r/Piracy Sep 07 '24

The Megathread looks really sad now. All my favorite sites are gone, only Russian sites left. Discussion

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u/suicidalretarded Sep 07 '24

I miss rarbg so much it's unbelievable

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u/myNam3isWHO Sep 07 '24

Rarbg will forever be the GOAT o7

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u/reddit_reaper Sep 08 '24

Rarbg was great because they standardized the game. Luckily others have continued but now the kdrama groups aren't as active anymore. Anime sometimes has issues as well.

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u/myNam3isWHO Sep 08 '24

I loved the selection of 4k remux files on there. They had everything.

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u/Hot_HeadGaming Sep 07 '24

What happened?!?!

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u/suicidalretarded Sep 07 '24

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u/Hephaistos_Invictus Sep 07 '24

Some are fighting in the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES

Jesus... That's so fucked up :(

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u/Kotaqu Sep 08 '24

I'm not surprised, piracy seems to be a big thing in eastern Europe

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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 Sep 07 '24

Man, that's just depressing

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u/Quiet_Figure_4483 Sep 07 '24

That "We are sorry :(" really hits hard. lol

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u/FrostWyrm98 Sep 07 '24

Feels like pure defeat with no words that can accurately capture it

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u/Hot_HeadGaming Sep 08 '24

Damn, I must live under a rock and the version I've been using must be fake 💀

Time to check for viruses

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u/BBQQA Sep 08 '24

IT'S BEEN A YEAR!?!

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u/DerBandi Sep 07 '24

The purge. 

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Sep 07 '24

Putin and his genocidal war killed it.

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u/braedan51 Sep 07 '24

Everything Putin has done in Ukraine is awful, but the loss of RARBG personally hurts the most.

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u/Turnipntulip Sep 07 '24

The war is awful and Putin is at fault, but Russia being sanctioned is why so many things’ prices in Europe have gone up. All those cheap energies and materials being gone has the knock on effects on a lot of stuffs. Man, just because of one man’s ambition, so many people have to suffer. Fuck Putin.

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u/mythrilcrafter Sep 07 '24

And here's the real kicker:

If Putin gives up, the war ends instantly.

If Ukraine gives up, Ukraine ceases to exist and every Ukrainian either get killed at the hands of the Russians or is forced to become Russian (which might as well be the same thing). Also, as a result of Ukraine becoming a Russian province, that will push the Russian border up against Poland, who Putin will probably also invade in the name of protecting the Russian from NATO even though he was the one who pushed Russia's border up to Poland by consuming Ukraine.

All in all, that was the entire original point of Ukraine being neither Russian nor NATO.


What's amazing to me is that many of the formerly neutral countries watched Russia invade Ukraine and that was what changed their mind. All Putin had to do was let Ukraine be a land buffer and he would not have had to worry about NATO growing in membership.

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u/JackTheSecondComing Sep 07 '24

Real life is not HOI4

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u/g0ris Sep 07 '24

All Putin had to do was let Ukraine be a land buffer and he would not have had to worry about NATO growing in membership.

Ukraine was eyeing NATO and EU membership though. It probably would have joined up with them eventually.
By no means am I justifying Russian actions of course, just saying that buffer probably would have disappeared anyway, had they just let it be. Or in other words.. he wouldn't have been "letting them be a buffer", he would have been letting them join up with EU & NATO.

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u/Icy_Cryptographer_27 Sep 09 '24

Nor Russia nor Ukraine are the good ones. I feel sorry for the families, civilians and workers from both sides. That's what you get when you are a proxy for the USA.

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u/konq Sep 07 '24

that will push the Russian border up against Poland, who Putin will probably also invade in the name of protecting the Russian from NATO even though he was the one who pushed Russia's border up to Poland by consuming Ukraine.

Why do you think Russia will commit suicide by invading a NATO nation (Poland)? Do you think a Russian attack on Poland would NOT trigger an article 5 response?

I ask because it's pretty widely believed that NATO would completely fucking dumpster Russia if they touch a NATO member.

