What.CD is shutting down

Re:What.CD is shutting down by cgag on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:21PM (#12983186)

I always felt so annoyed at the stupidity of the ratio requirements that I do feel some vague satisfaction imaging that it destroyed them (I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown). Everyone buying seedboxes so that they could have fast enough internet to actually earn ratio was ridiculous.

Broadcasthenet still has no ratio requirements at all and is doing fine.

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Re:What.CD is shutting down by ovibos on Friday November 18, 2016 @12:16AM (#12984542)

> I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown

Their servers were raided by the French authorities.

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Re:What.CD is shutting down by pmontra on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:01AM (#12984922)

News at http://gizmodo.com/authorities-just-shut-down-what-cd-the-be...

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Re:What.CD is shutting down by derekdahmer on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:56AM (#12984893)

Broadcast the net has a very strict 1 week seeding policy on every download though which makes having a dedicated seedbox almost a requirement. Having been flush with what.cdupload after stocking up years ago on big freeleech files, I kinda preferred the ratio model but can definitely see how it could be restricting for new users.

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Re:What.CD is shutting down by disillusioned on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:23AM (#12985001)

This was definitely an issue at PTP. You start off with whatever you got invited with as a gift, and if you don't start making up ground quickly, you're basically in a hole, except by freeleech. I realized I had to pay attention to freeleech and participate that way, which worked pretty well, until I built up a suitable buffer, but it takes some doing.

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