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Just got DMCA takedown notices from Github for my rarbg dump forks. The originals were also taken down.

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[–] tenet@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, because you have to a be a fucking moron to think Github is the place to splat a bunch of fucking torrent shit you braindead cousinfucker.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] phosphorik@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

uncivilized but fair

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOL

Fucking dumb punks.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If anyone's wondering, here's the infohash of a torrent containing most (all?) of RARBG's stuff: A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405

[–] Sourmilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been seeding this 24/7 for weeks and barely upped anything so far, community has been amazing surrounding the closure of RARBG. Lots of people trying so hard to always help this community, and I'm proud to be a part of it. TY everyone for all you do, and yarrr

[–] DeadGemini@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is amazing! Thank you!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why aren't they in torrents?

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are, afaik. Infohash: A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hadn't been keeping up with the different dumps so am not sure how up to date it is - But I still have the rarbg_db.zip torrent magnet that was first linked over in /r/PiratedGames, I think (?) it ended up being the first version of that 2004content/rarbg github. Torrent hash is A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405 if anyone needs it.

But yeah I agree with /u/db0 these should all be torrents. Hopefully there's a cleaned up merged version floating around in torrent form.

EDIT: That reminds me, torrents-csv maybe needs some help importing these RARBG torrents into their own database https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-data/issues/1

Came here to see if anyone else had, my fork was taken down as well. Not to mention the file linked in the email for the notice doesn't exist so I can't even see what was claimed. I had planned to fight the takedown since at the time I forked it, there wasn't nothing infringing that I saw.

I've contacted github for a copy of the notice, we'll see what happens.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuine question, why to put anything RARBG related in GitHub?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

can you make a torrent with the data?

[–] Lord_Nikon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they are really coming down with the hammer.. looks like the clone sites are still up and running.

[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there anywhere else it has moved to? I have a fairly recent physical backup on my machine

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You should make a torrent of the info and share that

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could gitlab be an alternative?

[–] master@lem.serkozh.me 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GitHub and GitLab are both public US companies, they are gonna happily comply with any DMCA request they receive

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can self-host Gitlab though, unlike GitHub.

[–] master@lem.serkozh.me 1 points 1 year ago

You can self-host GitHub too, but a license for GitHub Enterprise Server costs a lot of money

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All torrent sites should do a monthly magnet link dump via torrent to ensure they survive if taken down. I know TPB did a few dumps but no idea if any other site did

[–] SharkMommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Did anyone keep a backup lol

[–] PunchEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anybody know the magnet links to them? If yes, please DM them to me, thanks!

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the infohash: A2CA83E177DF5CB1966DFC1D262BC751E4987405

[–] Ruthalas@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Github isn't exactly a piracy friendly site.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is funny that the best way to crack Microsoft Windows is shared in Github own by Microsoft.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Is there even any reason to crack Windows anymore? The whole thing is freely available and you just have to live with a watermark.

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