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Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the mystery-machine dept.

monkeyzoo writes: Softpedia reports that Torrentz.eu, the internet's biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine, has mysteriously and suddenly shut down. Visitors of the website see a simple message that reads, "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines." Trying to run a search, or clicking any link on the site changes that message to "Torrentz will always love you. Farewell." The main .EU domain, as well as all backup domains (.ME, .CH, and .IN), have the same message. The reason for the disappearance is mysterious, but there is speculation that Torrentz.eu admins decided to pull the plug on their own and avoid any future legal problems in the wake of increasing legal pressure on The Pirate Bay and the arrests related to KickassTorrents. It also cannot be ruled out that the site was hacked.

118 comments

  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I take it everyone else is busy trying to find another engine? What have you found?

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Ah yes, I remember the days of old on /., when you wouldn't have to ask that question, there would already be several links of alternative posted.

      R.I.P. /., I miss it.

    2. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mods remove links so no point.

      However, this site is for nerds. If you don't know how to pirate without a mainstream torrent site, then you aren't that smart.

    3. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Really? If thats true, then this site has become a worse feelgood hugcircle than reddit is.

    4. Re: First Post by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      Reading /. daily, usually, I'd be more than surprised if anything was removed from the posts. You, on the other hand, chose to post as AC, removing any legitimacy from your claim.

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      Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
    5. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://thepiratebay.org/

    6. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The factual accuracy of a claim is not influenced by the person claiming it nor by the manner through which it is conveyed.

      - AC

    7. Re:First Post by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Informative

      These days I find Google is pretty good, or DuckDuckGo if you prefer. Sometimes I use Yahoo Japan or Baidu too, because they seem to ignore American DMCA censorship requests.

      On Google/DDG try filetype:magent or filetype:torrent. With the former you can often get the link you need from the result snippet without even opening the site it came from.

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      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    8. Re: First Post by lucm · · Score: 1

      The factual accuracy of a claim is not influenced by the person claiming it nor by the manner through which it is conveyed.

      - AC

      That's correct. But the odds that a claim is accurate are lower when it's made by someone with zero credibility. That's the real issue.

      Here's an example to help you understand. If Kanye West was to hand me a roll of toilet paper on which he has scribbled down in his own excrement a series of numbers that he claims to be four thousands decimals of pi, I would probably not believe him. It doesn't mean pi has less than four thousand decimals, it just means I don't think they've been written down by Kanye West on a roll of toilet paper.

      --
      lucm, indeed.
    9. Re:First Post by lucm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't you find that whole torrent thing a bit labor intensive, while for $10/month you can get a gold-plated download experience on easynews?

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      lucm, indeed.
    10. Re:First Post by adolf · · Score: 1

      I find it a bit labor intensive to pay for Usenet.

      It's not even September anymore, FFS.

      --
      Kid-proof tablet..
    11. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've been using https://thepiratebay.cr/ for some time now.

    12. Re: First Post by Calydor · · Score: 1

      Well, there's a simple way of proving it all.

      Link to a single edited post where it is obvious there was a link which has been removed.

      We'll be waiting. :-)

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      -=This sig has nothing to do with my comment. Move along now=-
    13. Re:First Post by Calydor · · Score: 4, Informative

      It will always be September.

      --
      -=This sig has nothing to do with my comment. Move along now=-
    14. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem is that people don't have resources to verify majority of shit they dwell through so they use a magical shorthand called heuristics.

      An AC comment has its maximum value when the claim is hard to discover but easy to verify.

    15. Re:First Post by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Informative

      I use usenet as well, but I find torrents are better for some releases. There is unfortunately quite a lot of spam on usenet. Because torrent sites usually let people vote or comment it's easier to filter out. Releases go up on torrent sites a lot faster too.

      Personally I prefer Astraweb for news. Similar pricing for monthly, but I use use PAYG because I wouldn't get my money's worth from monthly.

      Torrents aren't labour intensive for me anyway. I wrote a little Greasemonkey script that adds links to a popular TV calendar site that go directly to torrent sites. I need to update it now KAT and torrentz.eu are gone, so look for an update in the next few days.

