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@raphd: Perhaps we can create a new board called "Transphobia" (perhaps a subset of "Politics and Debate?" for this kind of discussion.

@massafera There is another LGBT torrent site (something.org...I won't mention the name) that is not publicly accessible, and has lots of torrents from sources that send takedowns to gt.ru. As a member of that site I have no problem using it. Whatever they're doing should be done here.

Here's the solution:
Youtube Video

In honour of my mother:

Gezegende kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar!

No Other Land was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It was featured at many film festivals around the world, including several in Canada, but no distributor down in the US wanted to pick it up.

I have a good 1080i copy of it. It doesn't qualify as having a "gay theme" so I'm hesitant to upload it to this site, but I think it's worth watching. The file is about 2 GB and I can post a Dropbox link if people are interested.

It's a .mkv file with separate .srt files for English and Portuguese dialog.

@blablarg18 Once again we see the childish dynamic of, "If you can't discuss something rationally, call the other person names."

As for "comments of value," in this thread there are plenty from PedrocaWest...but replies to them are just old, worn-out copy/pastes from the Anti-Trans Playbook.

Here's an exercise for the reader: Do a search on "you" on this page in your browser. See how many times it shows up in the anti-trans replies? That's clear evidence that, when confronted with facts, the anti-transists simply start calling names. That makes a mockery of the forum--which should be about ideas, not personalities.

As the discussion above shows, this is a complex topic. I'll add a few of my own thoughts here.

As for underage material, as @bi4smooth points out, you can't simply look at a "model" and determine their age. While a pre-pubescent 10 year old would not be mistaken for an adult, someone who's 15 can look 20, and vice versa. It would be nice to be able to rely on a producer's certification of age-compliance, but this is not infallible. Some get it wrong, and some purposely misrepresent the facts.

Then, there's the issue of amateur material--anybody with a smartphone can make and post a video. There's no way to determine the age of the performers, and thus some sites will not host (or share) material that isn't from a commercial producer. There is amateur material on GR.ru, and it's possible that there are some underage performers. The moderators can't look at everything that's uploaded.

Part of amateur material is voyeur content--filmed in a locker room, shower, or over the divider of a toilet stall without the consent of the subject. These subjects could pursue both the person taking the photos and anyone possessing that material for an invasion of privacy--the usual norm being that photos or videos taken where a person has a "legitimate expectation of privacy" constitute such invasion. This gets further complicated given that there's no way to verify the age of a person being recorded in such circumstances. I have seen some toilet stall videos where I am less than convinced that the subject was 18 or over.

And finally, we need to distinguish age of consent from age of majority: In Canada, and most of the United States, it is legal to engage in sexual activity with someone 16 or 17 years old--but possessing a photo of that person's genitalia would be a crime.

One conclusion from all this is that each of us needs to use caution about what material we download and/or keep on our computer. Ultimately, it doesn't matter that you believe it's "legal" or can make an argument for that being the case, but rather it's what the legal system would think if you come under scrutiny. There have been cases where a person's computer or download records were seized for one reason or another, and when an investigator had reason to believe that there was banned material present, criminal charges were made. These might be later dismissed or acquitted, but only after considerable inconvenience and/or embarrassment. I don't say this to frighten people, but only to recommend that all of us be careful in what we do. Unless one is really into child (i.e., pre-pubescent) material, there's an abundance of clearly legal content available on this site that will be more than satisfying.

@lololulu19 said in Gay expectations:

OK... I WILL DO THAT. (I send the money).

P. T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute." With gullible chat consumers, it's probably every microsecond these days.

GIven that there are two "likes" thus far, here are the links:

Full .mkv file with original audio (Arabic and Hebrew), selectable English or Portuguese subtitles:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sr6aiytb6kx0iwv4k4f0b/No.Other.Land.2024.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC.mkv?rlkey=b38mun8nvblue7gqx09o3d4qk&st=p23edwbk&dl=0

This can be played directly in your browser, but you'll have better results downloading a local copy.

