Thread 106897917

Miku Edition

>Not sure what private trackers are all about?
A private tracker is an invite-only torrent website. Each member shares common goals: collecting, preserving and discussing media.

>Have a question?
- FAQ https://archive.is/UVQkn
- WIKI https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers
- NEWFAG PYRAMID https://inviteroute.github.io/graph or https://inviteroute.github.io/sheet/
- STUDY https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F379FE0CB50DF502F0075119FD3E060
- SPREADSHEET https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/
- TEN CURRY COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/dBbdE73M
- TEN NEON COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/Ud2pGYaE
- RED SPAMMER'S BIBLE https://rentry.org/69zbxh4h

Use >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.

Remember the following:
>READ THE OP BEFORE MAKING A FUCKING QUESTION YOU RETARDED FAGGOT
>It doesn't matter if you use the same username in different trackers, the staff still share your IP with each other.
>Staff is reading, being /marked/ is not a meme, and even if it is, it isn't.
>Don't ask for invites, it's private for a reason.
>If starting out you should interview for RED, rank to Torrent Master, wait on account age, and get invites from there. THAT'S IT THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO

>【NEWS】
>>106871137 RED wants to make 2FA mandatory
>>106872679 track's are old
>>106877589 another type of trackers
>>106883435 chink rippers are spyware according to this trusty 4channer
>>106883935 anon finished bad girl. good job!
>>106895439 Halloween event on TIK


Previous thread: >>106870777

>>106897917 (OP)
>RED wants to make 2FA mandatory
it's all because of those idiots who use the same passwords on everything they do

>>106897929
redactedniggers1
animebytesniggers1
...
etcniggers1

problem solved

why cant they just make it mandatory for staff..

>>106897916
It's the way they talk about movies

>>106897929
Why don't they offer the option to generate a good random password at signup or check a password passes various conditions?
>minimum length 32
>at least 16 letters
>at least 8 digits
>at least 8 symbols

>>106897929
What's stopping you from just enabling 2FA, anon? It's just another click on sign in.
You do have a password manager with built-in 2FA capabilities... Right?

>>106898084
>You do have a password manager with built-in 2FA capabilities... Right?
I don't trust some computer program with secret information, they're all backdoored.

>>106898110
I literally use Microsoft Authenticator

>>106898084
>You do have a password manager with built-in 2FA capabilities... Right?
You do use a seperate password manager db for your TOTP stuff... Right? Because if you don't, you might as well stop using TOTP at all.
>>106898110
>I don't trust some computer program with secret information, they're all backdoored.
Stop posting your bait on this site then, tranny. If anything out there has a backdoor it will be this website.

>>106898146
holy backdoorinos

>>106898148
>Because if you don't, you might as well stop using TOTP at all.
I actually agree with you on that one.
Of course I also have Ente Auth on my phone, for those accounts that really do matter to me.
But for bitching trackers, that requires 2FA to sign in with VPN enabled, I really do not care about best security practices.

>>106898148
>Stop posting your bait on this site then, tranny. If anything out there has a backdoor it will be this website.

>see c++ program on github
>download compiled executable
>check on virus total
>20/80
>download source
>compile
>check on virus total
>0/80

There's so much stuff out there people assume it's safe when in fact it's backdoored.

One good password is all you need.

>>106898273
>One good password is all you need.
A different one for every instance.

>>106898273
>There's so much stuff out there people assume it's safe when in fact it's backdoored.
NTA, but surely you can trust at least the major 2 (or 3 with 1Password) to not include malicious stuff in their builds.

I get that random .exe's from Github can be a gamble at times, but I wouldn't expect a company, dedicated to providing security solutions, to mess up on such an integral part of their business model.
If Bitwarden started bundling spyware into their downloads, it would be a complete suicide of their company.

Nobody talks about Bib on ptg, because you all waste your time gooning and burning your eyes with capeshit instead of reading books

>>106898856
i bet BIB don't even have him >>106815583

>>106897917 (OP)
Adorable Miku!

>>106898856
A picture is worth a thousand words. You are the one reading slop for casuals, true kinoseurs are watching films.

>>106898921
how lewd!. Miku stealing Teto's clothes just like that.

>>106898972
damn posted the wrong pic.

Who made these?

>>106898997
you ruined it

>>106898997
/ptg/ did

>>106899009
There are all kinds of variations (on top of each other, besides each other, individual charts) on the archives. But this isn't the most up to date version, I think.

