TNTvillage

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TNTvillage
URL http://tntvillage.scambioetico.org/
Status Offline
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

TNTvillage was an Italian association and forum which collected releases, distributed via torrents and its own trackers, mostly for out of commerce works (hence the name "scambio etico", ethical swapping).

2019 announcement

In April 2019, an interview to Luigi Di Liberto spread the news about legal issues faced by the founder of TNTvillage. Later he announced the official disbanding of the association and impending shutdown of the website. On 2019-09-01 the following announcement replaced all pages:

TNT is closed

EN: Unfortunately due to Di Liberto's decision, not attributable to our will and with extreme regret, we inform you that the site and the forum are closed.

If you are a geek, you may be interested in downloading THIS.

IT: Purtroppo su decisione di Di Liberto, non imputabile alla nostra volontà e con estremo rammarico, vi informiamo che il sito e il forum sono chiusi.

Se sei uno smanettone, potresti essere interessato a scaricare QUESTO.

— TNT Team

Mirrors

All of the (release?) topics in the forum appear to have been preserved in the months before the shutdown via the wayback machine live web save page now feature. (The URLs are referenced in the README of the dump above as well.)

Some code was available at https://github.com/tntvillage

Several partial mirrors and search engines for the list of releases have been announced on Reddit, including:

Internet Archive copy

Users are uploading torrents to the Internet Archive various collections: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22TNTvillage%22&sort=-publicdate (an example script is available, less than 200 lines of code).

The Internet Archive items will need former TNTvillage users to re-seed the torrents they had previously downloaded (with the same torrent file or info_hash) in order to complete their download.