@uninvitedguest Now you can really call yourself a Torrent Leech, haha!
petrescatraian
joined 1 year ago
@CoderSupreme This would sadly also be easier for any interested party to block it. i.e. ISPs could block it easier, copyright holders could have an easier time suing the platform owners and have it shut down and if the platform gets big and popular enough (like, for example, how YouTube is for videos of any sort) some content that would be hosted exclusively on that platform would likely be gone for good.
For a platform this big to survive and serve its original purpose, unhindered by DMCAs and stuff, it would be really, really hard.
Plus, the internet now is more regulated than it was 20-30 years ago when nowadays popular names like Piratebay first appeared.
And I personally don't mind going to a few dozen websites that only a handful of people on the internet know in order to get my stuff. If any of that website gets too popular, it risks closure. Better to only have 1 website of these closed instead of all these.
@MoshBit Sure. Filelist is a (mostly) Romanian private tracker (the website is available in English as well, though). It is also kinda hugely popular here (pretty much the most popular Romanian torrent website altogether). A couple of days ago, the admin announced that due to personal issues and being unable to find a replacement, the website would shut down. Now a solution was found.