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What is your go-to sites after torrentgalaxy went down? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I normally use usenet, but I use torrent as backup. I heard of https://ext.to/, what are other that are good?

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

How would I go about setting up cross seed

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

https://www.cross-seed.org/

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

1337x is still kicking.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This is the one for me too. And I'm sure I don't need to tell y'all, but ad blockers!!! Use them!!!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

I usually just get my torrents from archive.org... Am I pirating wrong?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

If you get what you want without getting viruses into your computer, no.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

https://rutracker.org/ works well

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I still use the pirate bay, is it not recommended?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I don't think it's really considered very safe anymore, although it is still very popular.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

torrent.one.pl have a list of public torrent sites. Updates are just in case. Maybe useful.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

What services people use to get informed what new movies and shows have come online? TorrentGalaxy had great listings.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think you’re looking for overseerr/jellyseerr which does exactly that. Radarr/sonarr also have recommendations but it’s not as sophisticated

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Man I really need to get into sonarr and radarr

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Hahaha, I just rip my music from deezer in flac, I just make a playlist in deezer and every ones in a while I sync that locally. Would be cool to be able to do that without deezer, but I doubt I can get it to work like a streaming service

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Good point, I actually don't know any sites like that for live action and movies, only anime ones like anichart.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

You can use any torrent client with search included. For example: qbittorrent, frostwire, etc...

Anyway check FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH! https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#torrent-sites

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Torrent Galaxy went down? My *arr stack runs around 25 different trackers. I don’t keep track of them all.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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:(

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

What i really miss is the hot picks and new section (even from rarbg). If someone has an idea for that i'm listening.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Any private torrent tracker worth their server hosting has a staff picks section.
What's in it depends on the goal/theme of the tracker

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I mainly use LimeTorrent and 1337x, I get 99% percent of my stuff from those two sites. Another one worth mentioning is DigitalCore Club. It's a private tracker, but it has open signups quite frequently. It doesn't actually have a ton of content on it, however it has a pretty good requests section. So if you can't find something anywhere you can try to ask for it there.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

DigitalCore Private trackers are a waste of time and money, piracy is about saving money and private trackers will nag you about not spending enough money and not using enough of your bandwidth and 99% of them don't have anything better than public trackers.