I'm pretty sure you're meant to copy the "Hash" (long string of letters and numbers) and input it into your torrenting software of choice. On qbittorent you do this by clicking the "add torrent link" button in the top left. However I've only got a few things to load by doing this, but that might be a me thing.

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manush 3 points 3 years ago

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xtremeownage 17 points 3 years ago

Usenet. Usenet. Usenet.

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snow_storm55 7 points 3 years ago

It's probably too complicated for a lot of people who got used to using torrents or they just don't know what they are missing out.

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xtremeownage 8 points 3 years ago

Eh, one they get radarr/sonarr/lidarr setup- it does EVERYTHING for you.

The only downside, you do need a usenet account, which costs a few bucks. But- once you go usenet, you will never go back.

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RandomLegend 12 points 3 years ago

"once you go usenet, you will never go back." true.

Been a torrent kiddie since the old days and thought this was the end all be all of online availability of stuff i want.

Friend of me got an unlimited account on fastusenet and let me hook into it. 20€/y for a very nice german & international newsgroup forum with unlimited API access that was made with sonarr / radarr in mind.

I can and don't want to ever go back...it's blazing fast, whenever i find something, i can be certain that it's there and ready for download; Unlike torrents... just bcs u got a magnet doesn't mean there are enough seeders. And then it takes sooooooo long. On usenet i get my 350mbit/s and it can even be unpacked while being downloaded.

That way i can request a movie and watch it in 20min even if it's a BR-REMUX that is like 8090GB

I happily pay for that!

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xtremeownage 7 points 3 years ago

The only time I ever even consider using torrents, is for an obscure piece of content which I cannot find on usenet.

And even then, I do it all manually. There is too much "bad" content hosted there.

Edit- Please ignore my random downvote. nohbdyuno really... loves downvoting my comments for some odd reason.

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0bscur3 2 points 3 years ago

Which German forums can you recommend? Would like to check it out as I cannot find any German content on public trackers.

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float 1 point 3 years ago

Does that forum/indexer also have spanish content? German seems to be rare also. But that's for both Usenet and BitTorrent.

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ID10T 1 point 3 years ago

How do you connect it to the *arrs?

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Difficult_Bit_1339 4 points 3 years ago

Usenet is very nice for home use. I used it for years. SSL encrypted, no need to use Bittorrent over VPN. Always max download speed. The parity part was annoying on a HDD but now that I have a Gen5 NVME it is incredibly fast.

I'm back using the same setup on a Seedbox and private trackers. I share access to my media library and I have Ombi setup so my family can add their own things to Sonarr/Radarr. Since it's on a 50Gb connection it can handle bittorrent with no issue so I don't bother paying for Usenet.

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JasDawg 3 points 3 years ago

I just started using Usenet in March. I use FrugalUsenet as my Provider and NZBGeek as my Indexer. Anything better I should consider?

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xtremeownage 4 points 3 years ago

My only recommendations- look for usenet providers hosted in the netherlands. They have been the most reliable.

Also, if you use multiple providers (improves reliability), make sure to get providers from different parents.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/... (I don't know how old that image is)

Lots of the providers are just re-sellers, and will be hit with the same DMCAs equally. By- choosing providers from different "roots", you can mitigate this issue.

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xtremeownage 2 points 3 years ago

@iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml why the disagreement?

Would love to hear your feedback.

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TornadoValley 4 points 3 years ago

Why’d you tag them? You were able to see who downvoted you?

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moralesformiles 16 points 3 years ago

Use Jackett to search many free trackers at once. BTDig is also good, but as just a simple DHT search engine, it won't tell you the health of the torrent.

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cccc 6 points 3 years ago

Jackett or prowlarr. I’ve used both and prowlarr has been easier and more reliable for me.

You can also use qbittorrent’s in-build search.

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T4V0 1 point 3 years ago

qbittorrent also support Jackett as a plugin.

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Manuel 15 points 3 years ago

I use TorrentGalaxy to know about the new releases and RealDebrid + Stremio. I think nothing else is actually needed.

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Blxter 7 points 3 years ago

Yea I've been using torrentgalaxy aswell. They seem to have a newish release group called "infinity" I think. There releases are very similar to the HEVC ones RARGB used to do. Still miss there clean layout tho.

Edit: new to me at least.

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BurpingBeaver 3 points 3 years ago

It is missing the clean layout, but being able to search specifically for TV Series Packs is really handy

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spiritedpause 14 points 3 years ago

Torrent search engines that crawl the DHT seem like they'd be the least likely to be taken down, as they don't host any torrent files or run their own trackers, they simply crawl the torrent DHT directly for magnet links.

Here are my two favorite DHT-based torrent search engines:

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Flicsmo 12 points 3 years ago

I've recently started using Rats Search, basically a p2p torrent indexer. I don't want to bother with private trackers so this is pretty much perfect.

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astroboy 1 point 3 years ago

How can I download this?

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Flicsmo 3 points 3 years ago

Click that link there, scroll down to where it says 'download'

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Mando 11 points 3 years ago

Torrentgalaxy and 1377x is are doing fine for me

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interesting_bat 20 points 3 years ago

Isn't 1377 is garbage/malware one and 1337x the correct one?