>>106898997
We did, collectively.
Also you're using the old one. This one is the updated version.
>>106874533

>>106899010
A single ptg anon must have made it. I wonder what tool he used.

>>106899021
Which tool did you use? I don't need my charts hypersexualized.

>>106899041
literally Excel lol

>>106899045
Where did you get the numbers of justwatch and the other streaming services?

>>106899041
>Which tool did you use?
I was not the Anon who put the image together, but I was part of the thread where we gathered the information -- hence the "collectively" statement.

>I don't need my charts hypersexualized.
The image was put there deliberately.
The old version, which you linked initially, started spreading on normie sites like Reddit and Facebook, and put a lot of unneeded attention on PTP and BTN.
Once normies realize that they can "get more on PassMeTheSnackz than Netflix", they want to gain access there, so they buy invites from shady sellers.

These charts were made by /ptg/ for /ptg/, exclusively.
Putting pr0n on them makes sure that they stay that way.

>>106899041
>I don't need my charts hypersexualized.
It was intentionally created that way to filter out faggots like you

>>106899056
i didn't make it, but you can probably look in the archives when it was made either for the 2024 or the 2025 version

non sexualized version

>>106899158
nigga thats outdated as fuck you are retarded and this is useless

>>106899176
It's just as up to date as the other one, February 2025.

>>106899158
ewww delete!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvk00r9ayI
>makes videos showing how to use shady programs that ddos trackers
>records himself browsing Torrent-Invites
>gets cabal'd
kek

>>106899345
Likes flies to shit.

Using AB for seasonals was the biggest mistake I ever made, now I gotta seed those trashy episodes for three fucking days. On nyaa I could have just HnRd

>>106897020
>Do you mean 50MB/s or 50Mbps?

whats the difference?

>>106899447
Then stay on nyaa like the jeet you are.

MIKU EDITION

Miku loves all of you and she will never leave you. Heads up ptg better days will come

Where can I watch this? tt34110771

>>106899158
bro please don't repost my old cringe charts when there's a perfectly good new sexualized version

Youtube and tubi are all anyone really needs.

>>106897917 (OP)
>logged out of the tracker
>log in
>need to click a link in an email
>email is a fake I used only to register years ago
>email account was deleted for inactivity

I want to use a vpn but the tracker I'm using does not permit using VPNS on the website, is there a way to disable it for the tracker specifically? Not sure how this works.

>>106901192
Imagine announcing to your ISP that you visit that particular IP that is known to host illegal files. Imagine trusting admins to not log your IP and not rat you out when they get a scary email from glowies.
The rules on the VPN use is to filter out gullible retards.

>>106901349
I'm talking about the website not the client

>>106901349
>announcing to your ISP that you visit that particular IP that is known to host illegal files.
but then how do I use it with the vpn then? I can whitelist a specific ip but I use mullvad and it changes sometimes

>>106901349
Imagine living in a shithole where the ISP cares about this shit. Over here the only reason some of the bigger ISPs block certain sites is because they are forced to do so because of a court order, however this doesn't happen that often and the bigger ones try to fight back before simply giving in. https://tweakers.net/nieuws/81883/ook-andere-providers-moeten-the-pirate-bay-blokkeren.html
I believe those kind of blocks can easily be bypassed with a different DNS but I don't even care to check because I don't use any of those sites anyway.

Either way, as long as you're not using a piracy site that mainly has content for your country (and even then it depends on how much your country actually cares about this shit), you'll be fine. Here's something that's related but I don't think that the issue here is specifically for ISPs or the private tracker logging IPs. The users were actively sharing stuff through plex and that's probably the biggest reason they went after them. https://torrentfreak.com/courts-sentence-men-for-pirating-thousands-of-movies-tv-shows-including-via-plex-210325/ Oh and the private trackers apparently had their data encrypted, however there's probably no actual proof of that https://torrentfreak.com/denmarks-largest-torrent-tracker-shuts-down-after-owners-reported-arrest-201023/

>>106884346
if eac3to is so great why is it not able to rip dovi/hdr discs?

big server + PM4K -> max comfy

What can you tell me about Xthor and Le Saloon?

Gazelle down for anyone else?