@GareMyster said in Copyright Infringement - Information:

I've read the rules over, and over, and over, but I don't find any rumors that these files are copyrighted, considering I've downloaded them elsewhere.
If you help me shed some light on the matter, I would be grateful, otherwise I find it difficult to download considering that (donors aside), considering that I should also upload my files.
I conclude by saying that I am very happy to share my files, but I find this unfair.

First off, thanks very much for sharing your material--that's what makes this site work, and I hope you continue to do so even if there are frustrations along the way.

As others in this thread have noted, pretty much everything here is copyrighted, and it's ultimately up to the copyright owner how much--or little--to enforce their copyrights. If something is posted on this site and someone can prove to the site owners that they own the copyright and want the material to be removed, the site will do that. There are some studios that are very vigourous about this. I won't mention their names, but some of them will make a take-down request within a few hours of something being posted. Other studios are more lax...in fact, I got a notice from the site that some material I uploaded was being removed some five years after it went up.

(The situation can get more complicated if the studio that produced the material no longer sells it--maybe they fired a model or their was some other legal issue. In that case, the studio is not losing any revenue by having their material on here for free, so they're less likely to ask for it to be taken down. They might even like to have it here, as advertising for what their studio produces.)

If you're uploading material from studios that ask the site to take down the material, I'd suggest that you keep doing so, because people who like that studio will probably keep an eye out for it and grab it quickly before it goes away. I also suggest uploading smaller torrents (i.e., one or two files) that users can fully download before the torrent goes away. A "mega-collection" of 50 GB will can leave people with a lot of incomplete files.

Again, thanks for your contributions, which make this an even better site.

@lololulu19 said in My position on torrenting gay porn.:

that person needs to disable their account and leave

Perhaps you could set a good example for us and do this yourself.

I have now blocked you from my forum display, so your frivolous and frustrated fecal foolishness will not tarnish my monitor.

If you look under "trackers," it probably says "unregistered torrent." This means that it's no longer in the system. Most likely it's been removed by staff, perhaps in response to a DMCA request, or maybe some other reason. In any event, it's dead. If you're still connected to another user you'll be able to exchange data for a while, but the tracker won't connect you to (new) other users.

@LordNemesis One big problem with huge torrents is that if they have content from a studio that is aggressive--and rapid--with takedown requests, it's possible that nobody will get even one completed file, even if s/he has only selected a few files from those available. The uploader thus gets seed credit, but downloaders can be left with nothing usable. I agree that some forced moderation here could be appropriate.

I share your dislike of unintelligible file names with no thumbnailing. This is inexcusable given the ease of solving this problem: I have a utility called "AMT Auto Movie Thumbnailer" (freeware available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that will make bulk thumbnail mosaics from a whole directory of videos--one can give it a whole folder of video files and it will produce a preview image for each one. These can be included in their own directory in a torrent so that downloaders can decide which--if any--video files they want to download.

I am confused, which is nothing new. I don't understand the original comment, with references to California, sobriety, and multiple accounts.

Perhaps you meant to make this a comment on a specific torrent? There's a box at the bottom of each torrent page for that.

@Xezak Welcome! I hope you enjoy being part of the site.

There are probably some specific help pages/comment threads that can answer your question in detail, and I'm sure another Gentle User will step in here and point you there.

For now, let's look at some very general concepts: None of the thousands (millions?) of videos or images featured on the torrent pages are stored by the gaytor.rent website. Instead, individual users (like me, and now you) have some of them on their computers. Think of this website as a "matchmaker," connecting your computer to other computers so files can be shared back and forth between users.

The small "torrent file" you've downloaded from this site isn't a video. It's sort of like a passport that lets your computer connect to the other users so that you can download video material directly from them, and then the video (a much larger file) will show up on your computer.

This requires having a software application running on your computer (a "torrent client") that does the actual connecting-to-others and sharing files. I'm afraid that I don't know anything about iPads, but other users here do and they can probably point you to a web page that has the directions you need. The setup can be tricky, but if you get stuck, don't be afraid to ask questions in the forum. All of us had to learn this stuff when we got started.

Good luck, and again, welcome!

