>tfw you lived long enough to witness the death of piracy

:(

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KEK ITS ACTUALLY REAL WTF

>>57557042

>what is rutracker.org

They're semi-public now. You just have to use an external search engine to find shit on their site, and you can grab magnet links without registering.

private tracker ratiocucks BTFO

Here's hoping Usenet makes a comeback, the selection of music there isn't very large nowadays.

AHAHAHAHAH

>games scene dead
>music scene dead
What now, /g/

>>57557042
what are they hoping to do anyway ? it's not like they can shutdown P2P. They're doom from the start, the only ones who'll suffer from this are normies.

I've always used things like:

>Online radios
>Deezloader
>Spotify

I don't give two fucking shits about a bunch of nerds that collect "high quality garbage"

>>57558564
books
television
oh wait...

So how long till pirating becomes illegal?

>>57557042
>tfw you lived long enough to witness the death of privacy

>>57558717
Youre a fucking idiot

I found music on that site that was not sold or available at any place. It wasnt about audiophiles since that shit is a placebo anyway, it was the fact you can find some rare videogame music/metal albums that are obscure and/or long forgotten.

>m-muh ratio
>muh 500gb of music I never listen to

Private tracker cucks on suicide watch.

>he fell for the audiophile meme

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>tfw random low levels keep talking about death of piracy every year for the past 30 years, yet it never happens

>retarded muh sikritz club
>autismo interview

good riddance

>>57558834
This

Idiots (>>57558834, >>57558848, >>57558812, >>57558793, etc) don't realize that What.CD was a huge archive of music that might never be found ever again. Seriously. There was music on What.CD that could not be found anywhere else. Anywhere.

>>57558564
ww3 what else

>a collection of over a million unique music entries in all kinds of formats
>"just use spotify bro"
.......

>>57558863
> There was music on What.CD that could not be found anywhere else. Anywhere.
Even rutracker?

How good is Usenet these days?

>>57558886
Yeah. It really isn't even close. Along with the amount of formats the music was all in. It's just sad, regardless of whether or not you were even on the site or agree with piracy. Music that did exist, might never see the light of day again if the person who downloaded never uploads it again.

Can someone answer why they are doing this?

"Due to some recent events"

What are they referring to?

I rarely pirate things anymore just because I don't have much need for anything new.

Every now and then I'll use 'ExtraTorrent' because it's supposed to be the next biggest site apart from the now-defunct KAT.

>>57558886
rutracker doesn't even have a tenth of what what.cd had, especially when it came to really obsecure shit

>>57558912
servers got seized by police

>>57558863
>implying
most of the "obscure" music that was on What.CD was shit stolen from random bandcamps

Anyone know a site where i can search playlists containing a specific song?
I remember i used a site that had that, and it mostly used youtube vids for those playlists,
and i remember it didn't require a login.
I just can't remember the god damn name.

>>57558717
I use https://chiru.no

>>57558863

But only autistic losers willing to suck dicks to get in could access it.

Fuck that site.

lots of obscure and unobtainable music gone forever

closing what.cd is like burning down of the library of Alexandria of digital music

So... How long until the next big music tracker gets launched?

What the fuck?

>>57558886
There literally had to be a rule instated to not upload unreleased books because someone uploaded JD Salinger's unreleased works and they went into panic mode wiping the fucker off the site.

i use blogs run by people to find old music, been using this method for at least 5 years now.

but lately i've had to just buy albums. i don't want to wait and i don't want to dig for hours for them and i not mind supporting my artists.

>>57558863
>private archives
Their fault. Archives are supposed to be public.

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yfw they changed the rule to only invite people you trust because they were paranoid about cops all along

>>57558912

Ok so it looks like they were located in France and they got raided.

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>>57558564
>>games scene dead

>People literally spent months on other websites building up good ratios in order to get into What.CD
>Other people literally studied useless shit about FLAC and music in order to get into What.CD from the interview

HaHaHaHaHa

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>>57558906
>>57558916
Damn, that sucks. I barely even heard of it until now.

>>57558717
That is because you have tin ears, I bet you still listen to mp3s too. They're fine, I guess if you just fucking suck at music.

