What to you was your biggest loss of pirated content? (kbin.melroy.org)

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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.

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[-] SaltyLemon66@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

ethor.net and rarbg.to

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Free MP3 Download, which as of October 14, 2024 is still up on the megathread. The moment I start getting into downloading music online outside of downloading audio from yt videos, the site gets taken down a few months later. Now I don't know where to go for DDL since pretty much all of the other linked sites are either anime music, game music, or upload an [ Insert Service ] link and it'll give you an audio file to download from that service.

[-] spaceghost__@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

torrentz.eu, started my torrent journey in 2010 from this website.

[-] nevetsg@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I still long for the old Scene Torrents days. RIP SCT

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@Pyflixia This one might be a very obscure thing, but back when I was in high school, I used to download music from a website called mp3ostrov.~~ru~~com (edit: it was .com, apparently). Of course, the website was in Russian and I couldn't understand a damn thing, so I had to resort to the Chrome translation for it (Or I guided myself with the icons). But it had so much music on it, and it was really easy to get. And whatever I could not source from there, I downloaded from YouTube, but the downloader I used had too many ads.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Empty_Box@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oink, Demonoid, AsianDVDclub... Various private Hotline sites circa 90s. Sadly missed

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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 1 month ago

nzbmatrix

[-] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

Newzbin.

[-] fartzo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Black cats games :(

[-] ZTetriminos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

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