>piracy will never die they said

lol I'm still using piratebay and nobody seems to care so I guess I'm the idiot, huh?

the internet is dead

mesh networks when

>>57559610
Piratebay is now a honeypot you idiot

>>57559576
I thought this is some b8 thread
then I checked the site
wtf

>>57559640
and yet here I am.

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Why do they always win?

>>57559733
They always lose because they win a battle but we continue to win the war.

>>57559719
They ain't after you. They are after the big time uploaders...

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people actually used private trackers?

>>57559761
>first...

Also anyone know what happend with wcd's collaboration with the internet archive aka archive.org? Do you think maybe they saved the metadata?

>>57559761
therefore, here I am.

>>57559798
They wiped out all the fucking data

>>57559772
do people not know rutracker exists

>>57559576
i doubt it will anytime soon, regardless of what.cd

>>57559918
I thought the idea was that archive would have a copy (not of the music files themselves but metadata), that's kind of the point of the orginazation after all

>>57559934
you have to register in order to use rutracker

>>57559971
only when you want to download >500mb (or some other limit) torrents

PowerTM with top 30 uploads. I need someone to hold

>>57559576
>muh sekret klub nobody can touch it!

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I remember when this happened to OiNK everyone switched to what.cd

>>57560003
no. fuck off autist

>>57559934
rutracker is great, but for music nothing remotely rivaled what.cd

>>57559576
>Regular maintenance, we'll be back soon!
How is it dying?

>>57560039
everything music is in soulseek

>>57560056
Clear your cache
Cry

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>>57560039
anon what are you saying

Good riddens what.cd was a cesspool of elitism and power hungry mods.

Fact they didn't backup the meta data is proof enough they were morons.

>>57559640
I'm European, therefore untouchable.

>>57560062
(not true, by the way)

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>>57560080
Ohshit.
>All site and user data has been destroyed
Intentionally, or is that the reason as to why they are shutting down? Is it safe to say they will never come back and I can delete these 700 torrents?

>>57560142
There was a foreign news article saying they were raided. They probably hit the self-destruct button.

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Good, this is what these faggots get for not inviting me then denying me access because I didn't google the transcoding question quick enough.

>>57560138
except for being culturally enriched(TM) by refugees.

>>57559640
what did he mean with this

>>57560180
>not just having the interview page open while doing it

>>57560165
Well at least they destroyed the evidence.
Sucks, but I prefer it over them handing my data over. Good night sweet prince

>>57560216
this is what I did as well, opened up all the pages in new tabs before the interview
rip

>>57560140
ok post an album that you listen to that isn't on slsk

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>>57560142
Kek'd, lol @ the plebs who feel for the private tracker meme. Maybe next time you kids start one of these sites, you'll invite a real OG.

>>57559576
torrents are not piracy
and you are a fucking moron

it's a shame some hard to get albums are pretty much obliterated from the internet forever now

but fuck what.cd desu, been turning into a cesspool since a while back. users got in over their heads

also when are we throwing out scene rules

>>57560309
on a scale of 0 to 0, about how many people used what.cd for legal purposes?

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>>57560216
"POSTING THE CONTENTS OF THIS INTERVIEW ANYWHERE OR SHOWING IT TO ANYONE WILL COST YOU YOUR ACCOUNT OR YOUR CHANCES AT INTERVIEWING AGAIN!"

LEAKED: http://pastebin.com/9aQXmRyQ

>>57560371
DELET THIS NOW

>piracy will never die they said
>>57560363
if torrent based websites were to die piracy would still be a thing
because there are other ways to perform piracy

i am sorry i kinda fucked my sentence

>>57560340
You don't understand how a torrent works, do you?

>>57560371
Reason behind it is that there is a site dedicated to learning the answers to everything and when the answers get leaked the interviewer has to re-do their questions.

>>57559640
> not using a vpn with no logs

>>57560541
those super rare albums will pretty much never be shared outside of what.cd since the uploaders are usually all nerds that care about exclusivity

>>57560432
nah, your English is good, anon

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>>57559576
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.”

>>57560949
imagine being so retarded you think piracy is literally intended to mean actual fucking high seas piracy

jesus christ

>>57560949
>>57560983

fuck i took the bait

Good thing I never fell for the private tracker meme. Just hope soulseek doesn't die

So /g/, when will we have blockchain based content distribution ?

>>57561042
blockchain is a meme primarily pushed forward by users of a flawed cryptocurrency

>private trackers never go down they said
>private trackers are safe they said
>private trackers don't get raided and have their hardware seized they said
KEK

>>57559640
seedbox

>>57559640
just get a vpn

F

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It was nice sharing music with you all. Best of luck in your future endeavours.

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1. Go to rutacker
2. Type a band/artist into this box
3. Hit the search bar
4. Profit, no need for google translate

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>>57560371

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>>57560003

Not Top 30, but uploaded over 500 torrents. I'm here

I have no idea where to get music properly, I know rutracker is alright but nothing will feel like what.cd

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>>57561244
And you too, anon.

Call me sappy or deluded if you want, but we lost something good today.

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I thought it was a joke, I can't believe it. I've been downloading all my music from what.cd for 4 years now. How long will we have to wait for another serious music tracker?

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>trump beats hillary
>secret clubbers lose what.cd

the last two weeks have been pretty good

>>57561745
Waffles will probably step up

>>57561819
waffles is over too

>>57561827
Waffles has had hosting issues but it's not /down and out/
I expect a lot of people will try and help the Waffles staff get up and running again

>>57561819
>>57561827
>>57561836
waffles is shit, it's been almost dead for a year now

>>57561851
NO FUCKING SHIT Waffles is a pile of shit, but it was the 2nd best music tracker. In lieu of What, it now becomes 1st.

>>57561874
no
rutracker > waffles
by far
/thread

>>57561893
>
hhhhhhhhhh

>>57560194
Its run by police

>>57559576
Copyright infringement isn't piracy jesus fuck.
It's not even supposed to be a criminal offense. Record companies just cried like mad because they prefer to put people in jail instead of suing them for a civil violation.
On the bright side this means we can send violators at companies who violate the GPL to jail.

>>57561874
but it is kill

>>57560271
yes, i really feel duped living my raspberry pi on seeding

>>57560983
While he went about it the wrong way, he's right in the sense that the term piracy definitely gives it a worse image than just saying "Illegally copying" something.

There was some faggot on /mu/ who equated it to the burning of the library of alexandria or the destruction of a coral reef, and although it's a bit of an exaggeration, I kinda agree. The sheer amount of content was staggering and there was stuff on this site that you will never see elsewhere. Yes, something will probably come along to take its place, but it will take years. I was a member for almost 7 years out of it's 9 year lifespan. F.

>thinking some cuck site that doesnt let you use VPN (LOL) is good

>>57563285
oink was the same thing before what came along

another tracker will pop up (or waffles will come back up) and it will be business as usual

wew wcd ded

time to delete my 1TB of crap I only downloaded for the upload I would gain from it

>>57563329
yea oink never got anywhere near what's size but yea there will be a "new what" like how what was the "new oink"

for real though, a real fuckin loss. I just hope some of between some of the top users they archived a lot of the releases

>>57562030
>Implying american fatass police would ever touch me in my third world shithole

>>57559971
It doesn't send you a verification email, just enter some random email and password and write them down somewhere.

They banned me from the interview irc chat before I said anything because I'm brazillian, glad these fuckers got BTFO.

>Wanted to join a long time ago for all those albums I either couldn't find or had no seeds

I could never be fucked to take an hour long interview just to gain access to tracker.

>>57559934
If rutracker had everything then I wouldn't be at whatcd in the first place idiot

that's what wcd gets for not censoring their name

*** still up and running better than ever and the real biggest online music library

>>57559576
What is the future of torrenting and/or piracy?
>https://geti2p.net
>https://ipfs.io/
>tracker sites hosted on https://zeronet.io/
>tracker sites as hidden services on the TOR network (not torrenting through TOR)

The above list is what I've heard of. What else is there?

>>57560567
>>>57559640
>no logs
>implying they're telling the truth

>>57564493
https://www.demonsaw.com

>>57559640
yup now they know I downloaded 21 savage's shitty new album

Why didn't they at least upload a torrent list like tpd did so we can grab some music before it shit the bed

All this music I've been waiting to get during a free leech event

>>57559997
No, you don't. I download BluRay muxes with a seedbox regularly. No registration.

>>57564626
I couldn't make it through his last tape.

Rutracker's still up, whatcd was the reddit of trackers desu.

>>57564493
i2p torrenting is torture

the speeds are insanely slow

>>57562110
Pity North Korea can't be sued for violating the GPL desu senpai

>>57560949
I used to think stallman was a weirdo, but I've thought about it for a bit, and realized that he was not only alive before the "digital age" as the wide public is aware of it, but also involved in its creation.
Therefore, all those things we take for granted, like the word "piracy" and DMCA are new to him. They cropped up long after he was involved with digital technology.

When you look at it from that side, you see how ridiculous a concept like "piracy" or "copyright" is. And suddenly, he's no longer the weirdo, I am.

>>57560247
Not him but there are plenty of self-published and rare Japanese albums which won't be on there. But weeb music doesn't count, isn't that right ;^)

>>57563691
I would ban your shitty monkey ass too. If everyone hates your country it must be for a reason
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

>>57559576
probably the first true AI in the world will be made for encrypting a new form of piracy, it will also know all memes on the internet and will have all pepes as vintage collection

>>57561075
mah nigga

>>57559640
only burgerland is a target for such memes

List of sources with better selection than What.cd

1. iTunes/Apple Music
2. Spotify
3. Google music
4. Rhapsody
5. Napster
6. Soulseek

80% of the uploads to what.cd were "freely.available" cancer music from bandcamp anyway

I know everyone here want to be all edgy with "LMAO KEKS BTFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but it's really a shame that a music library of this size (5 million torrets, I think?) is lost.