>>106903162
GazelleGames.net operates a highly redundant five-nines service and has experienced negligible downtime over its entire history. Your statement is factually inaccurate and harmful to the service's reputation. If you continue to spread disinformation about GazelleGames.net expect to face the necessary legal repercussions in reaction to your continued attacks that directly damage the service and its community.

Neons, how the hell do you handle deletions for your automated arr server. I'm using sonarr, radarr, overseerr, and maintainerr with rtorrent. Getting rtorrent to delete torrent files and data after a certain amount of time ideally when it's removed from sonarr/radarr using maintainerr rules is getting me so fucked up, I can't seem to get it right.

I NEED MY BIBEO BAMES COME BACK GGN COME BACK COME BACK BACK BACK

>>106903543
Look into "Ratio Rules". It's a custom plugin for ruTorrent, that works in relation to the built-in "Ratio Groups".
You will need to install it manually, though that is rather simple.
With this plugin you can set up certain rules for your torrents, and configure when these should be applied.

I use it to set a seedtime of X days, if the Label includes "TRCKR" (just an example).
You could have it target your default sonarr/radarr label, or customize seedtime for each torrent, based on their announce-url.

>>106903762
Thanks! This seems like the easiest solution. Does sonarr/radarr have a way to unmonitor+delete when rtorrent deletes these following Ratio Rules? Meaning does sonarr recognize its hardlink is dead and clean it up or do I have to use something like maintainerr anyway?

>>106903836
That's an interesting question.
In my setup, I do not use hardlinks, but rather have Sonarr copy the file over in full to my PLEX folder.

Sonarr will only care about that final file -- in my case the copied file, and in your case the hardlink -- so you can do whatever you want with the original torrent.
But if you delete the original torrent, it leaves the hardlink hanging.
Sonarr wouldn't change anything in this situation. It would just leave the hardlink as broken.

You most likely will need maintainerr to clean this up for you in the end, though that is outside of my scope of knowledge.

>>106898997
why not HDB

>>106903966
I think you're right about that, was trying to get around copying the file over due to seedbox capacity. I'll give this a try!

>>106903994
HDB does not display unique Movies/TV Shows.
They only display total amount of torrents.

Unless you manually scrape the data and de-duplicate, or send Staff a PM asking for unique titles, it's not possible to track this.

>>106904096
I am staff on HDBits, what do you want to know?

>>106904262
total numbers of unique TV shows and movies

>>106904267
Unique Movie titles: 142601
TV: 42549

>>106904284
awesome, thanks!
should we recompile the rest of the stats now that we have HDB?

>>106904314
Yep already did! Check your unicasts ;)

>>106904345
got it, thanks

Proof that humour is not lost on /ptg/.
Thanks for the chuckle, anon.

>>106903966
>>106903996
I'm an idiot and didn't realize hardlinks only remove data when the last location is deleted, no such thing as a dead hardlink. So I just have to use Ratio Groups + Rules for rtorrent side, and maintainarr for arr side. Not too bad!

Why are they called private trackers when everyone basically already knows everything about them?

>>106897929
Some idiots also run infostealer malware on their machines and get raped that way. This means session cookies that are not locked to a specific IP address should always have a short timeout because those can also be stolen.

>>106905222
They are private trackers not secret trackers.

>>106905241
Trackers could store the whole IP address history for an account and notice when someone from a completely different IP range logs in.

>>106905245
Are there any interesting secret trackers to talk about?

>>106905305
There's the issue of false positives and people with an actual profit motive being able to adapt. I could get a residential proxy from the same ISP and general area where you live and clone your User-Agent then log in pretending to be you. So think of it like this. Private trackers, already on the decline on the development side of things get given a choice between even more invasive tracking of members or increase security and ease the burden on themselves. Some people are going to screech about the latter here but do you think they are going to care?

>>106905313
There are some you are not allowed to talk about in public. You should understand that throughout the history of /ptg/ we have never respected these rules. If sites like retrowithin or exigo were censored it was usually as a joke knowing someone else would reply with it uncensored. Really these trackers did not even want to be discussed censored, euphemistically, in any form at all. The most frequently discussed sites with these rules are not trackers but are nzbs.in and omgwtfnzbs.

