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What truthfully strikes me as odd is that there are 10s of thousands of us mateys out here and no one considers the fact that a few of us are no doubt capable of starting our own group.
Nothing is permanent in this world. Every site/tracker/etc will eventually go down, others will come up. We live in a time where computer/development knowledge is hugely available on the internet. Oh also...you can pirate that knowledge, friends 😀 🦜.
I guess what I'm saying is...we have the technology. More than ever. UI/UX, web hosting, and development knowledge is more affordable/available than ever. Are you young? Don't have a job/hate your job? Have some applicable tech skills? Want to make money and quit the 9-5 (yes there's actually a shit ton of money in it, either via ads or other methods, people who run groups can live off of it very well in many cases). Well there you go. Get together and start it up. No easy task to reach RARBG's size on day one but you start small and things grow. Build your empire.
Now, I actually like my job. But again, there's in all, tens of millions of people out there globally who are pirates and tend to be nerdy. You're telling me something better won't come up? Someone will make it. Could be you. Just depends: do you have a vision, do you want the money, are you inspired to share knowledge/content with others and carry the torch of piracy out across the high seas?
My question isn't "What will I do now?". Piracy sites have continued and continued over time. My question is, what's coming next?
I bet so many of us work in IT lmao, we absolutely could do all of that. Issue is that most western people are at risk of law enforcement, just look at a bit of this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/british-man-gets-22-months-prison-over-global-movie-piracy-us-judge-2022-02-07/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/02/last-remaining-pirate-bay-founder-freed-from-jail-fredrik-neij
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/german-piracy-sentenced-jail-276076/
https://ca1.topnews.media/2023/06/15/in-new-zealand-two-men-who-helped-run-the-popular-pirate-site-megaupload-were-sentenced-to-prison-2/
Or look at Aaron Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
What he got slapped with trying to "steal" (COPY) intellectual "property“ from a university, which hoards knowledge like a dragon.
That we rely on Russians mainly for our shadow libraries is just one twisted facet of how this whole system is messed up. We could share all information and all human knowledge, with everyone for free!! We could have managed it technologically a decade ago. The monetary cost is so small nerds can now do it alone in their basement.
People could educate themselves to university levels and get reading comprehension like never seen before. I learned English mostly through books from these online libraries cause I was far from any IRL library in rural Austria and poor. Without it I would have stayed small minded like I was at 18 voting for conservatives.
Christians preach of sharing, many religions do, yet they (self proclaimed religious politicians and CEOs) put those who want to share it all into the farthest corners of the internet and in prison. To pretend like this possibility doesn‘t exist and one needs to be well off to afford books and go to some special place to get an education. All to make line go up.
I would totally start my own group if I didn't live in a country that was super anal about piracy. They COULD invest more resources in combating human trafficking, child pornography, and terrorism, but no. Instead, we've gotta keep fighting about abortion and work on hunting down people who run piracy groups.
I'd wager for 99.9% of people it's a matter of not being tech savvy enough or not willing to take the risk, or both.
would be better if someone started a dc++ hub and we could all share on there