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PSA: Download on your hard drives, never trust online hosting. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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TLDR: Download your content offline before it gets lost forever.

From now on you should never trust online hosting, I started seeing a lot of piracy sources( Streaming websites, torrent indexes,.. Etc) get shut down.

So I highly recommend for all pirates to download anything they want offline to reuse and don't trust keeping it online, sadly for me, a lot of material had been lost as there is almost no online service or piracy service has it( I am talking about material that is 5-10 years old.).

I know that this is not the first time piracy websites/hosts gets taken down but this time feels different as it became aggressive and I feel that in the next months a considerable amount of content are going to be lost.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm honestly kind of surprised there aren't "torrent torrents." Just distributing a collection of torrents that might be of interest within a given category, say "top 100 movies of 2024." Once you have the list of torrents locally you are less reliant upon some website hosting them for you.

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

Great idea. I was very happy to find a top 100 science fiction audiobook collection torrent many years ago

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

This is one advantage Gnutella had/has over torrents. Kind of like a federated content library. Too bad low quality content and malware were such a huge problem.