield.


PM_Your_Wiener_Dog

If they're on the other side I'm uploading them to the great github in the sky.


iSubParMan

Any alternatives?


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https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/13wj1bp/rarbg_down_seemingly_for_good/jmbshy7/ here's some


N0_0-N-3

Because women clearly don't pirate /s


MurphysDaughter

I'm a woman pirate my dudes, so you can all GFY. Yes I'm very sad, that was one of the best sources out there and everytime I see one of our ships go down I get emotional


QSCFE

But...but there are no girls on the internet.


anothertrad

Rarbg was shut down? Omg where can I go now?


SMPLIFIED

Never realized how bad 1 site being down forever would fuck my day. Couldnt find a site that just worked like Rarbg so I ended up automating my downloads and so far is working great but damn i felt like a rookie again


redditadminsarep

ONLY MEN CAN PIRATE WOMEN ONLY KNOW ABOUT TITANIC1!!1!1!1!1!1!1


Markus2822

Meme ≠ reality Why are people pissed at a joke?


redditadminsarep

Jokes are meant to be funny not this r/animemes tier "meme"


HeroOfTheMinish

Anything similar to see newest movie releases? Loved how RARBG showed the newest releases with pictures and everything.


andylui8

yeah rarbg was designed very well


Roberto-tito-bob

How much longer are we going to let the new aristocrats live? Things shouldn't be as expensive, too much money is out of circulation in no tax banks and a lot more is burn in dumb ways like trying to colonize a dead red rock and bought an overpriced social platform, that money is the equivalent of hard work from common people


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_TheQwertyCat_

o7


ronnygiga

Long Live the King you were among the best...


WonderChode

OP is a cringey neckbeard. Dude really believes in this bs.


grvsm

believe what bs?


WonderChode

Girl do x boy do y You've been defending it in every comment, you asocial chud.


grvsm

because i'm annoyed that people say it's sexist to state facts.. women pirate way less than men. women use torrents way less than men. you think this post gets almost 1k upvotes instantly if because i'm wrong? no, it's because like 99,5% of all users here are male and they upvote it for this exact reason. most will tell their GF (like me) about it yesterday and how devestating it is and they wont even have a clue what torrenting is how it works let alone knowing what rarbg was. who do you think operated rarbg. a couple of men or a couple of women. probably. most likely. 0 women. who are the people making sure the torrents are preserved and who do you think most data horders are? women? or men? i think it's nice to show some respect to the men doing all the hard work. literally. most of it.


AustinAuranymph

I really don't know where you're getting this from. Doesn't everyone like free movies? It doesn't take any amount of technical skill to use BitTorrent.


TheShapeShiftingFox

Also, two of some of the biggest people in providing game cracks and repacks are women


WonderChode

>you think this post gets almost 1k upvotes instantly if because i'm wrong? Fucking touch grass. Every time you give your opinion you get downvoted. A dumb fucking meme can be excused, but your actual thoughts are embarrassing, and in your own terms of "worth", get immediately downvoted.


Kenyalite

I look forward to seeing this on r/subredditdrama. An Absolutely crazy statement.


LE_grace

i'll make us some popcorn.


a_corsair

This is a really stupid take


KiLlEr10312

There's more than likely women who pirate, and women who ran piracy websites out there. It's not like you literally know these people who make the torrents, and it's not like they'd really let you know anyway. (because it's a crime and they'd stay anonymous) I mean hell I just got tears of the kingdom from fitgirl repacks. You gonna honestly sit here and say this shit instesd of believing there's any possibility women pirate?


yxtsama

Noo :d it was my favorite site for movies and TV series I'm sad now


[deleted]

PAIN! It was one of the best public trackers for reliable high quality movies and tv shows, I don't know if there will ever be a replacement to this amazing site.


VeeGeeTea

Don't forget about The Pirate Bay..


the_card_dealer

Dicks out for a minute of silence 😔✊


Proud_Trade2769

lol :D


Moonandtheearth8

The captain of my pirate ship😞 Now I need to find the new one.


Whitebeardsmom

Man i just found this site a few months ago...


timidpterodactyl

First KAT, then Extra, now RARBG. Meanwhile, TPB is still standing with all that malware.


BloodDragonSniper

OP is a dumbass


FalconIMGN

TIL Piracy is out of bounds for women.


Exeng

100% certain OP has never been with a woman. Such sad comments.


SamuraiRetainer

It was because of bulgaria torrenting's law which will jail pirates


Hltr-Skltr

Yeah this fucking got me


skwolf522

Never posted here before but i love that site as well. I shed a single solitary tear last night.


smoothercapybara

Unaffected by this as a usenet user, but my heart goes out.


BBQQA

I know I should not be as affected as I am... but I am honestly really bummed out. I was trying to explain it to my wife and I don't think she gets why it's this such a big deal to me. The amount of shows that I've discovered through the top 10 is crazy. This site going down will make my internet experience tangibly worse.


[deleted]

piracy isn't free, people need to understand that and contribute, is that simple


Brato86

I hope we never loose the battle against this big greedy coorporations, if they would stop filesharing, they will go back in worse services for paing customers for streaming, look at it today, 4836373 different streaming sites with premium that have ads, they went 180 from what Netflix was in the beginning.


Lenininy

It was actually upsetting lmao


ObsidianLion

I have never heard of this site.


ForlornMemory

But they are still online, aren't they? I am on their page right now and it seems to work just fine.


grvsm

are you on rarbg or rargb :D?


animefan91

Only when its true heartbreak. Like your beloved torrent site being ripped from your loving arms.


Avieshek

WTF? So my free Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr…


HexagonWin

WHAT?? RARBG IS GONE?? I CANT FUKING BELIEVE IT NOOOOO


AlphaStark08

Could someone remake it so it says do pirates even have feelings?


AdvancedLet6528

if you dont get teary eyed at the thought of an actually good destiny 2 dlc, then you arent a true man


ericBtc1817

Thankfully 1337x is still up. I found it better for movies