I normally use usenet, but I use torrent as backup. I heard of https://ext.to/, what are other that are good?
https://rutracker.org/ works well
1337x is still kicking.
I still use the pirate bay, is it not recommended?
I don’t think it’s really considered very safe anymore, although it is still very popular.
Safe about what? I get movies all the time and they are… movies?
If you download games and executable files, you’re an idiot, but it’s been like this for more than 20 years.
I wouldn’t say downloading games is Inherently unsafe you just need to be careful and download from reputable groups. It is also possible especially craft in movie files such as .mkv to be malicious, also don’t forget that the ads in some torrent sites are malicious.
https://www.broadcom.com/support/security-center/attacksignatures/detail?asid=24357
1337x.to has treated me well for the past few years. I love the active comment sections. It’s just like TPB was in the early days.
If your ISP is blocking this website, set a DNS in windows to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare), 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 (Google), 9.9.9.9 (Quad9), https://www.dns0.eu/, or DNS4EU.
Yes, blocking certain sites is done in the Netherlands, due to Stichting BREIN using/abusing our legal system. Nobody likes them, but it is what it is.
PS: I’m using rargb, since it hasn’t been blocked (yet - BREIN has to sue per website being blocked).
This is the one for me too. And I’m sure I don’t need to tell y’all, but ad blockers!!! Use them!!!
1337x.to works well too. If you use a website translator, like Firefox Translate, rutracker is great too.
Otherwise, private torrent sites (e.g. TorrentLeech) are the best addition to Usenet.
Keeping ratio is pretty easy if you set up Cross-Seed. It finds torrents matching your local files (e.g. Usenet downloads) and adds them to your torrent client without using additional space or downloading them again.
What benefits does Usenet have over Debrid? I’ve been meaning to try it for years, but after finding out about Debrid services, I don’t see the point when I can have a 1Gbps direct download to any torrent I want, without having to rely on seeds.
Honestly I just got a few fresh free-leech torrents a while back, seeded them for a week, and built up enough surplus to not have to worry about ratio for the foreseeable future
Yes. If you’ve got enough buffer anyway there’s not much reason to set up Cross-Seed.
Depending on the tracker this can work better or worse. E.g. I was on a tracker with minimal free leech content, so Cross-Seed helped me a lot.
How would I go about setting up cross seed
It takes a bit of time and careful reading until it’s set up.
For matching existing data you need to set up dataDirs and partial matchMode. Ideally your local files are organized (e.g. TRaSH guide) to improve cross-seeds ability to find matches. If you need help there’s a Discord linked on their website.
torrent.one.pl have a list of public torrent sites. Updates are just in case. Maybe useful.
Qbittorrent + search plugins is the way to go:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins
Or Real-Debrid instead of Qbittorrent if you don’t mind paying ~$3/mo USD for the convenience of 1Gbps download speeds and no seeders to rely on.
What do you use to search RD with?
I usually just get my torrents from archive.org… Am I pirating wrong?
If you get what you want without getting viruses into your computer, no.
What services people use to get informed what new movies and shows have come online? TorrentGalaxy had great listings.
Good point, I actually don’t know any sites like that for live action and movies, only anime ones like anichart.
Sonarr and Radarr can do this for you. If you have a movie or show that you are interested in that hasn’t released yet you can add it to the list and the program will automatically grab it from your preferred torrent site and download it for you as soon as the file is available.
It’s really nice when I forget that I added something and then six months later I see that it’s been downloaded automatically and is ready to watch.
Here’s the problem though, I don’t even know what I should be looking for. I liked to be surprised whatever new came up. Also I liked that there was a new bluray rip of an old movie I wanted to watch but had forgotten about.
In other words I don’t have a full list of everything I’m expecting to watch one day. It was so easy to just open up TG once a day and browse the posters they had up and decide then and there if whatever looks interesting.
Man I really need to get into sonarr and radarr
It’s so worth it. I spent many years pirating stuff manually by downloading the torrent file, adding it to my torrent program, unzipping it, and using a file browser to select game.of.thrones.s01e01.1080p.proper.webrip.whatever.fuckme.mkv. One day I was like fuck it, we’ll do it live and I dove into the whole plex/sonarr/radarr/jackett thing and it streamlined the piracy problem to the point that I very rarely even have to do anything beyond opening up a web browser and typing the name of whatever I’d like to have added to plex and the rest just happens automatically.
It grabs only the torrents in the language you specify with exactly the bitrate and resolution you specify, it unzips stuff and puts it in a correctly named directory with organized filenames and grabs the movie posters and thumbnails. I almost never even have to log into my torrent site. I usually only go there so my account doesn’t get disabled for not logging in frequently enough.
As a bonus sonarr and Radarr have a calendar page so you can see when the stuff you want is expected to air in the future.
As a bonus sonarr and Radarr have a calendar page so you can see when the stuff you want is expected to air in the future.
Dude that’s a killer feature. Right now I just use the qbittorrent built in search function, which works fine to be honest. But having it automated (with automated renaming of files?) Would be so much better, although I might need more storage then
I just started recently. Piece of piss to set up and yes more storage is needed in the near future because i started to grab music as well (although recent events have slowed this). 8tb only goes so far…
Oof, I have 2tb of storage in my pc right now lol. I’ll keep ripping my music manually as I’m quite particular with the music I download anyways
I kinda went crazy and thought I’d grab every artist I liked and the whole discography (even if I only liked one track) in FLAC. Big stress test on the old rpi2 with 100s of concurrent downloads.
How about all of them in one?
You can use any torrent client with search included. For example: qbittorrent, frostwire, etc…
Anyway check FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH! https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#torrent-sites
Torrent Galaxy went down? My *arr stack runs around 25 different trackers. I don’t keep track of them all.
How did u find 25 public trackers that aren’t blocked by cloud flare?
Flamesolverr still works. Not consistently, but it mostly still works.
25 private + public trackers.
Ratio is 5:1 for me
I started getting most of my definitely public domain stuff from TorrentLeech when TG started having issues. Keep an eye out for an open signup. The rest comes from RuTracker, 1337x and The Pirate Bay.
Only thing I specifically used TG for was comics, as that’s the site GetComics had their comic packs on, but since they went down they seem to just be self-hosting their torrent files. Anything else I download I usually run through Prowlarr and search a dozen or two public trackers at a time lol.
Fuck a duck. This is always how I find out about shit like this. Damnit. I was all ready and have time now to do my yearly summer download spree…
I guess 1337x?
Edit: Added the soundbyte that expresses my frustration:(
