London police takes down Blackcat-Games
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Never used it, but heard about it. I think i got an invite once, but it expired quickly. I was past using torrents for a long time anyways though.
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Well, I won't miss them. They should've understood that some countries (*cough* Italy *cough*) have super-shitty non-symmetrical uploads and we can't mantain insane seeding ratios like they wanted even if we were to seed 24/7.
Never used them myself but its always sad to hear of sites like this going down especially if they do in fact host rarer torrents like others have said BCG did. Do not underestimate the service communities like that provide towards preserving obscure digital media that if it wasn't for "piracy" would be impossible for us to experience legitimately.
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...which is what Seed points were for, as mentioned by grossaffe already
You don't need fancy internet, just a few days of seeding whatever and you're fine. It's been that way for years, back when I was using potato 3mbps and I managed fine
A few days that could've been spent downloading other stuff, somewhere else...which is what Seed points were for, as mentioned by grossaffe already
You don't need fancy internet, just a few days of seeding whatever and you're fine. It's been that way for years, back when I was using potato 3mbps and I managed fine
Aw, sad to see it gone. I use GG as well, so I'm not at a major loss, but BCG was so much better for seed ratio on older stuff. Just noone to upload to for some of that on GG, so seed points was handy. To those who had troubles with keeping a ratio on BCG... you clearly joined the site without reading how it works. Leave the torrent program open a few days and every torrent would count as fully seeded back regardless, more or less. Hopefully stoi and them aren't in legal trouble, though. Not expecting it to come back from this, to be honest; they've been having enough money issues that this on top of it'd make even the most dedicated consider throwing in the towel.
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This sucks and makes me a little nervous. I had downloaded quite a few bits and pieces over the last few days....
What do people speculate will happen if the police now have black cats member's details and activity logs?
What do people speculate will happen if the police now have black cats member's details and activity logs?
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I was a member there well over 5 years ago and I used torrent seed cheat programs to bypass the S:L ratio since my internet was pretty shit back than, it would takes weeks to reseed a 360 game fully
it was pretty good but eventually my account got deactivated for inactivity since I didnt download anything for 1 month, I have just been using public sites ever since without issues
it was pretty good but eventually my account got deactivated for inactivity since I didnt download anything for 1 month, I have just been using public sites ever since without issues
Straight up, nothing. Pursuing torrent downloaders is an absolute waste of time, and besides, its the london police. 99% of BCG's userbase is so far out of their jurisdiction that our government might actually be able to make a legal case against them even keeping that information.
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That's reassuring and as I expected. However I am from the UK
I suppose I am mostly concerned about major uploaders and other staff members
I actually read pornographic industry. I tought you were joking about the phonograpric part, dammit.
I don't know if distibuting malware is illegal though, since they aren't copyrighted. Shutting down these kind of website is probably way more complicated than torrent piracy sites. Heck, it took three years to shut down BCG, while it was blatant copyright infringement.
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I kinda have mixed feelings about this... The site had amazing content (I remember those exclusive guitar hero mods for Wii). However, the mods on that site were complete jerks and didn't even have a warning system... I got banned for such a silly reason without any sign or warning. I don't really feel that bad for them because of that lol. Then again, that just my insignificant opinion >.<
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but they have a workaround for you to get a 1:1 ratio even theres no leecher when you seed...
we just need to seed the torrent for a certain hours/days depending on the size of the torrent to get the 1:1 ratio.
they call it seed points... i hope other private torrent sites will implement seed points rules too...
anyway, the domain name is only raided, hope server still intact...
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