Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com) 118
monkeyzoo writes: Softpedia reports that Torrentz.eu, the internet's biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine, has mysteriously and suddenly shut down. Visitors of the website see a simple message that reads, "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines." Trying to run a search, or clicking any link on the site changes that message to "Torrentz will always love you. Farewell." The main .EU domain, as well as all backup domains (.ME, .CH, and .IN), have the same message. The reason for the disappearance is mysterious, but there is speculation that Torrentz.eu admins decided to pull the plug on their own and avoid any future legal problems in the wake of increasing legal pressure on The Pirate Bay and the arrests related to KickassTorrents. It also cannot be ruled out that the site was hacked.
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I take it everyone else is busy trying to find another engine? What have you found?
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Ah yes, I remember the days of old on /., when you wouldn't have to ask that question, there would already be several links of alternative posted.
R.I.P. /., I miss it.
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Really? If thats true, then this site has become a worse feelgood hugcircle than reddit is.
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The factual accuracy of a claim is not influenced by the person claiming it nor by the manner through which it is conveyed.
- AC
That's correct. But the odds that a claim is accurate are lower when it's made by someone with zero credibility. That's the real issue.
Here's an example to help you understand. If Kanye West was to hand me a roll of toilet paper on which he has scribbled down in his own excrement a series of numbers that he claims to be four thousands decimals of pi, I would probably not believe him. It doesn't mean pi has less than four thousand decimals, it just means I don't think they've been written down by Kanye West
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Well, there's a simple way of proving it all.
Link to a single edited post where it is obvious there was a link which has been removed.
We'll be waiting. :-)
And there is a simple method of disproving it. (Score:1)
Re:First Post (Score:5, Informative)
These days I find Google is pretty good, or DuckDuckGo if you prefer. Sometimes I use Yahoo Japan or Baidu too, because they seem to ignore American DMCA censorship requests.
On Google/DDG try filetype:magent or filetype:torrent. With the former you can often get the link you need from the result snippet without even opening the site it came from.
Re:First Post (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you find that whole torrent thing a bit labor intensive, while for $10/month you can get a gold-plated download experience on easynews?
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I find it a bit labor intensive to pay for Usenet.
It's not even September anymore, FFS.
Re:First Post (Score:5, Informative)
It will always be September.
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> I had some sort of computing device since the TI99-4a
Oh gods. As soon as I read that, I heard those two-tone startup beeps in my head...
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Or the Zx-80 (Pre-Sinclair)?
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I tried to persuade my father to get me the kit-form for my birthday or something, but I think he got me a mountain tent instead. It was about the same time.
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No. I think September is done: The only singular group of unwitting, unwashed masses who have yet to ruin it for everyone are the North Koreans. And nobody's going to turn them all loose at once, so that won't spawn a new September.
We just haven't managed to re-group since it ended.
Re:First Post (Score:5, Informative)
I use usenet as well, but I find torrents are better for some releases. There is unfortunately quite a lot of spam on usenet. Because torrent sites usually let people vote or comment it's easier to filter out. Releases go up on torrent sites a lot faster too.
Personally I prefer Astraweb for news. Similar pricing for monthly, but I use use PAYG because I wouldn't get my money's worth from monthly.
Torrents aren't labour intensive for me anyway. I wrote a little Greasemonkey script [greasyfork.org] that adds links to a popular TV calendar site that go directly to torrent sites. I need to update it now KAT and torrentz.eu are gone, so look for an update in the next few days.
Don't look at the source, BTW, I'm utterly ashamed of it.
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Duh, or else he wouldn't have linked people to it. Self-abasement sells! (Or is that sex?)
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Also, it seems they published a database of all KAT torrents: http://torrentfrog.com/kat_dum... [torrentfrog.com]
Nuuuu! (Score:1)
This a dark day indeed. RIP Torrentz.
is torrent still a thing? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:is torrent still a thing? (Score:5, Insightful)
Torrents are not supported by my VPN provider, streaming sites are.
