I haven't visited a torrent site since I found out I could search for them from within qBittorrent.
Hoodedcrow 8 minutes ago [-]
I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...
TFNA 24 minutes ago [-]
When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, because obviously that data doesn't have to pass through TPB's own servers.
dmos62 19 minutes ago [-]
Where do you find those? I use 1337 and dht search engines. Can't be bothered to fiddle with private trackers. Wondering if you found something better.
Retr0id 3 minutes ago [-]
RARBG used to be the way to go, until they shut down. I'm not aware of a good public replacement.
Anonyneko 5 minutes ago [-]
E.g. ext.to aggregates torrents from a lot of public trackers, very often you can find good releases there.
t1234s 25 minutes ago [-]
If its not on their top 100/48 hr list then its not worth watching.
tokai 21 minutes ago [-]
The pirate bay raid is a good example of the kind of soft power the US has lost with their recent behavior. Hard to imagine Stockholm police being as receptive nowadays.
edit: I'm very sorry for making a relevant comment that extrapolate on the content of the shared article.
dmos62 5 minutes ago [-]
Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.
everyone 18 minutes ago [-]
Yes! thank fuck!
han1 13 minutes ago [-]
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everyone 29 minutes ago [-]
<3 Still a great public tracker. We absolutely need people who will run sites like this and crack and bypass stiff like Denuvo and so on. We really do need to keep these sort of skills, tools, and communities alive to be able to resist digital oppression and techno-fascists. Sounds corny as hell but it's true imo.
alex1138 23 minutes ago [-]
So not to hijack this thread or anything but there's one good metric (if nothing else... the fact FB overwrote your email while Google seems to believe in data liberation, and fewer breaches) to tell apart the difference between those two companies
Google had been asked to remove Pirate Bay in results. They didn't. On Google, and I don't really know how it changed over the years, but there'd be a notice about links removed due to DMCA, if it came to that, basically. (Okay, Youtube, which they own, has always been a bit aggressive, and that isn't nothing)
Facebook? Facebook wouldn't let you SEND a link to PB in private messages. It still deletes your post now if you link Anna's Archive. This after apparently heavily scraping LibGen
I don't love Google for a lot of reasons but I damn well feel better using it compared to Mr. "Dumb Fucks"
palmotea 49 minutes ago [-]
> For now, the site remains online, twenty years after Hollywood thought it had seen the last of it. And whoever is in charge today, will likely do everything possible to keep it that way.
I'm vaguely aware that other people than the original group are running it now.
Also, I don't torrent much, but it seems pretty stagnant and dead. It's been occasionally useful to me to find older stuff that doesn't seem to be well represented on newer (public) sites.
Jeremy1026 44 minutes ago [-]
I've never not found something that has been publicly released on it. Though, I don't typically stray too far from the mainstream path for the media I'm looking for.
voidUpdate 33 minutes ago [-]
I can absolutely find new stuff on there. It took Project Hail Mary a little while to get on there, presumably because it was a cinema release only for quite a while but a good quality version popped up after a couple of weeks, and a bad quality "guy holding a camcorder in the cinema" version showed up after about 1 week, IIRC
busterarm 31 minutes ago [-]
once it hit streaming services the webrip was on it within hours.
voidUpdate 30 minutes ago [-]
I don't recall exactly when it went onto streaming, but I'm pretty sure I got a good quality version before that. It may have been released for streaming in other regions earlier than I thought though, I don't keep super up to date with that sort of thing, as I generally don't watch movies super soon after they're released
everyone 25 minutes ago [-]
I find the stream rips to be really shitty quality.. The original source is very low bitrate, compressed tae fuck. I find for stream rips from netflix for example I need to download a 4k rip in order to watch in 1080, and that's acceptable.
1970-01-01 37 minutes ago [-]
/top/48hall seems pretty fresh and healthy. What do you mean by stagnant?
dyauspitr 38 minutes ago [-]
Torrenting is alive and well… for recent releases and new stuff. All the old stuff is pretty hard to find now. When demonoid was around you could find just about everything. The worst part is for a lot of it there isn’t a legal way to get them either.
everyone 22 minutes ago [-]
That's the tragedy of the MAFIAA death throes period imo.. With all their lawsuits and bullshit they never even slowed down the big public trackers and torrents of the popular stuff they were trying to stop being shared.. Instead they killed loads of small private trackers which housed exquisitely curated collections of stuff that wasn't available anywhere else for neither love nor money.
moi2388 33 minutes ago [-]
I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents. There literally isn’t anything that came out and isn’t on there.
xnx 41 minutes ago [-]
> on newer (public) sites
Example of said sites?
Retr0id 37 minutes ago [-]
rutracker, 1337x, nyaa are the first that come to mind.
johncoltrane 36 minutes ago [-]
ext in tonga
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edit: I'm very sorry for making a relevant comment that extrapolate on the content of the shared article.
Google had been asked to remove Pirate Bay in results. They didn't. On Google, and I don't really know how it changed over the years, but there'd be a notice about links removed due to DMCA, if it came to that, basically. (Okay, Youtube, which they own, has always been a bit aggressive, and that isn't nothing)
Facebook? Facebook wouldn't let you SEND a link to PB in private messages. It still deletes your post now if you link Anna's Archive. This after apparently heavily scraping LibGen
I don't love Google for a lot of reasons but I damn well feel better using it compared to Mr. "Dumb Fucks"
I'm vaguely aware that other people than the original group are running it now.
Also, I don't torrent much, but it seems pretty stagnant and dead. It's been occasionally useful to me to find older stuff that doesn't seem to be well represented on newer (public) sites.
Example of said sites?