[unpopularopp]

If you know how to use a CLI tool then you could also know how to download proper high quality releases without much effort. No private tracker and interview shenanigans. YTS is a bottom of the barrel quality. I actually don't even see who is the target audience of this unless you just made as an exercise to build an app on top of an API.

[flave]

Where’s good these days? I’m feeling my old Napster ways bubbling back up from the deep…

[unpopularopp]

First of all this the ground 0 for everything piracy (and more, generally free stuff) https://fmhy.net/

Here are the recommended film sites https://fmhy.net/video#torrent-sites

I generally download from https://rutracker.org/ (need an account to search not for downloading). They have pretty much everything that you can imagine (not just films) and in proper quality too (BD Remuxes etc). There will be no scene releases here because they add russian/ukrainian dubs and subs to almost all films but that's a small problem.

The other one is Heartive which lists torrents from the DHT network with Magnet links https://heartiveloves.pages.dev/ You just click on the torrent icon in the middle top of the selected film and all the available releases will be listed in plain text. The only downside that you need to be familiar with the release tags

Last but not least https://nyaa.si/ if you have a slight interest in anything japanese from manga to anime to much more

[mrbluecoat]

Also https://fmhy.net/torrenting#aggregators

[plexman]

also http://piratebayo3klnzokct3wt5yyxb2vpebbuyjl7m623iaxmqhsd52c... via torbrowser

[thijson]

Thanks for the links. I'm so out of it these days, I only knew of btdig.com for DHT searches.

[voidUpdate]

I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video, english audio / japanese audio + english subtitles) and reencode it to h264 mp4 so the files aren't gigantic and are compatible with everything. A bit old-school maybe but it generally works fine for me.

I live in the UK so I'll also sometimes pull stuff from iPlayer, which yt-dlp works perfectly for, and also off youtube

[IlikeKitties]

Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience.

Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...

[voidUpdate]

I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine

[OptionOfT]

There is an uptick of isos and exes masqueraded to look like episodes of popular shows.

[IlikeKitties]

Can you share the magnet link that they send you and maybe the name of your ISP? I'd be super interested in analysing this!

[voidUpdate]

I'll try to remember to but it'll be about 16 hours away

[meindnoch]

Impossible. How would your ISP (or VPN provider or anyone) be MITMing the TLS connection to TPB?

[gs17]

> 1.89gb executable file

Add me to the list of people curious about this. It feels more like some sort of bug than a real attack, it would be odd to use such a huge file for every torrent.

[bigmadshoe]

If you're connecting through a VPN there is no way for your ISP to know that you're using TPB or any other website.

[hypercube33]

They can if you let DNS leak to their servers so make sure you really firewall your ship off

[voidUpdate]

I know, that's why I use tor to get the links

[hombre_fatal]

On the other hand, the system would be doomed if it relied on 1:1 message board scolding the few good actors to be viable.

[_zoltan_]

that seems like a lot of work compared to click click watch that one can achieve with *arr stack.

[voidUpdate]

Sure, but this way I know what I'm getting, rather than just hoping I get the right thing. I don't mind doing a little bit of cleanup to make sure I'm getting what I want

[squigz]

Just to be fair, the *arr stack can filter by various things so you only grab the releases that meet your requirements.

[throwaway98753]

And if you don't want to torrent at all, there are recent tools (nzbdav) to build a large *arr library that streams directly from usenet, without need for self-storage

[_zoltan_]

in several countries it's fully legal to download anything for personal use, so I don't care :P

[cantalopes]

I highly recommend setting up a kodi combo: real-debrid/fen/seren/coco scrapers/tmdb helper with your trakt account/arctic fuse 2 (netflix like skin). It is a complete "stream everything" netflix interface.

It takes quite a while to understand how to set everything up and needs tons of customization (which is also a positive), but reddit is your friend. For example this is a good guide (although bit dated, some info may be older but generally it still fits https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/zzfdtb/allincl... )

I know people also use *arr stack and jellyfin to setup their own library but my problem is that i never /know/ what to watch. With this setup, i just turn it on, get to browse customized/recommended and random lists like in netflix and it streams directly via real-debrid or premiumize

Oh; if you decide to have a dedicated raspberry pi for this thing (so you can use it with tv easilly), use a regular raspbian os or something, do NOT use libreelec. It is trying to be heavily customized, but in the end is just worse, buggy, bad wifi support, slow releases from small team, and unability to manually update packages

[BeetleB]

> I know people also use *arr stack and jellyfin to setup their own library but my problem is that i never /know/ what to watch.

For people like me, knowing what to watch is never a problem. Getting time to actually watch it is.

I suggest finding a way to do your own curation.

For movies, you could just start with the IMDB Top 250 (pick at random). They used to have other lists (e.g. top non-English movies, etc), but I can't seem to find them any more.

[hambos22]

> I know people also use *arr stack ... i never /know/ what to watch

For discoverability you should check overseerr, which is pluggable via API to sonarr and radarr

[rochansinha]

I have been using realdebrid with POV on kodi and it works like a charm. Saving a bunch by not needing to subscribe to what seems like a million OTT’s

[colinsane]

for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.

[tomtomtom777]

This is neat. I didn't realize this was possible with the protocol. Thanks!

[elliotec]

Same, I know how to use a terminal quite well but don’t know the latest best way to “sail the seas” as they say.

[g947o]

For old content I often spin up the old RARBG database.

Too bad it's gone.