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HolyHell 3 points 3 years ago

Yes

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DrLongTRL 2 points 3 years ago

Didn't even know there was one without the x.

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BustedPancake 11 points 3 years ago

Private trackers as I only get remuxes.

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0x4E4F 3 points 3 years ago

I used to care about that (when I did recodes and releases), but I haven't been active on that front in years. Do they have just rips? And what trackers?

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BustedPancake 3 points 3 years ago

I haven't been active in encoding either in years, I just like to have the highest quality I can possibly find, and REMUX you can't really go wrong with that. Where I download they have full BluRays ISO or the main feature only remuxed in MKV. Trackers I use are mostly IPT, HDBits, TL, TS, and a few others.

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Abdure 1 point 3 years ago

How hard is it to join IPT, HDBits, TL, TS ?

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BustedPancake 1 point 3 years ago

IPT and HDBits are almost impossible to join. TL and TS open registrations around the holidays I believe.

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hollyberries 11 points 3 years ago

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hamsteronvase 2 points 3 years ago

1337x has started requiring you to sign up with your email address before you can download. Not today, FBI

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Sterben 10 points 3 years ago

Anything wrong if I have been using 1337x for my torrents? 🤣

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lambda_pi 5 points 3 years ago

Not wrong per se but rarbg was probably the best open tracker when it came to well-encoded film/TV releases. Excellent moderation.

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Sterben 1 point 3 years ago

It sucks that it closed then.

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Mr_1077 10 points 3 years ago

I usually go to 1337x or TorrentLeach. It depends on the release date and type of movie though.

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what 9 points 3 years ago

Is the pirate bay not good for this? I was surprised I didn't see them mentioned.

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cyanarchy 20 points 3 years ago

I don't think TPB is strictly recommended for anything anymore, I could be out of the loop on that.

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orcrist 4 points 3 years ago

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cyanarchy 4 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't deny or argue that. I was under the impression that it just had more pitfalls than other sources these days, which led to it no longer being the go-to source it once was.

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orcrist 2 points 3 years ago

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what 2 points 3 years ago

Wow I'm definitely out of the loop. Any reason why?

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minimar 9 points 3 years ago

It's basically the wild west nowadays, totally unmoderated.

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Policeshootout 4 points 3 years ago

About two or so years ago somebody on Reddit was saying it's basically a honeypot for catching people torrenting. But I have nothing to back this up and possibly my memory isn't accurate either. I've just avoided it since then though.

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cyanarchy 2 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry, I'm not plugged in enough to give you the rundown. Certainly plenty of people still use it without issue but last time I tried, I could only access it through mirrors. I also vaguely recall them only offering magnet links when my setup requires .torrent files for reasons that aren't worth getting into because I expect they're weirdly specific to my setup.

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narc0tic_bird 7 points 3 years ago

Private trackers and some public trackers as a fallback. I rarely browse them directly though, mostly using Sonarr and Radarr, and I use Prowlarr for configuring trackers.

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0x4E4F 3 points 3 years ago

I don't actually have that much free time on my hands, but thanks for the recommendation.

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hyperio 6 points 3 years ago

I always go to torrentgalaxy and 1337x

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CarbonatedPastaSauce 6 points 3 years ago

Radarr is awesome.

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Miyagi1337 6 points 3 years ago

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Kribensis 6 points 3 years ago

I gave up on visiting torrent sites. They're all horrible to navigate. I just use the built-in search in qBittorrent (including Jackett).

To figure out what I want to get, I use metacritic.

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medi0crity 4 points 3 years ago

yts .mx

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briongloid 7 points 3 years ago

Good quality for the lower size, which is still important to a lot of non westerners, but they also don't look great on our 70'+ screens.

I've found P2P as viable and have switched to Usenet.

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PeterLossGeorgeWall 7 points 3 years ago

70'! I'd love a 70 foot screen.

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0x4E4F 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I watch movies on a laptop now, so... not really into quality any more.

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OmriOn 1 point 3 years ago

i use 1337x most of the time (new pirate here, i started only a few days after rarbg closed down)

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xbhaktapur 1 point 3 years ago

Rarbg is gone?

What happened? When?

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medi0crity 15 points 3 years ago

Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare. Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket. After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it. We are sorry :( Bye

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Lemmchen 5 points 3 years ago

https://torrentfreak.com/...

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Atreju 1 point 3 years ago

Hello there folks. I am just wondering one thing myself as I read everywhere that RARBG is gone and closed and won't come back. But me and friend are currently still using it (we both only started pirating again a few months ago) on this link: https://www2.rarbggo.to/ -- is this the actual RARBG because content is still uploaded there or just some mirrored side who somebody took over? Hope it's not too stupid of a question but I'm just a bit confused.

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slagathory 1 point 3 years ago

i use usenet and torrents interchangeably and use a seedbox for my private trackers or to store things i don't need now but maybe in future. i plan to set up a NAS in the future but right now working off 20 harddrives across a couple of PCs to have ease of access.

however i would love some advice on sonarr/radarr - does anyone have any user-friendly guide on how to set this up?

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0x4E4F 1 point 3 years ago

Could help you with the NAS thing, I have one set up at home (custom setup, not using any of the NAS solutions available online).

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Stanley_Pain 0 points 3 years ago

Usenet + Indexers.

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bad_alloc 2 points 3 years ago