This happened last year, where basically most of the daily uploads in the fansite category were deleted within like 12 hours of being posted from like October until like January. If you wanted anything in those categories you pretty much needed to be there to see it uploaded.

It doesn't help that more people are discovering the site and sharing links with no masking AND the site is for some reason indexed by Google. As google search becomes weirder this site pops up first page pretty easily when searching for some creators and they are able to DMCA incredibly effectively.

Its the downside of popularity. So there are less studio videos, more OF videos, people google them more, find this site, including the creators, it gets DMCA'ed. There also seems to be someone like almost hired to just report whatever pops up on the site en masse.

Other private torrent sites don't deal with this because the site owners don't let them get annexed by Google Searches. At this point I imagine its almost too late, I have no doubts some creators literally just join the site to report things.

@knoxguy89

To be honest, what can also happen is, it gets uploaded here, a few people snatched, it gets taken down, it gets uploaded to another torrent or site to share files, someone comes back here and sees its not up so tries to get ratio.

Since we know there's an issue with these excessive takedowns that aren't about whats IN the file, just that it is being uploaded, you aren't necessarily doing anything wrong in the upload, just that as this thread is describing there are excessive takedowns with incredibly inconsistent timing and inconsistent reporting.

I hate to see we're losing people willing to share, but I'm guessing nothing will be done or whatever actions taken can't be spoken on.

I saw some content creators i was gonna sub to uploaded super early this morning and grabbed them, of course both files are gone, 75 gigs and 45 gigs, so people who don't have seedboxes or who haven't been here a LONG time, can't really grab those kinda file sizes anyhow.

Ive even been ripping some content creators that have been on sale but it's like why upload lol, i absolutely wouldn't do a low quality upload and probably spend time making screenshots and naming files, I'd be pissed to see it deleted in less than 12 hours.

@massafera
The porn sites are in a weird state, a lot of OF creators who stick to the SW profession eventually just move onto work with studios then eventually rentmen if they keep up with it once studios stop hiring them, unless they make their own studio or w.e.

Studios are mostly either in the giant conglomerate owned by M*ndgeek or niche and able to stay afloat with subscriptions and selling other products etc.

OF itself is teetering based on how Twitter ends up. So much fansite promotion is done through twitter that can't currently happen on ANY other social media site that it'll be interesting to see where this all goes. It doesn't help that it seems OF is hitting a saturation point. Some creators are hot but simply have shitty content lol, and try to nickle and dime for it with PPVs onto of subs and continued sub bonuses.

As for this site. I can't speak much to how things will go. Gay torrenting sites are scarce, especially compared to any other type of torrenting site lol. This is still one of the largest and most updated even with the ridiculous take downs.

We'll have to see whats done and whether or not this will be a one of or an annual end of year experience.

Im starting to think it may be time to get rid of fansites as a category and for people not to label torrents with anything besides the name of the stars for fansites. It's getting awful.

I obviously can't tell, but it seems just like last time this happened, the fansite category is being targeted hardest. There are some other studios and owners that regularly get removed, T~M, B~dytorium, RFC~ub, BBAdditi~ns - but it seems like whenever they get SUPER over the top with reporting its like anything from that category that is recently uploaded. Even things that are already uploaded on site but not updated, or also placed in other categories.

I know DMCA requests with something like this are incredibly sensitive and not open for much discussion but I do hope some sort of strategy is considered.

@dilemmax That I have no idea of there are likely ways. I doubt most people posting OF dumps are doing that considering some people just post 3 singular images that aren't screencaps for like 40 gigs of videos.

OF doesn't add those automatically, RFC does and their videos aren't removed as fast as some recent fansite posts.

I'm not even sure it's the issue at all.

Digital prints are mainly for finding who uploaded them, not just general removal.
Additionally the file would need to be actually downloaded to use the finger print and the action would be banning that persons account.

The re-encoded videos I like are the ones that generally keep the quality and reduce the size. The ai enhanced upscaling is very hit or miss for retro videos but always cool to see for videos that don't have much bigger than like 480x480 around lol.

@krad3434 Not to double post, but its also incredibly obvious when its happening. Right now for instance, torrents from 5 days ago are able to be found in the fansite category on page one when it is EASILY the most uploaded to category.