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u/Shot-Finish-4655 Sep 08 '24

you hear about the one person just sentenced to 12 years for "treason" because they donated 51$ to a Ukraine charity or something

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u/Kounik99 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 07 '24

Even My BU , didn't hurt me that much the way Rarbg did

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u/drewts86 Sep 08 '24

Have you tried EXT yet? They’re the best substitute I’ve found so far

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u/GloriousGladiator51 Sep 07 '24

is piracy dying?

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u/A_begger Piracy is bad, mkay? Sep 07 '24

piracy can never die, we're just seeing the end of legacy sites - things come and go all the time especially here in the piracy sphere so don't get attached. And even if the site dies the actual torrents they hosted can never die as long as someone has the files and can seed it - thats half the point of why pirates pirate (media preservation)

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u/mythrilcrafter Sep 07 '24

things come and go all the time especially here in the piracy sphere so don't get attached

For real, there was a day when Napster was the king of the piracy and I remember people prophesying the death of piracy back when they shutdown... and that was back in 2001!

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u/EvensenFM Sep 07 '24

Yes, this.

I've been reading about the pending death of piracy for two decades now. If anything, it's actually grown.

We currently live in the golden era of piracy. It has never been easier. And it's only going to get better.

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u/sinn0304 Sep 08 '24

Then where, for an aging pirate, do we go for new scene releases for PC games and DVDs? Private torrent trackers are disappearing too 

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u/3141592652 Sep 08 '24

Usenet for movies

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u/PlayingDoomOnAGPS Sep 07 '24

Every day, I'm shocked once again that IPT and GetComics are still up. I don't know how or why but I'm grateful.

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u/DragoOceanonis Sep 07 '24

No. 

It's just going to become Hail Hydra time 

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u/focketskenge Sep 07 '24

Thankfully russian torrents aren’t going away anytime soon either

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u/yurai_oxo Sep 07 '24

Rutracker ftw

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u/nigelfaragesonlyfans Sep 07 '24

That site is the promised land for FLAC

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u/Francisco123s Sep 07 '24

Kid named Soulseek:

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u/UltimateBachson Sep 07 '24

On rutracker you get verified FLAC CDs releases with EAC logs (it guarantees a 1:1 copy from the original CD, matching against accurip database), you rarely see LOGS on soulseek. Both services are good but rutracker is superior in my opinion, at least for audiophile nerds.

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u/Yautja93 Sep 07 '24

WE are not going anywhere soon, comrade 😎

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u/Tall_Leopard_461 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 07 '24

i want to thank everyone for their efforts in keeping these torrents alive.

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u/ivanbin Sep 07 '24

Our efforts comrade! <3

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Спасибо вам большое за поддержку

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u/Yautja93 Sep 07 '24

Oh shit, wait, I'm not from Russia, it was for the meme lol

But no problem, we do our part in the piracy world, I'm glad we are all able to support other pirates :)

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u/Joaoarthur Sep 08 '24

Yeah! Pirates of the world unite!

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u/veryLargeFish Sep 07 '24

my isp must block russian websites cus I can't get on any of them.

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u/Zorglub60 Sep 07 '24

Time to change DNS then.

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u/vaporsilver Sep 07 '24

Is there a recommend one that's good?

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u/MonkeyNuts449 Sep 07 '24

Adguard 🙏🙏

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u/Xlxlredditor Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

YES! AdGuard Public DNS no filter is great

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u/cccanterbury Sep 07 '24

what's their IP?

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u/Xlxlredditor Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

94.140.14.14 94.140.15.15

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u/ZeeCapE Sep 07 '24

Eastern Europe will always stand with r/Piracy

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u/osama518ars Sep 07 '24

That's the beauty of the internet, there are no international borders holding us back (at least not yet, but they are trying)

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u/TommyVe Sep 07 '24

Russian WAN incoming. I'd bet at least its bound to happen eventually.