>>57564780
imagine if one day something that was once normal became illegal, and then twenty years later every dumb fucking kid not only supported it, but was MORALLY outraged if you violated the new norm, because it had been that way their entire life

now think about that the next time someone tells you the arc of technology and history is progress

>>57565585
b8

>>57560187
nice meme tyrone

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>>57560371
>What.CD Invite Interview Room #8
What the fuck.
>srs bsns

>>57564835
This. I only got what.cd for obscure japanese music that I could not find on soulseek

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>>57564539
>I wont sue them from behind bars

>>57564635
They probably didn't have the time. ArsTechnica's article mentions that they shut it down asap when they heard that servers are being seized.

How was What.CD for classical?

>>57561270
RT doest have the small band

>>57560949
Wasn't it called something like "bootlegging" back in the day?

>>57565585
Stop listening to mainstream shit, fucking normie

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>>57559576
Huh?

I'm still very much business as usual.

Kat.ph simply got replaced by Rarbg.to and a combination of qTorrent search and rutracker.org

>>57566479
I just googled Vomitron thats a small band. Got results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYp7kmeDp2A

>>57566510
I didn't found any Pryapisme or Fist in Fetus on rut

wcd was really convenient, sure, but as far as obscure hard to find music goes, slsk was always superior

>>57559576
It won't. Worst case scenario you'll be forced to do old school irl piracy, as in you ask a friend to transfer files to you via flash drive or peer to peer transfer.
Also >>57559610 >>57559934

>>57559733
Because we keep on using central points of failure

Maybe like, use a p2p / mesh net style thing like freenet that is impossible to take down. I already have a design concept that would emulate the capabilities of a private tracker

>>57559576
it never dies, it just adapts.
no matter how many individual trackers and sites fall, there's always a new avenue.
even torrenting may die, but piracy in itself won't.

>>57560247
Currently listening to Three Variations on Plum Blossom from the album Qin by Zhao Jiazhen

hit me

>>57564732

They're only as slow as you set the bandwidth limit.

You did change the default settings, right?

Apparently the only servers that were seized were some reverse proxies that had no meaningful data.

A what.cd admin panicked and unnecessarily gave the self-destruct command.

>>57560271
>Kek'd, lol @ the plebs who feel for the private tracker meme.
So where do you get your music from then, dickhead?

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>>57566552
you just keep telling yourself that when trump ends net neutrality

>>57566563
>China
Who cares

>>57561745
Idk,i bought a usenet block only to find out usenet is appearantly dead now...
Hopefully it will at least have my shitty post hardcore pop punk kpop and Japanese math rock.

>>57566570
Source ?

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>>57566602
>using usenet for music

>>57566611
Idk. I've been using what for years. I regret spending the money. Probably gonna use it for vidya anyway in ggns downtime. I kind of panicced and bought a big block as something to use if all the trackers around me go down.

>>57566611
it's not that bad, almost all scene shit is posted and you can make requests

>>57560371
>1. Order the following formats from LOWEST to HIGHEST target bitrate. List the letters only.
A E B D C
>2. Which of these formats are lossless? If you can't find any, tell me one.
D
>3. Which of these formats are ARE allowed on What.CD? List the letters only.
A C

>1. Do you know the lowest allowed CBR bitrate on What.CD?
MP3 320kbps
>2. Tell me everything you know about VBR and CBR. Why would you choose one over the other?
VBR: Variable bitrate, which is more efficient (less bits wasted on silence, more bits spent on intense regions).
CBR: Constant bitrate, only useful if you have an exact bandwidth constraint for streaming purposes and want minimal latency or predictable storage sizes; or if you're using a braindead 30 year old format like MP3 where the CBR mode is actually higher quality than the VBR modes
>3. What is LAME, and what does it output?
LAME is the industry standard MP3 encoder
>4. When we are talking about lossy, what does that mean? Tell me everything you know on the subject.
It means improving compression at the cost of adding distortion/noise. Lossy codecs don't roundtrip back into PCM
>5. Which of these formats are LAME outputs, and why not the others?
B, C and D for sure. It can probably also decode MP3 back into PCM so A as well. E because it isn't a fucking flac encoder, what a stupid question
>6. What makes a music file "lossless"? Name two examples.
Really, what it means is that it's bit-identical (PCM) to the original distribution source (i.e. CD), or the original recording source in the case of vinyl. So if you re-encode an MP3 file in FLAC, it's not “lossless” because it differs from the original CD.
>7. Which of the following formats are allowed on What.CD?
A D

>YOU HAVE FAILED THE INTERVIEW!
yeah no. easiest fucking interview. If you fail this you are a braindead retard and don't deserve to use the internet let alone download music

>>57566627
>Lossy codecs don't roundtrip back into PCM
Minor clarification: Lossy codecs don't universally roundtrip back into PCM. You're basically reducing the space of music files which you can represent without loss.

>>57566624
>scene shit
Jesus it is that bad?

>>57566583
It was going to happen either way, EU owns the internet now anyway.