>>106905313
someone post the list

anon please refrain from mentioning the following sites:
DOE
Nzbs.MOE
Nzbs.IN (dia)
UHD100.com
GPO.im
OMGwtfnzbs.org
Wigornot.com/f/
Fakedoor.store/blog/ (prev hpj.cc)
Smoothnesspuma skull.facefromouter.space
RetroWithin.com
GardenCenterStage.org
inTheShaDow shadowthein.net
EXIGO exigomusic.org
MusicVids music-vid.com
scr.club scrclbituueehy76qmwfzgqbyeltoed25mh5tufptua2fkbik4dvteid.onion
ArtOfMisdirection.com
soitgo.es IntoTheInter.net
deepbass9

FUCK HUNO

>>106905381
You will be cabal banned within 72 hours.

>>106900632
somebody tried to start a usenet thread again

>>106905884
Those aren't usenet piracy threads but people trying to larp as internet oldfags using it for discussion. As if pretending to be a university student in the late 80s to early 90s is going to save the internet and make it less shit. As if modernity is the problem and not the users.

Grohl it's been 3 weeks since I fixed my ratio, can you return the gnomes to my front yard already. This isn't justice it's pure sadism.

>>106905381
>DOE
What is this site ? address ?

>>106905381
ITI is quite based af. Path to Wigornot?

>>106906191
Being a somethingawful oldfag

Best way into AOM?

>>106906200
become a magician

How is gayzelle still down

>>106906195
so there's no invite system?

>>106906290
No

>>106905809
LOVE HUNO
LOVE PTP

>>106906286
it's been up and down. just check in every few hours and you'll be able to snatch stuff

>>106906399
Can't they fix the DDOS for good?

>>106905313
yes, but those are secret for a reason. like *** or ***

>>106906474
wait for the skript kiddie to get bored or use cloudflare are pretty much it, and ZeDo doesn't want to use cloudflare afaik

>>106903265
>has tracker outages every month anyway

https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
time to updoot

>>106906725
>HTTP Connection Reuse
nice, zed'll be happy

>>106906507
>>106906474
Honestly, I don't think I can blame them. I think everyone's encountered a bad staff member and wished they could do something about it.

>>106906839
At GGN? Their staff have always been super nice and polite from my dealings with them

>>106906725
>https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/releases/tag/v0.16.1
>time to updoot
fucking finally.
great update

stupid nigger script kiddie
I play like 1 game a year and the one time I check ggn it's down

>>106906882
it's not ideal but there's always fitgirl, >>>/t/1323500, and >>>/t/1354050 depending on where you live or if you have a vpn

>>106906882
check your general trackers

>>106906929
good shout, better than nothing ty

>>106906952
ty 2

>>106906725
TIL rtorrent's torrent library named "libtorrent" is completely different than qbittorrent's torrent library named "libtorrent".

>>106906725
>>106906741

>Reusing connections is so old-school. Can we just move to HTTP2 with pipelining/multiplexing In 2025 it's insanely unnecessary to not advance to at least HTTP2.

>Additionally, it doesn't look like it enables SSL session reuse, soooo it's still doing the actually computationally expensive part (SSL handshaking) every request. SSL session reuse is also not the greatest since it still isn't securely implemented everywhere

>However, HTTP2 requires the usage of SSL/TLS and is designed for long-lived connections with multiple requests. Ideally, if clients just kept connections established more persistently and delivered requests over a single connection without reconnecting and SSL session reuse.

So it reuses only the socket connection and not the whole secure connection???
What's the point lmao.

>>106907032
where did you see that? the TLS is on the socket, it would be hard to not reuse it.

squid is broken again reeeee

>>106907091
>https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent/issues/563

>>106906882
Just use cs.rin.ru

>>106907143
YES BRO SOUNDS SAFE

>>106907187
This mf never heard of steamdb hashes

>>106907225
SCAM SIR

>>106907113
okay i read the code, and it appears it uses the simple curl handle for creating a tracker request, and not the multi handle where reuse it set.
but idk, github code viewer is shit and cpp is cancer
someone should test it

>>106907424
>someone should test it
Yes.

>>106907424
>cpp is cancer
skill issue

>>106907445
it's not
imagine having code in header files and : m_handle(curl_multi_init()) constructors

>>106907465
>imagine having code in header files
this is not a cpp issue

>>106906725
Oh I already updated a month or 2 ago... To qbittorrent...

News from Blutopia: We now accept bank transfers and paypal. A capable money launderer has been found. Donate now!

>>106907742
pls redeem the bank account saar

>>106907742
Bank of India readies itself...