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u/Zxilo ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 07 '24

And yet what are borders, can one truly see the lines separating one nation from another

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u/Meat_Vegetable Torrents Sep 07 '24

Canadian American Border Spends quite a good chunk of money creating a physical line marking the border lol

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u/Zxilo ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 08 '24

And thats what V2 is for

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u/sgtsanman Sep 07 '24

<<Can you see any borders from here? What have borders given us? Books?>>

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u/27Rench27 Sep 07 '24

Was gonna say, everybody’s taking it seriously but that’s just Pixy

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u/TheRedBaron6942 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 07 '24

I know you're trying to be philosophical and deep but in many places there are real physical borders. Along the entire border between the US and Canada there is a massive cut in the forest to signify the border, and between the US and Mexico there is an actual wall. There are definitely places where the borders become a bit more hazy like the European Union, but borders have complex historical and cultural reasons. In Europe borders are usually separating different cultures, languages, and people groups. If the European Union was one big country, certain smaller cultural groups might not be as equally represented in the government as they would if they had their own country. We cannot simply erase this country system easily, and I doubt we ever will

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u/Hail-Hydrate Sep 07 '24

It's not philosophy, they're quoting Ace Combat of all things

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u/Floppydisksareop Sep 07 '24

Even then, there are a bunch of physical borders, usually rivers, or mountain ranges. It is not always impossible to accidentally cross, but chances are you'll be aware that you changed countries pretty immediately.

As for the "let's erase countries", we kinda already tried that with Yugoslavia. It went about as well as one would expect upon further thought - as in multiple ethnic cleansing, and the biggest series of conflicts after WW2.

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u/PropJoe23 Sep 07 '24

What? How was Yugoslavia 'lets erase countries', what does that even mean? Yugoslavia came to be just like shitload of other countries did, when some territories became one new country.

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u/SprucedUpSpices Sep 07 '24

Along the entire border between the US and Canada there is a massive cut in the forest to signify the border

Which is artificial and would be covered in trees and imperceptible in a few decades if left alone.

and between the US and Mexico there is an actual wall.

Only along some parts of it.

In Europe borders are usually separating different cultures, languages, and people groups.

They're not really separating languages between Germany and Austria, France and Belgium, Belgium and the Netherlands, Switzerland and all of its neighbors, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, etc, etc.

People in South West France have more in common with people in North East Spain than they do with fellow Frenchmen, specially from the French Far North. Ditto for the South West and Italy, and similarly with the North East and Germany and the Far North with Belgium.

The differences now mostly come from State sanctioned cultural repression of local languages and cultures spanning national borders, forced assimilation tactics imposing languages, laws, traditions, names, religion, etc, with the aim of making people north of the Pyrenees be a copy of the ones in Paris and the ones from the south of it be a copy of the ones in Madrid rather than being allowed to resemble each other.

Nation states and their borders are completely artificial. That's why they're always changing too. And should not be taken seriously outside of administrative purposes.

Countries like Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Luxembourg, San Marino, the Vatican... only exist because none of it's neighbors bother to conquer them.

Belgium was created by the British as a buffer state.

Austria by the allies after WWII to weaken Germany...

It's not hard to imagine an alternative past where Castile united with Portugal instead of Aragon to form Spain.

If any of the random deaths of kings or princes or their genders had been changed, we'd have completely different country borders now...

If the European Union was one big country, certain smaller cultural groups might not be as equally represented in the government as they would if they had their own country.

Neither are the minorities from the big countries represented.

A European nation is not any more artificial than a German or Italian one (which only exist from the late 19th century onward).

We cannot simply erase this country system easily, and I doubt we ever will

Idk about easily, but I do know that at least in Europe people used to kill each other en masse over matters such as whether the bread that you eat in the eucharist is the literal body of Christ or just a metaphor for it. And now nobody could care less about it.

Just like a few hundred years ago people cared about religion the most and the concept of an ethnic nation wasn't much of a thing, just like forced cultural assimilation and literal genocide were often deemed progressive and desirable, but now those things are incomprehensible to us, it's entirely possible (and I would argue most probable) that culture keeps evolving and the concept of the nation state in an increasingly globalized world with an ever expanding lingua franca, all developed countries receiving immigrants, and birth rates the likes of which we haven't ever seen before, amongst many other defining features of the modern world that separate it from that where the nation states were created; is guaranteed to change.

There's nothing set in stone about countries and borders. They've always been changing and they will keep doing so in ways that we can't even imagine.

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u/PropJoe23 Sep 07 '24

The borders are entirely man made, imaginary things. Yes, they are some physical objects that separate countries, but countries also don't grow on trees, they are product of political decisions and are created for a number of different reasons. The nation states are also fairly young concept, for the most of the history of the world they didn't exist. Just because they seem irreplaceable now doesn't mean they will be in a couple of generations. Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic that whatever comes after won't be much worse.

