skullxdcc requires no VPN
nor does i2p
I never use a vpn with torrents. Private trackers in my experience have been enough to be fine. The only times in 20 years of torrenting tons of shit I’ve gotten isp letters were once I downloaded a Pokémon rom from a pubic tracker, which was stupid, and once I had a roommate that downloaded some shitty movie from a public tracker
Alternatively usenet
I’ve always found private trackers to be almost unusably bureaucratic
Yup, same. Your options are usually either “pay for fake ratio bonuses” or “seed dead torrents for six months in order to get enough time credit to convert into ratio.” If you’re trying to chase the freeleech tags, then you’ll never hit decent ratios because now you’re seeding a torrent that has 1000 other seeds and only 5 leeches.
And if you have to pay for fake ratio to get started, just fucking pay for Usenet and skip the hassle instead.
There’s an easy solution to that.
Seed something yourself.
Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn’t already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.
'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn’t already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.
Some yes, but some no. A few I’ve been on are downright absurd in how most of the things are free.
I agree about not having to pay etc too.
I suspect I’ve just gotten lucky but several of the trackers I’ve found are easy to just let the ARRs do their thing.
Cross-seed is a big part of being able to sustain on mediocre upload. Download a torrent on one site but get credit on 7 different sites.
Alternatively many sites offer infinite download if you have a certain total size of torrents available. (Sometimes together with a account age requirement too). So get a permanently online torrent client (mini pc, seedbox, vps, etc) and you’re set on those sites.
IPtorrents is the best. You should try to keep a 1:1, but you just have to seed for 2 weeks, and you get points for 15 torrents to use as upload credit, even if you don’t upload a single byte. I’ve never had to think about my ratio.
But neither has the speed or selection that regular torrenting with VPN has at the moment.
dcc is blazing fast. I get the full DL in like 5 mins
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Fair enough, I mostly have experience with i2p which was a pretty bad experience.
- Fmovies
- 1flix
+ uBlock Origin
And the uBlock Origin is mandatory. The ads on those sites are insane
Here’s a great resource for sites and a rating system with explanations for each site
And if you want to explore more of the site there’s other resources for other media, and a guide to help protect you’re privacy
Ublock still mandatory on any site there, they don’t hold responsibility for the ads those sites allow
At this point, I can say I’ve literally waited decades for movies to show up on streaming. I remember Office Space and They Live not being anywhere for years. Those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Using VPN for torrents? Laughing in Brazilian
Even here in the heart of Europe, Denmark, there’s not many that really care enough unless you run your own tracker. Back in the day with CD’s and DVD’s it was a lot worse though, because it’s obviously easier to catch someone when there’s physical media involved.
Technically its illegal in New Zealand (after the great John Key and The Hobbit saga) but the ISPs don’t give a shit. Never used a VPN and only got one letter just after the law took effect. Nothing since. So many people here do it it’s unenforceable.
I think it’s also technically illegal in Australia but because the rights holders can only come after you for the retail cost of whatever was pirated it’s functionally legal. the MPAA would rather sue a kid in the US for hundreds of millions than one in Aus for $14.95.
How about you Prime Video subscription?
Yes, we have it
Great! Let’s watch
You have to pay £12.99 for it
What? I already pay you monthly! Why?!
Because fuck you.
That’s for things that aren’t on Prime but are available on Amazon
Yes, that’s the point being made. One could already paying for a Prime membership, yet still needs to pay more money for shows that should already be included in said Prime membership.
Except they aren’t because rights don’t work like that. Not all rights holders want to enable streaming following those guidelines, but might wanted a fixed price per view
How’s that boot taste?
Are you fine with being a moron or does that bother you?
You ran out of arguments so now you’re personally attacking me. Pathetic.
No point in arguing, since you clearly don’t understand the real issue at hand.
Bootlicker.
To fucking rent it at that.
Same with Apple TV. They are both a subscription and a rental.
Corporate spit roasting! Nice.
Even the stuff that prime has available. I still torrent, just because their player is pure garbage (the X-ray thingy is a nice feature, tho)
yep. I no longer pay for prime, but in the last few months of having it, I just torrented it anyways. whoever designed that app for the Apple TV should be forced to use it for 2 years straight
Oh it’s utter garbage, it straight up doesn’t work in Firefox. I’m not going to switch to Chrome just to use the app I shouldn’t have to.
Kodi + The Crew + Real Debrid + daddy live
Fuck cable
Fuck real debrid
What do you suggest? I’m just going by whats worked for me so far. I was thinking of trying some other services but if it works for me I’m kinda ambivalent.
