Scarywater anime tracker shutting down March 12th

[relic2279]

http://a.scarywater.net/

Due to my lack of time and money to keep maintaining this site, it will be shut down by March 12, 2010.

It has been a good ride, but all things must come to an end -- and seven years, in internet time, is very close to an eternity.

Thank you all for putting up with me for all these years, and special thanks to jaf, who is the only reason this site is still operational, since he has been running it day-to-day for a long time.
A debt of gratitude is also owed to Swift Communications who, by providing a server free of charge, have halved the monthly costs for several years as well -- the remaining server is rented from ThePlanet, at $189/month. Ads alone have not been paying for that server for quite a while, but thank you for putting up with them nonetheless :-)

I should list many, many more people, and I should give much, much more text here. Alas I would surely forget some even then. So to all those who I have not mentioned, thank you. Also a big thank you to all who have donated over the years, however large or small a sum it may have been.

If you need to talk to me, please drop me a line.

--mxs

 

[Havoc10K]

too bad, even tough l don't think l ever used them, too bad nonetheless.

[Sosseres]

too bad, even tough l don't think l ever used them, too bad nonetheless.

I used them quite a bit since live evil and several other groups used it as their torrent platform.

I recall taking 3 weeks downloading a 200 mb torrent from there once, was a few years ago though, so connections weren't what they are today.

[nstgc]

God damnit! Now I'll have to leech like made to get live evil's crap.

People who say they don't use scary water may not notice it, but if you use an indexing site, it will download the torrent from SW without taking you to the site. So, even if you think you aren't using them, chances are you are.

[Stsin]

When I started, much of my anime was from Scarywater, since it was used by many fansubbers.
But they remove licensed material (US), so I can see why it's dying off.

Another part of anime fansub history being laid to rest.

[nstgc]

Its not the only place that doesn't allow licensed material.

[Takeshi]

Its not the only place that doesn't allow licensed material.

AnimeSuki?

[mgz]

sucks to see em go but its not like they are BEING shutdown so i guess thats good.

[nstgc]

Its not the only place that doesn't allow licensed material.

AnimeSuki?

I haven't been there in years. Maybe I should, now that they are being brought up.

[DaggerLite]

too bad, even tough l don't think l ever used them, too bad nonetheless.

How could you have not ever used them? Oo I haven't been into anime all that long, and a lot of renowned fansubs use this tracker. Perhaps not explicitly linking their .torrents there, but using the tracker at least. 12/3 2010 will be a sad day :(

[Stsin]

Its not the only place that doesn't allow licensed material.

AnimeSuki?

Of course, it's not the only one.  Back then, the majority of the good fansubbers stopped when their show got licensed.  So that tracker fits their bill.  Unlike today, why other trackers are used instead.

Btw, can get licensed shows from AS, that is if willing to use eMule.

And here's a list of all those that used it:  http://a.scarywater.net/

[manganime02]

Thats bad news, not that I make much use of it anymore but it was a popular resource of mine years ago when I was fresh to torrents still using clients like Bittorrent + ABC.

[BakaBT]

Originally posted by Malus:

Would be cool if they released a batch of their DB, code and torrents ... maybe someone out there might be interested in continuing where they left off.

[Lupin]

Would be cool if they released a batch of their DB, code and torrents ... maybe someone out there might be interested in continuing where they left off.

http://mastercj.net/blog/e/26/Scarywater_Closing_Shop/

[MasterCJ]

Would be cool if they released a batch of their DB, code and torrents ... maybe someone out there might be interested in continuing where they left off.

http://mastercj.net/blog/e/26/Scarywater_Closing_Shop/

1 step ahead of you Malus

[relic2279]

1 step ahead of you Malus

Thanks for the service you've provided up till this point. It's probably not as appreciated as much as it should be, but know some of us do appreciate.

猫に小判   (old Japanese proverb)

[MasterCJ]

Thanks for the service you've provided up till this point. It's probably not as appreciated as much as it should be, but know some of us do appreciate.

No problem, I'm glad someone is getting use out of it. Good to see that it's reaching its intended audience .

猫に小判   (old Japanese proverb)

I've always found that one to be pretty harsh .

(click to show/hide)

For those that don't know, it says "neko ni koban", which translates to "gold coins to cats" (koban were a type of coin back in ye olde nippon days). Basically it refers to the fact that even though you can be offering something really useful and full of worth to someone(s), they mightn't be "refined enough" (might be too durr retarded) to realise.

SOUNDS ABOUT PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR BXT AMIRITE.

inb4 me being banned :trollface: