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.

  • incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    3 months 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.

    • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Demonoid, absolutely! Warez-bb, and many oldschool GeoCities blogs. I remember one that had portable cracks of any programs you could imagine.

  • Lloyd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    ProstoPleer! Russian website with direct mp3 downloads and uploads, playlist creation and sharing, just like the old GrooveShark. I was lucky that I made a backup of all my playlists 2 months before it happened.

  • Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    3 months 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

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 months 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

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 months 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?

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        3 months 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.

      • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        3 months 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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    This is a good time to introduce the concept of backups. Remember to backup both to local storage and to have a copy that is remote, in case of natural disaster.

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    DC++ It was just sharing stuff. No search. You connect to someone’s computer, they have a shared folder. You download what you want and move on. Instead of searching for stuff, you discovered it.

  • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    3 months 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.

    • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      If you like the interface, check out Funkwhale. It’s a federated service based on Grooveshark, but you need to provide your own mp3/flac files.

    • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      3 months 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”.