>>57558906
>Music that did exist, might never see the light of day again if the person who downloaded never uploads it again.
Then they shouldn't have been a member in the first place if they won't upload.

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HA

So with what.cd dead

What's the next best private tracker?

And what's the next best public tracker?

Private is ideal, I would think, but public should be fine with a good (emphasis on good) VPN right?

Literally buy the albums and support the artists you listen to.

Oh wait. This is 4chan. I forgot you're all poorfags.

>>57559029
rutracker is decent, don't fall for the slsk meme.

>>57558428

>>57559029
reddit wants to move the userbase to waffles

>>57558996
>I like to fool myself

>>57559060
waffels has been out of action for like 1,5 months

>>57559075
they seem convinced it's coming back

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>tfw I don't have to cheat my ratio on that shithole site anymore

Is there ever a chance of rutracker going down?

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>all these nucucks think they just arbitrarily shut down or were raided
>don't even realize that they sold out because they received a good offer for the domain name and decided to cash out

>>57559096
there hasn't been any announcements that they have shut down

>>57558986
Name more than 5 relevant games that came out up to a month ago that are available to torrent
Pro tip: you can't. CPY managed to crack denuvo, but that doesn't mean anything. Games scene is dead, ask anyone that used to torrent games from 2012 or before and no one will say different

>>57559103
yes. the had already a fight with Russias music industry

They're probably making it even more exclusive.

>>57559034
Yes, because obviously all the music people pirate is available to purchase at your local Wal-Mart and the person who created it is alive and still receiving royalties

Dumb fucking kike slave.

>>57559045
>rutracker

Shit's all in Russian though. Something about a russian tracker I just don't inherently trust...

>>57559060
Ok never heard of it I'll check it out


I had a Demonoid account way back in the day. Looks like they're still around...

What is the consensus on modern day Demonoid?

>>57559130
>CPY managed to crack denuvo
for some games only.

North Korea would be perfect for hosting these sort of sites.

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>>57558989
The interview was easy as fuck. You could study for it for 20 minutes and get in. It was a bunch of riffs on the idea that lossless files can't be recovered from lossy files, some questions about the major lossy formats, plus a question or two about tags.

>tfw go to site and cache gives you message about regular maintenance
>Hit refresh
>Gives message that they shut down
Sad times indeed.

>>57559167
p much this

hell, the whatinterviewprep site was literally BY THEM

the interview was more of a "do you REALLY want to get into our site" quiz than anything

pro tip: i invited 5 people over the course of my account's life, 3 of them got banned due to inactivity.

>>57559160
Why? I thought it was just really hard and took time, and that was why they were taking long to release more

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>one of the few sites that really showed the advantages of dedicated archival and sharing of obscure shit by a large community
>shut down

Why would anybody use the internet anymore? It's just spying and social media.

>>57559156
Everything's online bro. Ever heard of online stores?

>>57558863

>There was music on What.CD that could not be found anywhere else. Anywhere.

When I was a baby I one shat a blue poop. It was metalic blue, and it was so beautiful that my mother decided to keep it in a ziplock bag. To this day she still has that beautiful blue shit in a box with many other memories. That shit is also unique in the whole world, and nothing like it can be found anywhere, and just like your edgy music, nobody cares about it and nobody ever will.

>>57559211
blame the jews

this isn't a /pol/ meme, literally blame the jews

>>57558717
>I don't give two fucking shits about a bunch of nerds that collect "high quality garbage"

it has nothing to do with this, it's about free will. When you listen to radio and such, someone is feeding you and is shaping your taste in music.

>>57559167
>Get one little, small, pretty much useless detail about FLAC wrong
>HAHA NOPE YOU AIN'T GETTING INTO WHAT.CD NIGGA TRY AGAIN IN 1 YEAR LUL

Fucking autistic admins I just wanted Thin Lizzy in high quality.

>>57559232
Really made me reconsider. Thanks.

Good, I hated their smug attitude.

is whatbox ohv too?

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>>57559232

>>57559217
>buy digital files
>pay money to receive no product
Heh, no dice normalshit. You didn't address the other part, if the person who created the music is dead, there's no reason to pay because it's all going in some kike's pocket.

