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Title, I haven't Yo ho ho'd in forever in internet time.. What/where do I need to start again? I'm tired of ads and 3+ streaming services to watch stuff that's interesting. Running windows. Thanks dudes and dudettes.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://rentry.co/megathread

Refer here for the most pirated stuff. Ask further if you need anything more detailed

VPN isn't needed if your country doesnt persecute individual piracy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Thanks ill check it out!

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

qBittorrent is probably the best torrent client for Windows

~~Mullvad is a relatively cheap and trustworthy VPN provider~~ (they unfortunately removed port forwarding, which is important for torrenting)

AirVPN and Proton VPN are trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding

Servarr is the way to go if you want to set up a server that automates everything for you

Jellyfin is the best media server, far ahead of Plex and fully FOSS

FMHY and the Champagne Piracy Wiki have lots of valuable information

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A bit of topic but why the hell does the champagne wiki reccomend Edge as a browser citing it's AI capabilities? Is this copied directly from MS marketing material?

Edit: I am starting to read through it and there Is so much bad, outdated and just wrong information there:

  • they recommend to set a DNS level adblocker using an app that isn't supported on the android version the guide is for and completely forget that you can just set the DNS server without any additional app on any modern android version (what is what the provider of the Dns server they recommend reccomends)
  • they tell you protonVPN doesn't support Torrenting (maybe just bad wording) and recommended mullvad because of that

I don't really want to continue beyond before-you-begin

Edit2: Uh why is there an extensive article on how to deal with addiction and how to do meditation in the piracy section?

I don't think I should continue any further

Edit3: you can contribute to the wiki by sending markdown files in a discord channel. Wikipedia should switch to this model as well imo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But Mullvad dropped port-forwarding which is relevant in the context of torrenting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

God dammit
I keep forgetting that. I didn't really notice it, since I use a seedbox anyway, but that might be a little to much for a new user.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Also Gluetun if you want to run qbittorrent in docker with a tun interface.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"far ahead of Plex"

I love and use jelly fin but let's not lie here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[qBittorrent] is probably the best VPN client for Windows

It does VPN?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Please could you elaborate about how qbittorent is a good VPN and why is port forwarding important for torrenting ? I'm kind of confused about those statement…

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hold on buddy, i would say that the first three are for veterans

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

VPN, depending on how your country handles copyright laws.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Jellyseer, prowlarr, and bazarr can be added to that list.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Right, reading through the comments, you say you've got a couple of kids. I'm guessing that means you're a bit older and don't have that much time to binge-watch long pointless series etc

To pare it down, ignore the comments about Sonarr and Radarr etc, they're for people who are addicted to downloading as much media as humanly possible, or folks in the US with 1990s internet speed. I've tried them and didn't find much benefit to them.

If you just want to quickly download a film or a series, setup is very simple.

In twenty years of torrenting, I've never needed more than a good VPN, a good BitTorrent client, and a good website for magnets. Plus a PC hooked up to the TV with the screen extended.

Torrent client - Use Qbittorrent, for reasons explained later

VPN - As others say, port forwarding is necessary. Use Proton, when you start it up, it gives you a different port number each time. In Qbittorrent, click options then connection, and change the port number to the one Proton gave you. Bit of a fucking about each time but worth it

As for torrenting sites, I rarely need anything more than 1337x.to

BUT, as stated, the search function on QBT is amazing for finding obscure stuff. You need to install Python on your PC first, then there are plenty guides online for installing the search plugins. It sounds complicated but is incredibly easy and stable once installed.

That's it. That's all I use and have done for decades. With fibre optic nowadays, a 1.5gb film takes about two minutes to download, you don't need an entire hard disk full of media, just plan ahead

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

ignore the comments about Sonarr and Radarr etc, they're for people who are addicted to downloading as much media as humanly possible, or folks in the US with 1990s internet speed. I've tried them and didn't find much benefit to them.

This I really disagree with. Sonarr is absolutely terrible for backfilling shows with many seasons, it's not at all what its for and you're much better off manually finding season packs and downloading those and then binge. Sonarr is for monitoring shows with continuous releases and automatically download the new episodes so they're ready for watching when they drop. I love not having to manually track when the few shows I do follow release new episodes and then add them to my client, because they're just there in my library when they're available.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is great advice. I'm not at all interested in building and maintaining a library of stuff I won't watch twice anyway. Resist the urge. I hooked an old laptop to my TV, put Linux Mint on it and use KDE Connect to remote control it's mouse and keyboard with my phone. Bookmark some streaming sources in Firefox, install FreeTube for your YouTube needs, add an external harddrive for stuff your really want to keep and your have a great media center for zero money.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Grab Stremio, it's a program you can download.
Once you've downloaded that and opened it up, in any browser go to torrentio.strem.fun and click to install that to your client.

In the program go into your settings and remove the official sources from showing up (like apple TV, Netflix, etc.) and et viola.

