| ▲ | voidUpdate 8 hours ago |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | IlikeKitties 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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... |
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| ▲ | voidUpdate 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 | | |
| ▲ | meindnoch 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Impossible. How would your ISP (or VPN provider or anyone) be MITMing the TLS connection to TPB? | |
| ▲ | bigmadshoe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | | |
| ▲ | IlikeKitties an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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! | | |
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| ▲ | hombre_fatal 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | _zoltan_ 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| that seems like a lot of work compared to click click watch that one can achieve with *arr stack. |
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| ▲ | voidUpdate 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just to be fair, the *arr stack can filter by various things so you only grab the releases that meet your requirements. |
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| ▲ | throwaway98753 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 |
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