>>57559232
wtf i hate whatcd now

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>tfw to intelligent to use Soulseek

o no now you obese greasy neets will have to find a job

>Not in our current form
>>57559114
As this. what.cd is going to become a competitor to spotify.

The domain is already in the process of being sold. It will remain a music website, but not in it's current form, instead it will be operated as a legit music streaming service backed by a large, currently unnamed company.

They decided to call it quits before they got bit.

Popcorn time next

Kek.

This is why I stick with IPT mafia. They've never done me wrong.

>>57559265
I'm talking about buying CDs online and having them shipped to you. How retarded are you actually?

>>57559281
a fifth of my downloads aren't even for sale anymore

>>57559297
How retarded are you that you think every CD is easily available for purchase online, kiddo?

Best public tracker to download music? I mostly listen to hip-hop music.

>>57559303
yea there are alot of things i like that arent in print anymore and you can only find copies used for expensive

Time to spend all of my money on Discogs.

>>57559319

rutracker has EVERYTHING. Downloaded terabytes of lossless music from there. They mostly ripped stuff straight from private trackers.

>>57559317
You're unable to find stores? Sucks for you kid.

>>57559345
>rutracker has EVERYTHING

lol

>>57559345
Does it have scat porn?

>>57559345
Muppet show magnet link please

>>57559345
but i dont speak spanish

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>all this denial

>>57559367
i was downloading stuff of whatcd from rutracker and then went on /g/ and kekd hard

>>57559345
>Russian Torrent Site
No thanks mate

>>57559319
Other than Pirate Bay:

SoulSeek (not a tracker, but has all sorts of obscure shit)

Googling the name of the album + " blogspot download"

>>57559409
>downloading stuff of whatcd from rutracker
what?

>>57558564
soulseek

>if you click the little link a the bottom of the page it takes you to the normal log-in page

maximum kek

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>>57558564

Game scene was already dead.

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>>57559415
I just go on random sites that upload them, or go on places like Spinrilla or Mixtape torrents.

I am about to start uploading torrents.

>>57559410

>russian torrent site

That means it's never going to be taken down. Russian authorities don't give a fuck about torrents. There's an english guide to signing up floating around somewhere. I signed up in 2012 and still use it regularly.

>>57559410
Your loss

>>57559241

i made tons of mistakes in my interview and still got in, you had to be literally retarded to fail it

>>57559463
Russians and Chinese are also very malicious so I rather not risk it mate.

>>57559463
eh don't even need engrish guide imo. just search and shit pops up in engrish


what.cd was full of pricks and elitists anyhow. no shits given

>>57559427
>2016
>have to go back to basically using napster

I think it's time for me to go into my garage and turn my car on and just wait

>>57558986
You realize GGN shut down, right?

>>57559475
I'll be fine.

The /mu/ archive is also really useful for finding music sometimes.

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>>57559389
>Does it have scat porn?

Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub yo da dub dub

>>57559463
kek rutracker was blocked in russia by the music industry there

>>57559498
>a curry tracker is "the game scene"
wew lad.

>>57559463

Russians are also notorious for embedding malware and 0-days in their torrents.

No fucking thanks

>>57559480

Just like every American is fat and every European is poor.

>>57559423
rutracker geta stuff from whatcd

>>57559480
Do you not understand what a torrent is, retard? Yeah, I'm sure they've come up with a way to hide keyloggers in torrents they copied from what.cd lol. Download it on a VM if you're such a pussy

>>57559530
>embedding malware into flacs

>>57559545

>implying flacs make up the entirety of RUtracker

Fuck off m8

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>>57559530

>malware in flac files

>>57559567

>implying anyone suggested that you should download anything other than music from rutracker

fuck off m8 desu

>>57559530
OH SHIT WHY DOES MY MPEG HAVE A PE HEADER, BETTER LAUNCH THIS SHIT

>>57557042

>All the normies who listen to music BTFO

Fuck music

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>>57559530

>these plebs afraid of virus
linux mustardrace

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>mfw

>>57557042
Fuck those elitist cunts and all that bullshit one had to go through just to download shit.

>>57559605
https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=Get+raped+and+kill+yourself%2C+you+retarded+fucking+faggot+sack+of+shit+with+down+syndrome.
Why do you do this?