What's the best tracker for courses on advanced topics in computer science such as cryptanalysis, malware analysis, and vulnerability discovery?

>>106907919
the existing trackers for shit like this are pajeet tier (afaik theres only TheGeeks, and its admins are power tripping trannies)
stick to the 0day trackers and download scene courses

>>106907930
Yeah I fucking hate TheGeeks. Their economy is shit and so is their staff. I heard there was an IT-specific tracker called LearnFlakes, but I have no idea where (or if) they recruit. I'll stick to 0day and general trackers. Thanks, anon

>>106907919
youtube, google and annas archive

>>106905222
You are overestimating the average knowledge most people have. The layers are
>Pirate streaming sites
>Stremio
Zoomer filter
>Public trackers
>Private trackers
/g/ filter
>Scene

found some guy on ptp with 15k movie ratings
>average rating: 40%

>>106909236
you forgot to mention usenet, dc++, DDL, and (S)FTP (though I guess the latter relates more to the Scene)

>>106909267
yeah DDL above public trackers, FTP is technology used by scene so I would have had to include libtorrent or something for consistency

>>106909247
I don't get it, my average rating on most places is around 70%, because why would I watch something I'm not somewhat confident I'll like?

>>106909357
>start to watch a movie
>not good
>close after 10 minutes
>rate it 10%
you will run out of movies you somewhat confidently like after 15k
and also, exploring the unknown is fun too

>>106909247
I keep finding disabled accounts that are like 1 month to a year old, whats up with that?

>>106909727
Probably user invited people, who didn't put any effort, got the lucky ticket and didn't use their account at all.
Or account/invite buyers.

>>106909828
I've invited people from lower tier trackers to PTP that let their accounts die on it, but have their accounts active on the worse one. Very strange people.

>>106910003
I always feel sad when I finally get a friend in torrenting, invite him to an actual good tracker, and then see that he became disabled because he never logged in afterwards.

Sometimes people just don't know what's good for them.
I would never dare to invite anyone to PTP though.

>>106910148
invite me
you have no balls

>>106910390
just drop the websites you don't need
I have like 20 accounts and only login to 3, PTP, AB, GGn is all I need

>>106910157
sent :^)

>>106909247
That sounds like me if I watched more movies. But I'm a normal person and don't partake in things I know I don't enjoy. Why keep watching movies when you hate them?

>>106910698
thanks
btw i'm selling PTP invites, unicast for details

>>106910390
2 weeks? That's insane.
If the tracker requires you to sign in every 2 weeks, it's probably not one worth keeping.

Like >>106910408 says, just drop the ones you don't really use. No one needs 28 different trackers.
If you let your account become disabled for inactivity, you can always get it reactivated in the future, if you come to need it by then.

>>106910390
>make bookmark folder
>bookmark all trackers in that folder
>right click folder
>'open all'
>click through them to make sure didn't lose cookie
>done

As for the download activity part, I think they lie about that, but just find out what the shortest interval is and do a quick download runthrough every [that long] interval. Or pay once for the immunity (and if it's not one time for immunity then it's a dogshit site)

>>106910759
No cabal site has a download requirement

>actually want to play a new game for the first time in months
>grab the torrent from ggn
>cant download it because the tracker has been down for a day and a half

epic

Are there any media players that track episode progress ie I can just add a folder as a season then click on that season to resume it at any time

>>106911069
PLEX, Jellyfin, Emby.
There are also 3rd party scripts that allows you to sync your progress to Trakt.tv automatically.

>>106911069
look into something like plex / jellyfin

>>106911069
Any? I know mpv can.

>>106911069
MPC-HC keeps resume data. It doesn't behave exactly like you described but pretty close

Why hasn't qbittorrent been updated in over 3 months? Is it dead?

>>106911926
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/milestone/102
>Last updated 2 days ago
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/milestone/97
>Last updated 4 hours ago
I guess not enough commits that are big enough that they think it's worth a release

Why is GGn still dead??

>>106912447
people did not respect the DDOS guy... we should have listened/unbanned xim

bro probably has a bunch of cash and can keep this up indefinitely. GGN can't go on like this forever.

>>106912789
They could always just put the site behind cloudflare until the guy fucks off then remove it after, it's not that difficult to do

>>106872679
>Some trackers are over twenty years old, that's crazy. Torrenting will never die.
it can. trackers ALWAYS need young blood of all kinds

OPS hit user cap, will not be raised. User invites are likely to be disabled soon. It's over for neons.

