We all have our favorites that we go-to overtime to meet our pirating needs. We’ve also watched a lot of big names in this year alone, go down in a blaze of glory and others in a whimper. I’m awfully curious what, to you, is the biggest loss to date?

For me it’s Uloz, first thing that came to mind. Uloz has served me very well in acquiring music albums through them, for a good 6 years I recall that I used them for getting albums. When they decided to switch the way in how they do their service, that to me felt like a sucker punch. No longer can I just collect album names, find a sacrificial wi-fi network and go to work.

I also remember missing ISOHunt, EmuAsylum, EmuParadise, OG Pirate Bay, AnimeSuge (soon HiAnime once the piss-ants of ACE get their way soon) and I really hope we don’t lose Internet Archive. But with the way it’s been hammered by shitty people and court lawsuits, I predict that it doesn’t really have much time on it’s side in the near future.

All I can say is just thank you to all of those sources and of course the ones everyone is familiar with. Helped save me a lot of money, helped me increase my interests and eh, can’t argue against free shit.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      what.cd was a bigger loss than just privacy - what.cd was an enormous loss to preservation of music history

      the amount of content that has simply never been available for purchase was incredible, and made available in one of the cleanest and most comprehensively complete taxonomies was amazing

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What.cd and BitGamer were the two private trackers where I really put in effort not just to seed but to contribute unique uploads.

      I stepped away from forgetting for awhile and when I returned both were ashes.

      Edit- what are the two good music trackers you’re referencing?

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Opheus and REDacted are the two! RED has more and interview signups. I’m only on OPH because they welcomed WCD refugees and it’s been very good.

        • zod000@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          RED and the defunct Apollo both welcomed WCD refuguees at first, but they filled up fast.

      • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Losing what.cd was like having a Music Library of Alexandria burn down. Such an amazing resource for rare, out of print, obscure, and or otherwise unobtainable media.

  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Going a bit old-school with this one, but unmoderated DALnet. It used to be the wild West, with everything at your fingertips.

  • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    15ish years ago when Seagate was having lots of issues with their 2TB externals getting the click o’ doom I lost 6 2TB drives over 2 years.

    The data was just data, easily re-acquirable, but fuck that was a pain in the ass.

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    SuprNova was the big one for me. Everything else was either redundant (Like RARBG) or just faded away (like my Usenet sources). I didn’t have any replacement lined up when SuprNova died.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same about 6 months ago maybe. Didn’t burn down but my raid system corrupted everything if it losses power while reading and writing… It’s now rebuilt fully and on a UPS.

      Edit the biggest L was the stuff that was not pirated on it like video game save files pictures, documents, etc

  • whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I will be loudly knocking on wood after posting this, but I set up my NAS with RAID5 and have had 1 drive die on me but I hot-swapped one in and recovered the entire volume.

    No regrets, highly recommend raid5

  • incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Any and all sites that offer unique content that other pirated sites do not offer, such as unknown and unpopular animes/movies, every day they run the risk of being erased by the corrupt hands of the DMCA and unfortunately they may not have repositories for them due to their rare and unique gallery.

  • flux@lemmyis.funEnglish
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    2 months ago

    TheTrove was a collection of tabletop RPG books and magazines going back decades that has never had a decent replacement yet. It was fairly well organized and quite complete with tons of obscure games and out of print books. It had a different name or two before that but the collection always migrated somewhere until The Trove was finally shut down. I really miss that collection, even though I’ve managed to track down most of what I needed, it has been much more difficult since the shutdown.

  • Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Websites: rarbg and emuparadise

    Personally: I have an 8tb HDD completely full with shows and movies I haven’t tested since a house fire. I’m afraid it may have been dropped in the move, and I don’t even have my PC with me to check it out

  • hitstun@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Megaupload. It was like the Library of Alexandria burning down. Not just pirated stuff, either.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I remember to swear by megaupload because all the other upload sites uses extremely sketchy ads and allow the fake download buttons.

      Now Jdownloader is the only way for me to download non-torrents

    • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This and I believe it was called TvTorrents. Private tracker that was amazing for TV shows.