The Future of MATV
MU etc
As many of you may already know, MegaUpload was shutdown recently, and most of the large file shareing sites are on a mass delete mission. This makes times a little more awkward for us, and makes us more than a little nervious. We don't need to use such sites of course, but its still a concern where this crackdown is heading.
Nyaa
Nyaa have closed down their public BitTorrent trackers, apparently due to the Pirate Bay loosing its court case in Sweden, meaning that running a Tracker is now considered illegal in Sweden, it would appear that is where Nyaa is based. The result is that many groups have now switched to openbittorrent's UDP tracker. The problem is our server side system dosnt support UDP trackers on BitTorrent. Further, FTV use the same client, so they are out of luck as well.
So...?
Just to re-cap - loss of the file share sites / cyber lockers, loss of the main anime tracker with the alternative being one we can't read.
The tracker issue kinda kills off our ability to operate about 80% of our DDLs, and then we don't have anywhere (except our servers) to put stuff, and theres a chance someone will come after us if we host it all ourselves.
Furthermore, FTV who we share our DDL server with, will likly drop their DDLs entirely as well.
This dosnt leave us in a good position at all, at this moment we have no idea what we're going to do, but being honest here, its starting to look like a good time to make an exit.
Comments and suggestions welcome in the forum and on irc - #matv on irc.rizon.net
MU etc
As many of you may already know, MegaUpload was shutdown recently, and most of the large file shareing sites are on a mass delete mission. This makes times a little more awkward for us, and makes us more than a little nervious. We don't need to use such sites of course, but its still a concern where this crackdown is heading.
Nyaa
Nyaa have closed down their public BitTorrent trackers, apparently due to the Pirate Bay loosing its court case in Sweden, meaning that running a Tracker is now considered illegal in Sweden, it would appear that is where Nyaa is based. The result is that many groups have now switched to openbittorrent's UDP tracker. The problem is our server side system dosnt support UDP trackers on BitTorrent. Further, FTV use the same client, so they are out of luck as well.
So...?
Just to re-cap - loss of the file share sites / cyber lockers, loss of the main anime tracker with the alternative being one we can't read.
The tracker issue kinda kills off our ability to operate about 80% of our DDLs, and then we don't have anywhere (except our servers) to put stuff, and theres a chance someone will come after us if we host it all ourselves.
Furthermore, FTV who we share our DDL server with, will likly drop their DDLs entirely as well.
This dosnt leave us in a good position at all, at this moment we have no idea what we're going to do, but being honest here, its starting to look like a good time to make an exit.
Comments and suggestions welcome in the forum and on irc - #matv on irc.rizon.net