>>106913612
>One or two seeders who seed the same 100MiB torrent for one year will earn 346K bonus points. Under the old formula, a single seeder will earn 339k points and two seeders would earn 275k points.
What? Going off the BP rates page that's more than what my entire seedbase generates combined?

>>106912789
>respect
lmao, someone stupid enough to buy an invite only deserves ridicule. The only thing I respect that can be bought is fuckloads of storage and a massive seedsize

Redpill me on private trackers. 99.9% of anything I've needed in the last several years has been on either rutracker or usernet and in either case I don't need to worry about seeding or ratios

>>106914473
>99.9% of anything I've needed
sounds like if you're happy with your setup, you're good
>usenet
private trackers are free if you happen to be paying for usenet
>rutracker
private torrents are better seeded, my connection almost always gets fully saturated by seedboxes
if you don't want to seed and don't mind acquiring usenet keys however you acquire them then you're probably fine. There's a chance that 0.1% of media you can't find is available on private trackers

>>106914473
Yeah, like piracy is widespread enough that that's going to be the case. I find most of the benefit to private trackers comes from

* Organization: This depends a lot on the tracker but for example search a movie on PTP and you can see all the encodes of that particular title setup on one page along with info about the movie, trailers, etc, makes for a much nicer user experience than sifting through releases to try to find the stuff you want on a public tracker
* Quality Control: Trackers tend to have rules about what can and can't be uploaded, and users value their accounts and tend to avoid uploading bullshit since it can come back on them.
* Completeness: As I said before if you are just looking for well known mainstream stuff it's probably been uploaded in a million different places anyway, but private trackers tend to appeal to those kinds of data hoarders who have lots of rare releases that might not be as easy to find.
* Community: This can mean a lot of different things but private trackers tend to have a knowledgeable and dedicated community based around their subject of choice. This doesn't just extend to stuff like the forums but for example most of the well respected trackers do their own internal releases of things that they share with other tracker users, users can submit requests and generally have a decent chance of someone else finding and uploading whatever rare thing you're looking for, that kind of thing.

That's what comes to mind to me immediately. But yeah, if your needs are well met by what you have now it's not like you need to join private trackers. I find them to be a decent quality of life upgrade and would be sad if I lost access but I also never had to work particularly hard to get into them either so I sympathize with people who are just starting to climb the pyramid now.

is the ggn tracker down?

>>106914629
MAN, I hate it when I can't torrent vidyas

>>106914473
We use private trackers, because we care more about that 0.01%.

If you can find everything you need from public trackers, then you don't need to get involved with private ones.

My taste in TV is so obscure, that not even the most elite private trackers can fill my need any longer.
I've resorted to getting involved with closed trading circles now, where you buy/trade old TV recordings from collectors.
Very niche indeed. Would not recommend.

>>106914693
How does one reach this point?

>>106914706
roll a 6 for autism

>>106914706
By desperation, I guess.

I always thought that getting into BTN would be the final goal, and that it would be like a holy grail full of everything I wanted, and even stuff I didn't know I wanted.
But reality quickly sets in, once you reach your goal.

BTN has a lot of things, sure, but far from everything released. Especially for my niche.

In my quest to find these things, I've stumbled upon a lot of like-minded people. I guess that was the start of it all.
Once you get to know someone, who shares the same passion of you, you can easily get introduced to other ones, and that's when the ball starts rolling.

Now a days I'm focusing more on resurrecting old TV shows, which have been lost for years.
That's a whole other process, and involves finding production members, contestants, and even hosts, tracking down their socials, and sending unprompted messages/calls to them, their spouse, or even their family members.

I'll gladly drive 5 hours, to some random persons house, if it means I can leave with a bunch of VHS tapes I can then digitize for them, and of course share with my group of friends.

I know I'm weird, but at least it makes my life feel meaningful.

>>106914836
Do you actually watch them, or is it more about the collection aspect?

>>106914836
not him but godspeed anon

>>106914836
are you uploading them to BTN or TVV? please do

>>106914839
It's unfortunately more about collecting now a days. Once you have a TV show, with 20 seasons found, and you only miss one of two early ones, it starts to feel more like a mission you need to end.