This is Martin Shkreli's fault; he deserves to be gassed or burned/buried alive.

>>57559539
Yup

>>57559542
Fuck off you cunt, of course I know what it is. The Russians and Chinese should not be trusted at the very slightest. Trust me, a lot of those torrents have hidden root kits and all sorts of malware.

>>57559567
>>57559530
This.

>>57559545
>>57559571
Who the fuck was even speaking about flac files you cunts, I wasn't even speaking about that or mentioned it.

>>57559507
It was nice knowing you, anon.

>>57559630
>hidden root kits in directly copied torrents

>>57559641
:)

>>57558863

If whatcucks actually gave a shit about preservation, they wouldn't have preserved it through the use of a PRIVATE torrent tracker of all things.

Is all the music really lost?

I mean, i hope they have a back up but i doubt it.

>>57559630
>Who the fuck was even speaking about flac files you cunts, I wasn't even speaking about that or mentioned it.

>entire thread about a music tracker shutting down
>people suggest rutracker as a temporary alternative for downloading music
>HURR DURR WHAT ABOUT MALWARE

>Thinking any site run by russians is free of malware

Russians are the blacks of the internet.

>>57559625
>2 year investigation
nope

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I only hope they won't tourch AB

>>57559651
Wasn't speaking about music or anything (Because obviously you can't)

>>57559671
Lol fuck off m8

>>57559680
Pretty sure blacks are the blacks of the internet, anon

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>>57558863

rip

>>57559639
yeah lol it's funny to see them say B-BUT WE-WE'RE CREATING A LIBRARY OF MUSICTO PRESERVE IT FOR EVERYONE when they kept it behind so many fucking hurdles and acted so autistic about keeping le commoners out

>>57559664
How else would you suggest they archive a bunch of copyrighted content fucko?

>>57559688
>Lol fuck off m8

>literally can't come up with a proper argument

>>57559664
who gives a fuck about what the "whatcucks" cared about. that's not the point, the point is that the music can not be found anymore.

>>57559688
>Wasn't speaking about music or anything
Then why are you in this thread, mongoloid?

>>57559665
I'm sure they have a somewhat recent backup of their databases somewhere. Who knows if the authorities seized that too though. Doubt you'd ever see it in the wild again.

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>>57559232
HOLY SHIT

I didn't even use What.CD but it rally angers me that tons of music has been lost, that's a fucking real shame,

>>57559711
I don't feel like arguing with some faggot g tard, I really don't.

>>57559728
Wasn't speaking about music when I mentioned the malware shit. I just don't trust them mate, let it be.

>>57559760
>I don't feel like arguing with some faggot g tard

You're really bad at not arguing then.

>>57559448
Denuvo games are dropping like flies. Won't be long til the whole thing is reverse engineered. DOOM, RotTR, Just Cause 3... The only PC games really off limits are online ones like Overwatch.

>>57559788
Whatever mate

>>57559709

Wait, I thought that the content was so obscure it could never be found anywhere? If that's the case, why would anybody give a shit about it if you posted it anywhere?

If that's a serious question though, I would suggest supporting things like the internet archive. They already host tons of copyrighted content.

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>>57559232
fucking lost it

One of the lesser-talked-about things that What.CD did better than any other tracker was how they sorted discographies, in my opinion. Anyone could go to wikipedia and look at the list of studio albums a band released, but with What.CD you could see all the EPs, live albums, singles, etc. in chronological order. Often times I would just go to the What.CD page of a band I liked and just scroll through to find rare releases I hadn't previously heard about.

I'm really gonna miss that :'/

>>57559714

That's their own fucking fault for posting it on a private tracker that they probably knew could get taken down at any moment.

The whatcucks only have themselves to blame.

>>57557042
the admins were huge faggots anyways

good riddance :^)

>>57559232
(You)

Youtube has a larger music collection than What.CD but somehow that piece of shit site is up and no case against it.

>>57559664
FUCK YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Truth: the post.

>>57559714
The music is at all the seeded file-locations. The data is not lost, just no longer indexed.

Amuses me since I got handed an invite by a friend and I used the tracker like...6 times?

>>57559840

They could be nice and open-source that but nah they'll probably be cunts.