      Don't look at the source, BTW, I'm utterly ashamed of it.

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      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    16. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      it just means I don't think they've been written down by Kanye West on a roll of toilet paper

      Well just sniff his fingers and you'll so see it's true

    17. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can Kanye West even write?

    18. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Everybody will now look at the source. Its a big red button kinda thing.

    19. Re:First Post by houghi · · Score: 1

      Google accepts the worde "filetype:torrent" without the quotes in your request. e.g. metallica filetype:torrent

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      Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
    20. Re:First Post by houghi · · Score: 1

      For me it is a moral question. I do not want to pay for it, so if I would pay for it, so ME that would be wrong.

      I just use google and it would take almost no time turn that into a webpage.

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      Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
    21. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here: , I put it on pastebin, just in case.

    22. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      for example
      "first post"

    23. Re:First Post by ausekilis · · Score: 2

      I for one insist my downloads come on gold plates. That way if the download sucks I have free plates.

    24. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you for validating that old timers. Still visit /. I feel extremely old as it started when I was in high school and already considered myself experienced.... I had some sort of computing device since the TI99-4a

    25. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ASK FOR SOURCES as AC you get a mod point?!

      FUCK Slashdot you fucking Microsoft Apple US Google spy pussies.

    26. Re:First Post by malditaenvidia · · Score: 1

      Paying to pirate? I'd first pay for the actual software/media, thank you.

    27. Re: First Post by WallyL · · Score: 1

      Duh, or else he wouldn't have linked people to it. Self-abasement sells! (Or is that sex?)

    28. Re: First Post by geminidomino · · Score: 1

      > I had some sort of computing device since the TI99-4a

      Oh gods. As soon as I read that, I heard those two-tone startup beeps in my head...

    29. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, I just use a free private tracker that has every release on it 30 seconds after pre at most.

    30. Re: First Post by AutodidactLabrat · · Score: 1

      Anyone go so far back as to have built and programmed an ElF (Cosmac CDP-1801)?
      Or the Zx-80 (Pre-Sinclair)?

    31. Re:First Post by adolf · · Score: 1

      No. I think September is done: The only singular group of unwitting, unwashed masses who have yet to ruin it for everyone are the North Koreans. And nobody's going to turn them all loose at once, so that won't spawn a new September.

      We just haven't managed to re-group since it ended.

      --
      Kid-proof tablet..
    32. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I built a Z80 based computer on an S-100 board back around 1980. I also built my S-100 memory board with 16k bytes RAM. It had an RS-232 serial interface and a very simple EPROM based OS. I could type hex into RAM via an old video terminal and display the results of the program. I had no way at first to store anything unfortunately so it got bit boring after a while. No internet connection. No porn. No pirated stuff.

    33. Re:First Post by L0Rd_V3ga · · Score: 1

      Torrentz may be dead, but there is another torrent search engine out there, torrentfrog.

      Also, it seems they published a database of all KAT torrents: http://torrentfrog.com/kat_dum...

    34. Re: First Post by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      Or the Zx-80 (Pre-Sinclair)?

      I tried to persuade my father to get me the kit-form for my birthday or something, but I think he got me a mountain tent instead. It was about the same time.

      --
      Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
    35. Re: First Post by AutodidactLabrat · · Score: 1

      Wow. Well, good to see some adherents of the old "Radio Electronics" magazine!

    36. Re: First Post by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      I honestly couldn't remember the magazine for sure. I do remember that we were taking a day-trip down to some exhibition at the NHM or Science museum, and Dad thought (mad fool!) that getting the magazine would shut me up for the train journey.

      --
      Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
    37. Re: First Post by AutodidactLabrat · · Score: 1

      Was pretty cool when I was 17

  2. Nuuuu! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This a dark day indeed. RIP Torrentz.

    1. Re:Nuuuu! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I blame ISIS. Becauz they hate our freedomz. The freedomz to stick it to The Man.

  3. Alternatives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This one was decent. Any alternatives?

  4. is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    its 2016. torrent is so 90s.