@drekkin Makes sense, not hard to get a content match when there's the no obscuring the name rule + individual torrent pages being indexed by Google for whatever reason. I'd imagine they'd stick around if not for that.

@blablarg18 said in Vanishing torrents ...:

@eobox91103 ok I can't see a pattern.

Among those that vanished today:

• American BBC orgy bareback
• Hot hypno videos
• Horny Hung Straight Passenger Fucks Rideshare Driver

This morning they happened to be on the main page, ie. recent & popular.

None of them struck me as "studio porn" or especially copyrighted / defended.

I opened their tabs, got called away, came back hours later, they had vanished.

Whose torrents benefit, by staying up, when other torrents are disappeared?

Is hypothetical Censor Karen protecting a particular uploader or porn studio, by killing the competition - killing anything else that grabs people's attention?

There's hasn't been a pattern this time which is why everyone has been thrown off and suspicious its just a random member.

The freeleeches getting removed gave it away that they are just trimming off the top every few hours.

@dilemmax said in Vanishing torrents ...:

Whoever is uploading single OF scenes and giving it stupid names like "Beefy stud fucks again" need to stop! I am sick of begging people in the comment section to ID the guys in the videos.

People aren't going to put MORE effort into uploads that get deleted lol. This is about as good as it'll get sadly unless this ends.

Even when it comes to the massive deletions of torrents, its not ALL new ones, just usually the top of the list for a few for a hours a day. Sometimes freeleech torrents that are bumped to the top get caught up in it all.

@blablarg18 Sadly no normal members have all the answers.

We're just kind of watching it happen and all have our theories.

Unfortunately due to the nature of the site and these being (legitimate or not) DMCA claims we aren't really allowed in the "discussion". We just see the effects it has.

The freeleech being targeted is interesting and weird for sure.

Even with my ratio I had to giggle when I saw a 267 gig torrent uploaded. of course it was removed. I wanted some of it but no file naming, no thumbnails lol.

I'm guessing there's nothing to be done but hope the reporting dies down again, if not I guess just whatever files the reporters decide have the fortune of sticking around.

Another funny note, I do have the straight category on. if its MG i think it's being done through an account lol, because by default straight isn't on for every member.

There are full site rips of one of MGs biggest studios for the last 6 months just plainly there.

@dilemmax said in Vanishing torrents ...:

@krad3434 I beginning to this that the site has been giving a blanket takedown notice so mod(s) are just removing anything they come across?

There's a straight OF torrent that has been up longer than most OF torrents. You don't see it unless you have the straight torrent section unhidden.

It seems to be heavily based on day of the week and time of day when the take downs happen.

I can't seem to figure out if there was a giant blanket takedown notice given, but seeing as how freeleeches are being removed years later I figure the fansite category would just be removed with a new rule added if that were the case. This site does have a do not post list.

I have even with the massive seemingly random takedowns noticed proper dupes and rule breaks removed, but usually those pages mention where the other torrent is vs the "no longer available" the others say.

Keep in mind, the rapid takedowns we're mainly talking about aren't from some of the niche studios.
There are a handful of studios per category and clip sites that have ALWAYS taken their things down within a few hours and from ALL sites not just this one.

What we're talking about is a higher number of mass reports towards fansites that has grown into random take downs of anything new for 6-12 hour periods per day.

@therock07 Thanks for the data.

I'm guessing a lot of the reporting is offloaded to other companies. I think the days are inconsistent because a bunch of files were just removed and its Friday.

I imagine most of their work is for streaming sites, so its fascinating this one is targeted so much.

@2econdspark said in Vanishing torrents ...:

Ive actually been purposefully not mentioning the other sites so they dont have to go through this crap lol. I'm highly suspicious its a member. Even crawlers can't identify some of the files that are removed because now things that aren't just fansite uploads are being removed, and just as quickly.

That sites already way less active upload-wise, it couldn't possibly survive whatever is going on here.

And based on the take downs I've seen its not scanning the images because some people have simply just taken twitter profile images and not screenshots from OF videos and still gotten removed in minutes.

And that doesn't even speak to all of the non-OF videos that are also being removed at random due to being bumped to the top.