>and they say it's for good this time
They say the same thing every time it happens, and it happens multiple times every year.
If it comes back like usual then good, if not whatever.

Nyaa back-up project: #nyaapantsu (https://nyaa.pantsu.cat ; https://sukebei.pantsu.cat)

I noticed immediately because I was there when it happened.

>>28668
Thank you very much!

Just when I started getting back into the mood for watching regularly.

damn i was hoping commie shitsubs was finally dead forever
here is a reminder than if you patronize nyaa then you're giving tacit approval to commie shitsubs

https://nyaa.pantsu.cat/

Great, now everything is in disarray. I do not like this, not one bit.

>>28688
Uploading is busted and torrents only go up to may first it seems.

>>28694
No one is enjoying this.

Things are definitely difficult for us all at the moment.

May 3, 2017

On May 1, 2017, NyaaTorrents officially ceased operations.
At time of this writing, nothing remains of the site. These are actions taken by the owner of the site and not a result of some form of internal subversion or engagement by government or legal entities.
The exact reasons for shutdown remain a mystery to all but the anonymous owner, but remaining former NT associates are led to believe that based on the circumstances surrounding closure, it was in response to recent court rulings that had the potential to affect site operations in the future. Rather than face this possibility, and any repercussions it would have on all parties involved, the owner decided to bring everything to a complete end. Based on operating principles, nothing will remain of the original site and all content, to include back-end, front-end, and all databases, has likely been purged.

There are no plans to continue any activity under the NyaaTorrents banner.
Any projects that occur from here on out are not associated with the original site.

The above serves as an official statement by what remains of the site.
Further questions can be directed via IRC to those remaining in #NyaaTorrents on irc.rizon.net.

- The (former) NyaaTorrents moderation staff



>>28688
seems cat is dead, too.

>>28710

Wow, a website that big basically goes poof in smoke over the owner getting paranoid of potential liability. This is what moot meant by having a website built on a single point of failure is bad. I had actually assumed before this that nyaa was a co-owned project, actually.

At least there's still good guys out there trying to keep the smoldering embers alight.

Like I said about Bakabt going private, this is good in a way. You can still go to the fansubbers website itself anyway.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

>>28717
>this is good in a way
Do elaborate.

>You can still go to the fansubbers website itself anyway.
This only applies to newly released anime subs. What if you're looking raws, or anime from previous seasons? Non-anime torrents (ie: visual novels)? Some of them are still out there, but you have to wade through a lot more trash to find them now.

>>28718
>Do elaborate.
Separate the wheat from the chaff. If this is enough to make one stop, then that is that, that person was only that dedicated.
The community had become bloated with fakers and try-hards, this is the great purge.

>What if you're looking raws, or anime from previous seasons et cetera
Oh, I have an account with a private tracker. You can make one, you know? Just because Bakabt is private now does not mean they no longer exist.

>>28719
Bakabt is cancer, as are the rest of the (pseudo-)private anime trackers. Being forced to use them is no blessing.

>>28710
Cat seems to be up right now, but who knows for how long.

>>28722

Apparantly jap traffic skyrocketed to cat and crashed the server, so they migrated to one that can handle more traffic.

also

cat FAQ and info:
https://pastebin.com/Gq9MrJN5

>>28717

>The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

I wonder if this can finally kill the cartel's domination on subbing via Nyaa, and one day give rise to a cool fansubbing scene again.

Wishful thinking probably...

>>28725
I believe it's 'mostly' crunchy roll and the like that have killed fansubbing with C&Ds, and buying up all the translators. I don't see fansubbing ever making a comeback with them around. Not unless anime looses it's popularity in the west and CR goes out of business or something similar happens.

>>28721
Nobody forced you to do anything. Stop watching then.
Next thing you will say is the King of England should be removed from the Americas.

>>28726
The real problem is HorribleSubs. People go to fansubs for 720p but HorribleSubs takes from CruncyRoll and releases in 720p.

I don't follow here. From what I recall HS rips Crunchyroll's stuff to piss them off, and even if they were gone, CR would still remain. If anything, there might even be more CR subscribers without HS giving it all for free.

Is there something i'm missing?

>Is there something i'm missing?
I literally typed it out.

Apparently, https://nyaa.si/ is a thing.

I just ran into it when getting the new Hinako Note ep.

>>28734
Saw that too. also >>28688 is working now for uploads and has accounts now.

Torrents? Everyone is streaming now.

>>34775
A blatant lie to bump a three years old thread. I wonder why.

>>34780
It's true for the more casual anime fans. None of them download anything anymore. I've talked to some newer anime fans and the idea of keeping anime seems bizarre to them, and truth be told even as a hoarder myself it's a bit hard to explain why they should.