I used to watch a lot of the shows (which is why I started in the first place), but I don't really find the same enjoyment from that any more. You can easily get burnt out, once your entire life starts to evolve about some of these shows.

There's also constantly getting new things released, so I try to keep up-to-date on those instead.

>>106914843
Thank you anon.
I've talked about this before, in here, and it's always a 50/50 split of people either commending my work, or telling me that I'm a complete fucking autistic faggot for going to these lengths.
I've come to conclude that both things are probably right.

>>106914836
You're digitizing with vhs-decode and a CX card and not just grabbing the composite signal with a cheapo $20 chinese capture card, right?

>>106914836
Why not make requests and do uploads to share with everyone?

>>106914836
>BTN has a lot of things, sure, but far from everything released. Especially for my niche.
BTN is absolutely terrible for foreign shows. They only have American slop.

>>106915668
So make requests and get uploading. To be honest, it's expected for an Anglosphere tracker to primarily have Anglosphere media. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it just means there's a niche to fill. It's not zero sum, after all.

>>106915668
This is not entirely true. I have downloaded foreign shows on many occasions. But here's the thing. BTN's selection of them reflects the piracy scene in the countries from which these shows originate. BTN does not have a bunch of dedicated people ripping and uploading foreign shows themselves. So if there are not trackers, or de facto groups releasing this content good luck getting it.

>>106915823
>I have downloaded foreign shows on many occasions
Probably the newest Amazon and Netflix shows, I'm not talking about those.

>>106915872
Lmao absolutely not. I love when neons try to speak as if they know everything about a subject.

>>106915823
Yeah I've seen this come up a lot honestly that some shows that only air on broadcast TV essentially become lost media a lot of the time because nobody bothered to record it, especially in other countries

>>106915925
Piracy culture is also becoming diluted in the streaming age. The country I live in had multiple private trackers dedicated to it's movies and TV shows. Now it's mostly just a bunch of ad ridden for profit streaming sites. There's just one guy on avistaz ripping movies and shows from here now. Years and years worth of shows are already lost media and most of it nobody probably even cares about. There's the sheer volume of it, popularity of soap opera type formats, variety shows, etc. A lost history yes but how much of it would actually have value to someone besides nostalgia? Whatever exists at TV stations in their archives would still need someone actively digging through looking for things of historical value.

one ptp invite please saar

>>106916101
sent :^)

>>106916019
You should get a job at the archives of your biggest TV station that produced those shows, you can rip them from there and upload to trackers. Been there, done that.

>>106916103
thank you for redeeming the card saaaar. have a pleasant day

is https://github.com/Arcadia-Solutions/arcadia the hero we need to finally shed ourselves of poonit3d?

>>106916546
let's hope so. Are any trackers running it yet?

>>106916546
What's the shopping cart at the top? Streaming links?

Love me some milkie.

>>106916546
>The backend is built with Rust for speed and safety. The frontend is built with Typescript and VueJS, rendered client-side.

>>106916777
Nice that it has multiple trailer slots. They should add poster slots too.
But for movies at least, PTP's layout is still overall much better than this though, in my humble opinion.

>>106909727
Many users who got in through RED or OPS also got the hammer for not seeding their 500 uploads on RED. If you ever stop seeding those 500 uploads and get de ranked on RED/OPS (even to elite) you get cabal banned, even if it’s a year later lol

>>106912789
He's probably some richfag who believes he deserves everything because he has money.

>>106915755
>get uploading
i do. i'm in the top 250 users of torrent count uploaded. the question is why is everyone else so useless? there are unlimited amount of easily accessible shows not yet uploaded to btn. why don't they?
but obviously i know the answer.

>>106917058
All the shows I care about are already on the tracker. I could spend all day hunting down things I don't care about. Filling up my hard drives with them. But BTN does not make this task very rewarding. If there's a minor issue with one of my uploads a staff member is gonna bitch me out in PMs and remove it. As if I'm going to go above and beyond to fix technical flaws on something obtained from a streaming source and do a webrip.

>>106916889
>If you ever stop seeding those 500 uploads and get de ranked on RED/OPS (even to elite) you get cabal banned, even if it’s a year later lol
Not true.

>>106917058
They should make a BTN2 with way fewer torrents, have a user who is totally not some staff at BTN put permanent requests there for stuff BTN doesn't have and put a recruitment to BTN with something like 100 uploaded requested episodes.
Recruiting someone who does 500 music torrents is not a good indicator for how good he is on a TV tracker, there should be way more lower trackers with similar content that provide access to the higher ones, rather than relying on two music trackers that are now almost closed.

