Start with doing simple disc rips, like cd's(Exact Audio Copy), dvds(MakeMKV, DVD decryptor, eac3to), blurays(MakeMKV, eac3to).

Figure out how to encode and compress video so that it still looks good, you can still find some old scene rule nfo's to have a better idea on what settings to use to encode. I use a gui called qvs to do encodes, theres also another one called staxrip, you can also learn how to just use command line arguments and just use x264 or x265 from the command line.

If you're not just wanting to just make remuxes with makeMKV, you're probably going to want to use mkvtoolnix to put everything back together as a video file.

You can use SubtitleEdit to convert PGS or VOB subs into the plaintext format SubRip(SRT) which has more compatibility with media servers like jellyfin.

Consider trying to find some obscure titles which may only have dead torrents, no torrents, or only low quality ones (old ~700mb VCD rips) to track down a physical copy to make a new torrent from.

Pick out some dead torrents to camp indefinitely. A seeder may one day return. Also, if you're on a private tracker, a lot of the time you can download the same torrent that also exists as a dead public torrent, and bring the public one back to life. This can be a bit tricky sometimes.

If you have a beefy computer, you could consider making encodes in the new AV1 codec, which is really good at preserving quality but is rather intensive to encode in.

If you join a private tracker, a lot of the time their forums will have some educational resources on making rips yourself.

Actually cracking new drms requires skill, and the skills you need are called reverse engineering. You're going to have to learn the ins and outs of assembly language, specifically decompiled binary represented as assembly language. Theres a site which has simple tutorial programs called crackme's for dipping your toes into this sort of thing. Theres not going to be any public tutorials on how to crack xyz drm because if those existed, the drm would just be patched. Speaking of that, if you're doing software cracks you'll need to learn how to obfuscate your crack to keep the origin company from figuring out how you did it, or else it will just get patched before you do your next one. That doesn't really apply to audiovisual drm since that is all about extracting a stream, and is a bit more straightforward.

I may update this post if anything else comes to mind, good luck to you!

From what I have read on the upcoming implementation on i2p in qbit, I do not forsee it being adopted by the core torrent user base. The main issue I have with it is that while you can download from clearnet peers, you are only able to seed to other i2p peers. This completely eliminates any adoption by anyone using private trackers. Its not like the guys in brazil are going to jump through an extra hoop to hide their ip since they never needed to in the first place, so they can be ruled out for adoption as well. What I really fear is that its going to create a completely unnecessary schism in the userbase with a sort of 'leechnet' walled garden of i2p users which would hurt the greater availability of seeders. I also haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone how ports are going to work in i2p, since normally its imperative to have a forwarded port in order to be a full participant. Unless i2p users can seed to clearnet users without issue, I am going to be worried about the impact on torrent health as a whole.

I miss the old malwarebytes. Used to actually be good, and the serial keys I found actually used to work :( CommonSense 2023 works a lot better for me these days though, that and ublock origin.

Lots of crossover between 4chan and the general piracy community. First place I actually heard about soulseek was on the 4chan music board. I don't really go there anymore. So yeah, its 4channers thinking they're in good company.

From what I've noticed, plenty. Hopefully people aren't jumping off their rarbg torrents because the site went down.

I found out the hard way those boxes have an expiration date. The manufacturers don't really bother to get the custom boards updated to newer versions of android, so its quite a headache to keep them operational. Theres forums that do custom firmware for them, but ymmv depending on what box you get.

So, you have content of the torrent, but don't know the original torrent it goes to, right?

The first place I'd look would be bitsearch.to. It's a pretty extensive dht network crawler that actually has a lot of rarbg archived. Be warned, you can't use .'s or a few other 'special' characters, just replace them with spaces. If that fails to find anything, theres also btdig, but at this point you will probably want to install a program called jackett to search all public sites at the same time. Hopefully that would be a good tool for you.

When you find the torrent the file is from, you may need to find additional files, like advertisement txt files for dead torrent trackers. You may have some luck finding these in other torrents, you just have to match the filesize really.

If there aren't any seeders whatsoever, magnet links won't work. You will have to try and find the .torrent manually. You can pretty often find these on caching sites. The three I know of are itorrents.org, torrage.info, and btcache.me. Hopefully one of these still has the file.

When you go to add the torrent, set the stop condition in qbittorrent to files checked. This checks the integrity of the files you have on disk against the torrent you opened. Just be sure to save it to the same folder. If it checks without a hitch, you should be able to start seeding. Remember to port forward!

Looks like archive.org has it

https://archive.org/details/c2cam_202208

https://archive.org/details/artbellshows

Search for DVDRip, filter by upload date and check for ones that aren't well seeded. See if you can find ones that don't have any other rips available, and seed whatever looks at-risk. Godspeed!

Bitsearch.to lets you upload anything, and its searched by jackett. Same with the sister site solidtorrents.to. Solid actually has a python plugin for qbittorrent so its even easier to search/discover.

Yes. Usually your VPN will be something akin to the name of the vpn or the vpn client.

eac3to to demux video and audio, mkvtoolnix or mkvmerge to remux to mkv. edit: You need to extract the dirs from the iso first though, you can use something like 7-zip for that though.

Found it

Why eac3to and not something like MakeMKV? Yes, MakeMKV is really easy to use because it's basically a one-click program. However, it does have its shortcomings when it comes to detecting and correcting authoring errors on Bluray discs.

Take that for what you will I guess. They didn't elaborate at all.

If you're interested in using a command line tool to demux, you can get it here, at the original thread on doom9.

Personally I like this one. Has 24 hours freeleech on all new torrents, and a reseed request system open to everyone on the site (2nd rank & above maybe, can't remember for sure) makes it pretty easy to build ratio by cross-seeding if you can find whats missing (PyReScene with srrdb.com helps out a lot here) Smaller community size makes it a bit easier to get upload on a residential connection. Its mostly a scene focused tracker, so expect release rar's with most torrents. Lots of gems on there though.

Would anyone be interested in an additional .csv spreadsheet that got posted? It probably is mostly duplicated with this list, I've also got a short list that was just saved as 'arthouse.txt' and a bunch of miscellaneous .torrent files that got posted, most of them are porn though. I was going to roll everything up into one torrent (including this and the sql file), which would be about 2 gigs. Might be some that fell through the cracks, but I'm not up to the task of sorting.

I actually got soulseek working through a VPN properly for the first time a few days ago. First thing I try to download, I find out the user has geo-IP banning, and the dude called me an asshole for trying to find a working server to download from, then permabanning me from his shares. So even if you do get it working through a vpn, be careful.

Yeah, pretty much. Just as long as it doesn't have the previous trackers tracker url, and ideally have it generate a different infohash.

Bitsearch is definitely your best friend here. It seems like it has the most complete collection overall. If the torrent is dead dead, the infohash isn't entirely useless, because you can use it on torrent caching sites to try and retrieve the .torrent file. The main ones that come to mind for me are itorrents.org, torrage.info, and btcache.me.

I may be wrong, and I'll have to check later tonight to be sure, but I think rarbg may have had a custom encoder for x265, which includes the ion265 rips. You can check it yourself though by checking the mediainfo, which a lot of the time will reveal what commands (x264/x265 commands, not ffmpeg) were used for the encode, along with the encoder name/version. There several programs that will let you check mediainfo, but the easiest to link is [https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo](this one), just open your video file with it and display as text.

Yep, filesize is probably going to be your best bet here. Just keep in mind site sometimes report filesize differently, so a lot of time you'll have to guess if its close enough to be the same file, also factoring in other stuff that get packed like cut samples or tracker promo txt's.