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People have been writing reports like that for years, has always been a group of copyright troll movie/music groups that want to put forward a case to seize any random servers for whatever role they've played even if it's something like a service provider and it knocks out the internet for thousands of people or even an entire country. It's a very distorted old fashioned view that (a) it will actually stop piracy (b) that people who can't watch something online while sat on the toilet will jump up and rush out to buy a blu ray.
 
I have been using secret site I signed up for before they "closed" to download my movies and tv from. I mostly do fitgirl for pc games. I use internet archive and rom sites for old games.
 
Overly Serious said:
What's the games piracy scene like these days? I'm not looking to pirate I'm just curious how things have changed. It used to be that most games didn't last a week or two before being available to download and cracked. Someone could go on Pirate Bay or any of a number of other sites and take their pick. But I barely game and don't really talk about gaming with others much so I've completely lost touch. Did DRM win? Did online play make it impossible for any mainstream game? Did a shift to primarily console gaming change things? Did gamers just grow up and decide that £40 for a hundred-plus hours of entertainment was reasonable? :)

Or is it all just as it ever was out there and I'm just unaware.
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Regarding PC games - as far as I know, everything that doesn't have Denuvo is available on torrents or sites with DDL links from day 1. Denuvo is only used with games made by big publishers, so you should be fine unless you desperately want to play Spiderman vs Fortnite 8: Retribution.

There's a push by big publishers to go above the $60 "full price" mark (Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, for instance).
 
For anyone interested there's an Indonesian forum called kaskus.co.id where there's loads of scanlation groups for English for western comics and anime/manga.
BEWARE that these forums use primarily mediafire and magnet links so please use caution.
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YazeePro said:
Mullvad doesn't. If you know of any, please tell.
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All right, not every single one. I don't keep track of VPN pricing. I'm just saying that this is an old trick to make you think you're paying less. Same goes for those pseudo-promotions they do in collaboration with Youtubers (use promo code "blah blah blah" to save x%). €5/month sounds fair, by the way.
 
YazeePro said:
Mullvad doesn't. If you know of any, please tell.
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Do you offer any type of discount?
Yes. Our accepted cryptocurrencies are discounted at 10% due to lower fees and less administration. You can also buy from resellers that offer Mullvad VPN at different price models than ours.
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they might offer the same options as mullvad (real money in a envelope or time-limited transaction history etc.) at a cheaper price.

Hentai-Semitism said:
All right, not every single one. I don't keep track of VPN pricing. I'm just saying that this is an old trick to make you think you're paying less. Same goes for those pseudo-promotions they do in collaboration with Youtubers (use promo code "blah blah blah" to save x%). €5/month sounds fair, by the way.
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might break EU law, iirc there are some where you can't raise prices and then sell the old normal price as "sale" price.
 
Currently looking into the Arrs (Radarr, Sonarr, ...), which overall sounds too good to be true! But I'm a bit hesitant as my torrent experience was quite bad (slow, incomplete downloads - granted, this was really ages ago) and I never used Usenet.
Anyone care to share his experience with torrent vs. usenet and/or the Arrs?
 
LowLowHighLow said:
Currently looking into the Arrs (Radarr, Sonarr, ...), which overall sounds too good to be true! But I'm a bit hesitant as my torrent experience was quite bad (slow, incomplete downloads - granted, this was really ages ago) and I never used Usenet.
Anyone care to share his experience with torrent vs. usenet and/or the Arrs?
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I have a full mediastack setup in Docker on a minipc
  • Jellyfin as the media platform
  • Prowlarr (and Byparr, which is for bypassing Cloudflare on torrent sites) as the indexer for:
  • Sonarr + Radarr which feeds torrents to:
  • qBittorrent w/ VPN image (standard qBittorrent image with no egress except via the VPN connection etc)
Then go down the 'tism for the TRaSH Guides and make sure you at least somewhat absorb the contents (especially for renaming or metadata, there are some quirks for automatically scraping info on Plex/Jellyfin). I have never had issues with incomplete downloads, slow yes if I throw something old or unpopular or incredibly niche into Radarr, but you can use the 'interactive search' in Radarr/Sonarr to pick what source you pull from which gives you a little indicator of seeders/leechers etc.
 
Usenet + arr suite with sensible quality settings & hierarchy + tdarr with sensible rules is amazing. It’s also possible to set Prowlarr to use only Freeleech torrents if you have private tracker access.
 
LowLowHighLow said:
which overall sounds too good to be true!
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I've used Sonarr and Radarr for years, and I can promise you the hype is real. The best thing I like about them, particularly Sonarr, is the ability to select a show and a season, hit the "watch" button, and the software will do the rest, downloading episodes as soon as they're available, in the format that I want, and shoot them directly to my media player. Completed automated.
 
I've been using uTorrent 2.2.1 for many years and decided to switch to qBittorrent, mostly because of the search function (with Jackett). Unfortunately, it often gets stuck at "downloading metadata" stage.

I added a ton of entries to Options - Bittorrent - Automatically Append These Trackers... and I don't think it changed anything. Using .torrent files instead of magnets didn't help, either. The same torrent downloads just fine with uTorrent.

What can I do? I don't know anything about all those advanced options (DHT, PeX etc.) or networking in general. P.S. I use a VPN and I don't want to make a tunnel for torrents.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
I've been using uTorrent 2.2.1 for many years and decided to switch to qBittorrent, mostly because of the search function (with Jackett). Unfortunately, it often gets stuck at "downloading metadata" stage.

I added a ton of entries to Options - Bittorrent - Automatically Append These Trackers... and I don't think it changed anything. Using .torrent files instead of magnets didn't help, either. The same torrent downloads just fine with uTorrent.

What can I do? I don't know anything about all those advanced options (DHT, PeX etc.) or networking in general. P.S. I use a VPN and I don't want to make a tunnel for torrents.
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I use qBittorrent and it's only been stuck on downloading metadata when I use a magnet link and there are 0 seeders/peers available. .torrent files contain the metadata already so it shouldn't be possible to get stuck like that. Maybe share an example of a .torrent file that doesn't work?
 
Unique Username KF said:
I use qBittorrent and it's only been stuck on downloading metadata when I use a magnet link and there are 0 seeders/peers available. .torrent files contain the metadata already so it shouldn't be possible to get stuck like that. Maybe share an example of a .torrent file that doesn't work?
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Try the one from Torrage Mirror. I think the one from iTorrents is truncated or something because loading it doesn't even show the content window.

On qBittorrent it gets stuck at "stalled". I waited for about 2 minutes. uTorrent started the download under a minute.
 
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