KaraGarga invite

does anyone have an extra invite, my account has been "disabled," i need to find some finnish documentaries

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I have secret cinema (formerly camera obscura), demonoid and torrentech invite to trade with a KG invite. hit me up at dan138zig(a)gmail.com

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invite plz?

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Good shit, unregisturd

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i can never remember what i want to get, so i'm searching through a folder of half downloaded .r01 files that i found on blogs & decided it would be worth the effort painstakingly downloading rather than expending valuable KG capital on. any recommendations appreciated.

Good shit, unregisturd

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:56 PM (4 minutes ago)

pot-kettle-brown

i highly recommend "kin dza dza", unavailabe on dvd for love or money and with subtitles done by my old roommate

kin-dza-dza is amazing!

dl some stupid old czech new wave crap

yay someone is snatching it!

i don't see any announcement about F R 3 3 L 3 3 C H

oh n/m i see it now

any recommendations appreciated.

how about some euro stuff - (not seeding any of them, these are Real Recommendations)

~ french ~

La Prisonnière AKA Woman in Chains
Henri-Georges Clouzot 1968
Themroc
Claude Faraldo 1973
Poussiere d'ange AKA Angel Dust
Edouard Niermans 1987
Man on Fire
Elie Chouraqui 1987
L.627
Bertrand Tavernier 1992

~ german ~

Unter den Brücken AKA Under the Bridges
Helmut Käutner 1945
Supermarkt
Roland Klick 1974
Du mich auch aka So What?
Helmut Berger 1986
Sukkubus - den Teufel im Leib
Georg Tressler 1989
Der Totmacher AKA The Deathmaker
Romuald Karmakar 1995

~ italian ~

Milano calibro 9
Fernando Di Leo 1972
Il Trucido e lo sbirro AKA Free hand for a tough cop
Umberto Lenzi 1976
Il Grande Racket AKA The Big Racket
Enzo G. Castellari 1976
Cadaveri eccellenti AKA Illustrious Corpses
Francesco Rosi 1976
Io ho paura aka I Am Afraid aka The Bodyguard
Damiano Damiani 1977

~ sweden ~

Ronja Rövardotter AKA Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Tage Danielsson 1984

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>:)

Trade u for a 77 invite

Meet me on the Request 77 thread. Bring a paper bag

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this thread is not the same without the picture of the imploring bird

Good reminder - ty

oh imageshack, you tease

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rip

!!!! WHAT???

Nonononononono. Clinging to a story, that it's planned maintenance. But could be MPAA. Fuck that, I need KG for research.

it's just down while moving to new server space afaik
it would be such a tragedy though. honestly even just bibliographically, for filmographies & screenshots & precis, it's one of the most useful cinema resources i think.

kinda sweating it atm tbh

:/

--- An update on the ongoing KG downtime ---

Our apologies to all our users for the downtime and lack of updates on the situation. Here's the order of events from the last few weeks:

- your kind donations paid for the next 12 months of web hosting.

- BREIN lodged a complaint with our host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN

- we are still online at this point. we began planning how to handle the situation, then...

- an anonymous complaint to our domain registrar lead to suspension of our domain. this prevents your computer from translating karagarga.net into the IP address for our server.


We have disabled access to the main website and tracker. The forum is still accessible with a workaround (see below). No data has been lost or leaked and we hope to see you all soon.
- KG staff

Is the demise of KG inevitable? I'm also curious how people who use it for research or teaching feel about copyright for some of this stuff.

BREIN seem like the copyright equivalent of patent trolls. Scumbags.

The forum is still accessible with a workaround (see below)

the generally pretty marginal mandate of KG always made it feel like it was kind of off the grid, to me, something that might just quietly exist on the sidelines for a long while. & i hope even if not, it would align with the succession trend of busted networks usually reasonably organically reforming elsewhere. i can't really imagine it in a fugitive, international-domain-suffix-hopping state, but who knows i guess.

the parameters of 'some of this stuff' are probably key when you talk copyright but i feel like the calculus regarding rights & access is still very positive. teachers being able to show things that are primarily inaccessible because they're out of circulation/out of licensing/or are not readily available is, i think, a bigger category of usage than screening things that are deliberately or restrictively not on dvd. it's complicated to use fair use agreements because you're invoking the law while ignoring the sorta flagrant copyright breaching element of the same law, but: i think educational use of a tv or vhs rip or a documentary for which there's a rights minefield &c comports with the spirit of fair use, is important & laudable &c. & re: research, i do feel like an initial breach of copyright is often preceding a legitimate screening, now. so many programmers lean on kg.

vague memories that you research/teach, admrl, so would love to hear your reservations or to be called out on my swashbuckling libertarian defence if you're less cavalier.

pastebin.com/deHQDjgd xp

i used KG to snag a copy of a chinese movie to show in class last year, the teacher was v impressed

Yeah - as you say, I teach and I use KG for research. I don't believe I've ever shown anything from KG publicly in class (maybe a clip or two) and in most cases, being able to see something on there has resulted in us purchasing an educational copy for our collection. I know a few filmmakers who have work on there and only one of them has objected to it, after which it was removed. But I also know some filmmakers for whom educational/institutional sales provide at least some meager reward and I understand their objections.