    1. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FTP was 90s, eMule and Kazaa 00s, Torrent is 10s

    2. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I never used any Torrent. I use streaming sites. Works great for me, although it sometimes is a bit difficult to convince it to do a download instead of watching the video. Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.

    3. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Emule was such a great protocol
      It's still out there but these days it's far too monitored.

      Be nice if bit torrent could gain the distributed search capability emule/edonkey had.

    4. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I never used any Torrent. I use streaming sites. Works great for me, although it sometimes is a bit difficult to convince it to do a download instead of watching the video. Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.

      Private Internet Access supports torrents. You can verify that it's working by going here: http://checkmytorrentip.net/

    5. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Aaron+B+Lingwood · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.

      That is more an indictment of the shortcomings of the VPN provider you chose.

      Streaming is a 1:Many relationship which is prohibitively costly. For media: This may be subsidized by advertising, tracking, or malware. A 'capture' of a stream will not yield a unique hash so services such as cover art scrapers and subtitle-downloaders will yield non-optimal results. The file is also unlikely to be compressed in a way that maximizes quality while efficiently using disc space and processing power. For applications/OSes: This can become unsustainable for a small company or result in overloaded and slow servers for a large company (ie: ASUS).

      Torrents allow for leeching (Many:1) and seeding (Many:Many) which takes the burden off the host, allows redundancy, and achieves far greater speeds than having a single point from which to obtain the files.

      --
      [Rent This Space]
    6. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And Unix is so 70s. Not to mention the car, which is so 1900s.

    7. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Want something useful that others were doing more than 12 years ago?
      Too bad, have some bullshit like bitcoin integration.

      Torrents as we know it needs to die to advance P2P

    8. Re:is torrent still a thing? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Computers are a passing fad. They will go away in a few years.

    9. Re:is torrent still a thing? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      Don't forget the wheel, which is so -4000s.

    10. Re:is torrent still a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > And Unix is so 70s.

      Serious question... why don't more people use Plan 9?

      It's supposed to be "Unix improved" and it's totally free. Yet no one uses it.

      Or what about Inferno?

  5. It works by petermp · · Score: 2

    It works for me like charm - no problem at all. I am based in EU.

    1. Re:It works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Try actually searching.

    2. Re:It works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Doesn't work here in the US. The site opens, has the message, and clicking anywhere leads to new tabs (often just ads).

    3. Re:It works by blind+biker · · Score: 1

      I am in the EU also, and the site does NOT work like a charm. Only the main (home) page loads, but nothing else works.

      --
      "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
    4. Re:It works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The site loads, but you can't search. So it does not work in any way.

    5. Re:It works by blind+biker · · Score: 1

      OK, now I can confirm after some time has passed: the website does absolutely not work!

      --
      "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  6. Fine for me... by jgheld · · Score: 1

    It's still works for me... I don't know where your problem is...

    1. Re:Fine for me... by jgheld · · Score: 1

      Never mind, now it is.

  7. Seems like there is a big crackdown by diesalesmandie · · Score: 1

    Along with all these torrent sites going down for whatever reason, people seem to be getting caught more frequently; recently a friend of a friend was fined €800 for downloading 2 episodes of a TV show. Might seem like anecdotal evidence since its only one example, but i've heard of a few more cases in the past year. Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost. I've agreed with my girlfriend to get a VPN before downloading anything else.

    --
    This is my sig, there are many like it but this one is mine
    1. Re: Seems like there is a big crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      interesting. do you which show? thrane of gnomes?

    2. Re: Seems like there is a big crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bullshit. You don't get caught downloading, you get caught uploading. Torrenting is uploading as well.

    3. Re:Seems like there is a big crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      If you're a Netflix user too: Since you're in the planning stage (and should be VPNing all your traffic for privacy anyway), be sure to pick a provider with an IP range that Netflix hasn't blocked out yet. It's not easy to find one since pretty much all the lowendbox types have been blacklisted, especially the good ones (e.g. Ramnode, etc.).

      Don't want the girlfriend getting pissed at you when the dreaded “You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy.” message pops up.

      Captcha: fuckhollywood

    4. Re:Seems like there is a big crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Fined by whom? The government, the isp, the courts, what?