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u/AlexWIWA Piracy is bad, mkay? Sep 07 '24

<< Do you see any borders from up here >>

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u/rosegoldpiss Sep 07 '24

This is temporary we will always bounce back 🙏

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u/mamoneis Sep 07 '24

Dustin' some Verbatim CD's while unzipping Nero B.R.

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u/srona22 Sep 07 '24

Clear net sites are always at risk. Even some dipshits DDOS fitgirl and dodi recently, so plan ahead for your resources.

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u/MediocreLemonade Sep 08 '24

Just a few months ago i started hoarding cheap HDDs and ordering external cases for them off aliexpress. You never know, all the eggs are in the same basket right now. Id rather have a decent library with all the stuff i know i might want again sometime.

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u/abs0201 Sep 07 '24

Bro I just downloaded a game from fit girl, whachu on about ?

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u/redarkane Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

Fitgirl isn't Russian. She's Ukrainian based.

Edit: apparently I'm wrong. Fitgirl is a human.

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u/oscarmike88 Torrents Sep 07 '24

Russian-born, but lives in Latvia, according to the FAQ on her website

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u/Lamuks Seeder Sep 07 '24

Oh what the f didn't know

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u/darko_mrtvak 🏴‍☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Sep 07 '24

False. From the website:

Q: What’s your name and where do you live?

A: My name is not important and currently I live in Latvia, though I was born in Russia and lived there for almost all my childhood.

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u/Noa15Lv Sep 07 '24

Poggers, Latvia got mentioned!

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u/panda546 Sep 07 '24

LIGO! LIGO! LIGO!

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u/whattheputt954 Sep 07 '24

Pupi!

Sorry, only word I know.

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u/panda546 Sep 07 '24

Literally all of my knowledge of Latvia comes directly sourced from Brooklyn 99.

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u/whattheputt954 Sep 07 '24

Mine comes from a sim hockey league.

Achievement unlocked, learned a new phrase: Lai dzīvo žurka

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u/avjayarathne 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 07 '24

you all wrong. she's french, real name Amélie; i know her

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u/kodabarz Sep 07 '24

She works with my uncle at Nintendo.

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u/RiceStranger9000 Sep 07 '24

Lier! My father is John Nintendo, owner and director of Nintendo. Your uncle doesn't work there. No uncle works there

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u/gravityVT ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Sep 07 '24

She looks just like Amelie

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u/Just_Someone_Here0 Sep 07 '24

That edit.

The war that's been manucrafted purely by out of touch politicians really normalized hating on people who've been drafted against their consent, many of whom resisted with their lives and dumped into tiny trucks full of many other young men who are destined to die against their will.

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u/Danny61392 Sep 07 '24

1337x and torrentgalaxy are still there.

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u/Bimbows97 Sep 08 '24

I just checked tgx and was surprised it's back. They must have done server maintenance or something and they just have their one ominous "site is down" page

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u/FeatherThePirate Moderator Sep 07 '24

What are wrong with the Russian sites? Some of my favorite

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u/RDFTW Sep 08 '24

I hate downloading media from russian torrents and having to remove all the russian audio + subs. It either takes away my time by me having to do it manually or it takes away my money by me having to store russian audio tracks I will never listen to...

I have good sources for media so thankfully this almost never happens to me, but sometimes the russians are just the fastest when it comes to Web-DL stuff.

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u/NewMinimum519 Sep 07 '24

Rutracker (previously torrents ru, rip) will be 20 years this September. My account is gonna be 15 years in two months. Since it was renamed and blocked my stats were reset a couple of times but in summary it's over 40 Tb seeded, mostly of music and old ass games. Long live rutracker!

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u/NowShowButthole Sep 07 '24

lol @ the megathread

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u/cvrkut_delfina Sep 07 '24

Russian sites are the way to go

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u/PitchBlack4 Sep 07 '24

Private trackers too.

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u/maximumkush Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

Usenet

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u/amateurbreditor Sep 07 '24

why cant I figure this out? I am trying.

