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.

  • pcjones@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    If you are looking for German (or German + English dual language) content it can be very hard to find stuff on public torrent trackers and it’s pretty hard to get onto private German trackers - but don’t worry, there is a solution:

    Usenet and the indexer sceneNZBs.com that specialises in German releases have got you covered!

    If you want to automate the search for German Dual Language content using Radarr/Sonarr I made a guide (that also works for torrents too): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

    • KiofKi@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As a German, I can confirm: Usenet is the way to go. For me it’s fileleechers (invite only afaik) for German content, and nzbgeek for the rest. All combined with Sabnzbd and Plex. Will have a look at your guide tho!

      • pcjones@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can’t add it to Sonarr and Radarr

        Feel free to correct me, I don’t know a lot about them since they are invite only

    • krolden@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I used to agree but retention is a killer for a lot of older content.

      For new releases its pretty great though.

    • rustic_tiddles@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Usenet was great 10-15 years ago but nowadays it’s flooded with fake / private downloads and retention is shit simply because the few remaining backbone providers comply with takedown requests. Absolutely useless for older content by any major studio. It’s all new stuff which is mostly garbage anyway. We were able to get a ton of “this old house” recently though.

  • escapedgoat@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    😉

    • root@precious.net
      0·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately they’ve recently stopped doing this. It was a great way to stick it to the man though

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

    • 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)
  • dillekant@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, setting up the Servarrs (Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr) along with your bt client, then trawling opensignups to get onto private torrent sites.

  • BlahajEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    IPv6 torrenting for the most part goes unchecked by the companies who send threat letters to your ISP. I have a US seedbox which doesn’t have IPv4 and it’s been working great with a lot of public torrents

  • navigatron@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Wireguard creates a new network interface that accepts, encrypts, wraps, and ships packets out your typical network interface.

    If you were to create a kernel network namespace and move the wireguard interface into that new namespace, the connection to your existing nic is not broken.

    You can then use some custom systemd units to start your *rr software of choice in said namespace, rendering you immune to dns leaks, and any other such vpn failures.

    If you throw bridge interfaces into the mix, you can create gateways to tor / i2p / ipfs / Yggdrasil / etc as desired. You’ll need a bridge anyway to get your requester software interface exposed to your reverse proxy.

    Wireguard also allows multiple peers, so you could multi-nic a portable personal device, and access all your admin interfaces while traveling, with the same vpn-failure-free peace of mind.

  • BeezKnuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    What I really want to know is what you guys use for getting torrents for entire seasons of shows, or even the entire show at once. I’m not new to piracy, I’m just new to talking about it with people.

  • eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Docker, if you can run it on your hardware (either your normal system or on dedicated hardware) is a Swiss army knife that can help level up your acquisitions, and provides you with an isolated application environment if you don’t want to install the applications directly to your device. For media specifically, there is a suite of applications under the same *arr naming scheme that allows you to index, monitor for releases of, and acquire different television shows, movies, music, and books.

    Some container maintainers build in different capabilities into their torrent client containers, such as Binhex’s qBittorrent and Deluge applications, that have VPN connectivity built in, so any network traffic running through that container will automatically use your VPN provider’s WireGuard or OpenVPN capabilities, depending on who you use. Once you have that running and your tags tuned in the *arr apps, you have a headless, mostly independent machine constantly working on acquiring and upgrading your media.

    Sidenote: the *arr apps can be controlled by mobile apps like LunaSea on iOS, and nzb360 on Android. The latter can also integrate with your torrent clients.

  • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    stop manually browsing torrent sites! You’re wasting your time.

    Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.