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Looks like a great replacement for rats on the boat.

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Cinemaz opens its doors pretty regularly and has quite a bit of rare content.

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Bitsearch.to lets you upload anything, and its searched by jackett. Same with the sister site solidtorrents.to. Solid actually has a python plugin for qbittorrent so its even easier to search/discover.

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I just want to chime in here to mention its a bit of a pain in the ass to set up soulseek to use a vpn. It needs 2, and unless you use nicotine, you need to have 2 consecutive ports, and afaik theres only one vpn that offers that. You also have to make sure that you allow it through your firewall on both private and public connections. Even after going through all that trouble, some users on soulseek ban VPN IP’s. I’ve only encountered one user doing this so far, and they were a super prick about it.

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With video content, most sd copies are very much at risk. DVDRip, VHSRip, VCDRip, VODRip and HDTV/SDTV stuff. In general though, most anything uploaded before 2016 that isn’t a yify rip barely has any seeds these days.

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Search for DVDRip, filter by upload date and check for ones that aren’t well seeded. See if you can find ones that don’t have any other rips available, and seed whatever looks at-risk. Godspeed!

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Theres r/trackersignups and the telegram channel r/opensignups migrated to of the same name.

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Try searching it on telegram for the one with the deluge icon.

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Sonarr and Radarr actually take a bit after the initial upload to discover it, autobrr can grab quicker because it relies on the irc announce channel of the tracker.

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I found an optimized ini file on nexusmods that has the game running real well and still looking pretty good. Good lord though yeah the performance is awful.

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When avistaz opens, they usually also open their sister site animetorrents.me

Having a hard time settling on a VPN

I torrent (on the same PC that I run a Plex server from), but also auto connect on my devices whenever I’m on public wifi, so speed and avoiding blocks/captchas is also important. From what I understand having port forwarding will make a big difference in my torrent transfer speeds and ability to connect to peers....

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Had no idea they limit new users to 5 ports now. I only singed up a couple months ago, guess I got in just in the nick of time!

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Since mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore, you’ll want to split tunnel it outside of the vpn. However, if you’re considering switching vpn’s at all, airvpn has a dynamic dns service (and port forwarding) which you can set up to have a static url for your jellyfin.

Just be sure to enable the DLNA server and allow remote connections in the jellyfin settings either way.

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So it seems like if you burn the files to a cd with itunes and re-rip the cd (ideally with something like exact audio copy) you can get a drm free version. There might be a way you could write it to an iso with a virtual cd drive with virtual burning capabilities, which it seems like the ‘ultra’ version of daemon tools has. Not sure on a free option, other than pirating daemon tools. There probably is a free alternative though.

That sounds like an insane amount of trouble to go through, so unless you want to do all of that for the experience, just redownload drm-free files with soulseek or something.

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The really cool thing about airvpn imo is that it has dynamic dns built in, so you can have a relatively stable url to connect to any service you’re hosting, like jellyfin or qbittorrent webui to connect to from outside your lan.

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Lots of crossover between 4chan and the general piracy community. First place I actually heard about soulseek was on the 4chan music board. I don’t really go there anymore. So yeah, its 4channers thinking they’re in good company.

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Frankly I’ve grown tired of that attitude towards online things, that toxic and hateful behavior should just be something thats expected on the internet. Granted, I’ve done my time in places like 4chan and am completely able to tune it out. I shouldn’t have to bathe myself in that toxic environment just to be able to participate in an online space though. This blase attitude from the neutral online that “its the internet, what did you expect” is precisely what allows fascist and xenophobic communities to grow and thrive unchallenged. I’m just tired of the bullshit. So tired.

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Hey man, I don’t want to see the internet become sanitized either. I just don’t think hate should get dismissed as “the internet being the internet”. Also, I hope you don’t assume I’m a communist or something, tankies are just Nazis with a red coat of paint.

Speaking of nazis, my mistake in assuming you were relatively neutral.

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Does the server ping keep disappearing for you too?