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>Bowie dead
>Cohen dead
>Prince dead
>Leon Russel dead
>what.cd dead.

2016 worst year ever.

>>57559844
nobody gives a fuck about the feelings of the "whatcucks" dude are you retarded? it just sucks that the music is no longer there.

everyone shittalking what.cd itt has been /marked/

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>tfw I was there when BG died
>tfw I was there when UG died
>tfw I was there when BCG died

>tfw I was there when WCD died

How many more will die?

>mfw /mu/ made fun of me for cloning the website on my harddrive
>mfw when I read this news

FUCK YOU /mu/ WHOS LAUGHING NOW

>>57559961
how long ago did you clone it?

magnet link?

>>57559957
I was there when Finreactor died in 2004 due to Finland's commie police taking it down

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>not using soulseek

if you're using a privatetorrent for music, you're a retard

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>>57557042
And i was just starting to do the interview prep. Well.. shit.

WW3 when?

>>57558863
Prove it

>you have to pay for music of a dead artist

>>57558863
That is what happens when your archive is private and not made public.

lol retards

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>>57559961
>cloning the website
>no one seeding
great job

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>>57559232
Oh man.

>>57559957
animebytes is next

>>57559130
>name 5 relevant games
you lost me, there hasn't been any relevant game other than Deus Ex, and that one is shit, and also cracked.

good this rulecuck shit is gone

you only could download music there once a year with freeleech or had to search for some random obscure tenuvian throat dildo gargling musicals so you could build buffer

>>57560084
lmao who uses AB

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>mfw Deus Ex Mankind Divided is cracked on linux only

>>57560043
You could literally just put the tracker back up and any torrents still alive would report.

>>57560105
this tbhsmthfam
Shit being overseeded by autists with gbit seedboxes didn't help either.

>>57560137
It's the best chinese cartoons tracker atm. Good luck finding old shit on nyaa or irc.

>>57557042
Spotify usually has everything i listen to

>>57560249
why would I watch 00's shit

>>57560249

BakaBT brah

>>57560249
I had an animebyt.es account but it was easier to just use bakabt.me and thepiratebay.org for older shit. They drop your account if you don't log in for a certain amount of time.

>>57560303
bakabt is a joke

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>>57557952
>You just have to use an external search engine to find shit on their site

The fuck are you talking about?

>>57560249
bakabt is better. Only has the best version available because who has time to compare six different release. Also ratio fee

>>57557042
HAHAHA

>Private trackers are so superior

AHAHAHAHAHA

>>57560332
Put "[band name or album] rutracker" in Google

>>57559693
I fucking love Craig David!!!

>>57560336
>Only has the best version available
Too bad their mods don't know Japanese and regularly offer bad releases for shows

>>57559957
GGN is dead

>>57560336
Bakabt also deletes shit because muh copyright. They lack half the shit you can find on AB and that's generous.

Anyone have the final, or close to the final, count of how many torrents What.CD had? I think it'd be nice to know

>>57558863
>>57558916
So what, people that downloaded music from there never leaked it or can't leak it now?

>>57560381
on hold

>>57559933

And I'm telling you who exactly is to blame for that - the whatcucks themselves.

>>57559714
>>57559933
People downloaded it, it's still somewhere

>shit dumb kids upload their shitty obscure albums to what.cd only
>never bother to upload it anywhere else because that makes what even more exclusive
>what dies
>bwaaaaaaaah we lost so much music that was not available anywhere else

NO FUCKING SHIT SHERLOCK

get fucked

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this is now the second time this has happened
most of y'all're prolly too young now to even remember oink though
i can only pray that you learn your lesson and make the next one something other than a private torrent tracker
i suggest doing it over gnunet

>>57560442
yeah I'd rather just not use them to begin with if they're all gonna die anyway

>>57560409
shhh, don't say anything, that's what whatcucks say so they don't feel better for wasting time on that interview for their shitty secret club.

So does this mean music will never be uploaded online anymore since there is no more incentive to?

>>57560464
Totally.

/s

>>57560464
yes goy

there was only what.cd and all music everywhere is now forever lost

>>57560460
*so they can feel better

>>57560476
so that's why my cds weren't working anymore

>>57560476
I was only half-joking. Where will the majority upload quality rips now?