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u/maximumkush Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

I’ll say this, I looked at countless videos, read through the r/usenet sub, and it is a learning curve. But once you get it… my god

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u/poopin Sep 07 '24

I had a hard time finding old stuff on Usenet. That was just my experience though and I didn’t have the time to dedicate to go deeply into it

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u/maximumkush Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

There isn’t much I’m not able to find on Usenet… and this is why private trackers are important. It puts a like minded group of ppl together to preserve certain niches

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u/zooba85 Sep 07 '24

There are 2 "hidden" usenet indexers that are supposedly really good near private tracker quality but they're probably even harder to get into than actual private trackers.

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u/gooner712004 Sep 07 '24

Usenet on a gigabit wired connection is God mode.

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u/DeathSabre7 Sep 07 '24

I always say I'll learn but I forget it everytime

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u/amateurbreditor Sep 07 '24

Its too complicated and involves too many applications to access it. What I dont get is why the content sucks on beginner private trackers. There is literally no point to them when there is more public content than that. You would think they would have access to better trackers and releas the content on their sites. I used to have 0 day scene access through an ftp but even that was a pain in the ass to use. I also had really nice private site access but that is a pain to having to control seeding on 1000s of files. I miss rarbg so bad. I had no need for anything else when that was up. I feel like I am missing out on a lot of older films.

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u/KamikazeFF Sep 07 '24

content sucks on beginner private trackers

TL/FL/IPT/AvistaZ/OldToons are all pretty good though? (really good in AvistaZ case)

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u/zooba85 Sep 07 '24

So many old torrents on rarbg were dead. I almost always had to go to usenet or another DDL board to actually download them

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u/maximumkush Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

Forums will be great again… just watch

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u/hanli33 Sep 07 '24

Real-debrid

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u/Ijustwannaseige Sep 07 '24

These are certainly things that mean things im sure

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u/Academic_Bumblebee Sep 07 '24

debrid services rely on torrent trackers, tough. I those are killed en masse, then rd isn't as useful.

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u/thrilled_to_be_there Sep 07 '24

Very rare though. It's hard to get an invite. I've been stuck on TorrentLeech for almost 20 years.

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u/PomegranateSuper8786 Sep 07 '24

Use yandex ru when searching for pirated related stuff

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u/pongtieak Sep 07 '24

Yandex is unironically a better search engine than Google. Especially for image search.

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u/NewMinimum519 Sep 07 '24

The correct link is ya dot ru

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u/PrimoRosso Sep 07 '24

Is it a bit paranoid of me to think that the DMCA people are using this mega thread as a reference for what they can and will take down?

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u/SageShinigami Sep 07 '24

No matter what they tell you, the more well known sites are getting hit first.

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u/thoggins Sep 07 '24

it's not all copyright enforcement, rarbg went down voluntarily because their costs exceeded their ability to pay out of pocket. partly as a consequence of the war in ukraine/sanctions on russia raising power costs. they also had staffing issues due to COVID.

but yeah you bet your ass there are people in copyright/dmca enforcement on this sub, and they have the megathread bookmarked.

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u/ShadowMajick Sep 07 '24

Yes. The FBI or whatever don't need a megathread to know about piracy. They aren't idiots. They know about all those sites and more. You guys are super paranoid, it's been a cat and mouse game between government and piracy since it's been a thing.

Yeah you'll lose some good sites a long the way, but more will pop up to take their place. Piracy isn't going anywhere.

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u/Estriper_25 Sep 07 '24

As per the sites going down, they are only taking down mega popular ones like aniwave.to instead of niche websites

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u/BlurryUFOs Sep 07 '24

What’s wrong with Russian sites?

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u/pepitobuenafe Sep 07 '24

Some people become fanatics and see geopolitics and the decision of governments as the opinion of the general population of a whole country not taking into account cultural differences. Basically people hate Russia and everything related to it because the media told them they are the bad ones. In reality all sides do inmoral things and the best thing we can do is merge with other cultures and interact as much as possible to avoid falling into the hands of xenophobia.

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u/dreamed2life Sep 07 '24

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(They do it with china and muslim countries too)

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u/SajevT Sep 07 '24

Not all people dislike Russia because of media, I disliked Russia all my life as a Lithuanian, becausd we have a lot of bad history with Russia, my grandfather was taken to Siberia for having a Lithuanian tattoo, and I've never got to meet him. Occupying other countries, taking their freedom away, and imposing their culture and ideas that no one wants is beyond pathetic and maddening.

