[zfxfr]

Wow that came as a shock. I used to check every couple of days if they had interesting movie I could watch with my wife. I wonder what is the cost of running such a site and I guess they must also earn some money in crypto with all the donation and also the advertisements. Well, that's the end of something

[yieldcrv]

its probably not the money cost, its the effort involved with more manual hosting if you can't risk being cancelled in the convenient data centers or platforms

[makach]

One Man's Death Is Another Man's Bread

[tawayasdf]

>> One Man's Death Is Another Man's Bread

Who's bread is it? Most of the classic bt sites seem to have gone away from what I could see. Sad to see rarbg go.

[abwizz]

the "younger generation" (>2k) aren't used to the open net, they grew into moderated groups (fb), hence i suspect there is a massive number of hidden/private trackers

[starkparker]

lots of password-protected plex/media servers shared in invite-only discords, like a regression back to the days of knowing the phone number and login of that one BBS you knew about from a friend of a friend that posted cracked software

[altairprime]

I have been very excited to see us returning to private forums. This is not a harmful regression, certainly!

[freedomben]

If you don't know anybody in meat space who can invite you or tell you about it, how do you get in? How do you meet people?

[thatguy0900]

I think the younger generation just uses streaming sites. FMovies and 9anime work fine. I don't know anyone who torrents shows or movies now.

[Qem]

Streaming is enshittifiying fast, with content fragmentation, and crackdowns on VPN usage and account sharing. People will start to migrate back to good old piracy, just because it's more convenient again.

[sparky_z]

They're referring to pirate tube sites.

[lbotos]

GP was talking about pirate streaming, not paid legit streaming services.

[lax4ever]

Those who don't want to be dependent on the whims of a conglomerate and would like to actually possess the data files.

[cykros]

The "streaming" referred to here referred to pirate sites a la Fmovies or Couchtuner. They're not quite as front and center as they were before Google decided to be the Internet police but there's always foreign search engines to light the way.

[McDyver]

Not everyone knows about alternatives to streaming. For the daily 10000 (xkcd for reference), that's all they know. It's up to "us" to show them there are alternatives.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[thatguy0900]

That's not exactly a widely held viewpoint by the younger generation. Besides, it's not like the offshore streaming sites are engaging in revisionism or dropping shows to subscribing reasons.

[EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK]

I looked at FMovies, it's all like VHS 320x240 quality streams, with rare 720p exceptions.

[thatguy0900]

On the Frontpage for me the only camrips are polite society and guardians 3,and both of those will be updated pretty soon I'd bet.

[easrng]

Yeah I do torrent sometimes (if the streaming sites have too low bitrate) but mostly I just use whatever FMHY links to.

[throwawayadvsec]

torrent is usually available a few hours before streaming sites and you can get higher quality, so a bunch of people are still using them