    5. Re:Seems like there is a big crackdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Where does your friend live? This is kind relevant.

  8. Torrents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Waiting for torrents to be illegal in EU

    1. Re:Torrents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sealand was ready to help, but then Brexit....

    2. Re:Torrents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sealand was ready to help, but then Brexit....

      Sealand is a joke, in the event the UK government decides that joke is wearing thin, you seriously think the twats that play silly buggers there will survive a visit from a 'friendly' RN Frigate or the SBS?

      Then again, why bother being overtly heavy handed?, plenty of old unstable WWII mines out there...just floating around...looking for structures to blow to buggery...

  9. Google is censoring TPB too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google search results for "TPB" used to take me to the latest Pirate Bay website, but now all links to TPB itself have been scrubbed and all I get are links to sites referring to TPB in a news story or something. TPB is no longer linked from Google. Bing and DuckDuckGo still work properly though. This only happened in the last week. I think something is up.

    1. Re:Google is censoring TPB too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Try the wikipedia, thepiratebay info is usually updated fast.

    2. Re:Google is censoring TPB too by SeriousTube · · Score: 1

      Nah, a search for pirate bay works fine.

    3. Re:Google is censoring TPB too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Something has been "up" with Google for quite some time now. Remember, they are a media company too with things like Youtube Red, as well as the world's biggest advertising companies.

      At this point, Bing is a better search engine than Google, though there are much better alternatives to Google than Bing.

    4. Re:Google is censoring TPB too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you sure you did not click on the "News" tab in your Google results page? Click the "All" tab for best results. I just searched "Pirate Bay" with Google. The first two results were...

      Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The ...
      https://thepiratebay.org/
      Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.

      Browse Torrents - The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient ...
      https://thepiratebay.org/browse
      Audio Music, Audio books, Sound clips, FLAC, Other Video Movies, Movies DVDR, Music videos, Movie clips, TV shows, Handheld, HD - Movies, HD - TV ...

    5. Re:Google is censoring TPB too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mmh, not for me here in Europe. I've just entered "the pirate bay" in Google and the first link was thepiratebay.org and works.

  10. google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tried googling for torrents lately? Google search doesn't list torrent web-sites now.

    1. Re: google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      Use DuckDuckGo dot com search

    2. Re:google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tried googling for torrents lately? Google search doesn't list torrent web-sites now.

      Rubbish! Put in the word "torrent" in Google Chrome and you will get over 990 million hits.

    3. Re: google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yandex is pretty good

    4. Re: google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yandex is pretty good

      In the UK, Virgin Media is actively trying to intercept access to disk.yandex

      For your amusement


      05 pres-core-2b-ae16-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.254.42.30) 21.594 ms 21.589 ms 21.541 ms
      06 wb7301b.network.virginmedia.net (213.105.115.6) 25.037 ms 22.733 ms 22.670 ms
      07 * * *
      08 m686-mp2.cvx1-b.lis.dial.ntli.net (62.254.42.174) 31.364 ms 26.466 ms 25.174 ms
      09 213.46.174.10 (213.46.174.10) 25.123 ms 31.205 ms 29.875 ms
      10 ae-238-3614.edge6.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.162.246) 31.536 ms ae-237-3613.edge6.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.162.242) 31.351 ms ae-238-3614.edge6.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.162.246) 31.485 ms
      11 YANDEX-EURO.edge6.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (212.72.47.202) 31.421 ms 31.768 ms 31.587 ms
      12 jansson-et-4-1-0.yndx.net (213.180.213.95) 72.745 ms 72.703 ms 71.417 ms
      13 std-p2-hu0-1-0-1.yndx.net (213.180.213.125) 76.205 ms 80.422 ms 80.749 ms
      14 iva-b-c2-ae7.yndx.net (87.250.239.14) 87.084 ms 88.736 ms 91.979 ms
      15 * * *
      16 * front.disk.yandex.ru (213.180.193.50) 84.014 ms 83.769 ms
      17 front.disk.yandex.ru (213.180.193.50) 76.285 ms 76.022 ms 75.978 ms

      Note Hop 6 wb7301b.network.virginmedia.net, this *was* just their IWF filter/blocker, but is also their means of blocking domains the UK courts at the behest of the MAFIAA tell them to.

