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Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com)
ExtraTorrent, the world's second largest torrent index, on Wednesday said it is permanently shutting its doors. The site, which launched in 2006, had steadily climbed the ranks in the piracy world to become the second most popular torrent site, observing millions of daily views. TorrentFreak adds: "ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline.. We permanently erase all data. Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones. Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community. ET was a place to beâ¦." TorrentFreak reached out to ExtraTorrent operator SaM who confirmed that this is indeed the end of the road for the site. "It's time we say goodbye," he said, without providing more details. [...] ExtraTorrent is the latest in a series of BitTorrent giants to fall in recent months. Previously, sites including KickassTorrents, Torrentz.eu, TorrentHound and What.cd went offline.
Nyaa.se was shut down voluntarily as well at the beginning of the month, but a group from the fandom and people close to the old site started a replacement that will eventually be just like the old site for all intents and purposes.
How am I going to download all that open-source software, that I used to download with BitTorrent?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
And use technology to create an amazing decentralized pirate torrenting site that can never be shut down!
Also we need to stop using the word 'pirate' i think we lost the intellectual debate the moment we adopted the term. Its 'file sharing". I bet you if i asked ten random people on the street if they think piracy is wrong, most would say yes. But if i asked 10 random people if 'file sharing' was wrong and should be illegal, they would say 'No! you should be able to share files"
Any abuse of copyright law can be fixed by amending the law, and the government elected afterwards has not done so.
That's not a leftist ideology, that's a corporate ideology.
An actual leftist ideology would be something similar to the GPL that recognizes that nothing should be locked down in the long-term by a small elite - especially if it allows people to use computers without having to pay more than they should (e.g. allow computers to have Linux, a basic set of compilers, and basic software required to do practically any common task.)
Why aren't there any distributed indexes? Seems silly to have an entire distributed distribution system without a matching index.
Been there done that.
Having to create proxy identities for when they inevitably get raided or having the user info dumped by hackers is more hassle than just getting behind onion routing and going anon public. No thanks
There have been multiple volunteer shutdowns in recent weeks, whether it's release groups like JYK or torrent sites like Nyaa. No information is ever revealed as to why they decided to shut down, just that it was voluntary. I assume somebody is putting a lot of pressure on these people and they're doing it to avoid criminal charges.
This is clearly a far better approach to stopping piracy than suing a few downloaders, but I'm not sure they can win this game of whack-a-mole. Nyaa was almost immediately replaced by nyaa.pantsu.cat, while the Pirate Bay is still running as an alternative to ExtraTorrent. It'll be interesting to see what happens if they sustain this attack.
Why would tech-minded people support the inferior "cripple the protocol to make it centralized" instead of "make an improved protocol"
The DMCA is a terrible leftist law passed in 1996 by a voice vote in the Republican controlled House and unanimous consent in the Republican controlled Senate.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Is there a reason one would use a site like extratorrent rather than piratebay? They all just list torrents, right? I recognize I'm terribly uninformed when it comes to piracy, just wondering if I'm missing something.
Just goes to show that money talks.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
btdb.in (but watch out for pop up windows)
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Oh yeah nobody from the feds or big media could ever get invited to that...
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
I'm not sure what the "left" is any more (or the right to tell the truth).
Good, that puts you 5 steps closer to the truth than you were when you thought the terms had meaning.
So, here's the history.
Before taking the names that they would be known as later, three sociopolitical philosophies forming in the universities of 1920's Europe called themselves "left, right, and center." Which was right and which was left was kind of arbitrary, but since the other one was a bit of a hybrid of the two, it was called center. They were all being developed to "solve" the problems of individual choice, as seen in the bitter depression that preceded the roaring 20's in the USA.
"Left" was a philosophy of cooperative anarchy. With no government, votes, or other trappings of authority over each other, people would work as well as they could and aid their neighbors in need.
"Right" was a philosophy of tyrannical efficiency. Whenever an industry became important, the government would bring the top players together, determine who should handle that industry, and the rest were absorbed into the monopoly.
"Center" was a philosophy of brutal revolution. No one with any influence was to be trusted, they all had to be dethroned and replaced with loyal members of the government.
All three became more complicated as they debated and discussed real-world issues beyond their initial motivation.
In the 1930's, students of "right" and "center" found their way into political power throughout much of Europe and Asia. The "left" were typically tricked into cooperation with "center." Since all three philosophies knew each-other's tactics, they feared imminent re-revolution more than any form of counter-revolution and immediately outlawed and hunted the other two philosophies once they came to power.