>>57560464
no its mean good luck finding Kinks, The - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (VICP-61000 Japanese 20-bit K2 Super Coding) flac

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>>57560429
>mfw they an hero

>>57560494
nowhere. 320kbps is all you need, whatcuck

>>57560403
yea no shit dude. the thing is you are acting like it doesn't matter that the music is gone just because someone it to blame.

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>>57557042
It seems the only people they could interview now is FBI

Audiophile Autismals on suicide watch lol

>>57560494
Scene releases are still available in FLAC. Taylor Swift is so much better in FLAC.

>>57560513

This. I cant even tell if people like

>>57560505

are serious. What the fuck is (VICP-61000 Japanese 20-bit K2 Super Coding)

>>57560505
like that sounds any different from a converted youtube mp3

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>>57560505
But I'd really like that album

>>57560442
This time will probably be a private torrent tracker too, there just isn't technology to allow strict moderation, encourage long-term seeding, build a user generated catalog (as opposed to outsourced a la popcorn time), and properly decentralize all at once. Well there kind of is, but no one wants to use i2p.

>>57560505
>>57560556
Seriously how could it be any better than master recordings?

>18 minutes agoPlease remember that this is just a website. Something else will come along. This is not worth killing yourself over.

>redditors are literally killing themselves

what the actual fuck

>>57560583
master is not available

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>>57560534

>>57560595
for you

>>57560592
>implying there's any reason left to live

>>57560624
now that trump is president you've got at least four years worth of reasons

>>57560592
Most of the autists there had their life revolve around wcd. Losing a parent is less tragic to them than losing their secret circlejerk.

>>57560592
Yeah, Reddit really does like to post suicide hotlines in every crisis, just like when Bitcoin crashed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c51ck/i_think_this_subreddit_should_seriously_consider/?st=ivn0ww8e&sh=5af4013f

What you say exactly. I don't think we will ever find such a carefully put together library of everything that is music.

Fuck me, i put my first productions on there to get feedback and keep on making music. I got my inspiration from there. The brilliant collages, the quality, the sheer size of it.

I am 100% up to somehow contribute to something new like this. Humanity needs it, eventhough it might not seem as important to some.

WEW

>>57560656
even more reason to kill yourself to be honest.
the trump memes have not been fun for so long.

>>57559241
i got quite a few incorrect and still got in

>>57560656
*tips pepe*

anyone have an idea of where can I torrent books from now that wcd is gone?

>>57560667
The election was funny.

Pretty ironic that they died because they were ratio cucks.

Distributing torrents to DHT would have prevented that.

>>57560700

Mobilism is really good for ebooks

>>57560730
Private tracker adminstration are tech illiterate and think DHT will make RIAA raid them

>spend years accruing buffer
>be super autistic and never download anything except during freeleech /using fl tokens
>could have downloaded 150gb of stuff I couldn't get anywhere else in this obscure genre I'm into
why live?

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>>57560674
>humanity needs it
>make it a highly autistic secret club
AYYY LMAO

>>57560700
>>57560732
and libgen

First Trump
Now What.cd

How will hipsters ever recover?

nothing of value was lost
I never understood why people give up all their privacy in order to join a private tracker

>not using soulseek

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>>57557042
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

>>57560831

This hurts, all the shit thats happened this year, finally something hits me a bit more closer to home and fuck I'm mourning.

I was there from a few days after launch and participated in the community, uploads and downloads, sharing information, and eventually making collages with everything from minimal techno to obscure grindcore which i recommended to other users and vice versa.

It was a community, a tight knit family, one that was judgement free with all your music taste and accepted your shitty Hatsune Miku obsession for what it was regardless of whether it is "real" music or not.

Although my activity may have waned in the last year, when someone PM'd me for a re-up or asked for any information regarding something similar to that shitty folktronica EP that was uploaded, I would go out of my way to find something I'd recommend.

Fuck 2016, R.I.P. What.cd

P.s - Just because I felt it was worthy of pointing out. What.cd and the music I discovered made me invest in thousands (probably 10's of thousands in hindsight) in music from vinyls and cd's, to say we as a community didn't support the Industry would be an insult to every music fan out there.

