Why aren't they in torrents?

If anyone's wondering, here's the infohash of a torrent containing most (all?) of RARBG's stuff: A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405

Came here to see if anyone else had, my fork was taken down as well. Not to mention the file linked in the email for the notice doesn't exist so I can't even see what was claimed. I had planned to fight the takedown since at the time I forked it, there wasn't nothing infringing that I saw.

I've contacted github for a copy of the notice, we'll see what happens.

I hadn't been keeping up with the different dumps so am not sure how up to date it is - But I still have the rarbg_db.zip torrent magnet that was first linked over in /r/PiratedGames, I think (?) it ended up being the first version of that 2004content/rarbg github. Torrent hash is A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405 if anyone needs it.

But yeah I agree with /u/db0 these should all be torrents. Hopefully there's a cleaned up merged version floating around in torrent form.

EDIT: That reminds me, torrents-csv maybe needs some help importing these RARBG torrents into their own database https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-data/issues/1

Genuine question, why to put anything RARBG related in GitHub?

can you make a torrent with the data?

Sounds like they are really coming down with the hammer.. looks like the clone sites are still up and running.

Could gitlab be an alternative?

All torrent sites should do a monthly magnet link dump via torrent to ensure they survive if taken down. I know TPB did a few dumps but no idea if any other site did

Is there anywhere else it has moved to? I have a fairly recent physical backup on my machine

Does anybody know the magnet links to them? If yes, please DM them to me, thanks!

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Github isn't exactly a piracy friendly site.

Did anyone keep a backup lol