btw, admin: One Nyaa/TT difference: Doki-fansubs has been banned from Nyaa for about 2 years now. Doki has been the source of a lot of titles here at AT, so there's bound to be people here who will wonder where it went.
Doki was banned after the greatest catfight in fansub history with Daiz, Commie and the rest of what Coalgirl called the "Nyaa Cartel" (gg, UTW, Commie, Underwater, and others). Know the story? Daiz found out that someone at Doki paid the main Tokyo capper source to provide Doki with the transport stream of Motto! To Love Ru AND to withhold or delay giving it to Commie or any others. The paying to sabotage other fansubs was considered new and evil, and could have led to insane additional cut-throat fights. Blah, blah, blah, accusations and insults went back and forth and no Doki on Nyaa. The blow by blow is in the Bakabt forum logs. Anyways, if Nyaa, no Doki, even though in terms of IRC traffic and members, it's the second or third biggest fansub group. Doki has it's own separate tracker now, although it also sent everything to TT.
Thanks to Admin for the revival and getting all these people off the streets again!
My previous note: 1. As to geography, I had thought Nyaa was not in Sweden and am surprised to hear TT might have been there. But I believe the way it works in Europe is when one countries' court makes a ruling, it creates precedents and mutual treaty obligations that can be enforced throughout Europe, even if neither country is a member of the European Economic Community. Anyways Nyaa took it very seriously and changed their set-up because of it. 2. Bit-torrent: Whether it ever involved actually running a tracker or just listing or keeping stats, there was a way in which Nyaa and TT had been similar and now are different. Nyaa made those changes due to this Swedish court ruling about bit-torrent.
Taking comment #1000, I don't ever recall TokyoTosho hosting a tracker. I believe they're in Sweden, whilst Nyaa.eu appears to be hosted in the Netherlands. But who knows, could be anything really.
Admin is alive! And should be enjoying a nice vacation at the beach but isn't! How wonderful!
I'll add a little speculation, for any interested: If I were running TT (and I am not) I might take the opportunity of a bit-torrent disruption to take down the site and re-configure it as Nyaa did, to avoid the legal liabilities of running a bit-torrent tracker. Not too long ago in a major case involving Pirate'sBay, the high court in Sweden ruled that running a bit-torrent tracker is by itself a violation of copyright law. So Nyaa re-configured to avoid that liability.
If any want more detail, Daiz, aka Underwater, aka Nyaa Moderator, aka "Slimey", wrote a good summary of the legal and technical issues. You can find it at the Underwater site.
err.. i don't really get what you say Anonymous... T^T so in other word the site is stop updating until unknown time..? (somehow i feel this english is wrong, forgive me for that -__-)
I am around, if anyone was wondering. I am completely unaffiliated with TokyoTosho, so I have absolutely no influence on what goes on with it.
With it being down, there's really not too much I can do about it. I've been waiting to see if it will come up soon, but it hasn't so far. I'm considering adding Nyaa support and disabling TokyoTosho for now, however, this requires quite a number of changes for it to work, and I'm rather busy, so this can take a while.
Here are a couple of facts: 1. The last day that admin commented in this feedback page is the last day that files were updated here. Being that it is summer and vacation time for many, it is possible he went away for vacation. My alternate theory is that he was taken out by a drone rented by the US Dept of Commerce.
2. The day that TT went down is the exact same day that the makers of bit-torrent went on "strike". Here's the news as found on the TorrentFreak.com homepage (a news site about torrents):
July 16, 2012: "OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, the two largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, are on strike. Both trackers are going offline to protest the unresponsiveness of the makers of uTorrent who were asked to introduce a simple protocol enhancement that would save the non-profit trackers thousands of dollars. As a result of the protest, many people are having trouble downloading files on BitTorrent."
If unrelated, that's one heck of a coincidence! Now I have some hope that everything may return to normal. But it's just a hope that these two possibilities explain our current situation.
Can AnimeTosho monitor Jishaku Toshokan for now? (with Anime only, EN only, 18+ filtered)? I can posts some torrents from nyaa and this would make AT work again during during TT's downtime.
yes comfun does it for usenet, maybe it might be more effective to leech from usenet and then upload to ddl but you'd need ipv6 for that or pay for an account. see http://fanzub.com/?q=@poster comfun
I do not know when TT will come back online. Even if it comes back, it will miss some torrents released since yesterday. You can head over to otakucop.com for now for your HTTP/DDL links.
come on , he's a thug character on Sword Art Online, sci-fi like accel world, buat waaaay better and emotional (Personaly..) you should watch it Yogicat-san i really recomend this anime, even though there is only ep 1 for now -__- anyone know when Sword Art Online aired in japan??
FYI from FFF-peeps fansub: "Today, we’re releasing our latest endeavour, peeps, an automated 8bit re-encoding script.
We’ve asked for feedback on IRC on more than one occasion, and monitored torrent download stats between 8 and 10bit files. Roughly 30% of the leechers still prefer 8bit over 10bit when given the choice. The demand for 8bit is still present. However, our previous method of encoding did not fully serve the 8bit community.
The new encodes will be compatible with hardware players, the PS3, and most mobile phones. It is fully hardsubbed, so playback issues with softsubbing will be eliminated. You can expect all FFF releases to be re-encoded within an hour or so. However, we’re not just stopping there. We’re going to re-encode releases by other groups and we’re doing every airing show. That includes Gundam AGE, Suite Precure and shounen shows like One Piece, Naruto and Sket Dance.
Over the next few days, we’ll gradually release the backlog shows that already aired before we started the script. All re-encodes will be available via torrent, DDL and XDCC on our IRC channel."
19/07/2012 02:44 — Anonymous