Man, I really liked Gazelle Games. The community was really nice.
Bitgamer was good. UG was better. Now loosing GGn, which isn't as big of a loss, but still. BCG is okay, but they suck at having old games. The packs on UG were the shit.
[QUOTE=elitehakor;40920029]Why does this keep happening :([/QUOTE]
...Because they are websites designed and intended to facilitate criminal activity, against the business goals of some of the wealthiest corporations in the country and contrary to the established law? Pretty straightforward.
Eventually I just said fuck it and stopped using private trackers
not much reason, too difficult to keep a ratio on all those linux distros
i got banned from gazellegames about a week ago
if i can't have it noone can
[QUOTE=Kinglah Crab;40930619]i got banned from gazellegames about a week ago
if i can't have it noone can[/QUOTE]
How do you fuck up badly enough to get banned from GGn of all places?
[editline]7th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=ejonkou;40928218]Man up...[/QUOTE]
Oh come on, what would you do if Facepunch closed tomorrow? You've spent the past four years of your life here.
how do you think
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40930655]How do you fuck up badly enough to get banned from GGn of all places?
[editline]7th June 2013[/editline]
Oh come on, what would you do if Facepunch closed tomorrow? You've spent the past four years of your life here.[/QUOTE]
Cry
TBH I don't see the point in private trackers anymore
Sure they were necessary back in the day when internet speeds were slow, public trackers were more shady and harder to get an actual good torrent of what you were looking for, and they simply had less people using them (especially less people that seeded or uploaded good quality torrents)
Now though it's much better, it's as if the internet maturing made the public trackers mature a bit more too. Faster internet speeds, a huge amount of popularity and "trusted" uploaders, people actually seed a lot (except for really obscure stuff, but even then it isn't so bad), and not to mention the constant "pro-anon internet culture" loving them, so seeding is like fighting the man and sticking up for you internet brothers now, or something. I just don't see the point in private anymore considering. I can't remember the last time it took me over a day to download a large torrent from a public tracker, I've not had a huge issue with seeders, etc.
I always found sites like TPB being better then private ones like Demonoid.
[QUOTE=KorJax;40931474]TBH I don't see the point in private trackers anymore
Sure they were necessary back in the day when internet speeds were slow, public trackers were more shady and harder to get an actual good torrent of what you were looking for, and they simply had less people using them (especially less people that seeded or uploaded good quality torrents)
Now though it's much better, it's as if the internet maturing made the public trackers mature a bit more too. Faster internet speeds, a huge amount of popularity and "trusted" uploaders, people actually seed a lot (except for really obscure stuff, but even then it isn't so bad), and not to mention the constant "pro-anon internet culture" loving them, so seeding is like fighting the man and sticking up for you internet brothers now, or something. I just don't see the point in private anymore considering. I can't remember the last time it took me over a day to download a large torrent from a public tracker, I've not had a huge issue with seeders, etc.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about you but I've seen the opposite on public trackers. More shit content, more viruses and malware, very few "trusted" uploaders that actually put up quality shit, etc.
[QUOTE=KorJax;40931474]TBH I don't see the point in private trackers anymore
Sure they were necessary back in the day when internet speeds were slow, public trackers were more shady and harder to get an actual good torrent of what you were looking for, and they simply had less people using them (especially less people that seeded or uploaded good quality torrents)
Now though it's much better, it's as if the internet maturing made the public trackers mature a bit more too. Faster internet speeds, a huge amount of popularity and "trusted" uploaders, people actually seed a lot (except for really obscure stuff, but even then it isn't so bad), and not to mention the constant "pro-anon internet culture" loving them, so seeding is like fighting the man and sticking up for you internet brothers now, or something. I just don't see the point in private anymore considering. I can't remember the last time it took me over a day to download a large torrent from a public tracker, I've not had a huge issue with seeders, etc.[/QUOTE]
The main problem is not being able to get a hold of older files (like DOS games, but those are up for DDL at a lot of places).
Other problems include
-no 'quality control': public trackers tend to have much less strict upload rules, which means lower quality releases (non working crack, poorly packed, stolen from a scene release) are more plentiful with no filters in place to weed them out. It also means anyone can 'taint' a scene release and trick a ton of people into downloading malware or downloading from/uploading to toxic IPs (firms like MediaDefender that farm IPs so they can harass users and ISPs on their client's behalf).
-no consequences for being a shitty user: 9.5 times out of 10 people won't bother seeding after they've finished downloading. Whereas these parasites are quickly weeded out from smaller private trackers, on TPB they thrive because there's no consequences for not doing so, mainly because you don't even need an account to start downloading. this means the download is much slower for everyone, unless several people with the file have seedboxes going 24/7 to keep the torrent alive.
-Lack of community: on private trackers, you get to know your fellow users because the community is smaller, and that much more tightknit. On public trackers, everyone is only there for as long as it takes to get the .torrent. No one bothers to thank the uploader for the time and bandwidth spent sharing their files, and the only comments are usually dumb kids going 'OMG HOW I OPEN .R00 FIEL PLS HELP' or some complete faggot going 'OMG THIS FIEL IS SHIT I ONLY GOT BIN AND CUE FIELS ALSO NORTON SAID IT HAD A VIRUS DO NOT DOWNLOAD REPORT UPLOADER >:('. The rest of a torrent's comments are usually unintelligible garbage that make Youtube comments look intelligent.