You can use popular lists or search for series, and it'll find the episode/movie from pirates sources.

The fun thing about this is it's all educational. Not the program nor the torrentio link are illegal, it's only what you do with it. So all in all, I hope you enjoy searching for legal documentaries supported by creative commons licensing!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The simple answer:

Get Qbittorrent and use it's built-in search engine.

The fully automated gay space answer:

  • Look into selfhosting - (optional but makes it easier/coler)
  • Look into Plex (or Emby or Jellyfin) - optional but makes it pretty

These are the apps you'll need:

  • Radarr - Gets movies
  • Sonarr - Gets tv shows automatically as they come out
  • Prowlarr - the thing that does the searching for radarr/sonarr.
  • Overseerr - Makes it simple to request stuff
  • Qbittorrent - downloads things

(There is also Lidarr for music and Readarr for books)

If all set up correctly, you simply just request something with Overseerr and it shows up in Plex minutes later with artwork and metadata all pulled in and presented nicely. You can configure the apps to look for specific resolutions/file sizes/formats/etc. TV shows are downloaded as soon as a new episode is released. It's better than any streaming service by leaps and bounds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does overseer do anything besides let you request from the others? And where does Prowlarr come in?

I more or less have this setup, but I start in Trakt (which I was using before I started with the arrs) and add something to my watchlist. Sonarr and Radarr regularly sync with that and check the indexers I have set up and download via sabnzbd. It unpacks and gets to where it needs to go, and I watch it in Jellyfin.

It all works fine for me. So what I'm really asking, is am I missing out on anything by not using Overseer and Prowlarr or is it just another way of doing the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Prowlarr allows you to manage all the indexers/trackers in one location. This is helpful if you want to add or remove one or limit things from being automatically downloaded from site A but not B, C, and D like when you join a new private tracker and need to build ratio first.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Well, let me start with this gorilla they called Harambe....

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Pinned thread on this very community.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

if you're in Australia ignore all VPN advice. Companies can only come after you for the cost of a single copy of whatever you pirate making it functionally legal here.

Torrents are your best bet for now because they are super easy.

Usenet is a paid service, absolutely worth it but you're paying for at least 2 different services to make it work and setting up a whole bunch of software. Just steer clear of the Arr suite until torrents fail you (and they will)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Go to a host like feralhost and rent a seed box. This gives you a webhosted transmission to paste magnet links in from any torrent site. Then you connect with filezilla over sftp, no vpn or nonsense needed and its all super fast because the torrenting is done from a data center and you download only from there over encrypted ssh at max speed when its finished.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That's just VPN with extra steps. Why not just set up a SOCKS5/Shadowsocks/wireguard/whatever on any hosting and get a lot better experience?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In my country I don’t get good upstream internet so I can still have good ratios on torrent sites and the private trackers I use. The prices on the dedicated seed box services can’t be beat for bandwidth and for someone with kids it’s already all set up.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Torrents and newsgroups are still a thing, vpn up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"VPN up" depends on the country. Some countries don't give a flying fuck, don't waste money on a VPN if you live in such countries.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A laptop with an hdmi, stremio and a real Debrid account.

Simple

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Recognize that there may be some costs involved: hard drives, a raspberry pi, VPN/VPS/seedbox, even just electricity.

Get a good VPN and use it for any torrenting you do from home. Nord is not a good VPN. (unless your government doesn’t care or you use a seed box, then do whatever)

Use public torrent trackers if you have to but: If you have some private torrent tracker accounts from yore, try to get them re-activated. Surprisingly they may have your old info. This will probably require IRC. If not, look into interviewing with RED, OPS, or MAM to learn the ropes, then use them to get invited into movie/TV/general PTs.

If you don’t like the sound of torrenting look into newsgroups. This will cost money in two ways: a newsgroup account and a news indexer.

Check out the arr suite, especially radarr and sonarr, to automatically get what you are interested in.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

On a side note I've been using Google to find streaming sites by typing "free full stream" and then the title I want, and scrolling down the search to the DMCA Complaints. They have a lovely list of sites that have your movies and shows, thanks Google!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Next to what everyone already said let me just mention I also returned recently after being out for like 10 years and the progress is amazing. If you’re willing to selfhost, Servarr is super amazing, my whole family got away from Netflix and I have a huge bullshit free library of stuff to watch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Real Debrid is probably the easiest solution.

From there you can either go the stremio route or plex / jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Welcome back 🏴‍☠️❕

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I recently started paying for debrid services (I use real debrid, but there are others) and couldn't be happier. Got an app called Stremio on my TV and after adding the credentials, everything just works - easy & fast like the streaming services.

It also allows you to download torrents much faster than torrenting them, especially if not many people seed them.

Oh, and if you ever need to download something from Rapidshare or whatever other websites like that it does that too.

Honestly, I should've started paying for it earlier.

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