>>57566639
flac is still flac

>>57566619
the last time i used usenet was for tv shows (about 4 years ago) and it was OK for that although searching through indexes was a hassle, and it took a bit for a new release to go live. iirc the music selection on there is a joke though unless you want the greatest hits collection of the beatles or something, and that doesn't even mention the quality/consistency

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>>57566639
>>57566648

>>57566648
Indeed.
The problem i don't want to download FLAC. I want all the high quality VBRo shit from what. I can settle for decent mp3 320 shit i guess. Or encode it my fucking self.
That being said. A FLAC isn't necessarily just a FLAC, you don't know the source. A lossless rip of a 192kpbs limewire song is theoretically possible to make as a .flac and it will sound just as shitty.
>>57566649
Any idea on games selection? Only latest AAA SCENE cracks?

>>57559971
>хи дaз нoт aндэpcтэнд Paшaн

>>57566674
for games the best place is ggn (p2p) or opg.forum (scene)

>>57566691
ggn was taken down until they figure out what to do re: wcd getting raided

>>57565585
>2. Spotify
Does spotify have FLAC, V0 and 320kbps mp3?

Is there a way to rip songs from spotify? Could you just dump the stream to a file as it plays?

spotify is like 1$ a month

private tracker elitist cucks BTFO

>>57566693
I literally said i bought it because of ggn and NCG takedown. I have like a tb down on each, i was just asking how usenet is kek.

>>57566693
>>57566733
Whats that scene thing your referring to Though?

>>57559640
[citation needed] [dubious]

>>57566711
my dumbphone doesn't have innernette connections :(

>>57566691
>>57566693
What's the next best game tracker after ggn? bcg?

I want a place to try out games before I buy them :/

>>57566627
>a braindead 30 year old
Didn't need to get personal, Anon.

>>57566835
>BCG
Oh anon....

>>57566929
w-what?

>>57559640
MURRIKA

LAND OF THE POTENTIALLY FREE

>>57559934
Do people not know soulseek exists

>>57566551
Build it, and we shall come.

>>57566813
>listening to music on phone
what a fag

>>57566702
>Is there a way to rip songs from spotify? Could you just dump the stream to a file as it plays?
sure, but quality might be shit.

>>57566508
no one wants to hear your weeb shit, fag

>>57567989
>sure, but quality might be shit.
I know recording it via the soundcard would impact the quality. But why would saving the stream directly impact the quality?

>>57560247
Breakin Old Habits by Rock Horn Project

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Daily reminder

>>57567989
you can download all the songs

>>57568028
It's not that saving the stream directly will hinder quality, it's that the quality they stream it to you in won't be excellent.

what is what.cd and why do kids on 4chan always find some hipster shit to pirate things?

i had some children on /mu/ flame me for using torrents, i asked them what they used they said SOULSEEK

you know, the thing we all used in the early 2000's before bittorrent became the thing

i hate you all 4chan

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>piracy will never die they said

>>57568213
Yeah just checked it and spotify streams 320kbps mp3 max, and only for premium accounts.

Is there a streaming service that does V0 or flac?

How long before everything from what.cd becomes available on public trackers?

>>57568229
Spotify uses ogg-vorbis

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>>57568241
https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/search_play/what-bitrate-does-spotify-use-for-streaming/

>>57559918
>they wiped out all the data
They never hosted the data to begin with.
They only hosted a reference to the data. The data was hosted by the users and they still have it.

>what.cd dead
>Denuvo
Piracy really is dead.

>>57568241
>>57568252
Oh yeah, sorry, ogg-vorbis 320kbps. Misunderstanding.

But 320kbps ogg vorbis is still ''''''decent''''''

>>57568260
>Denuvo

CPY says hi

>>57566611
It used to be ace, but never really recovered after the Usenet crackdown that happened around the time NZBMatrix was nuked

>>57568274
>maybe like one or two games with a ridiculously convoluted "crack"
lol
Denuvo is still going strong, call me when an actually recent title using Denuvo is cracked.

>>57568296
>ridiculously convoluted "crack"

Explain?

>>57568274
>CPY says hi
Only after 3DM embarassed the entire scene with a DA:I release, because everyone else believed Denuvo was a wasted effort

>>57568018
>Underground and indie music is weeb
Fuck off

>>57563548
Upload it on a different tracker for even more upload

>>57568307
>3DM
>scene

Enjoy your Chinese trojans

>>57568274
Just Cause 3? Far Cry Primal? Hitman? Deus Ex? Battlefield 1? Watch_Dogs 2?

>>57568334
DX denuvo wasn't cracked but proof that it can be dealt with was shown. The Linux version has no Denuvo and was thus quickly cracked.

>>57565829

>srsbsns

Almost as bad as some of those inteviews for Eve Online corporations.

Internet spaceships are serious business.

>>57560618
This is what's wrong with torrents now, fucking faggot lords. In 2005 no one would have given a fuck about autistic hording like that.

>>57568334
>God.Eater.Resurrection-CPY

But yeah, a lot of uncracked games still around sadly.

>>57568371
>God Eater
lmfao it's already cracked on PS Vita.

