That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site.
Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?
Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?
Currently they're NOT accepting donations.
Heck, even PostgreSQL's fulltext indexes would be faster than those Java monsters.
It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download links, I don't even know what is indexed", you have to deal with legal issues.
So, host your own locally or for your community. No big deal.
Even Google has to deal with DMCA!
Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.
If I put a sign on my house saying "please take anything you like" and people take stuff then it's no longer burglary. If someone else puts the sign up, who isn't authorised, then it is still theft.
Of course following that analogy through, if MPAA aren't authorised then any content owners should be able to successfully sue them for contributory infringement. People in the UK have been extradited for such things. Extradition of MPAA bosses for running a torrent site would be hilarious (but still wrong!).