A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.
I finally got it, and decided I’d seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I’ll just keep this one going.
I rather just stick to Real-Debrid, and never worry about seeds nor seeding ever again. Cached torrents are the future!
Disagree. I use a paid streaming service that’s every bit as convenient as Netflix, but has a library consisting of almost anything you could possibly think of. No need to hope somebody’s seeding it, or go searching through dozens of different sites. It’s one super easy go-to source that not only has the content, but remembers where you left off, allows user profiles, etc. That convenience is worth paying for.
Unless it was something really obscure I never had problems finding seeders.
I use the search engine function inside qBitTorrent and I sort the results descending by the number of seeders. To enable it go to View > Search Engine (iirc) and follow these simple instructions.
qBitTorrent also has a feature that lets you download a torrent in order of their pieces, and also download the first and last piece first, which is basically streaming. No need to wait for the download to finish first.
If needed, VLC has a built-in plugin called VLsub which lets you find and automatically load subtitles for almost anything. To enable it go to View > VLSub.
qBitTorrent + VLC is my Netflix. Never asked me a cent, but to me they are priceless and more convenient than any subscription service.
On Android I use LibreTorrent + VLC.
Seems pretty on-brand to me, considering what the general consensus of pirates has always been: it’s not about unwillingness to pay, it’s about unwillingness to deal with bullshit.
Worth it for the Gbps download speeds. I can download two 50+ GB titles, install them, decide I don’t like them, and uninstall 'em, all in under an hour.
Not to mention that you need a VPN for torrent clients (and not Debrid), so at the end of the day, you’re paying for piracy regardless. So it makes sense to just go with the cheaper and faster option.
I’m from eastern europe. VPN is not required here because the law doesn’t care about online piracy. A VPN only slows down my internet speed.
Since Real-Debrid has a copy of the torrent’s data, does it do any seeding?
Not as far as I’m aware, but the way I justify it is that the more people who are using a Debrid service, the less strain it puts on torrents because of fewer leechers. Real-Debrid only needs to download the file once, and then every subscriber has immediate access to it.
You can always just use a seedbox instead. The main reason why I use Debrid is because it allows me to stream any show or movie I want instantly to my TV, without having to wait, the instant downloads for games & software is just an added bonus. So for me it’s worth the tradeoff of not being able to do my rightful duty and seed.
Stop using torrents and start using newsgroups.
Here’s a good guide, t’s old, but nothing should be too different.
https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started
Use radar instead of Couch Potato.
You can find up to date guides for any of the individual products.
I recommend NZBgeek’s lifetime subscription.
Then, set torrents as your news group’s backup and you should be good to go.
Spend an evening setting this up and you’ll be golden. Just subscribe to any shows or movies you want and it will automatically download them when they are available.
You can set preferences around quality, file size, language, format, etc
Let me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)
Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(
sounds like pure intimidation to me.
1/ one could have “never received this letter”
2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?
3/ if it ever goes to court, “i don’t know, i wasnt even home that day” should always work no?
i don’t understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer’s spam…
Oh no it isn’t. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send “Unterlassungerklärungen” which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.
Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of “Störerhaftung” which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can’t you will automatically be liable.
This isn’t any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.
How effective are VPNs at preventing this? I’ve heard it recommended the most as a counter measure.
can you come back and tag this post with the correct language? would be neat
I’m trying but the save button just loops endlessly…
What difference does it make? Aren’t you able to see the comment?
How do you tag a comment with a language? Wasn‘t aware that that‘s a thing.
Real debrid. Torrent to the cloud. Everything becomes available to other users.
It does it all. Debrid is the cloud, and a whole bunch of others things. You just copy and paste a magnet link into the page. And it gets the file for you. And if someone else has used that torrent, it’s already on the debrid server so there’s no wait. 95% of the time it’s already there. Then you’re just downloading a file like you would any other file from a webpage, off the debrid server. Usually at the full speed of your isp. No p2p. I can stream 100 gb movies off their servers. Or download them quickly.
Really 5 EUR: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/products/vpn/#pricing
They base off Mullvad which removed the ability to forward ports, not the 1st choice for P2P, but anything else
If you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.
The only time I seed, really. If there’s only like 2 or 3 seeders and they have shit connections, I’ll seed for a while. Not that my upload speed is any good…
But on a thing with thousands of seeders and maybe 20 leeches? Why? 🤷🏻♂️
