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Karagarga

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Karagarga
Karagarga's banner, featuring their mascot, a raven
Website type
Internet forum, file sharing
Websitekaragarga.in
RegistrationRequired; by invitation only

Karagarga ("black crow" in Turkish[1]), often abbreviated KG, is a members-only Internet forum, BitTorrent tracker, and file sharing archive used primarily for sharing and downloading films considered to be obscure or rare.[2][3] The website's community of members are dedicated to "creating a comprehensive library of arthouse, cult, classic, experimental and rare movies from all over the world."[4] Karagarga is closed to the public, and is accessible by exclusive invitation only.[2][3]

Karagarga's archive contains tens of thousands of films, many of which are unavailable for acquisition or viewing by other means.[2] Members are prohibited by the website's moderators from uploading films considered to be Hollywood (or Bollywood) productions or mainstream blockbusters.[2][3] The archive also contains books, magazines, albums and television series.[2] Beyond sharing media, members have also been known to create subtitles for films in languages not previously made available, such as English subtitles for a number of films by Iranian director Sohrab Shahid-Saless.[5] Subtitles may be requested by contributing ratio credit toward "pots", which is then given to any user who translates and uploads subtitles for the corresponding film.

References

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  1. ↑ ilXor.com
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Karagarga and the vulnerability of obscure films". National Post. July 3, 2015. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Jáuregui, Tania Tapia (January 7, 2019). "Forget Netflix: Inside the Forums Where People Share Obscure Pirated Movies". Vice. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  4. ↑ Balsom, Erika (2017). After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231176927. It is, however, possible to obtain a copy of Lovemaking if one has a membership to Karagarga, a private BitTorrent community devoted to 'creating a comprehensive library of Arthouse, Cult, Classic, Experimental and rare movies from all over the world.'
  5. ↑ Fatehrad, Azadeh, ed. (2020). ReFocus: The Films of Sohrab Shahid-Saless: Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image. Edinburgh University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1474456395.
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