>>57560340
all it takes is a reupload, the source material isn't destroyed

>>57568307
>3DM
>embarassing anyone but themselves
their cracks were always pure shitty emu jobs which no longer worked when Denuvo released a new version.
then the italian group CPY comes along and cracks one Denuvo game after another perfectly.

if you want to get quality you have to wait for europe.

>>57564626
>>57564670
I like his music, some hood shit nigga. Gucci Mane the best though, nobody better than Gucci.

>>57559640
lol who cares? I am not an americuck, in my country piracy is only a criminal offence if you make a profit from it.

>>57566679
> unironically writing english with cyrillic letters

Is Rarbg are only good torrent site? Only one I use, it's pretty cool.

ipfs is the future given the developers get over the fear of optimization.

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>>57568379
>vita

>>57568440
Reminder that it's a PC port of a Vita game :)

>>57560187
No niggers, jews or refugees here?
Don't know what you're talking about.

Anyways, back to being a NEET and living off welfare buying expensive ass shit.

>>57564626
[spoiler]2121[/spoiler]

>not using Usenet

>>57568809
>Paying to pirate

>>57568827
>worth not getting fined, and also higher speeds.

>>57568887
>getting fined for piracy
What? Change your ISP, or move to a non-cuck country.

>>57565585
>Not free
>Doesn't work offline unless you pay
>Not free
>Not free
>Not free
>The only actual solution

>>57560271
>Kek'd, lol @ the plebs who feel for the private tracker meme. Maybe next time you kids start one of these sites, you'll invite a real OG.

Kill yourself Martin

>>57565585
any of those have the very first kraftwerk album?

>>57568059
some buttmad whatcuck took time to make this pic while interviewing new recruits to join his army of cucks

lel

>>57559576
What happens when a private tracker dies? Is there any way for the torrents to still be distributed?

>>57569085
no

they're all private

>>57569085
torrents don't werk when they're private and the tracker is kill
but the data itself is still there, on the users hdd

>>57559772
I don't get this

go to exigo

>>57569208
Where to get invite

>>57566551
Can you make it like that movie Nerve

>>57566572
usenet

>>57569206
Spectrum is below 10k. Its mp3 converted to FLAC....

>>57568516
fuck you

>>57568059

You don't like rutracker? Then don't use it you dumb fuck. Go back to what.cd..... Oh wait...

>>57566702

You don't need FLAC. It's a worthless format because humans can't tell the difference.

Everything above v0 MP3 is placebo.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-five-months-spotify-has-badly-abused-users-storage-drives/

reminder that spotify is written by pajeets and developed for cucks

>tfw applied and passed the interview this summer ~pure~
>tfw 2:1 ratio, waiting to become cool enough to get invites to other trackers
>tfw already top 25% of uploaders

>>57570165
Cool Job you had there. Hope you got a certificate out of it so you can apply to more trackers later on

>>57560142
>Intentionally, or is that the reason as to why they are shutting down? Is it safe to say they will never come back and I can delete these 700 torrents?
Don't. We will need every last bit for rebuilding the collection in whatever shape oink3 takes

>>57570165
BTFO
kek

>download and upload things you don't want to listen to just so you can download things you want to listen to eventually

this is the nature of the cuck.

>>57559640
>land of the free

>>57570074
A dude on head-fi says he can.

>>57560187
>>57569994
>/pol/fag's reaction when the reality in Europe doesn't follow what /pol/ has told him it was like
>"f-fuck you"
America is not great, and it won't ever be great. This is the decade of the Chinks, and the Indians. As an European (am from France), I'm ashamed to admit that.

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>>57559576
Site I never heard about closes and everyones up in arms...

Fucking cucks I mean kek.

>>57566508
>saying "normie"
Fucking off yourself.

>>57570378
>thoughtcrime becomes illegal
>Human right I never heard about becomes verboten and everyones up in arms...

Fucking cucks I mean kek.

>>57570467
check this out

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>>57559576
ThePirateBay, RUtracker...

>>57559640
No, it's not..

>>57570530
Nice try NSA.

BASED

what.cd cucks were always the worst kind of people

>>57570544
What?

>>57568252
more than 320kbps is fucking beyond autism
you retards are fucking disgusting placebo idiots

>>57570281
ABX or bust
>>57570074
ever heard of generational losses?

>>57570581
he's a burger. he's paranoid his government is out to get him (because they are)

>>57568260
>Denuvo
Yeah looks like they figured out how to stop game piracy. Make games that aren't worth cracking.

>>57559576
>torrenting
Fucking kill yourself. Just download your shit from a file hoster.

>piracy dead
No big filehosters hit, and even if we have a new "megaupload" scenario, someone will just fill the power vacuum as it always happens.

>>57571135
megaupload was only replaced because kim was a millionaire, nowadays nobody has the money to make that large a site "free" again

>>57571271
Im not talking about Mega.co, you dumb fuck. Im talking about UL, SO and A LOT of small ones that were created to fill the hole.

>>57568296
Been playing Doom since a week after it came out, didn't pay a nickle

>>57571342
Doom was never cracked though....

>>57568260
>gaymen
Good riddance

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and nothing of value was lost.