>>34791
Data hoarders prepare for the worst.

>>34792
I think these people have never had to face any problems with accessing anime and as such take it for granted.

>>34791
>it's a bit hard to explain why they should
Why's that hard? The versions of shows on streaming services are often botched. Several shows this season got an early print sent to streaming sites, and they never update to the BD versions.

>>34795
Because these people don't care.

They're gunning for nyaa now:
https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-lawyers-are-trying-to-shut-down-pirate-anime-giant-nyaa-si-201104/

>>35075
Two more will take it's place.

>>35075
Looks like they failed, for now, since this happened in September. If this were to happen, however, then pantsu or similar will probably be used at least on a provisional basis. I think they've been mirroring nyaa.si's database.
It's amusing TorrentFreak references HorribleSubs' ceasing their operation as if it were important.

>>35075
Oh noes!

A DCMA request to take down the nyaa.si repo. Well that's a maneuver I wouldn't have expected.
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/01/2021-01-14-mpa.md

>>35342
That's pretty amusing and stupid.

https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-steps-up-anime-piracy-war-and-battles-domain-hopping-evaders-230707/

>>37310
Those sites sound like garbage anyway. seems like they're mainly just going after streaming sites, had me worried for a moment.

>>37311
Exactly my reaction as well. Good riddance.

Streaming is a waste. I can't believe most people don't realise that the bandwidth to stream is the same as downloading a local copy.
*sigh* Techno-illiterates...

>>37351
>the bandwidth to stream is the same as downloading a local copy
People stream for three main reasons: they don't want to wait for a download to complete, torrents have a slight learning curve, and for any mainstream media, you probably need a vpn to avoid trouble with your isp. The first reason is ironic since torrents have become less popular the faster internet speeds have gotten.

edit: thinking about it more, faster internet speeds have made stream buffering a lot less frequent, and while mostly negligible, file sizes have gotten larger with higher resolutions.

Post edited on 21st Aug 2023, 8:04am

>>37351
>Techno-illiterates...
>the bandwidth to stream is the same as downloading a local copy.
I hate this specific argument, because if you want to be pedantic then at least be sure to get the facts right. Streaming != downloading in principle for the following reasons:

* Streaming protocols are suited for adaptive bitrate, and formats such as dash/hls can progressively switch to a lower bitrate stream depending on network conditions. Now you might argue that if you download the entire copy you can then watch it back locally without an issue, which is a valid argument but most people don't decide to watch something, want to wait 30 min for it to download, then watch/delete it, so to be on equal footing the question is between downloading a torrent in-order (to allow immediate viewing) versus streaming.

* Another argument people make is one of disk-usage being identical. This also falls short because when streaming the cached portions are usually not written to disk, so the net disk writes when stremaing is only a fraction of that of downloading the entire file.

And in practice (again network-wise) for the following reasons:

* CDN effects: usually since streaming services take advantage of cloudflare (which used to have pretty generous free tier even for serving video) or other CDN, you are more likely to hit your line speed dl rate.

* Transcoding done for you: Usually streaming services will re-encode the source video for you, burning in subtitles, allowing them to be played on any player without need for libass. They'll also use more aggressive compression settings which although bad from a visual perspective, helps those with bad internet.

Also considering that seasonal shows are all ripped from CR/Funi anyway, if you stream from them directly it's not strictly any worse quality wise.

>>37353
Most people streaming are doing so for free on sketchy websites. Lower quality is enough of a reason to prefer download over streaming. Not to mention sub groups already offer 480p or HEVC encodes to save time. With that said most people aren't picky about quality because the bar has been lowered over the years which is ironic considering in the past you were forced to watch videos in semi shit quality due to obsolete ISP plans not yet ready to accommodate video buffering

>>37363
I guess reasons for watching anime differ a lot considering I myself care about quality only if the video is actually unwatchable, though I have yet to encounter one even though I go through random seasonal shows, movies and OVAs often. The worst I remember was some old OVA where the subs occasionally stuck in place and new ones appeared above them but I found even that watchable, that was on 9anime

>>37363
Yes the re-encodes often use lower bitrate, but unless you're a videophile or something it's still perfectly enjoyable. The slightly more major issue is quality of subs (if the show actually had fansubs made), but I've found that the usually the stremaing sites will mirror the "most popular" release of the show (which may not necessarily be the one with best subs, but is usually good enough).
>Not to mention sub groups
Nit: CR re-encode groups, there aren't any actual sub groups left

>>37365
Also the size of encodes has been creeping up in recent years, I guess as tools have become more accessible and disk space more plentiful, people don't see the need to put in as much effort on reducing the net size.