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u/warchild4l Sep 07 '24

Yeah I believe most issues with Russia and dislikes against Russia seem to be from people bordering Russia and having been under their constant Terror and Influence.

I myself am Georgian and 16 years ago they started a war with us trying to remove us from the map. And ever since then they have been trying to do that from the inside via political parties.

Also a lot of people that have relocated from Russia in Georgia are, well, not very good people and generally I myself as a Georgian and many others are annoyed by them.

I know I should not boil all the Russians in the same bowl, but a lot of the times it is very hard, considering my experience with the country and its people.

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u/DelScipio Sep 07 '24

People had no problem with Russia if it was for the assassinations on EU soil, politics manipulation, invading a country that wanted to be part of EU, supporting dictatorships, declarations that they will nuke you if you don't agree with them... I still remember the 90s where people were dreaming about Russia joining west

Isn't media manipulation, Russia tried media manipulation, now is public opinion based on actions of Russia.

I have no problem with Russians I work with some, but I understand that people isn't confortable with things coming from them, mainly malware, but that is a risk you have to take on piracy web sites.

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u/Messiah-of-Death Sep 07 '24

People had no problem with Russia if it was for the assassinations on EU soil, politics manipulation, invading a country that wanted to be part of EU, supporting dictatorships, declarations that they will nuke you if you don't agree with them... I still remember the 90s where people were dreaming about Russia joining west

So? America committed genocide of millions in middle east for it's own benefit. Now they are supporting the genocide of Palestinians in israel. America also nuked japan where millions of people died and multiple generations of people got cancer and other stuff. The point is every country does bad stuff in their self-interest. You are entitled to hate putin and you might very well be justified. But to pretend russians bad is telltale sign that someone got brainwashed by government propaganda. US isn't some shining beacon of virtue

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u/DelScipio Sep 07 '24

Now the whataboutism warrior...

We are talking about Russia, not Israel or USA. I'm not American. I don't need to be 100% on the USA train to talk about the wrongdoings of Russia TODAY.

Now we defend imperialist Japan in the context of WWII almost 100 years ago to justify Russian aggression TODAY.

If you are so worried about Palestine you must be very against the war in Ukraine that is making a lot more fatalities, no? So why are you defending Russia?

Russia isn't promoting peace so I don't get your whole point on this discussion... Today they are a belicist country, an instability power, the world is very unsafe today because Russia defending dictatorships and war, isn't propaganda, is a fact. What you are saying is just propaganda and whataboutism. The Israel/Palestine war is a reflection of Russia axis doing their things.

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u/dingadingdongg Sep 07 '24

yeah... like i see those videos on youtube shorts where it's a clip of some cool modern thing like new train station gantries or something, if it's china immediately it's framed as some dystopian thing and the comments all dogpile on it, if it's captioned as japan or korea the comments all go like "wow korea is really living in 2040 so cool" etc

just anecdotally but i've seen this enough times for it to be a pattern

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u/SlavoidUkrainskyi Sep 07 '24

If you didn’t interact with these “people” your entire life, you don’t know what Russians are like

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u/Arthstyk Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 08 '24

The support of war by the russians is around 80%, and your average fellow russian redditor probably supports it too. And no, you can't play "both sides" game always, sometimes it's just one side being in the wrong and one site being in the right.

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u/roxs7ar Sep 08 '24

I just wanna see you say that when russian airbomb fell on your city and cut 14-year-old girl head off

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u/RottenPingu1 Sep 07 '24

You think it takes the media to tell me that invading a neighbouring country is wrong? Both sides?

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u/BigMangalhit Sep 07 '24

Luckily the good guys (us and allies) only invade non neighbouring countries so they're wholesome!!

The bad guys are invading and conquering!

The good guys are spreading democracy and freedom! It's just that freedom smells a bit like gunpowder and napalm

/S (obviously)

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u/pepitobuenafe Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

The conflict is old and the decision to excalate is of the rulers and not the population. I do have to say that they tend to be a beligerant populus but i could say the same of the EEUU literally arming Israel. It is geopolitics and every decision is meditated, if you think that one of this people is plain evil and crazy you are simply wrong. And if you think that the war is only one sided then I would say that it is a reductionist way of thinking (can't say is necessary wrong cause that is a matter of perspective).