Ever since the mid 1940's, it has been popular for members of whichever philosophy has the most traction in each semi-representative nation to portray anyone who disagrees with them with the terminology of one of the other philosophies from that trio.
I think you missed the sarcasm.
That the torrent site operators got spooked after kickass torrents operator, Artem Vaulin lost his extradition request in Poland. Now anybody linked to a torrent site is potentially liable to spend a decade or more in a federal prison, even if they don't live or host anything in the U.S.
This Sig does not Exist.
Ok, "fake" implies fraud, suggesting someone might phish for credentials, but why would people want to stay away from clones? That doesn't make sense. If someone liked this site, surely they'd prefer a clone over simply doing-without.
The big question about stuff like this, is why do torrent site operators not try to have their sites outlast them? Why isn't there a torrent of all their data (maybe without user tables)? That they want their projects to die with them, suggests it's mainly about dicksize than the work itself.
It took me about 5 seconds to verify that the GOP controlled both houses of Congress at the time.
Nice try, partisan fake news fuckstain.
I view it as "leftist" because it expanded the powers of government at the expense of the people. ("It" being the anti-circumvention aspects, not the safe harbor and boat design aspects; I'm not addressing those here.) It created a new crime out of an innocent activity.
This is independent of it also being such an unusually bad idea. Unless you're a perfect anarchist or perfect totalitarian, left/right rarely implies much about good or bad.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Yep, the future of torrenting is on I2P. The only reason it hasn't been done is due to a chicken-and-egg popularity problem. It needs to be popular to be fast and have lots of content, and it needs to be fast and have lots of content to be popular.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I view it as "leftist" because it expanded the powers of government at the expense of the people.
The left in theory gives power to the people, while the right gives power to the aristocracy. The terms come from the French revolution.
In the US, it is more government versus the elite and corporations. But since the latter controls the former, its a moot point.
It's pretty easy now, single installer. https://thetinhat.com/ is a pretty easy place to direct people to.
Man blir trött av att gå och göra ingenting.
I've been right here on Slashdot in 2001 when the first mention of Bittorrent appeared. It was about a RedHat distro (version 7 if I recall correctly?) and everyone wanted to get it asap. The best speed was for the guys torrenting it, compared to ftp which was severely flooded at the moment. After that Bittorrent caught up all over the net and in 2002 we already had Suprnova (RIP).
Wrong, unlike you I've not been brainwashed into believing that stealing the fruits of someone else's labor is something I'm entitled to do and not theft at all.
That's not leftist. The left wants to protect average people from the rich and powerful who usually control things. Yes that usually amounts to expanded government (because who else has the ability to put checks on the already-powerful?) But expanding government in itself is not the goal. Most leftists would be perfectly happy with a smaller government if they could still get the protections they want.
The DMCA on the other hand protects the profits of a few large corporations (ie: the rich an powerful,) at the cost of smaller corporations and average people. That's exactly the opposite of the leftist ideals. And just like the left generally has no problem shrinking government when its plausible to do so without losing protections, the right wingers generally have no problem expanding government the occasional time it benefits them.
You also have to keep in mind that the Democratic party is only "left" in comparison to the Republicans. They're at best hovering around center if you consider the entire political spectrum. They may try to be more balanced about it but at the end of the day, the democrats are taking just as many bri^W campaign contributions from big corporations as the Republicans are.
"Everything I don't like is 'leftist'" - Fuckwit AC, May 2017
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I just pay for my content and don't worry about it.
Don't break an arm patting yourself on the back champ, your medal's in the mail.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I view it as "leftist" because it expanded the powers of government at the expense of the people.
The left in theory gives power to the people, while the right gives power to the aristocracy. The terms come from the French revolution.
In the US, it is more government versus the elite and corporations. But since the latter controls the former, its a moot point.
This,
It is authoritarian policies that give more power to the government and liberal (as in liberalism) polices that give more power to individuals.
Authoritarian and liberal policies can be anywhere on the left-right spectrum.
The DCMA and Copyright are definitely extreme right and extreme authoritarian as they're designed to empower corporations over everything else. The irony is that copyright was originally designed to empower individuals, it was still right leaning, but more liberal as it gave time limited monopolies to artists.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Very interesting website! Added to my RSS feeds.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
the only difference between 'sharing files with friends' and 'unlicensed wholesale distribution' is that technology has made the two pretty indistinguishable, and the lines which once made sense in the past are now extremely blurry.
And while i respect the jury right to nullification, and the jury process, and your rights to a jury, MAN can 12 random people be really really dumb, especially when the topic is really technical and they are being told the wrong facts from a judge and prosecutor
I don't think that word means what you think it means.