Overall, I think its an incredible resource that probably results in a lot of good critical writing and creative production and I probably take it a little for granted. The humorlessness of some of the people in the community is also tempted by a lot of great, enthusiastic and generous members. The subtitling efforts always really impress me.

kg's comic library has been massively eye opening and the ability to dip into the vast movie stream to find obscure OOP films has been a huge boon. the bibliographical material does tend to be top notch.

i was planning on watching bronco bullfrog!

thanks for that post, admrl. good to hear. i know with ubuweb there was an evolution between them calling out non-participants, & moving towards reaching some sort of acquiescence, either through compliance in removing films or in meaningful compromise (like with michael snow, who asked for certain films to be taken down & supported the hosting of others), & it's nice to think that that's practiced in a setting that could otherwise be pretty craven. by virtue of being a hungry consumer i'm obviously partisan but i do think - again generally - that the circulation of the bulk of out-of-print/restricted-by-access-or-credential stuff is culturally positive, enriching. the subtitling is totally exemplary of the best, utopian-kinda elements of the internet; i've heard the same sort of stories about anime communities, & really organic, collaborative, supportive working models put together by volunteers in service of the material. i am just going to lazily throw the humourlessness of some participants under the umbrella of what morbius called aspect ratio people; i definitely like being able to cruise the forum just for like, cinephilic-shut-ins' deep-cut direct cinema recommendations.

That was actually a very poorly written post (mine, that is), but hopefully you still get what I'm saying! This is why I only usually post to ILX in short sentences.

Does the workaround work? Or has people migrated already? I'm looking for the films of Idrissa Ouedraogo, and the one I need the most is only available on vhs.

The workaround is only for the forum, Frederik, not the main site.

https://twitter.com/stefflbw

ty for that

not gonna lie: this has me v v sad right now

Hi everyone. I'm an all-type films lover, and I'd love to join Karagarga.

All Sonny Chiba movies are freeleech on CG rn.

Seeing as it doesn't look like I'll ever be a member of KaraGarga, is there anything even remotely similar out there?

:)

Five more days to go!

Mannaja - A Man Called Blade (1977) is a gritty, better-than-average spaghetti western that's free leech right now.

i haven't been able to get a single kb of upload for YEARS, my ratio just slowly goes down over time. can't compete w/ the serious seedbox setups i guess?

It's pretty opaque to me, but I did ok reinflating my ratio a couple of years ago by quickly grabbing new uploads that looked like they might be popular, even if I didn't really want them. Older rips of canon classics (ie 2gb versions not 10+gb ones) also seem to get some sluggish but useful action. As I say, it's opaque to me - might just have been lucky.

i’m in the same boat as adam. drifting down towards 0.6 and i just don’t see how i can do anything about it.

none of youse ever tempted to pay a small amount for a usenet provider and reliable nzb site? I did it last year and don't miss all the faff with ratio one bit.

have found freeleech system makes it pretty easy. just download a few things that have only just been marked freeleech and leave the client running

yeah grab freeleech stuff and make your upload isn't limited, also the yearly global freeleech period (around winter/christmastime usually?) let it rip

thanks for the advice all!

does anyone have an invite to share?

yeah thanks for the freeleech advice, it appears to be working. gotta long way to go though lol

corrs i'm sorry i don't. my ratio is too low to get one.

no worries :)

anyone got any invitations available? mostly a lurker on here but i have lots of old films and stuff to share...

It's free leech there for the next nine days too

I have let mine lapse, every now and then I get reminded of this terrible decision in my life.

Hahahahahaha, someone posted in the KG forums that last Sunday TCM aired a copy of Saura's THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS and in the end it said "subtitles by supersoft and calisto for KG". I really need to know who is the pirate boss in charge there now 😂. Don't you ever die, @TCM. pic.twitter.com/hJYllpdtrO

— Jon W. (@rarefilmm) July 5, 2023

incredible

Ok so I know this is my first post on here in about ten years (hi! if you remember me), but does anyone here happen to have a spare invite...? You will be my favorite person forever. Thanks!

they handed out some invites recently but i gave mine to corrs unplugged, soz

I have let mine lapse, every now and then I get reminded of this terrible decision in my life.

same

very grateful 🙏

is there a waiting list for invites or is it just a case of keep checking the site?

i think everybody with a ratio over 1.0 got one in april

hey xyzzzz_
i was able to get my account reinstated easily
just go on their chat (linked from the login page), say "help", and keep it open until someone reactivates your account. i waited about 15-20 mins, anticipated it would be hours. i guess this is a good time to try!

well, with PTP still down for many weeks now, I'm getting a little antsy here. if anyone has invites, would def be appreciated. I can offer invites to other places that you almost certainly won't care about!

What is PTP?

Ah, Pass the Popcorn I guess.

I think I might have an invite, I’ll send an email.

amazing, thank you!

Free leech all this week BTW

thx for the heads up

Does anyone have a kg or ptp invite perchance? Tryin' to get me mitts on some Hungarian documentary films made between the late 80s early 90s. As one can imagine, it has proved quite difficult. I don't have much to offer except... my friendship. :D