Kick Ass Torrents Seized

[bi0boy]

It became my favourite torrent site since the flakiness of piratebay

"The U.S. Government has arrested the alleged owner of KickassTorrents, the world's largest torrent site. The 30-year-old Ukrainian was arrested in Poland today and is charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. In addition, a federal court in Chicago has ordered the seizure of several KAT domain names." Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains, Arrest Alleged Owner (Updated) - TorrentFreak

 

[keybored]

Noooooooo :'(

 

[Addy]

Do people still use torrents?

6-7 years ago I went back in time and started using Newsgroups again.
Never needed a P2P or torrent since.

 

[alsoknownas]

Do people still use torrents?

6-7 years ago I went back in time and started using Newsgroups again.
Never needed a P2P or torrent since.

Which newsgroup client do you use?

 

[cybershot]

I use NZBGet on my NAS.

You ideally need a decent provider thou, which means parting with some coin (I use Astraweb as they have a pay as you go option) as ISP provided ones either won't have the groups you need, or will have a 30 day limit on content.

 

[skyscraper101]

I really need to learn about newsgroups.

 

[cybershot]

I think I've still got Addy's Newsgroups Tutorial guide from back in 2009 on my NAS somewhere, I'll see if I can dig it out.

 

[cybershot]

I think I've still got Addy's Newsgroups Tutorial guide from back in 2009 on my NAS somewhere, I'll see if I can dig it out.

And I do, it's a bit old but the basics are still the same, some of links might be dead: Dropbox - f1629775024_Idiots_guide_to_Newsgroups.doc

 

[Reiabuzz]

I used newsgroups circa 1995, before the web really kicked off. Are they really still going? Would be interested in getting involved again.

Kickass - they can arrest this guy but what these fuckwits seem to never understand is that the whole idea of the internet is that it's pretty much unpolicable. The US created it with the very intention of it being decentralised in the event of nuclear war. If kickass goes there's plenty of other torrent sites which are there and new ones will keep being created. Idiots.

 

[bi0boy]

For those not being arsed to pay for newsgroups or keep abreast of what the current best torrent site is Torrentz is still going strong as a meta-search engine.

 

[cybershot]

I used newsgroups circa 1995, before the web really kicked off. Are they really still going? Would be interested in getting involved again.

Kickass - they can arrest this guy but what these fuckwits seem to never understand is that the whole idea of the internet is that it's pretty much unpolicable. The US created it with the very intention of it being decentralised in the event of nuclear war. If kickass goes there's plenty of other torrent sites which are there and new ones will keep being created. Idiots.

Exactly, they are better targeting the encoders rather than the actual sites. I do miss YIFY thou, no one seems to have grasped the same quality/file size ratio.

 

[bi0boy]

Exactly, they are better targeting the encoders rather than the actual sites. I do miss YIFY thou, no one seems to have grasped the same quality/file size ratio.

There's H.265 now which basically halves file sizes over H.264.

And I thought YIFY was still going: YIFY

 

[cybershot]

There's H.265 now which basically halves file sizes over H.264.

And I thought YIFY was still going: YIFY

Anything claiming to be YIFY is a fake. He got caught and managed to cut a deal with the feds by dobbing in some of the main trackers. Hence Popcorn Time fell at the same time. YIFY Speaks: Confessions Of A Movie Piracy Icon - TorrentFreak

Unfortuently my Raspberry Pi 2 can't deal with H265 very well.

 

[bi0boy]

Anything claiming to be YIFY is a fake. He got caught and managed to cut a deal with the feds by dobbing in some of the main trackers. Hence Popcorn Time fell at the same time. YIFY Speaks: Confessions Of A Movie Piracy Icon - TorrentFreak

I did know that but must have forgotten.

Anyway that YIFY site is great, not really fussed who it's run by as the torrents are sound.

 

[cybershot]

I did know that but must have forgotten.

Anyway that YIFY site is great, not really fussed who it's run by as the torrents are sound.

I'll check it out when I'm not at work. I mainly use RARBG now, purely for the fact it has the IMDB ratings in the title, which was also a killer feature from YIFY allowing you to filter out all the crap. Not saying IMBD is perfect, but you can also filter by popularity obviously as well, but then sometimes you miss some hidden gems you might not have ever considered watching like Searching For Sugar Man.

 

[Addy]

Which newsgroup client do you use?

I use Grabit client and Virgin News for less than 14 day old stuff and a PAYG Astraweb account for older stuff.

A lot of the good news posting forums have been shutdown or gone dark, but you can get the basic stuff Here

 

[keybored]

Kickass - they can arrest this guy but what these fuckwits seem to never understand is that the whole idea of the internet is that it's pretty much unpolicable. The US created it with the very intention of it being decentralised in the event of nuclear war. If kickass goes there's plenty of other torrent sites which are there and new ones will keep being created. Idiots.

Well it demonstrably is policeable (the darknet less so, but that's a different argument), that's why people keep getting nicked.

 

[rubbershoes]

No. Kickass has been my favourite since Demonoid's demise

 

[cybershot]

This probably isn't the place to ask and if a mod wants to delete this feel free. I didn't think starting a new thread was wise.

I've got a number of films. Mainly yify and rarbg releases. I've decided on my swanky new tv these releases don't cut it visually.

I appreciate true 1080p quality comes at a file size price. I still however want to keep file sizes down where possible but at least something that's better quality than yify and rarbg without being a monster file size. I don't need 5.1/7.1/atmos audio as I don't have anything like that, just a jawbone that I hook up occasionally.

Does anyone use a release group they swear by that offers decent high quality rips whilst keeping the file size balanced? I appreciate there's a whole bunch of technical questions that could come into this but I'm hoping to not get that geeky. I can download a recent release from them and compare it's quality to the rarbg release.