>>57560249
nyaa for new shit. bakabt for old shit. anyone who says otherwise simply isn't in the know.

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>social IRC is dead
>4chan is dying
>sciHD is dead
>waffles is dead
>whatcd is dead

I swear to you gentlemen if sadpanda goes this route I'll kill myself.

>>57560848
>not (formerly) using both

>>57557042
Oh no, people will have to buy music and support artists now. What a shame.

>>57560887
it really is

>>57560877
Who is this girl?

>>57560887
How do you support artists who died long ago?

>>57560887
is it 2004 again? do we really have to have this discussion about how artists get fuck all from album sales and make virtually all their money from tickets and merch?

>>57560887
>Oh no, people will have to buy music and support Amazon or Spotify now. What a shame.

ftfy senpai

>>57560887
No, they'll go back to getting audio from YouTube.

>>57560915
By giving money to their jewish overlords.

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>>57560887

>>57560922
In 2004 most of current /g/ still had problems walking.

>>57560013
source pls

where the fuck am I supposed to get my obscure 1990s bulgarian folk music now

>>57560922
>>57560924
It's 2016, there should be no reason to be signed to a record company. Many have gotten famous with a label, just as many signed to labels go unnoticed as well.

Whatever happened to DIY music and advertising? Black Veil Brides is great example, getting exposure on Youtube. If it's possible, make it so Youtube doesn't make money off of you and sell the CDs from your own site.

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I swear to god i'm going to PayPal 5$ to whoever can post a working link of Mendelssohn string quartet played by Melos Quartet

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>>57558951
>suck dicks
you just answer a few questions. did you graduate?

>>57560887

Music shouldn`t be anything more than a hobby anyway. Do you expect to make money from your hobby?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwL-KHse-Y

>>57560922
>is it 2004 again? do we really have to have this discussion about how artists get fuck all from album sales and make virtually all their money from tickets and merch?

Nice justification for your illegal activities you got there. Artists are probably not making anything from album sales, because faggots like you cheat them out of their wages for their efforts by pirating stuff.

If an artist truly didn't want to earn any money from their albums, they'd have put them up under an open source license

>>57559957
as long as you're there, more will

>>57560995
Forgot to say in FLAC

>>57560975

Make you`re own

Is there any tracker for ebooks? they are so goddamn hard to find and whatcd had a large ebook collection

>>57560975
>bulgarian chalga
>obscure
kek

>>57561009
Agreed. Good music is art. Art is corrupted by money. Good music is corrupted by money.

>>57560877
>4chan is dead

fixd

>>57560995
>posting some fucking meme music
get the fuck out you fucking hipsters

>>57561056
>>57561009
Hipster faggots qqing: The posts

I'll listen to Katie Perry on youtube now, in 360p

>>57561056

Only starving artists make good music anyway.
We should reinstate gulags.

>>57561081
This is fact.

t. genuinely starving "artist"

>>57561021
Artists get pennies for their album sales, the record label takes a vast majority of the profits fuckface. If I like an artist I'll buy enough in concert tickets and merch to more than make up for it.

Fact: If you've ever been on what.cd, you have contributed more to the death of music than anyone else in the world.

>>57561021

Are you really this stupid? Artists don't make money from recordings because, for every dollar you spend on CDs or vinyls, the artist gets five to ten cents, whereas the various middlemen reap the other 90-95 cents.

'A bloo blood artists aren't making money' is crocodile tears from the record companies designed to make you feel bad for a victimless 'crime', and you're eating that shit up and asking for seconds.

>>57559498
GGN is still up bud.

>>57561104
But I pay for Spotify now.

>>57560900
>girl

>>57561101

You should starve some more.

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>>57559232

>>57561102
>Artists get pennies for their album sales, the record label takes a vast majority of the profits fuckface

Musicians are not bound to choose Label X over Label Y. They could very well open up their own labels instead. But then, you would of course still pirate their things, wouldn't you?

How many bandcamp albums, niggered from their creators, were on what? How much losses did honest artists get from this?

>>57561128
>moralfagging
if you really care about doing good why the fuck are you giving money to artists?

