We all have our favorites that we go-to overtime to meet our pirating needs. We’ve also watched a lot of big names in this year alone, go down in a blaze of glory and others in a whimper. I’m awfully curious what, to you, is the biggest loss to date?
For me it’s Uloz, first thing that came to mind. Uloz has served me very well in acquiring music albums through them, for a good 6 years I recall that I used them for getting albums. When they decided to switch the way in how they do their service, that to me felt like a sucker punch. No longer can I just collect album names, find a sacrificial wi-fi network and go to work.
I also remember missing ISOHunt, EmuAsylum, EmuParadise, OG Pirate Bay, AnimeSuge (soon HiAnime once the piss-ants of ACE get their way soon) and I really hope we don’t lose Internet Archive. But with the way it’s been hammered by shitty people and court lawsuits, I predict that it doesn’t really have much time on it’s side in the near future.
All I can say is just thank you to all of those sources and of course the ones everyone is familiar with. Helped save me a lot of money, helped me increase my interests and eh, can’t argue against free shit.
Newzbin.
Napster
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Taringa, it was the go-to place for everything, especially content in spanish
You and another have already said it, but Emuparadise. It was…truly a shame. :'(
Haven’t quite filled the void from 9anime/aniwave going down, hard to replace the king.
Demonoid. They had a community that put together a lot of high-quality torrents.
This and I believe it was called TvTorrents. Private tracker that was amazing for TV shows.
Definitely Vimm’s Lair for me. I still play a lot of GameCube and N64 games and Vimm’s was always my go-to place for finding roms. They got hit with a lot of DMCAs and take down notices, and had to remove the vast majority of their Nintendo library along with anything related to Sega and Lego. The site is still up, but it’s like visiting a graveyard now
Could you give an example of a game no longer available? Just checked and was able to dl Luigi’s Mansion just fine
On GameCube, I can see that Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Mario Party 6, Smash Bros Melee are all unavailable. On N64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Pokemon Stadium are also unavailable
This one hurt me really bad. I was just getting started with retro gaming and then all of this shit happened.
TheTrove was a collection of tabletop RPG books and magazines going back decades that has never had a decent replacement yet. It was fairly well organized and quite complete with tons of obscure games and out of print books. It had a different name or two before that but the collection always migrated somewhere until The Trove was finally shut down. I really miss that collection, even though I’ve managed to track down most of what I needed, it has been much more difficult since the shutdown.
It continues marching on as The Eye.
If I understand, that collection is missing a lot from the original. I could be wrong though.
At least part of it survives. Better some than none.
Megaupload. It was like the Library of Alexandria burning down. Not just pirated stuff, either.
I remember to swear by megaupload because all the other upload sites uses extremely sketchy ads and allow the fake download buttons.
Now Jdownloader is the only way for me to download non-torrents
What.cd and BitGamer were the two private trackers where I really put in effort not just to seed but to contribute unique uploads.
I stepped away from torrenting for awhile and when I returned both were ashes.
Edit- what are the two good music trackers you’re referencing?
Opheus and REDacted are the two! RED has more and interview signups. I’m only on OPH because they welcomed WCD refugees and it’s been very good.
Easily the biggest loss imo. RIP WCD.
torrentz.eu, started my torrent journey in 2010 from this website.
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Same about 6 months ago maybe. Didn’t burn down but my raid system corrupted everything if it losses power while reading and writing… It’s now rebuilt fully and on a UPS.
Edit the biggest L was the stuff that was not pirated on it like video game save files pictures, documents, etc
What RAID system did you use which corrupted your data on power loss? With software raid like zfs I believe corruption on power loss shouldn’t be a problem (unless the hardware fails. Or your using btrfs raid 5/6, ignoring all warnings).
Edit: For this reason I’m looking into buying another drive for an offline backup of my media files. I could redownload them, but it’d be increasingly more annoying.
I had a support ticket with them and they told me it was hardware failure. I’m not sure right now but I know It is and was raid 5.
I’d also bet against not hardware failure.
Traditional RAID5 (and others) is subject to data loss in the middle of a write that can break entire arrays if it happens.
Seen it on various LSI controllers, mdraid in Linux, and even a Windows implementation in Storage Spaces. I mean it’s rare and mostly won’t, but if you get unlucky and lose just enough data from just the right places, well…
Wouldn’t imagine that any particular NAS appliance is using some magic sauce that prevents it from happening if you get unlucky as to a crash/power outage.
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I remember using something called ourtunes back in college that just let everyone in the dorm freely access and download each others iTunes libraries on the dorm network.
