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posted by n1 on Monday August 08 2016, @08:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long,-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

Submitted via IRC for Cmn32480_phone

The torrenting community has been tumultuous these past few weeks. First, Kickass Torrents was seized by the government after the owner's arrest. Now, one of the largest search engines has vanished.

According to TorrentFreak, Torrentz.eu unexpectedly shut down on Friday, disabling its search functionality. The domain is still active, but currently, the site just features the search bar with a message in the past tense: "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines."

Source: Gizmodo


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @01:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @01:35PM (#385286)

    My main thing is that when I want to rewatch episode 120 of $show which had $charming_scene that broadcast once in 1998, will it be available today? With Netflix, I found the answer is "maybe, if we feel like it." While I'm sure streaming services have their place, I do wonder how DMCA whackamole compares to Netflix.

    If I torrent it and put it on my big fat file server, it'll be there tomorrow, next Tuesday, next year, and probably in 20 or 30 years.

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