>>57561128
>How many bandcamp albums, niggered from their creators

Who cares? Its not like there`s a lot of quality music created anyway.

>>57561108
>Are you really this stupid? Artists don't make money from recordings because, for every dollar you spend on CDs or vinyls, the artist gets five to ten cents, whereas the various middlemen reap the other 90-95 cents.

THis only applies to to major label artists. And even then their sales volume is big enough that they don't starve to death. In fact, they would even see their work much more honored, if criminals like you didn't make up bullshit justifications like "It's okay! They don't get any money from the albums anyway! And it's totally not my fault! I'm just seeding 1000 albums! Not my problem they don't earn things!"

>>57561081
>>57561101
Kanye says hello.

>>57561126
I don't have any choice in the matter.

>>57560354
But why would you do that instead of searching on rutracker?

>>57561180
>Kanye
>artist

>>57561160
>Who cares? Its not like there`s a lot of quality music created anyway.

Nice goalpost moving, fucko.

>>57561156
Because I enjoy their works.

>>57559130
Name more than 5 relevant games that came out up to a month ago that are worth torrenting

>>57561180
Who?

>>57561180
>kanye
lmao go back to /mu/ , fucking nigger

>>57561063
Not knowing what a classical string quartet is
Go listen hip hop you sub human American trash

>>57561213
>being this dumb

taylor swift and niki minaj will continue to be pirated and arist that the music industry makes no money off will fade into further obscurity

>>57561222
>Having such bad taste in music

>>57561171

>they would even see their work much more honored

What does this even mean?

Also, for what it's worth, I do have a streaming music subscription, so the industry does see some money from me. Because of that streaming subscription, I wasn't a frequent user of what.cd during its final days, but I still valued its utility as a repository of rare and foreign music. You know, music where, when purchasing. most of your expense is incurred through shipping and reseller markups, not through any legitimate compensation to any creatives.

>>57561236
my argument still stands.
you are just a pleb.

>>57560995
I don't have it but I have about half of the NPR classical 50 collection if it helps

fuck, what.cd was amazing for classical

>>57560013
Sounds like someone's jelly they never got into WCD. Stay mad, loser.

>>57561268
Sounds like someone's crying that their sekrit club tracker is dead dead dead lmao

I hope atleast all the torrent pages and collages were archived

it's how I would find new music

The largest repository of music the world has ever seen is gone, feels bad :(

Site had a good community too, sorry to see it go.

>>57561282
They claim everything is gone, presumably the drives were encrypted & they trashed the keys.

>>57561268
How's that ratio build up working for you?

>>57560877
/g/ was already proclaiming exhentai was dead when they removed some copyrighted shit before

>>57561294

I know the French are dumb, but you would think they had thought about the possibility of wcd deleting everything before the raid.

Assuming wcd was their target.

>>57561354

The data is still on the servers, genius, but the data was encrypted. The key was destroyed, which renders the data completely inaccessible permanently. iOS' ten-failed-attempts wipes work the same way: don't bother erasing the data, just erase the key. It's just as good.

>>57561078
on youtube the audio quality is the same at all resolutions

ya pleb

>>57560249
>Good luck finding old shit on nyaa or irc.

everything is on nyaa or bakabt you mongoloid retard

>>57561566
t. retard without AB account

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>>57561603
oh yeah i suppose they might not have your super specific 10 bit release with animated subs for the ost that you can sing along with which only some faggot aspie would care about

>>57561431
Not him, but it wasn't always like that. It used to be that the "video quality" setting adjusted the audio stream too. IIRC 480p was where audio quality maxed out, but some 240p videos used to sound like utter shit. I'm not even sure if old videos on YT now have better audio or if the shit sound from days gone by is all that's left for them.

Hopefully it gets replaced by a site where you don't have to buy 10 albums to get 20mb buffer

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>>57560580
So strange. Its even available on android.
Actually its a good opportunity to rebuild what.cd and promote i2p.

To settle the dispute:
>>57561603 should name an interesting anime release and >>57561726 should provide the source. /g/ will bring on the sentence.

>>57558772
Hipster trash

>>57559130
Let me guess, you're only talking about PC.

Pokemon Sun/Moon has been out for a week or so.

There really aren't that many good games that come out in a month anyways.