That is more an indictment of the shortcomings of the VPN provider you chose.
Streaming is a 1:Many relationship which is prohibitively costly. For media: This may be subsidized by advertising, tracking, or malware. A 'capture' of a stream will not yield a unique hash so services such as cover art scrapers and subtitle-downloaders will yield non-optimal results. The file is also unlikely to be compressed in a way that maximizes quality while efficiently using disc space and processing power. For applications/OSes: This can become unsustainable for a small company or result in overloaded and slow servers for a large company (ie: ASUS).
Torrents allow for leeching (Many:1) and seeding (Many:Many) which takes the burden off the host, allows redundancy, and achieves far greater speeds than having a single point from which to obtain the files.
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Don't forget the wheel, which is so -4000s.
It works (Score:2)
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I am in the EU also, and the site does NOT work like a charm. Only the main (home) page loads, but nothing else works.
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OK, now I can confirm after some time has passed: the website does absolutely not work!
Fine for me... (Score:1)
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Seems like there is a big crackdown (Score:1)
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If you're a Netflix user too: Since you're in the planning stage (and should be VPNing all your traffic for privacy anyway), be sure to pick a provider with an IP range that Netflix hasn't blocked out yet. It's not easy to find one since pretty much all the lowendbox types have been blacklisted, especially the good ones (e.g. Ramnode, etc.).
Don't want the girlfriend getting pissed at you when the dreaded “You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy.” message pops up.
Captcha: fuckhollywood
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Fined by whom? The government, the isp, the courts, what?
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Where does your friend live? This is kind relevant.
Google is censoring TPB too (Score:5, Interesting)
Google search results for "TPB" used to take me to the latest Pirate Bay website, but now all links to TPB itself have been scrubbed and all I get are links to sites referring to TPB in a news story or something. TPB is no longer linked from Google. Bing and DuckDuckGo still work properly though. This only happened in the last week. I think something is up.
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Try the wikipedia, thepiratebay info is usually updated fast.
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Re: google (Score:2)
Use DuckDuckGo dot com search
Re: google (Score:1)
Yandex is pretty good
Re:That is impossible. (Score:5, Funny)
Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.
"His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"
What in the fuck is wrong with you?
Those are actually lyrics from a Ke$ha song.
Re:That is impossible. (Score:4, Funny)
Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.
"His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"
What in the fuck is wrong with you?
Those are actually lyrics from a Ke$ha song.
I think the question "What in the fuck is wrong with you?" still applies.
Alternative (Score:1)
https://google.com/ [google.com]
(filetype:torrent)
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Google still returns massively better results than DuckDuckGo. And for spying/tracking, there's Tor.
Certainly not popular anymore (Score:3)
I liked that search engine too, but that was quite some time ago.
Several months or even years ago, they stopped serving decent search results, claiming that those torrents had been subject to DMCA notices.
This is what you get when you try to appease the MAFIAA I guess: First you screw your fans, and in the end the Music corps turn against you anyway.
I now mostly use www.filesloop.com which can also search on 1click hosters. Unfortunately it omits some big torrent sites.
Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu (Score:1)
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IIRC, Not more that one or two US Senators, if that many voted against the DMCA. Wonder how many of them or their staff download copyright violations as torrents?
Sounds like a job for Anonymous to me. Good way to see if A aren't just a CI arm of the Feds, at least.
Re: SLASHDOT HONEYPOT SNITCH BAIT SOCIAL ENGINEERI (Score:2)
has someone declared tinfoil day on /. and I missed it ?
I can't believe you guys (Score:1)
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Jesus, am I the only loyal /. reader who actually makes his living off content that is pirated daily on tubes sites??? I literally have more stress over feeding my family because of illegal torrents. I guess I won't have too much guilt if I decide to break into your homes and steal something nice I want.
tubes -> torrent... but yeah tubes too
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