I’m on premiumize.me since the debrid debacle last year. Has been working great
I was thinking about trying them. I’m trying to create the best experience for my parents so anything that makes it quicker or easier for them to access content the better.
Any suggestions for add-ons?
So, I don’t use Kodi and use stremio instead, but with stremio, the main addon is torrentio. There are others, but idr them off the top of my head and that’s the go-to.
As far as premiumizeme vs debrid, it was basically a drop-in replacement. Just had to update the “provider” and the api key in the config.
Replace torrenting with usenet, but absolutely yes.
better value than streaming? yes
better value than free? debatable
I mean I pay like…$15/yr which isn’t bad and I can nearly cap my 5gbit line and not have to deal with seeding.
Since the whole tariffs thing lead to boycotting of many American products, visiting the nearest version of Tortuga is downright patriotic
so there is this movie which is too niche, not available for purchase and no seeder :(
Always a terrible feeling
Search soulseek with a “ .mkv” at the end (note the space)
Why the space?
So that the name doesn’t have to squeeze itself too much, give it some space, duh. /j
In case you only want to search partial titles to find multiple movies
Ex: Spider-Man .mkv
Ernest .mkvOr because show titles will usually have episode titles after them
… I guess it’s not a requirement
Local library, local thrift store, 2nd hand websites… If it was ever published on VHS, DVD, … chances are it’s out there somewhere
Operation sandman - cannot find anywhere for the last few years, Usenet, torrents, vhs/dvd, anything
Somebody put it on Dailymotion.
But it needs fixing. It’s split in 2 almost 1 hour parts, the part 2 ends around minute 38, then loops around back to start after credits. The image is mirrored (flipped), but the 2 parts seem continuous (nothing missing).
But I haven’t watched all of it.
I don’t think I can directly link pirated stuff here, so the titles are “Operation Sandman 2000 TVRip avi Pt 01” and “Operation Sandman 2000 TVRip avi Pt 02” uploaded in 2018.
Wow, you are my absolute hero. Thank you so much for this, and for the perfect explanation. I can’t believe I didn’t find this earlier and I’ve been trying for more than a decade! Some safe copies live with me now. I really can’t thank you enough!
There are at least three VHS copies on ebay right now that I found pretty easily. Radarr found it on rutracker for me as well (though it looks like it might be dubbed).
edit: yeah it’s dubbed
I had tried an eBay seller a couple years back and they actually ended up refunding me after a month saying their listing was old and they didn’t have it anymore, after that I didn’t bother with eBay but thank you for pointing this out. I’d try again but another great human being has found a vhs rip on daily motion in another comment…
What movie?
For me it was Not4Sale - TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies. I actually bought the DVD from OtherCinema, maybe the only movie I’ve ever bought. I don’t think you can even buy it anymore.
And you ripped and shared it, right?
Try fmhy.net.
I feel your pain
With Radarr, Sonarr, and Plex, I get a better TV and movie service than anything I could pay for. I can afford to pay, and I would, but they won’t offer anything reasonable. I ditched Netflix years ago when they removed the rating system to promote their low quality schlock. They kept removing content. Content would auto-play. Discovery broke as they kept trying to make me watch things I didn’t want to watch. If they make their products worse, and keep charging me more every year, they shouldn’t be surprised when I leave.
I don’t think you can even get a service as good as the Arrs if you’re rich and have insanely expensive stuff like Kaleidescape.
Same. I signed up for Netflix when they came to Canadas in 2010. Immediately had to start using proxies/vpn to access US Netflix since Canada’s selection was broiled ass.
By 2013 there was news of Netflix talking of blocking non-US users from accessing US Netlix. Immediately cancelled, spun up my Plex server. 30TB later and I got 18 friends off of all their streaming services too lol
Pro-tip: Plex is slowly enshittifying, a good open source alternative is Jellyfin.
Can you import watched status and progress?
Strongly agreed, from the owner of a dust covered lifetime Plex Pass.
Even if we eliminate all the other reasons you might not want to use Plex or might want to use FOSS, just the performance and UI responsiveness alone makes it worth the switch.
And I do have some non-techy family that watches remotely on smart TVs and uses phone apps.
Jellyfin is literally all I watch not to mention the BEST alternative to all the centralized AD riddled garbage (Now in forced foreign languages) ‘Tubi, Pluto, Prime Video’! Crazy cause being a “Prime” member isn’t enough nowadays cause they want you to DOUBLE Pay on top of a Membership Subscription to remove ads which is sooo counterintuitive?!
Straight out of that (Black Mirror) episode called (Common People) Season 7 Episode 1… Predictive Programming at it’s finest.