It won't. The demand for it is still there.

As long as region blocks, missing content, and ridiculous prices exists through legal digital content distribution services then piracy will always exist.

>>57568274
I downloaded CPY's Mirror's Edge release and it didn't work well. Play for 1 sec and the game pauses for 10 seconds, even in the menu.

realistically what does it take to start and maintain a small tracker?

>>57571746
At minimum: An html/php page with magnet links

However most have search functions, ability to let users upload magnet links, tracker stats with the torrents, ect.

>>57571813
it would be an interesting project to make the logo for. if you wanted to be super lazy you what.cucks could use a private pastebin for your magnet links.

I rarely use torrents anyways who cares if What.cd disappears. Usenet is still fine.

>>57571857
Bad idea, nobody would be able to verify the authenticity of the magnet links.

>>57559640
Shut up Kevin.
Godistribute some free literature

>>57571858
>he pays to pirate

I download 99% of all music from rutracker and maybe 1 % from what.cd. WCD gone is not a huge loss for me.

I only download flac/wv/ape etc lossless from rutracker and run them through cuetools. If accuraterip matches they are good rips.

The 100% cue paranoia of WCD was pretty stupid anyway.

>>57571978
and you use a pleb tracker full of straight shit.

my private movie tracker just shut down

ITS OGRE

>>57572614
>he pays to get things for free

Why not just buy the things?

>napster fails
PIRACY IS DEAD

>Kazaa fails
PIRACY IS DEAD

>Limewire fails
PIRACY IS DEAD

...

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>>57571342

Why do you go on the internet and tell lies?

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>>57574038
Yeah but the difference is now they're going after the consumers as well.

Piracy never died because the only ones who could get (realistically) fined or arrested were the ones mass distributing it. Now that is no longer the case and they are really closing in on the major piracy websites. I predict TPB won't last past 2017 as well, some people even say it's been already taken over and is now but a honeypot.

The days of piracy will be over soon unfortunately.

>>57564586
closed source malware.

>>57574251
>Yeah but the difference is now they're going after the consumers as well.
That had always been the case and if anything there have been fewer lawsuits against pirates in recent years.

>I predict TPB won't last past 2017
And Trump will never be president

>some people even say it's been already taken over and is now but a honeypot.
real convincing argument.

>The days of piracy will be over soon unfortunately.
Trump won't even win the primaries

>>57559971
so what?
there's no restrictions on registration
and if you ever used any website on the internet in your life you'll be able to do that without knowing russian
same goes for logging in

so what's the problem with someone stepping up and making a torrent index on Tor or whatever
that only gives you a hash and then you download p2p anyway

>>57564848
Only Internet nerds hate brazil tho, every normie I know thinks brazil is that place with the hot guys

>>57564835
What is dojin.co and doujinstyle.com

>>57574616
This.
>>57574809
There are already tor services which provide this. But the problem here is Tor is inaccessible to normies, especially since the media literally says "tor is a network used by criminals only". Also there'd be retards using tor network to torrent and make the network unstable. Most people would rather pay for a song than have to use a slow service.

>>57574859
kek

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>>57560247

>>57570318
>Indians
kys asap, Pajeet

The IRC seems to be invite only and even if I was on what.cd I don't know much how to access it. Anybody can help me with that?

I'm ready to help with my web dev skills (don't bully pls, it's my job since 5 years).

>>57575093
#what-refuge and #what-dev on irc.p2p-network.net

>>57575110
I know, but I get:

Cannot join #what-refuge (Channel is invite only)

It's been years since I've been on the what IRC (I was on what since 2009). I do not even remember my nick there.

waffles is finally useful for something now

>>57559971
only to download .torrent files, magnet links are registration free.

>>57575170
if it ever comes back the fuck up

>>57574616
They got KAT, What.CD, and countless others. What makes you think TPB is untouchable? Can you even name a major torrent website that has a massive collection and is still open and running? Only rutracker, because Russians, the rest is dead and gone. That's how it ends, at least for the huge torrenting empires. We'll never see anything as complete as What.CD's current form ever again, for instance.

>>57575093
>>57575110
>>57575140
Nevermind I'm retarded. Thanks

>>57575217
>We'll never see anything as complete as What.CD's current form ever again, for instance.

yea just like people said when oink got shut down....

>>57575215
fuck me now i need to use the russian botnet

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>be whatkek
>study 5h/day for a month to do the interview
>"hello mr interviewer san Im here to do the interview"
>finally enter the sikrit club
>can't download anything because you're hostage of your ratio
>buy a seedbox so you can build buffer
>"finally after all this hard work, time and money invested I can finally download kanye west latest album!"
>tracker shuts down

>>57575228
Yeah except since 2007 the government has become much stronger when it comes to internet censorship.

One day WCD is up and running, the other is forced to hit the eject button and instadelete their entire database, millions of torrents, many extremely rare pieces, that users contributed over the course of nearly 10 years. Gone in the blink of an eye, that's how much power governments have of the internet these days. Free internet is now a distant dream.

imagine the face of the last registered user...