      As the connections to it are usually encrypted, it's rather curious how the first connection now invariably fails with a 'network error' but works on second attempt...far be it from me to suggest some sort of MITM SSL proxy fucking around going on....better get my tinfoil hat on..

  11. Re: They grew a conscience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They were coerced out of performing a legal function (albeit a gray, fringe legal area that rent seekers detest).

  12. That is impossible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.

    "His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"

    1. Re:That is impossible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.

      "His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"

      What in the fuck is wrong with you?

    2. Re:That is impossible. by lucm · · Score: 5, Funny

      Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.

      "His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"

      What in the fuck is wrong with you?

      Those are actually lyrics from a Ke$ha song.

      --
      lucm, indeed.
    3. Re:That is impossible. by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny

      Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.

      "His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"

      What in the fuck is wrong with you?

      Those are actually lyrics from a Ke$ha song.

      I think the question "What in the fuck is wrong with you?" still applies.

      --

      My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.

  13. Alternative by Zedrick · · Score: 0

    Never heard of this site, but there's a great alternative:

    https://google.com/

    (filetype:torrent)

    1. Re:Alternative by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Beware: that company spies and tracks you and also shares your data with the NSA and corporations. Do not recommend!

    2. Re:Alternative by KiloByte · · Score: 1

      Google still returns massively better results than DuckDuckGo. And for spying/tracking, there's Tor.

      --
      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  14. Certainly not popular anymore by sciengin · · Score: 2

    I liked that search engine too, but that was quite some time ago.
    Several months or even years ago, they stopped serving decent search results, claiming that those torrents had been subject to DMCA notices.
    This is what you get when you try to appease the MAFIAA I guess: First you screw your fans, and in the end the Music corps turn against you anyway.

    I now mostly use www.filesloop.com which can also search on 1click hosters. Unfortunately it omits some big torrent sites.

  15. Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu by silkfabric1999 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, PR value and ranking the end of such a good website.

  16. Time for someone to start an independant DNS tree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At least that would avoid domain hijacking.

  17. Good riddance to the thieving scum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And I don't mean thieving villainy with any of the affection that Obi Wan speaks of Mos Eisley. Bye bye pirates and the horrible damage you bring to the world.

  18. Shut up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't everybody index all the alternative sites for the Feds, already.

    Those of you who like to brand people like me as reactionary tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists, just bear in mind that crap like the US AG extraditing foreign nationals for alleged IP theft conspiracy is exactly the result of all your UN sanctioned Agenda Whatever related, CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral, foundation manchurian candidate, Skull'n'Bones Federal Reserve TPP, etc., One World Governement crap. The consensus is in, baby.

    Do something about it or shut the hell up. At least in public forums where you're just aiding and comforting the enemy.

    1. Re:Shut up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you taken your meds?

    2. Re:Shut up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anybody who asks you this to your face and not online? ice pick.

      This is the first thing a government employee or cop will say.

      ice pick their ass hard.

  19. And there is a simple method of disproving it. by hackwrench · · Score: 1

    Back when the kat issue came up, there was a post with links. I bookmarked it. https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... Looks like it is still there links intact.

  20. Suggestion: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Not more that one or two US Senators, if that many voted against the DMCA. Wonder how many of them or their staff download copyright violations as torrents?

    Sounds like a job for Anonymous to me. Good way to see if A aren't just a CI arm of the Feds, at least.

    1. Re:Suggestion: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or how many peer and seed IPs there are that correspond to a 202 area code. And who owns them. Might be a surprise or two there.

  21. DO NOT NAME YOUR SOURCES HERE FOOLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is another US bait story ON SLASHDOT.

    They are fishing for any and every known place you can get torrents from.

    Also Softpedia is a total bullshit malware-infected shareware site for decades already. Quoting them as news about torrents is asinine.

    THE VERY FIRST POST asks you to name your sources.