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.sfv is a text file that lists the crc32’s (hash) of the scene release rar files to verify if they are broken/modified in any way. They can sometimes have ascii art in them, or vague info on what topsite the release last went through, but thats rather rare these days. .srr files are created by a program called PyReScene which records exactly how a scene release is rar’d, and with what winrar version to re-create the original release format (rar’d) at a later date. Super useful program for reseeding and cross seeding stuff.

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Oh, and if you start out with the unpacked files, but don’t have a srr file to re-scene them, you can probably find one by searching the release name on srrdb.com. Mileage may vary though.

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felt like banging my head against a brick wall explaining to that sub multiple times a week that you have to create firewall rules and hosts file entries to stop those popups.

Any torrent sites with relatively lax sign up/upload rules? Or some place to easily upload torrents

I’ve been thinking about putting some stuff that I can only find on direct download sites up as torrents, but most places I can access either have fake sign up/login links, or have very strict rules, like torrentgalaxy requiring at least 5 uploads per month for 3 months

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They did take down the offending torrent, though.

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Honorable mention to Rats on the Boat, a p2p torrent search engine which will let you upload whatever torrent you wish, which then propagates to other peers.

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From my understanding, peer trackers don’t really have a way of differentiating what torrents they are added to.

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Yeah, pretty much. Just as long as it doesn’t have the previous trackers tracker url, and ideally have it generate a different infohash.

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Personally I like this one. Has 24 hours freeleech on all new torrents, and a reseed request system open to everyone on the site (2nd rank & above maybe, can’t remember for sure) makes it pretty easy to build ratio by cross-seeding if you can find whats missing (PyReScene with srrdb.com helps out a lot here) Smaller community size makes it a bit easier to get upload on a residential connection. Its mostly a scene focused tracker, so expect release rar’s with most torrents. Lots of gems on there though.

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usually just upload it to virus total

How can i become a true pirate?

Hello. I have now recently set up an i2p torrenting system connected to jellyfin. The upside is that I pay zero to vpns and i2p actually has a pretty awesome selection of movies and tv shows (postman ftw). For real, i feel like i2p is where it’s at right now in the torrenting world, as it completely bypasses the need to trust...

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Start with doing simple disc rips, like cd’s(Exact Audio Copy), dvds(MakeMKV, DVD decryptor, eac3to), blurays(MakeMKV, eac3to).

Figure out how to encode and compress video so that it still looks good, you can still find some old scene rule nfo’s to have a better idea on what settings to use to encode. I use a gui called qvs to do encodes, theres also another one called staxrip, you can also learn how to just use command line arguments and just use x264 or x265 from the command line.

If you’re not just wanting to just make remuxes with makeMKV, you’re probably going to want to use mkvtoolnix to put everything back together as a video file.

You can use SubtitleEdit to convert PGS or VOB subs into the plaintext format SubRip(SRT) which has more compatibility with media servers like jellyfin.

Consider trying to find some obscure titles which may only have dead torrents, no torrents, or only low quality ones (old ~700mb VCD rips) to track down a physical copy to make a new torrent from.

Pick out some dead torrents to camp indefinitely. A seeder may one day return. Also, if you’re on a private tracker, a lot of the time you can download the same torrent that also exists as a dead public torrent, and bring the public one back to life. This can be a bit tricky sometimes.

If you have a beefy computer, you could consider making encodes in the new AV1 codec, which is really good at preserving quality but is rather intensive to encode in.

If you join a private tracker, a lot of the time their forums will have some educational resources on making rips yourself.

Actually cracking new drms requires skill, and the skills you need are called reverse engineering. You’re going to have to learn the ins and outs of assembly language, specifically decompiled binary represented as assembly language. Theres a site which has simple tutorial programs called crackme’s for dipping your toes into this sort of thing. Theres not going to be any public tutorials on how to crack xyz drm because if those existed, the drm would just be patched. Speaking of that, if you’re doing software cracks you’ll need to learn how to obfuscate your crack to keep the origin company from figuring out how you did it, or else it will just get patched before you do your next one. That doesn’t really apply to audiovisual drm since that is all about extracting a stream, and is a bit more straightforward.

I may update this post if anything else comes to mind, good luck to you!