@Rotron said in 1 Star Rating Troll:

downloaders know what they are downloading and they would only download ones that they want

Yes, that's the philosophy. I did a search for "boys love drama" and came up with 32 torrents that are probably yours--and a quick look at the page with some mental arithmetic shows that your torrents have been downloaded close to 500 times. This says a lot more about how much people appreciate your sharing than one angry troll.

That troll will be even angrier if he sees that all of those torrents now have an additional rating vote...for five stars. I wonder how that happened...

Please continue to share your material--many people appreciate it.

@andergarcia said in What kept you from completing suicide?:

@bc22

Had never thought of completing suicide... If I ever thought of that, I would just need to think of all the great people I have around me (my boyfriend, my parents, my brother, my closest friends...).

I had a boyfriend some years back who committed suicide. The wreckage that leaves among family and friends is overwhelming. I've had some dark times now and then, but I could never have my legacy be that kind of destruction.

Suicide is not a grand Shakespearean "to be or not to be" existential decision. It's about ending one's pain. But it doesn't solve anything--it's surrendering to the pain and darkness because one cannot see any alternatives.

I am not passing negative judgment on those who attempt/complete suicide--I still love my lost boyfriend very much. It is, though, tragic that he, and many others, did not see an alternative to resolving their pain.

@ikpooo When the torrent file is downloaded and running in your client (such as uTorrent or whatever you use), you can select some or all of the files that you want to download--just make sure it's in your torrent list, and it will probably say something like "connecting to peers" and show zero seeders.

It will not affect your ratio until someone responds to your reseed request. Once they do, the system will record how much you've downloaded from them. You won't get any upload credit, though, because those people who connected already have the files and it's unlikely that other people will hook up to an old torrent.

Downloading the torrent file and loading in your client will count against your limit for how many torrents you can download in a given day, as well as how many torrents you can have downloading at a time. (It counts as "downloading" even if there's nobody sending you data.) You can find the limits that apply to your account by going to https://www.gaytor.rent/rationator.php

Don't be discouraged: People do sometimes respond to reseed requests. If you're not having luck, though, I recommend against sending additional requests. If somebody got a request once and didn't respond, getting another one likely won't work.

Good luck!

@cinemacapman As I understand it, a new torrent is only a duplicate if there's an existing torrent "with at least one seeder." Duplicating a dead torrent with an identical new one is not a duplicate, if that terminology makes sense.

Uploading a new sort-of-duplicate-of-something's-that-dead has the advantage that it will show up at the top of the search listing, whereas resurrecting a dead torrent by re-seeding it will not. This will expose (!) the new torrent to users who have joined the site since the dead one was posted; such users might not have found the dead torrent otherwise.

I will occasionally upload a new torrent with older material if I think it's of significant value that might be overlooked by other people. I don't do this often, and again, only for something that I think would be of great value to people.

(Sometimes I also take older material and convert it from less popular formats like .flv or .rm, and/or join multiple smaller files into a single file. The torrents resulting from these things would not be considered duplicates even if the source torrents were still live.)

So, I don't think it's necessary to report a new torrent that replaces a dead one, even if the dead one is still in the system. A user could conceivably abuse this process* by uploading a bunch of new torrents, but if other users choose to download the material, perhaps it's a benefit rather than abuse.

• I tried hard to think of some quip connecting torrent abuse to self-abuse, but I couldn't. I need more coffee.

@cinemacapman said in covid vaxx don't stop covid, says NY Supreme Court:

no vaccine whether it's COVID or flu, etc., prevents you from catching it or getting sick. No vaccine actually kills a virus. It prevents you from becoming seriously ill, hospitilization, or dying. Your body's immune system eventually wears down the virus. You actually just naturally heal yourself. They've been saying this for a long time, and people still are stubborn about accepting what the COVID vaccine actually does. Yes, you can still catch and transmit the virus. The vaccine simply protects you and your health.

This is the medical fact, and that's what belongs in a Health and Fitness forum thread.

If you want to call people liars, spread conspiracy theories, or espouse "alternative facts," there's another forum board for doing that.