    1. Re:DO NOT NAME YOUR SOURCES HERE FOOLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The whole first set of posts look like a PR team met here (as usual). But this time it isn't Microsoft, it is the US government.

      Talking about ISIS on a bait story about give us your torrent sites? During a lot of takedowns?

      Do this:
      If somebody says they are an American government agency employee? knife.
      If somebody claims Jewish? ice pick.

    2. Re:DO NOT NAME YOUR SOURCES HERE FOOLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The whole first set of posts look like a PR team met here (as usual). But this time it isn't Microsoft, it is the US government.

      Talking about ISIS on a bait story about give us your torrent sites? During a lot of takedowns?

      Do this:
      If somebody says they are an American government agency employee? knife.
      If somebody claims Jewish? ice pick.

      Chi-town niggaz! 2nd amendment my niggaz! FBI roll deep in this mafackie.

      GOIN DOWN FEDZ!

  22. %%%% THIS POSTER ^ IS THE ACTUAL SUBMITTER %%%% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    THEY ARE BAITING YOU on SLASHDOT.

    Narcdot.
    Spydot.
    Snitchdot.
    Bitchdot.
    Feddot.
    Backstabdot.
    Suicidedot.
    Dicedot.

  23. ^^ SUBMITTER NAME IS MonkeyZoo ^^ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot (Dice, San Diego California) didn't actually notice this? yes. they did.

    ice pick.

  24. SLASHDOT HONEYPOT SNITCH BAIT SOCIAL ENGINEERING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not a problem. Where's my ninjas at?

    You want to fucking get everybody who downloads Count Dracula arrested for 30 years? Take away their livelihood because their daughter downloaded Taylor Swift mp3's? Guess what Dice you low down scum bitches.

    Registry Registrant ID:
    Registrant Name: Host Master
    Registrant Organization: SourceForge Media, LLC
    Registrant Street: 1660 Logan Avenue Suite A
    Registrant City: San Diego
    Registrant State/Province: CA
    Registrant Postal Code: 92113
    Registrant Country: US
    Registrant Phone: +1.8584545900

    It is not Tucows in Chesterfield, MO like it is preferred suddenly to state on WHOIS.

  25. no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    no, do you have some for free, i cant afford any....( google mosanta and pharma )

  26. perhaps if you pirated..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    perhaps if you pirated , you could afford some

  27. Re:SLASHDOT HONEYPOT SNITCH BAIT SOCIAL ENGINEERIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    BEAUHD first to go. All bullshit.

  28. lol.. torrents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    0sec ftp access

  29. I can't believe you guys by dyrewolf · · Score: 1

    Jesus, am I the only loyal /. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.

    1. Re:I can't believe you guys by dyrewolf · · Score: 1

      Jesus, am I the only loyal /. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.

      tubes -> torrent... but yeah tubes too

    2. Re: I can't believe you guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Try doing something that actually benefits humanity for once. Like a writing free software, or creating free culture. Then you'll see what it's really like to struggle to make a living.

      You would deny access to your creations to the vast majority of the population. We have no sympathy for you.

    3. Re: I can't believe you guys by dyrewolf · · Score: 1

      So no commercialized intellectual property "benefits humanity"? Wow, bold statement. You know that rules out most books, movies, music and art created in the past 500 years, right?

  30. Re: SLASHDOT HONEYPOT SNITCH BAIT SOCIAL ENGINEERI by brasselv · · Score: 1

    has someone declared tinfoil day on /. and I missed it ?

    --
    "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde)
  31. Alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    torrentzeu.to is a great clone of the torrent giant. Torrents will always be alive!

  32. Torrent site alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hi guys, firstly SORRY for the Ad!

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    Any feedback and suggestions, positive or negative, are welcomed! (Please email to idope2016@gmail.com or join our FB group for User Support)

    And this is copied from a tech blogger with a neutral opinion:

    iDope.se: this is a very new site created in tribute of K.A.T. The administrators of idope also offer a mobile app for those users who use tablets and smartphones for their P2P hobby. It is said that it has an even larger collection of torrents than KAT. Not many readers are aware of this site yet, and the interface is still being tweaked for improvement.