I would describe myself as a completely normal middle-aged man with a wife and 2 children, a dog and a few cats. I spend most of my free time with my family and a few very close friends.
No one really knew the extent of my mania until about 2 years ago. Exactly 2 years ago, a website that I visited several times a day disappeared. From work, from the couch with my family, yes everywhere, I secretly looked for torrents with quality. Quality of good films and nature films in Remux. If I didn't find it in Remux, I took the next best thing in 1080p quality.
For almost a decade I had found my dream place on the internet where I could find everything in one place. A torrent site that for me was the ultimate streaming service. But instead of WEB-DL quality I could watch TV series and movies in much better quality. I tried to contact my favorite site for a donation. I didn't get a response, but a message popped up on the site from time to time that they weren't accepting donations. I wondered then and still think about it today why they didn't accept payments or why they didn't start charging per month. An incredible number of people on the forum who were there would have immediately been able to pay $10 per month. Because the site itself was so easy to navigate and the design was good for the eye. The different uploaders each had their own category that was well organized. I found my over 1000 movies from mostly Japan and S Korea here with subtitles and fantastic quality. The amount of work these people behind the site put in was absolutely insane.
But one day in 2023, the site could not be reached. Thousands of people around the internet and Reddit were wondering the same thing. Has it been taken down by the big movie and gaming companies? No one knew what. The time between this and until we received a message about why, I was very restless and irritable. Family and people wondered. Then finally the news came. These enthusiasts who ran the site came from Ukraine and unfortunately some of their friends were victims of the Russian invasion and had been murdered. Therefore, they could not continue to run the site. Before this sad news, I was not that familiar with the Russian invasion. But then and there I started to hate Putin like the plague.
For 1 decade I had 2 archive systems. Our NAS system in the whole house and my other secret system with external Hard Drives that started with 4TB sizes up to 12TB before hell came to my everyday life. My mania for looking for quality and archiving disappeared that day. A while later I opened up to a friend and showed him my collection of of over 20 external hard drives. Hard drives that I uploaded files to the NAS so everyone had access to it. Now it has been about 2 years since this happened and looking for a similar torrent site simply did not exist. All popular torrent sites used the Ukrainian site to get the original quality and then make the files smaller for those people who may not have good or cheap internet.
FUCK PUTIN!