The bottom line is, private trackers have a much better community, and thus more quality uploads. Plus, with enforced ratios and the like, people are more motivated to keep seeding old files, meaning others are able to download pretty much anything without worrying about suddenly having no seeds and being stuck with an incomplete upload.
lol but that's why public is so great
hit and runs, best thing
[QUOTE=Kuro.;40931883]The main problem is not being able to get a hold of older files (like DOS games, but those are up for DDL at a lot of places).
Other problems include
-no 'quality control': public trackers tend to have much less strict upload rules, which means lower quality releases (non working crack, poorly packed, stolen from a scene release) are more plentiful with no filters in place to weed them out. It also means anyone can 'taint' a scene release and trick a ton of people into downloading malware or downloading from/uploading to toxic IPs (firms like MediaDefender that farm IPs so they can harass users and ISPs on their client's behalf).
-no consequences for being a shitty user: 9.5 times out of 10 people won't bother seeding after they've finished downloading. Whereas these parasites are quickly weeded out from smaller private trackers, on TPB they thrive because there's no consequences for not doing so, mainly because you don't even need an account to start downloading. this means the download is much slower for everyone, unless several people with the file have seedboxes going 24/7 to keep the torrent alive.
-Lack of community: on private trackers, you get to know your fellow users because the community is smaller, and that much more tightknit. On public trackers, everyone is only there for as long as it takes to get the .torrent. No one bothers to thank the uploader for the time and bandwidth spent sharing their files, and the only comments are usually dumb kids going 'OMG HOW I OPEN .R00 FIEL PLS HELP' or some complete faggot going 'OMG THIS FIEL IS SHIT I ONLY GOT BIN AND CUE FIELS ALSO NORTON SAID IT HAD A VIRUS DO NOT DOWNLOAD REPORT UPLOADER >:('. The rest of a torrent's comments are usually unintelligible garbage that make Youtube comments look intelligent.
The bottom line is, private trackers have a much better community, and thus more quality uploads. Plus, with enforced ratios and the like, people are more motivated to keep seeding old files, meaning others are able to download pretty much anything without worrying about suddenly having no seeds and being stuck with an incomplete upload.[/QUOTE]
Honestly I don't seed on public trackers because I'm terrified of my ISP going "Hey look, he's torrenting stuff! CEASE AND DESIST". It's happened before :v:
Though I very rarely use torrents these days anyway. And when I do, I use Peerblock.
That's why Blackcats has such a good system. As long as you make the effort to keep the torrent seeding, even if you don't upload a single byte to other peers, you get credited with seed points which serve the same function as a regular ratio.
It's really something other communities should look into.
[QUOTE=elitehakor;40920029]WHAT THE FUCK NOT AGAIN
Why does this keep happening :([/QUOTE]
Dying corporations, starving actors and movie stars who have to settle for bronze private jets.
Respect for giving the money to charity. RIP them files.
So the pirated game sites are being shut down.
That will benefit Facepunch. Less cracked Garry's Mod running around.
[QUOTE=Kuro.;40931883]The main problem is not being able to get a hold of older files (like DOS games, but those are up for DDL at a lot of places).
Other problems include
-no 'quality control': public trackers tend to have much less strict upload rules, which means lower quality releases (non working crack, poorly packed, stolen from a scene release) are more plentiful with no filters in place to weed them out. It also means anyone can 'taint' a scene release and trick a ton of people into downloading malware or downloading from/uploading to toxic IPs (firms like MediaDefender that farm IPs so they can harass users and ISPs on their client's behalf).
-no consequences for being a shitty user: 9.5 times out of 10 people won't bother seeding after they've finished downloading. Whereas these parasites are quickly weeded out from smaller private trackers, on TPB they thrive because there's no consequences for not doing so, mainly because you don't even need an account to start downloading. this means the download is much slower for everyone, unless several people with the file have seedboxes going 24/7 to keep the torrent alive.
-Lack of community: on private trackers, you get to know your fellow users because the community is smaller, and that much more tightknit. On public trackers, everyone is only there for as long as it takes to get the .torrent. No one bothers to thank the uploader for the time and bandwidth spent sharing their files, and the only comments are usually dumb kids going 'OMG HOW I OPEN .R00 FIEL PLS HELP' or some complete faggot going 'OMG THIS FIEL IS SHIT I ONLY GOT BIN AND CUE FIELS ALSO NORTON SAID IT HAD A VIRUS DO NOT DOWNLOAD REPORT UPLOADER >:('. The rest of a torrent's comments are usually unintelligible garbage that make Youtube comments look intelligent.
The bottom line is, private trackers have a much better community, and thus more quality uploads. Plus, with enforced ratios and the like, people are more motivated to keep seeding old files, meaning others are able to download pretty much anything without worrying about suddenly having no seeds and being stuck with an incomplete upload.[/QUOTE]
Except none of these are private -- they're [I]exclusive[/I]. The amount of people that know of these, and that anything relating to them can be spread like News, is proof they're not "private". An actual private site doesn't make news when it dies; it just fades away and the only people that [I]should[/I] know it died are the direct users of which there shouldn't be a great many (or risk leaks).
That so many can be remotely surprised that these things keep getting shut down is showing some gross misconception of what it means to be private -- they might want to re-evaluate their false sense of secrecy if it's their primary reason for using them. If you can Google search the name and find people publicly discussing it -- it's not private.
[QUOTE=ejonkou;40931673]I always found sites like TPB being better then private ones like Demonoid.[/QUOTE]
Demonoid is a terrible example
[QUOTE=ejonkou;40931673]I always found sites like TPB being better then private ones like Demonoid.[/QUOTE]
Demonoid is a shit example. Compare what.cd with TPB instead.
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