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Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by anexprogrammer on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:11AM (#12231115)
> you would expect that the legal alternatives would have content available for such hardware, but they rarely do.

Nope, wouldn't expect that. It'll come slowly, and apparently very grudgingly. It took a decade or more to be able to get flac downloads commonly available. For years music downloads were low bit rate crap mp3. Pirate it or buy the CD were the only options for quality. It was like they actively wanted us to be searching for torrent sites.

Re:Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine S... by girzel on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:45AM (#12231228)
It's like the publishing industry and digital publishing: they just don't really want it to happen at all, so they do a bad job of it.