[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