Plex is still MUCH easier to share with my friends and family. I’ll be sticking with Plex until the UX on Jellyfin is comparable. Also Plexamp is the best music app I have ever used. It’s unbelievably good. Also Plex has more features like the ability to download and select new subtitles on the fly, and consistent skip intro functionality across all apps on all devices.
It also harvests lots of data. Check your firewall logs.
Remote viewing in Jellyfin requires significantly more work from me as the server admin, but it is just as easy for the remote viewing clients. I don’t have to do any first-time setup for them. I recommend an app or two for the media type they’re using, and all they need is URL, login, password.
On UX, Plex is more full-featured I’m sure, but the performance is so much better on Jellyfin that it quickly overrode any feature concerns I may have had.
And being FOSS, there’s some nice diversity in client apps. I use Finamp for music and really like it. There’s Plappa for audio books too. And for basic viewing there are multiple choices. I think I use Streamyfin because it supports downloads.
Remote viewing in Jellyfin requires significantly more work from me as the server admin, but it is just as easy for the remote viewing clients. I don’t have to do any first-time setup for them. I recommend an app or two for the media type they’re using, and all they need is URL, login, password.
Thanks for your suggestion. I spent some time investigating this to see how feasible it would be. I have my own domain and static IP, so setup on my end would be pretty straight forward. Users would need to enter my domain:port on first login, but I could walk them through that. I’m going to give it a shot and see how practical it is. If the performance is better, as you say, then it probably trumps those features you mention. With the exception of subtitles for me and the family. We use subs most of the time and need on-demand selection. Automated subs are very hit or miss.
It’s also disappointing to hear the Jellyfin app doesn’t support downloads but I guess if Streamyfin is available on all the platforms then I could just use that.
I tried Finamp and the UI is very not good on iOS. It also lacks a lot of features compared to Plexamp.
I know, for some features Plex is better, and for a very few features Plex will always be better because it’s centralized. Jellyfin, being self-hosted, doesn’t have an easy way to share and combine libraries from multiple users, and no single “login” page like Plex. This may be annoying for users, but we know all the problems that centralization comes with.
But this makes me think about the fediverse. What if Jellyfin servers could federate with each other? I wonder if anybody is working on such a project.
Edit: okay, apparently I found this feature request on the Jellyfin features tracker.
I dont even try at this point. 11 dollars for shit I dont wanna watch, and there’s ads anyway? Yeah, no, I’m getting in the boat.
Really wish I knew about Jellyfin 5 years ago. So much of my money I could’ve redirected to a seedbox or a decent vpn service. Fuck streaming services
Just got mine set up this weekend, really works a treat! Utterly painless. Even put the client on the Roku I apparently don’t own, hope the pricks somehow notice lol
And then they only deliver up to 720p because your device hasn’t been blessed by capitalism
Not just for the high seas. “Noah, get the boat”… for video streaming because that’s beyond redemption.
For English content, torrents are great.
But I’ve been having much better luck finding Spanish content on streaming sites, instead of torrent sites, and then downloading. See Guides for downloading streams.
The The Stream Detector is great!
The usual suspects for modern stuff is easy to find in Germany.
What becomes difficult is getting older or obscure stuff (like the Pokémon show) in a decent enough quality.Recently ordered the first season dvd box to trial the ripping process as most of the stuff I found is either incomplete (missing entries) or not up to quality (mixing audio segments between english/german or leaving out the intro/outro)
Don’t forget to seed your rips!
Assuming they are worth it (quality wise), I will.
pay for prime video or whatever. $2.99 or something i don’t know what it costs i don’t actually do this
30 minutes in and the resolution changes to 480p because my internet is shit and it’s streaming
no thanks
My internet is fine win any other streaming service. Prime streaming is the worst one out of all the major streaming services. Which is fucking weird considering Netflix runs on AWS.
Even with good internet if you’re watching on the wrong device (desktop/media center PC) your stream will get bitrate locked to a 720p equivalent or whatever because of DRM bullshit.
Yes. This was what made me stop paying for streaming.
Yes, I guess, as a Linux user I could probably steal their stuff more easily than some others. (?) Or maybe just because I know how my computer works.
But - I have better things to do with my time.
I have indicated this to the streaming providers, using money, which I paid them, each month.
I believe that this is an easy way to tell me apart from pirates, who I understand did not pay for the streaming services each month.
But since the streaming services stopped delivering quality working streams to my devices, I no longer pruchase their streaming services.
Now I am enjoying my ancient DVD and VHS collection until streaming services stop sucking.
