I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas this season, especially to the GTRU Administrators and Mods who keep this site running smoothly. I appreciate the great work you do in keeping this torrent site running so smoothly and quickly.

I also want to send some joy to the seeders, who take the time and care to upload fantastic content for everyone to enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

@lololulu19 The quality of torrents and having torrents taken down are not the fault of the website.

Websites operating in the US are required to abide by DMCA Notifications, otherwise the site loses its safe harbor and can be open to liability. Operators of websites are required to take down infringing content in a timely manner.

Something of a mind bend, I just came across a torrent of a torrent ...

I feel like the uploader deserves an infinite amount of seedpoints for putting us into a forever loop where we never actually download the files, we just donwload the torrent that point to the torrent LOL

Here is one of the examples:
https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=88bfceb830539945a5bd5beb0144248435dba8c1136e7ed5

Hi guys,

I don't normally post or visit the forums, so a hello to everyone. I can only speak to my own experiences co-operating a gay public forum, which gets hit with DMCA Notifications every day.

1. Websites are required to comply with valid DMCA Notifications. Website owners that don't comply will not be protected by safe harbor laws, opening them up to much more severe liability.

2. Part of the popularity of GTRU is that much of its torrents are publicly available, which is a double-edged sword. If something is public on Google, that means the torrents can be found by porn fiends AND automated bots.

3. GTRU is one of the biggest gay porn torrent (maybe the largest?). If OnlyFans or performers or their paid DMCA representatives were to repeatedly infringing sites, this would be it.

4. I'm not personally privy to the software behind the automated monitoring methods, but they likely utilize a combination of simple text and image scanning. Some basic obfuscation methods will usually beat the monitoring:

• Word obfuscation: R3n0 G01d vs Reno Gold
• Image obfuscation: flip or rotate the image

Some other thoughts:

• There are categories that are more high-risk for copyright violations than others (like Fansites). I don't know if the torrent site is capable of it, but maybe the site could make certain categories (like Fansites) private and only viewable by members?
• I know some of the uploaders spend a lot of time and effort to put together your torrents. It really is appreciated by the community - thank you!!

@dretafari Technically, a site only needs 1 site administrator to keep the site going. One person is sufficient to pay the bills and provide ongoing server maintenance.

The moderation of torrents and the forums probably requires multiple volunteers (and all of their work is much appreciated!). However, I don't think those volunteer moderators would have root access to the server to provide business continuity.

In any case, I also hope that this site stays online for many years to come . I am relatively new to GTRU (but not to gay torrenting!), and I can't believe it took this many years to find this awesome place.

@MrMazda The real question ... does your family know that your side of the house is porn central?? LOL

@dat1hungdude In addition to a DMCA policy, a site such as this should also have a Repeat Infringer Policy. It does not need to be public, and can be an internal document, but it should govern the actions around users who repeatedly upload copyrighted content.

@lmsuon Do you have any recommendations of straight studios or torrents with that focus?

@MrMazda wow really, is someone continuing the series??

I always love the Big White Boy (because, well, they show some hungry and hung white LOLS) although I agree with some of the sentiments above, some of these are just repackagings of Fansite torrents. It's one thing if these are amateur content packs, rather than already-identified models.

@raphjd Is this Discourse? You did a good job theming in black

I run a gay forum as well

@pmrrk Are AI generations any different than, say, oil paintings or digital art? I think this is definitely an interesting question for the future of porn!

@MrMazda wow really, is someone continuing the series??

I always love the Big White Boy (because, well, they show some hungry and hung white LOLS) although I agree with some of the sentiments above, some of these are just repackagings of Fansite torrents. It's one thing if these are amateur content packs, rather than already-identified models.

Hi everyone,

I might be hallucinating, but I swear I thought the forums had a Request section in the past where users could request torrents?

STAFF EDIT: removed offending part - raphjd

@dat1hungdude In addition to a DMCA policy, a site such as this should also have a Repeat Infringer Policy. It does not need to be public, and can be an internal document, but it should govern the actions around users who repeatedly upload copyrighted content.

@janes Thank you so much janes for the great explanation!

@raphjd

Thanks for the links.

For those 2 sticks, can you quickly explain SSD cache? I'm likely going to buy a 4 bay, and I don't know if SSD cache is even needed, but wanted to get a primer on the benefits of this (if it's something I can utilize).

I can tell by your number of drive bays that your porn collection is a bit larger than mine Those are some monster NAS drives!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I think I mostly have it down. Will loop back to this topic once I get closer to making a purchase decision (I'm thinking of waiting until Black Friday / Cyber Monday for better deals)

@tnar Would it be something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/EX4100-Expert-Network-Attached-Storage/

And the drives would be an additional cost, yes?

The router and wifi modem are tucked away in like a utility panel in the wall in my home, which is a new home. (Think: suburban home in Texas). There is absolutely no way that NAS box can fit into that utility panel.

@raphjd I just want to make sure I understand this correctly because this is all new to me (so apologies for the dumb questions!)

Synology is the NAS. That's like the box with the software. Would it be something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Synology-2-Bay-DiskStation-DS224-Diskless/dp/B0C6927XPX/

Then Seagate are the drives that you install into the NAS. Would it be something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-Internal-Hard-Drive/

Are the above statements correct?

Also, is it fair to say that you need to buy drives specifically designed to fit within NAS?

@tnar Thank you so much for the recommendation. I have a dumb question (and don't judge me), but does the NAS come with the storage drives, or do you need to buy those separately??

For example, like this product here:
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/cloud-storage/wd-my-cloud-home?sku=WDBVXC0080HWT-NESN

It looks like it comes with 4 TB or 8 TB. Also, it says you need to connect the ethernet cable to your router. That's difficult to do in my home, where the router is purposely placed inside almost like a utility box on the wall in the washer / dryer room along with the wifi.