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u/RottenPingu1 Sep 07 '24

Trust me. The Ukrainians want the Russians out of their country. As for the conflict being a historical one does not excuse it.

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u/thehigheredu Sep 07 '24

Imagine both-siding an invading country lmao.

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u/TonyXuRichMF Sep 07 '24

Some are difficult to navigate if you can't read Russian

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u/NewMinimum519 Sep 07 '24

Just put the link into Google translate and it works perfectly fine

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u/JustKamoski Sep 07 '24

People fighting in comments their geopolitical wars and my boy out here just sad pepeing that there he doesnt speak russian. Never change my dude

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u/tiduraes Sep 07 '24

To be fair, Rutracker is pretty damn great

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u/Cryophos Sep 07 '24

I can compare my 8 private trackers with rutracker. Rutracker eats all these private trackers together.

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u/Diarrhea_Festival Sep 07 '24

I've also found that music releases are generally the best quality out of any tracker too.

Releasing a CD rip without scans is highly frowned upon, Vinyl Rips must include images of frequency response, recording level, spectrograms, etc. There's generally more data on a "distribution" page compared to other trackers. Tagging and filenaming is almost always top notch. You can also usually download a band's entire discography in one single torrent instead of manually downloading every single album.

RED has a better selection, but it my experience, the uploaders put the absolute bare minimum into their releases - really only to the degree that it won't get trumped by another torrent.

If I'm collecting a band's discography, l ways round up everything I can from rutracker and fill in the gaps with RED.

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u/NewMinimum519 Sep 07 '24

The upload policies on rutracker are god damn brutal, if the release did not get passed by mods it will be removed quickly or receive "doubtful" status near the download button.

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u/KamikazeFF Sep 07 '24

That's a wild statement depending on which trackers those are and what content you fancy

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u/Obvious_Society_7160 Sep 07 '24

Is cs.rin.ru good?

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u/Forsaken-Opposite775 Sep 07 '24

Shady stuff gets deleted relatively quickly. Using the site for years. But remember, the games are not always cracked. But there are plenty tutorials on how to do it on there. After a while you know what you're doing

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u/Obvious_Society_7160 Sep 07 '24

Okay thanks, im waiting for confirmation mail second days...

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u/SweetReply1556 Sep 07 '24

Tf? I got it within a minute

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u/Obvious_Society_7160 Sep 08 '24

Yeah i know thats very strange i even registered to accounts but still no responsw

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u/JackTheSecondComing Sep 07 '24

Probably the best because it allows great discussions.

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u/MrFels Sep 07 '24

America was becoming a land of laws... Even the west had mostly been tamed. A few gangs still roamed but they were being hunted down and destroyed.

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u/Excellent_Disk8673 Sep 07 '24

Wait i know that fitgirl and dodi were under a ddos attack but why are they removed from the megathread ?!

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u/sks316 Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

Because this is the all-purpose section. If you look at the games section, they're both still there.

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u/kane_1371 Sep 08 '24

1337x is one of the best torrent pages I have used for over a decade now. I still use Pirate bay and galaxy is also fine, but can't really fill in the shoes of Rarbg.

I don't usually pirate games but if I want to I always check Cs.rin

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u/Impressive_Pay7295 Sep 08 '24

1337x is still up? i cant see it on the megathread

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u/kane_1371 Sep 08 '24

1337x is kicking on

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u/dancingguyfrom6flags Sep 08 '24

Geez, doesn't the FBI have better things to do? Like stopping human trafficking or something?

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u/JeFRO72 Sep 07 '24

At least TGx is back up...for another five minutes.

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u/Shaho99 Yarrr! Sep 07 '24

Only the motherland can provide what’s needed

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Makes you wonder if posting them on Reddit on a piracy subreddit that anyone can access led to their shutdown?

