In case you haven’t read the news online Two of the biggest Anime/Manga/OST/etc public torrent site Nyaa and Bakabt are gone now.
Bakabt has gone full private(unless you have an old active account, you can�t register at all) and Nyaa has deleted its domain. It�s probably something to do with the UK passing a bill that charges pirates for 10 years.
https://torrentfreak.com/10-years-in-jail-for-internet-pirates-now-reality-in-the-uk-170501/
Nyaa had one of the best OSTs. It may not be video game focused that much(there are still tons of shares there), but a lot of Anime OP/ED/OST/Drama CD’s were uploaded there. Bakabt also had old Anime OST’s that are no longer being seeded on Nyaa, but still active on their site. So now both of them are gone(unless you still have a Bakabt account) Shit, this is the worst fucking year ever.
I hope nothing happens to this site. But if it comes to that. I won’t blame if some measures must be taken to consideration. I just want to say, there’s a lot of OST’s I was able to discover here. I really appreciate everyone who took their time and money to upload their stuff here. Thank You everyone!! I wouldn’t have bought some of the OSTs if it weren’t for your shares.
>latest update: nyaa sent an email and confirmed it’s gone for good. and yes, it was due to the EU ruling. and no, db is almost surely wiped.
Partially working indexer site using old dbs
https://nyaa.pantsu.cat
[WHOOPS PR0NZIES]
WHAT HAPPENED?
– nyaa.se and associated domains (such nyaatorrents.info) went offline on May 01, 2017.
– They were deactivated, so it’s not a DDoS attack like usual.
– Future prospects for nyaa are not looking good.
– There is a recovery effort taking place.
IS EVERYTHING LOST?
In short, No.
ARE SOME THINGS LOST?
We have a database of the torrents on nyaa up to April 5. That means that everything past April 5 is gone. Sukebei, however is in worse shape. We only have sukebei databases up to 2016.
HOW ARE WE RECOVERING?
The aforementioned databases are being hosted at nyaa.pantsu.cat and [WHOOPS PR0NZIES]. There is a search function, and (almost) full nyaa functionality should be coming soon. Unfortunately, due to the lack of a tracker and no plans to make one, seeder/leecher statistics will not be restored.
WAIT. IF THE TRACKER IS DOWN, HOW ARE THE TORRENTS STILL WORKING?
Even if the trackers are down, seeders are still connected to the decentralized DHT network. As long as the file is listed on the DHT network, business should carry on as usual.
HOW DO I USE THESE TORRENTS?
Just use the magnet link. The magnet link will used by your BitTorrent client to look up the file on the DHT network and it should download just fine. If your magnet link starts with "magnet:magnet:", delete the first "magnet:". It should look like:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:[hash]&dn=[name]&tr=[tracker]
HOW CAN I HELP?
If you have website development expertise, you can join the #nyaapantsu IRC channel on irc.rizon.net. If you have any current databases, UPLOAD THEM.
Well can’t mourn forever, so if anyone want and there is a topic to share it, I can upload the above mentioned anime.
About BakaBT, they were always so unfriendly even if you used to seed their torrents for 2 days. They have an awesome collection but always felt they want to keep it for themselves. For some weeks they seemed to enter a fully private status, but now it is gone.
I’m not against them, it is illegal at core so I’m happy with the few things I got from there. In the other hand if it was taken down, it is possible a weeboo hacked it in anger. Anyway it is an end no one deserves since -even if I’m not a big fan- it was a very quality source of Japanese cartoons for everyone, and a lot of them doesn’t have any other way to get those.
Nyaa has already been mirrored and the replacement site, if lacking some of Nyaa’s finesse, is working properly, with 99.9% of Nyaa’s database already in place. It is, to all intents and purposes, Nyaa again – 48 hours after Nyaa’s official expiry.
Three weeks worth of torrents are lost (currently – if they were in any way popular or in demand, someone will reupload them) which is sad but in the big scheme of things, no great loss.
Maybe I’m just getting old, but every time this happens people scream out "it’s the apocalypse, it’s the end of an era, it’s such a sad day, valuable assets of human culture have been lost forever!" and folks, IT NEVER IS.
It’s the end of using a particular URL to get a particular type of media, and there will undoubtedly be a few weeks of mild turmoil as we work out who’s going to be doing what and where, but it’s basically going to be business as usual, in a very short period of time.
Napster died. Audiogalaxy died. WinMX died. Kazaa died. Supernova died. Megaupload died. Hotfile died. Oron died. Etc, etc, etc.
Life goes on, folks – just at a different website. Same thing when this place eventually goes. It’s like redecorating your house. You change the colour of the walls, get some different furniture, move stuff around a bit… but you still have somewhere to live. 🙂
If you ask me all of these changes happening partially because of the greedy and blind fans. We can support the sites -even if just a little- if we enforce their rules even more.
BakaBT however still more strict than every other site and I doesn’t think they will open the registration for anyone anytime soon. Through special users you can ask for registration or can ask for a link to personal registration but not for only a single torrent, and the first time you not seed anything they will delete your account. Sorry but as I said I really agree with this, even if this means I can’t download from them also.
but…. going private is the safest way for all.
About BakaBT as say the same: I can totally understand them, it also helps keeping the torrents alive and in a more higher quality seed-wise. The only problem that could occur is a disappointed anime fan report them to the competent authority of piracy just to take revenge.
It’s a different URL now. That’s it. Uploading is working again, all the torrents are back. Business as usual, folks.
same here dude. dial up. downlaoded "hesitation" and "sucessful mission" from Hayashibara Megumi ….. took 1 day to get 1 mp3 song. good memories, and freaking happy i was just to get them.
Nyaa was back on the same day they went down. OK, it’s not the same site or the same people running it, but it looks the same and it’s running off the same database… So as far as I’m concerned it’s Nyaa.
It’s a different URL now. That’s it. Uploading is working again, all the torrents are back. Business as usual, folks.
It is me, or it really not loads? Error 522, aka timed out.
it timed out but….
https://sukebei.pantsu.cat/
works….
though.. I dont know if nyaapantsu goes the same… search is useless.
Kids these days… lol
https://sukebei.pantsu.cat/
works….
though.. I dont know if nyaapantsu goes the same… search is useless.
Yes, that works, but often timed out there too. Also it seems like not all the torrents were uploaded there yet, as I can’t find the last torrent I downloaded from Nyaa torrents.
It looks like Pantsu has a competitor – Nyaa.si – and the major fansubbing groups and indexing sites seem to be endorsing this new one rather than Pantsu. Pantsu is currently a little more along the development stage than Nyaa.si but basically both sites are functionally identical.
Great.
Now we have TWO Nyaa’s both with the same content up until May 1st and then they diverge.
http://toshinokyoko.net