Edit 1: Make your own ascii art NFO’s with PabloDraw

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I may be wrong, and I’ll have to check later tonight to be sure, but I think rarbg may have had a custom encoder for x265, which includes the ion265 rips. You can check it yourself though by checking the mediainfo, which a lot of the time will reveal what commands (x264/x265 commands, not ffmpeg) were used for the encode, along with the encoder name/version. There several programs that will let you check mediainfo, but the easiest to link is this one, just open your video file with it and display as text.

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Awesome, how’re you doing that?

I’ve got some raw BD files. What tools can I use to convert them into a more familiar format?

So I’ve got a rip of the Japanese Blu Ray of Evangelion, and I’d like to turn it from a jumble of numbered .mts files into something more useable. How do I get started going about that process? As an example, if I download a raw CD rip, I can use cuetools to turn it into a list of .flac tracks ready for listening. Is there...

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eac3to will let you extract the mt2s files into their individual parts (video, audio, subtitles). You can then use mkvtoolnix to remux them into an MKV. MakeMKV works fine imo, but I read some vague waffling on a private tracker forum that it messes something up that eac3to doesn’t.

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Found it

Why eac3to and not something like MakeMKV? Yes, MakeMKV is really easy to use because it’s basically a one-click program. However, it does have its shortcomings when it comes to detecting and correcting authoring errors on Bluray discs.

Take that for what you will I guess. They didn’t elaborate at all.

If you’re interested in using a command line tool to demux, you can get it here, at the original thread on doom9.

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That script makes this a lot more convenient, thank you. As far as adding trackers, I’m not sure if there would be a way to compress them, which is what I was going for with the infohash encoding. If you try to encode a whole magnet link in base64, it ends up being a mile long with all the trackers added in (most of which do not connect). You could just encode the infohash of the magnet, but thats going to kind of defeat the point and confuse people. I don’t notice a difference most of the time with or without trackers, but if you need them, you can set qbittorrent to automatically appened trackers to torrents.

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You make a good point, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a v2 torrent in my life.

Repair corruption without full re-download?

Recently my NAS took some physical damage and the HDDs are not too happy about it. Most of my video files are partially corrupted. Meaning, they report some errors when checked with ffmpeg[^1], and when you watch them they’ll sometimes freeze or skip a few seconds, but they’re not so corrupt they won’t play. So, the vast...

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Yep, filesize is probably going to be your best bet here. Just keep in mind site sometimes report filesize differently, so a lot of time you’ll have to guess if its close enough to be the same file, also factoring in other stuff that get packed like cut samples or tracker promo txt’s.

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I miss the old malwarebytes. Used to actually be good, and the serial keys I found actually used to work :( CommonSense 2023 works a lot better for me these days though, that and ublock origin.

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eac3to to demux video and audio, mkvtoolnix or mkvmerge to remux to mkv. edit: You need to extract the dirs from the iso first though, you can use something like 7-zip for that though.

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From what I have read on the upcoming implementation on i2p in qbit, I do not forsee it being adopted by the core torrent user base. The main issue I have with it is that while you can download from clearnet peers, you are only able to seed to other i2p peers. This completely eliminates any adoption by anyone using private trackers. Its not like the guys in brazil are going to jump through an extra hoop to hide their ip since they never needed to in the first place, so they can be ruled out for adoption as well. What I really fear is that its going to create a completely unnecessary schism in the userbase with a sort of ‘leechnet’ walled garden of i2p users which would hurt the greater availability of seeders. I also haven’t gotten a straight answer from anyone how ports are going to work in i2p, since normally its imperative to have a forwarded port in order to be a full participant. Unless i2p users can seed to clearnet users without issue, I am going to be worried about the impact on torrent health as a whole.

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Unless something has changed since I used it, you’ll need to set PIA to wireguard only, and the adapter shows up as wg-pia. (or similar)

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I actually got soulseek working through a VPN properly for the first time a few days ago. First thing I try to download, I find out the user has geo-IP banning, and the dude called me an asshole for trying to find a working server to download from, then permabanning me from his shares. So even if you do get it working through a vpn, be careful.

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