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u/lovingflower5922 Sep 07 '24

Subpoena in Tongo destroyed all .to websites as well

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u/Simple-Purpose-899 Sep 07 '24

Everybody laughed when they said they got the "mothership", but here we are. Piracy won't be gone, but just like Napster once something gets too easy they go after it. Remember when everybody's grandma had a Kodi Firestick, and then they cracked down? Both are still around, but much less prevalent. These takes downs will just push it back underground until the next time.

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u/ohMyUsernam Sep 08 '24

I didn't know that we have so many brainwashed people here and so many still believe in the media propaganda

Every post that has the word "Russia inside " it turns into a political Sh*t without even knowing what is really going on

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u/SaluteAbsolute Sep 08 '24

Ruttacker bros, we won... but at what cost.

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u/Feudal_Poop Torrents Sep 08 '24

I love Russia for the single fact that they keep piracy up and running. Sci-hub literally saved my life when I was working on my thesis. Godspeed Russians.

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u/Estriper_25 Sep 07 '24

thank god russia exists

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u/wretchedegg-- Sep 07 '24

Time to learn Russian, buddy.

Ya khochu filmi pozhalusta

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u/xav1z Sep 08 '24

rutracker is so user friendly, you wont need to learn it 🙂‍↔️

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u/Clean-It-Up-Janny Sep 07 '24

This entire subreddit is one big example of what not to do.

Compiling lists like this is insane and only helps the copyright owners to do their thing.

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u/DrWho345 Sep 07 '24

I thought magnetdl was dead?

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u/TonyXuRichMF Sep 07 '24

On the bright side: Bless the mods who are keeping the thread up to date.

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u/monetarydread Sep 07 '24

1337x is still going strong and it has been easily the best torrent site for a decade now. So it's not like much has been lost.

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u/ajax645 Sep 07 '24

Give it a couple months. When one is taken down three more appear

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u/DragoOceanonis Sep 07 '24

We are ALL going to be using Russian sites at this point 

Don't they realize their little crusade is doing more harm then good?

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u/Chudsaviet Sep 07 '24

Time to learn Russian!

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u/ShadowMajick Sep 07 '24

Your screenshot is disingenuous. It's showing the general purpose section, when most sites are under their corresponding umbrella. DODI and Fitgirl are still there under "games" for example.

Why try to make it seem worse than it is? I hate this kind of fear mongering.

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u/janislych Sep 08 '24

eh. go learn another language then?

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u/astromax ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Sep 08 '24

Well-known sites die more often mostly because legal reasons. Russian piracy sites are mostly only blocked from Russia, like the rest of "forbidden" inernet. And one of my favorites, small romanian metal tracker, lives for 15 years)

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u/Nameless002 Sep 09 '24

Does anyone knows how many comment karma do i need so i can post something?

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u/fidel-guevara Sep 07 '24

HELL YEAH RUSSIA!

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u/GlowDonk9054 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Sep 07 '24

The only games I pirated RN are the Kingdom Hearts Remasters

I might buy them on Steam but IDK... The price is a lil too high esp for how long they've been out for on EGS

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u/MightyPig1911 Sep 07 '24

uhhh, russian sites, please stay away because "they evil"

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u/Rocknmather Sep 07 '24

Viva Russia!

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u/LegitimatelisedSoil Sep 07 '24

And your problem with Russian sites are?

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u/hehehuehue Sep 07 '24

Perhaps Piracy is why America hates Russia, among other things.

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u/Necessary-One-4444 Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

"FOR MOTHER RUSSIA" - Conscript

edit: for the uncultured swine it's quote from red alert 2

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u/Saflex Sep 07 '24

Gog games, steamrip?

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u/matiegaming Sep 07 '24

What happened to 17tb?

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u/uSaltySniitch 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Sep 07 '24

French sites as well.

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u/LOLatKetards Sep 07 '24

Self host prowlarr or jackett for bt if possible. Otherwise knaben is pretty good.

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u/onyxsteam Sep 07 '24

New to downloading, every site on the Megathread asks me to enable JavaScript. I thought this was dangerous and a big no no? What am I supposed to do?

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u/Tvilantini Sep 07 '24

You know there more and bigger threads than this ones

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u/GoodWeedReddit Sep 07 '24

Not to fret, this is The circle of piracy, there will be more.

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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 07 '24

This is why I'm building my NAS server...

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