What to you was your biggest loss of pirated content? (kbin.melroy.org)

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We all have our favorites that we go-to overtime to meet our pirating needs. We've also watched a lot of big names in this year alone, go down in a blaze of glory and others in a whimper. I'm awfully curious what, to you, is the biggest loss to date?

For me it's Uloz, first thing that came to mind. Uloz has served me very well in acquiring music albums through them, for a good 6 years I recall that I used them for getting albums. When they decided to switch the way in how they do their service, that to me felt like a sucker punch. No longer can I just collect album names, find a sacrificial wi-fi network and go to work.

I also remember missing ISOHunt, EmuAsylum, EmuParadise, OG Pirate Bay, AnimeSuge (soon HiAnime once the piss-ants of ACE get their way soon) and I really hope we don't lose Internet Archive. But with the way it's been hammered by shitty people and court lawsuits, I predict that it doesn't really have much time on it's side in the near future.

All I can say is just thank you to all of those sources and of course the ones everyone is familiar with. Helped save me a lot of money, helped me increase my interests and eh, can't argue against free shit.

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[-] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 hours ago

Newzbin.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 2 points 16 hours ago

Napster

[-] Opiomi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Nzbmatrix

[-] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

Taringa, it was the go-to place for everything, especially content in spanish

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 11 points 1 day ago

You and another have already said it, but Emuparadise. It was...truly a shame. :'(

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 22 hours ago

Haven't quite filled the void from 9anime/aniwave going down, hard to replace the king.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

Demonoid. They had a community that put together a lot of high-quality torrents.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

This and I believe it was called TvTorrents. Private tracker that was amazing for TV shows.

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Definitely Vimm's Lair for me. I still play a lot of GameCube and N64 games and Vimm's was always my go-to place for finding roms. They got hit with a lot of DMCAs and take down notices, and had to remove the vast majority of their Nintendo library along with anything related to Sega and Lego. The site is still up, but it's like visiting a graveyard now

[-] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

This one hurt me really bad. I was just getting started with retro gaming and then all of this shit happened.

[-] acannan@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago

Could you give an example of a game no longer available? Just checked and was able to dl Luigi's Mansion just fine

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

On GameCube, I can see that Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Mario Party 6, Smash Bros Melee are all unavailable. On N64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Pokemon Stadium are also unavailable

[-] hitstun@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago

Megaupload. It was like the Library of Alexandria burning down. Not just pirated stuff, either.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I remember to swear by megaupload because all the other upload sites uses extremely sketchy ads and allow the fake download buttons.

Now Jdownloader is the only way for me to download non-torrents

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago

Deeeefonitely what.cd for me. RIP WCD. We have two great music trackers now, but nothing comes close to WCD.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

what.cd was a bigger loss than just privacy - what.cd was an enormous loss to preservation of music history

the amount of content that has simply never been available for purchase was incredible, and made available in one of the cleanest and most comprehensively complete taxonomies was amazing

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What.cd and BitGamer were the two private trackers where I really put in effort not just to seed but to contribute unique uploads.

I stepped away from torrenting for awhile and when I returned both were ashes.

Edit- what are the two good music trackers you're referencing?

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Losing what.cd was like having a Music Library of Alexandria burn down. Such an amazing resource for rare, out of print, obscure, and or otherwise unobtainable media.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Opheus and REDacted are the two! RED has more and interview signups. I’m only on OPH because they welcomed WCD refugees and it’s been very good.

[-] astrsk@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Easily the biggest loss imo. RIP WCD.

[-] flux@lemmyis.fun 16 points 1 day ago

TheTrove was a collection of tabletop RPG books and magazines going back decades that has never had a decent replacement yet. It was fairly well organized and quite complete with tons of obscure games and out of print books. It had a different name or two before that but the collection always migrated somewhere until The Trove was finally shut down. I really miss that collection, even though I've managed to track down most of what I needed, it has been much more difficult since the shutdown.

[-] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It continues marching on as The Eye.

[-] flux@lemmyis.fun 3 points 1 day ago

If I understand, that collection is missing a lot from the original. I could be wrong though.

[-] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

At least part of it survives. Better some than none.

[-] spaceghost__@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

torrentz.eu, started my torrent journey in 2010 from this website.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 22 hours ago

nzbmatrix

[-] ex_06@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

tntvillage

It was, hands down, THE place for every Italian media

[-] Krusty@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago

omg yes

[-] Eggyhead@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I remember using something called ourtunes back in college that just let everyone in the dorm freely access and download each others iTunes libraries on the dorm network.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

GrooveShark was a great music streaming service. If a track wasn't available you could just upload it and it would be available to all users.

It eventually got sued into oblivion leaving us with the streaming platforms of today. I really wish it could have made the transition to being legit because it had a great interface.

[-] StarlightDust 6 points 1 day ago

GrooveShark, for me, particularly thrived on early Android as Tinyshark. It was probably one of the first ways I remember actively listening to whatever music I wanted to; no algorithm outside of the list of "most popular songs".

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

15ish years ago when Seagate was having lots of issues with their 2TB externals getting the click o' doom I lost 6 2TB drives over 2 years.

The data was just data, easily re-acquirable, but fuck that was a pain in the ass.

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same happened to us. Not as much data. But two 2TB.

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Asiandvdclub (not the shady remake)

What.cd. - RED is great but there's still a hole...

[-] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Websites: rarbg and emuparadise

Personally: I have an 8tb HDD completely full with shows and movies I haven't tested since a house fire. I'm afraid it may have been dropped in the move, and I don't even have my PC with me to check it out

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

SuprNova was the big one for me. Everything else was either redundant (Like RARBG) or just faded away (like my Usenet sources). I didn't have any replacement lined up when SuprNova died.

[-] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Going a bit old-school with this one, but unmoderated DALnet. It used to be the wild West, with everything at your fingertips.

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

+1, the IRC days were glorious

[-] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Any and all sites that offer unique content that other pirated sites do not offer, such as unknown and unpopular animes/movies, every day they run the risk of being erased by the corrupt hands of the DMCA and unfortunately they may not have repositories for them due to their rare and unique gallery.

[-] SaltyLemon66@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

ethor.net and rarbg.to

[-] whodatdair 5 points 1 day ago

I will be loudly knocking on wood after posting this, but I set up my NAS with RAID5 and have had 1 drive die on me but I hot-swapped one in and recovered the entire volume.

No regrets, highly recommend raid5

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[-] nevetsg@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I still long for the old Scene Torrents days. RIP SCT

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Free MP3 Download, which as of October 14, 2024 is still up on the megathread. The moment I start getting into downloading music online outside of downloading audio from yt videos, the site gets taken down a few months later. Now I don't know where to go for DDL since pretty much all of the other linked sites are either anime music, game music, or upload an [ Insert Service ] link and it'll give you an audio file to download from that service.