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How do you go about finding specific items when it's prohibited to even ask? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been on 1337x, ABC, torrentquest, eztvx, msearch, and pretty much all of the other sites on the megathread, both for "greatest treasures" (the general purpose section) and the movies & TV section specifically. Yet, the show that my wife and I want to watch is nowhere to be found in any of these. We're confused why, as it's not exactly an unpopular show.

Despite it not seeming to exist in a torrent format anywhere, among many other shows, it is forbidden both here and elsewhere to ask for help on finding a specific title. I was just hoping to learn the reasoning why. Is it just because the forum would be flooded with people asking for titles instead of taking the time to dig through the resources? What are people supposed to do when they do dig through the resources then?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If it's hard to find, first i try searching via jackett integration into qbittorrent. if unsuccessful, i go over to xrel.to and search for it there (its a pure information site, don't ask for downloads there pls). You can verify if there has ever been a release of the specific title, and if, you can see the exact name of the release. if you can't find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene. if it's newer content, you can try to search later; if its older content, go buy it and upload it yourself (safely!) so the next person doesn't have the same issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

if you can't find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene.

This is not really true. I tried a few searches of more obscure movies and they don't have releases that are available on multiple private trackers.

That being said, if you can't find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

yeah, i didn't want to get into the private tracker stuff, since i never used one before; i described pretty much the ressources you have as a "commoner". I am aware that there are many specialized sources out there, where a lot more obscure material is available, but most of those take special effort to gain access to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

That being said, if you can't find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

And then rip it and upload so that the next person doesn't have to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Apparently xrel.to doesn't always have films listed, IMDb does. I couldn't even find Boefje