>>57575385
probably the most JUST person on the internet right now

>>57575341
>did not listen to tlop in 24bit FLAC
no wonder you're so salty

>>57575341
>being a shit member and not having in anything to offer

that's why you could always upload ebooks and programs to get your ratio up...

Truly 2016 is the worst year.

>>57568353
That kind of behavior is not without cause, people are afraid of being cracked down on by the authorities too

>>57560541
Ok, where can I search all torrents that were hosted on the site?

>>57575367
>Gone in the blink of an eye

It's all still out there... somewhere.

Maybe one day.

[spoiler]testing[/spoiler]

>>57569206
There was at least one transcode on what.cd. Obviously this means TPB is just as good.

>>57575385
They never knew its glory. I relied on that site for almost all my music for eight fucking years

>>57575217
>They got KAT, What.CD, and countless others.
Yeah and they cut countless heads off of the Hydra. What's your point?

>What makes you think TPB is untouchable?
I never mentioned TPB even once ITT.

>Can you even name a major torrent website that has a massive collection and is still open and running?
the pirate bay, kickass clones, torrent react6or, demonoid, minnova, torrentz2, to name a few. There are also DHT search engines

>That's how it ends, at least for the huge torrenting empires.
>torrenting
>empires
torrenting is peer to peer. As long as you and me are still seeding, every website on the planet can go down for all I care, and with shit like ipfs and zeronet, it's going to soon be impossible to even delete the websites. But please keep telling me about how the sky is falling. It's really interesting

>We'll never see anything as complete as What.CD's current form ever again, for instance.
yeah we'll never have something as big as Oink, or the library of Alexandria for that matter.

Not every setback is fatal you mental invalid

>>57559761
Exactly so why should anybody just downloading shit care

>>57575966
The tech needs to be comfy,
and we are FAR from a perfect solution that:
- has a proper database like what.cd did
- can't be taken down (p2p web tech)
- is private / can't be tracked

>>57576056
we already have the technology. We just need someone or some group to put it all together nicely

>>57576056
Honestly if someone just started a Tor-hosted what.cd clone you'd be golden.

>>57576069
>>57576138
Governments/ISPs will just turn on the users.
And there's nowhere to hide.

>>57576219
Govt / ISPs can't block Tor.
China tried, they tried *really* hard, but still can't stop it entirely even with the Great Firewall.

>>57575966
>the pirate bay, kickass clones, torrent react6or, demonoid, minnova, torrentz2, to name a few. There are also DHT search engines
None of these have even 1% of the amount of content that what.cd had, don't kid yourself

Nor do they have the 10 year wealth of meticulously tagged, index and archvied database of albums

Pirate Bay is an index, not a tracker. It's just a big list of magnet links and some text. That's why the entire site fits on a USB or whatever they said back when they made a big deal out of it. It's a lot harder to take down but it also doesn't have the capabilities of a tracker. You shouldn't be using it at all really, but just thought I'd address the guy complaining that TPB would go down soon.

>>57576219
>turn on the users
>of a tor website
>nowhere to hide
>tor
>nowhere to hide

>>57576249
>None of these have even 1% of the amount of content that what.cd had, don't kid yourself
4481098 torrents under 'audio' on tpb alone,

>b-b-but muh indexing
well maybe whatcucks shouldn't have wasted all their time on a centralized repository. But then again private tracker plebs never learn

>>57570615
low qual b8 m8

>>57576342
>well maybe whatcucks shouldn't have wasted all their time on a centralized repository. But then again private tracker plebs never learn
You say that as if a distributed catalog of music information exists

>>57576342
>4481098 torrents under 'audio' on tpb alone,
Let's give it a test, then. I'll go through my current playlist, again excluding OSTs to at least give them a hint of a chance

Zhao Jiazhen Qin
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Pete Namlook Silence V
>Unseeded torrent, not FLAC
Holst Planets
>FLAC available
Dagger Society Suite
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Jonas Steur Born for the Night
>not FLAC
Ludovici Einaudi
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Shan Kiu
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Kent Hagnesta Hill
>not FLAC
Harvard Inevitable
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Golden Skies
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Shaking the Habitual
>FLAC available
Flying Apsaras
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Scala Kolacny
>not FLAC
Liquicity Memoirs
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Tsar Teh-yun
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.
Faun Midgard
>No hits. Try adding an asterisk in you search phrase.

Okay, so out of 16 songs, it has 2 of them in FLAC, giving it a rough estimate of about 10% the content of what.cd. (More like 30% if you include non-FLAC)

>>57576594
Soulseek tbqh

>Zhao Jiazhen Qin
Found in 16 different folders, FLAC.

>Pete Namlook Silence V
Found in several dozens of folders, FLAC

>Dagger Society Suite
Several hits, mp3 256

etc

>>57576790
>Proprietary
hahaha

enjoy your bundled malware

>>57576904
I will, enjoy your pretend smugness.

