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RARBG, one of the most popular torrent websites for getting high-quality versions of movies and TV shows, suddenly shut down its website today. It had been running since 2008, but apparently, a number of factors caused the people behind the site to close its virtual doors.

Right now, the RARBG site only has this brief and fairly rambling message. It describes the reasons for the site's closing:

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Vice reports that the RARBG site had over 40 million visitors in April 2023, according to the website analytics tool Similarweb. Torrent Freak ranked it as the fourth biggest torrent site back in January 2023.

The shutdown was certainly sudden but not surprising. It's not a secret that hosting costs and energy costs have gone up worldwide overall and in Europe specifically. What was a bit surprising was that hearing some of the site's team members had passed away due to COVID-19, and that others on the team were hit with the same virus and suffered long term effects.

While the site's shutdown was a surprise, it seems likely that some of the other remaining higher end torrent sites will get some traffic spikes for a while.

It's a pity, I found releases there that were nowhere else

Specifically those FGT r4eleases and PROPER re-encoding of movies

I will really miss them, every time I needed a hard to get file, 9/10 times RARBG would have it.

Originally Posted by BibiJooger

I will really miss them, every time I needed a hard to get file, 9/10 times RARBG would have it.

That's true. Happened with me many times. Didn't find in other tracker & found in a public tracker named RARBG!

Hi, any alternative?

Recomand.... www.torlock.com

Used RARBG frequently before I started with private trackers. Comments on the top torrents were hilarious. Made up for a bummer mood. I will miss it a lot!

Alternatives for those that ask are 1337x, TorrentGalaxy, EZTV, GloTorrents and ohh forgot about Lime as well.