Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Torrenters are building epic media collections
All around the internet, groups of media fans are hunting for and curating some of the best movie, music, and TV collections anywhere. And they're doing it all via BitTorrent. Verge contributor and Lowpass writer Janko Roettgers takes us into the world of private torrent trackers, where some people are saving culture and some people are just in it for the flicks.
Torrent Underground
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0:00 Torrents Return
01:20 Private Trackers Explained
04:04 Rules Ratios And Leechers
05:56 The Prestige Ladder
10:00 Bounties And Salinger
12:55 Piracy Ethics Today
17:16 Streaming Backlash
19:45 What Private Really Means
22:12 Anti Piracy Crackdowns
25:44 Why People Do It
27:14 Is BitTorrent Growing
28:45 Curation Beats Algorithms
31:51 Enough Phone Kickstarter
33:50 Phone Prices
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