>>57576466
>You say that as if a distributed catalog of music information exists
you say that is if it doesn't

>>57576594
>no real statistics on content
>regresses to subjective test of whether tpb has YOUR music
>ha my obscure slovakian throat singing music isn't on the pirate bay so obviously their collection is tiny

>>57576790
>Soulseek tbqh
I tried it out. I can barely navigate the UI since it's a gigantic clusterfuck and ignores my theme settings, but after some effort I managed to find what resembles a search box and typed in “zhao jiazhen”. No results

Not sure what you're doing differently. Oh well

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>>57576960
The UI is a worthless piece of unintuitive crap, they couldn't have made it worse if they had tried.
They have the music, though.

Picrelated is how you search, and you're supposed to share some of your own folders in return or people might refuse to share with you.

>>57576930
>you say that is if it doesn't
Well, feel free to link me to an example

>regresses to subjective test of whether tpb has YOUR music
Look, I don't give a shit about your dick-waving competitions. I just want to listen to music.

I'm not cherry-picking, I literally just picked the next few songs from my playlist (which is randomly generated from my collection). This is not about “look mom my tastes are obscure”, this is about figuring out whether thepiratebay is a viable replacement for what for me. And based on my small test, it isn't even close.

The odds of me getting so exceptionally unlucky that the next 16 _randomly selected_ songs in my database are exactly those which are still missing from tpb are exceedingly low. Are you trying to say I just got unlucky?

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>>57576985
>Picrelated is how you search, and you're supposed to share some of your own folders in return or people might refuse to share with you.
This is what it looks like for me. What am I missing? Also, why the fuck is it asking me for a login and password? Where do I even sign up? I thought this thing was supposed to be p2p

Do you happen to have a link to the bug tracker so I can at least report all of these bugs I'm running into (like it ignoring my fucking system-wide qt settings that every single other Qt program, EVEN FUCKING SKYPE, manages to stick to)

>>57577011
Also is there like a command line interface to this thing? GUIs give me cancer and can't be run on a headless server

>>57577011
>This is what it looks like for me. What am I missing?
Fuck if I know, I just started using it recently.
Probably you need to share something first before people allow you to search their collection.
Go to Option -> File sharing and use the "Share folder" option on the top bar.

>Also, why the fuck is it asking me for a login and password? Where do I even sign up? I thought this thing was supposed to be p2p
You don't actually have to register anywhere, just pick a username/password and if it isn't already taken you're in.

>>57577011
id rather just not download music than deal with something that looks like that

>>57577011
>>57577035
Oh, I see there's a “connect” button at the top that seems to do nothing. And I finally figured out why “check ports” does nothing - it opens a fucking webpage in my webbrowser (on a completely different workspace, go figure)

>>57577045
>You don't actually have to register anywhere, just pick a username/password and if it isn't already taken you're in.
Does this shit use a central server to store accounts then or what? Can you link me to a whitepaper documenting the design? I sort of don't trust this thing remotely

>>57577067
Again, I don't know. I'm not a shill and I'm not their tech support, I just started using it recently.

Probably there's got to be some centralized servers somewhere to bootstrap you into the network, but I think the account system is P2P too.

>>57577067
>>57577081
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulseek
>Soulseek depends on a pair of central servers. One server supports the original client and network Version 156, with the other supporting the newer network (functioning with clients 157 and QT).[7] While these central servers are key to coordinating searches and hosting chat rooms, they do not actually play a part in the transfer of files between users, which takes place directly between the users concerned. (See Single Source Downloads below).
Oh good, so it's really just another public tracker. Oh well, better than the pirate bay. I just wish they actually used torrent instead of some own crappy protocol.

>>57577115
Oh hey, looks like this thing has independent clients as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulseek#Non-Windows_clients

Hopefully they're better than the proprietary atrocity

>>57576990
>Well, feel free to link me to an example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz

>this is about figuring out whether thepiratebay is a viable replacement for what for me.
>using one source for music
>ever
How well did that work out for you in the past? Oh yeah it got you right here, with no source for music, and a bunch of whinig about how you'll never be able to find music again or something.

>>57577142
That nicotine+ client looks and feels _way_ better than the official proprietary garbage. It's also open-source. Sadly it's gtk+ based instead of qt based but at least it doesn't override my theme so it's okay.

>>57577222
Oh great, it also doesn't work. Always fails logging in (INVALIDPASS). The official client works fine

Oh well, that's what you get for letting python programmers handle anything.

>>57566627
>If you fail this you are a braindead retard and don't deserve to use the internet let alone download music
Implying everyone jerks off to formats and sound quality.

I've always been a content kind of guy. In music the content is the actual music, not the sound quality. Sound quality fags tend to be insufferable, practically incapable of appreciatng MUSIC, only the sound quality.

>>57577245
>implying this is about sound quality
it's about archival

>>57576985
Can you actually download any of these? For me it just says “queued”

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>>57577289
Of course you can, I even tried it just for you with that chink music, works fine.

>>57577269
It really is a miracle we've managed to archive any music without what.cd!

>>57577385
>archiving MP3
might as well archive wet rags

>>57577319
Seems like it depends on the torrent. Is the guy hosting the folder the only person who will actually upload it?