Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?
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.
It’s a paid service where you can enter a premium link or torrent link to it and it will generate a direct download link. This is very useful if you visit premium sites like Mega and RapidGator where if you don’t have an account, it enforces limits such as:
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<span style="color:#323232;">Slow download speed (e.g. max 1MB per second while downloading)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Maximum number of downloads per hour (e.g. 1 file per 5 hours)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">No resume support
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Unable to download if file is larger than a certain amount (e.g. no more than 5GB per file allowed for non-premium users)
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To add on, the real magic is in Kodi plugins (Umbrella, Ezra) that connect to your debrid account and let you stream any show/movie without you having to set up any *arrs. You basically get a Netflix UI, but with all the content.
Yeah, setting up the Servarrs (Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr) along with your bt client, then trawling opensignups to get onto private torrent sites.
I’m guessing he’s referring to r/opensignups but there’s probably a Lemmy community for it too
Anyway, these communities post updates when private trackers open up their registrations. These don’t happen regularly so it’s good to know when they open so you can register and access their content
Sorry, yes that’s what I meant. The idea is to create accounts on private trackers, and one way to do this is to wait for open signups (which I used to use on Reddit, not sure what the Lemmy equivalent is). As you amass them, you can just input them straight into Prowlarr. Then, when looking for something; say, music in Lidarr, it will search all the private trackers and hunt for albums from that band (or movie, or TV show). Just set the seeding ratio on your Tracker to a high enough number to satisfy all the private trackers and Bob’s your uncle!
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’.
Google searches show the DMCA takedown notices that list the sites that illegally stream content. It seems to me that if an interested party were to search for something on google and happened to see the DMCA take down notice, they might peruse that takedown request and see a number of sites that might illegally host such copyrighted content - so they know what sites to avoid of course.
If you prefer usenet, work your way into a few good private trackers. If you prefer torrents, get an invite to a couple of indexers. Backup methods are key to success.
Long answer: yes, but they are basically useless. Except for some indexers that cost money but also have a free plan where you are capped at like 5 downloads per day.
yt-dlp works great with Tubi. Some great shows on there like How It’s Made can be archived and viewed ad-free. The movies however are encrypted streams.
Lol, one time i forgot to disable one of my HD trackers in jackett, and when *arr scanned for any higher quality media, it downloaded like 130 torrents
You can also use ghe YaRSS2 plugin to monitor RSS feeds with torrent files/magnet links and have each rule downloads to a specific directory. Quite useful for TV shows.
Yandex is currently the best search engine for pirate stuff. You might need to change the language setting to only show english results, tho, as it gives preference to russian stuff.
If you’re on Windows, you can block any address “forever” by running Notepad as an admin and opening the file C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts
Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically “fail” to find the page. For instance, 0.0.0.0 www.whatever.com will completely block that domain. It won’t block www.whatever.co.uk or whatever.com, so you’ll have to add one line for each top level domain. It’s great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page)
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