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I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Using file hosters instead of Usenet, that's a Paddlin'. Using JD2 instead of PyLoad, that's a Paddlin'. Using a headless version of JD2, that's a Paddlin'. Using an overpriced RPI, that's a Paddlin'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes PyLoad better than JD2? Filthy JD2 user here.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Go through plex. Pay some guy to do your dirty work for you.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Also what's the safest/cheapest/possible free(?) VPN you can use to torrent? Thinking about doing that as Direct Download, while nice and more safe, can definitely be time consuming

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I've had minimal issues with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Mullvad is great

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I really want to thank you for this post, it opens up some long hidden secrets and gems inside the piracy world <3

I want to add something to this thread for my advanced pirates: irc xdcc chats for directly downloading content use http://sunxdcc.com to search for the content you are lookin for! (though, it's very manual)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not that advanced, but two things I found useful:

  • If you're in a country that blocks torrent websites but not trackers (eg. UK), visit the sites via Tor browser.
  • Rutracker.org and Rutracker.ru are surprisingly not blocked in the UK and have lots of good software. They're BBCode-style forums, so fairly obvious how to navigate/search them even if you don't speak Russian. If you want to read the description or comments of a specific torrent, pop the page into google translate.
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