I said this before and it needs to be said again. BTN is the worst tracker because of it's staff. People here bitch about the PTP staff because of politics or whatever, as if not being able to say clown world is the biggest problem. Meanwhile if you want to upload something that is not perfect to BTN you need staff approval, which you may or may not get. Some staff members act like stuck up little bitches who want to micromanage whole categories and arbitrarily enforce rules they made up on the fly. Contrast that with PTP where they are trying to build the strongest possible archive and if there's something wrong with an upload you can just trump it.

I kinda wish BTN would just die.

>>106917119
>make a shittier tracker with even less members that can't even coast off the residual prestige of how important it used to be when nobody else knew how to do widevine web-dls

>>106917122
PTP is unironically better for one season shows than BTN.

>>106917122
I need to make a correction, I meant to say worst cabal tracker. Not worst tracker. It's an important distinction to make because however much it frustrates me it's not because it's curry or something.

>>106917122
I like BTN though

BTN definitely is one of the rather useless cabal trackers I joined

>>106916889
That sounds retarded, what if i just ask them to close my RED account?

I have to thank copyright trolls some day, without them I would have never went on the path to private trackers. If those bastards had never blackmailed me, I would have never looked for alternatives to public trackers. Their actions against me caused hundreds of TBs worth of piracy. Fuck all copyright trolls.

>>106917244
based

Orph just fucked us bloody by nerfing tokens. Who will stand for this?

>>106917256
no one because no one uses OPS

Is apollo still worth joining

>>106917317
probably a good idea to join both xanax and pass the headphones tbdesu

LOVE BTN! warning, may not have every Belgian reality TV show from the 90s

>>106917403
If I only want to watch the newest marvel slop I don't need BTN

>>106917410
sorry nobody got around to uploading your favorite 70s Norwegian sitcom

I let my U2 account get disabled. What now?

>>106902740
pm4k or plexkodiconnect. Which is the white man's choice?

>>106917556
>pm4k
Why not use Plex directly?

>>106917256
It's fine. They are still easy enough to get and hoard in large numbers. As long as that is true I am happy.

GGn bros it's over...the invite seller chads won

>>106917256
that's not enough. they should remove bonus points entirely

>>106917446
Wait a while, change IP and email, get recruited from a different tracker to the one you original got invited from.

>>106917701
kek, did you do that and it actually worked?

>>106917704
Do you think they are CIA agents specifically targetting you?

>>106917753
Don't tracker staff exchange IPs of users? And I have the same name everywhere, so I can't fool them anyway.

>>106917805
Oh, well you probably shouldn't try with the same username everywhere.

I don't think chinks are in #kgb but maybe they exchange info with each other privately. Nobody here knows.

>>106917877
U2 has non-chink recruiters, so I don't think their staff is exclusively chinese

>>106917753
yes

>>106916889
I doubt they're going to ban people for not permaseeding indefinitely, but I would definitely recommend seeding as long as you can, just in case.

>>106917054
What's the lore on the attacker and why they did it?

>>106917058
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've tried to do more obscure uploads like DVD images and remuxes that aren't commonly available. I did it so much that the BTN Overlord upload requirement is what pushed me to Overlord.

>>106917076
I can't speak for anyone else, but BTN staff has been cool with me when I made fuckups for uploads. I tried my best to show a good faith learning thing, though.

>>106917119
I do cross-uploads to MTV just to be nice, for whatever that's worth.

>>106917805
I doubt they talk outside their own sites that much in the first place, save for major events.

>>106918039
bought accounts and got banned multiple times. They're upset they got caught

>>106918064
i got ignored by BTN staff

>>106918113
Huh, I wonder why they got banned in the first place.

>>106917556
pm4k

>>106917572
official android client is shit (might be android/exoplayer fault though). Kodi playback is more reliable and supports more stuff

>>106918448
I see, on iOS Plex is great

I wish there were more anime on HDB

>>106918848
why? for good encodes?

>>106918128
They are super busy, especially after the floodgates got opened.

I once had a ticket go unanswered for about a month as well. Just simply sent a small nudge, and I got a reply after a few days.
BTN staff are indeed based. And especially if you show them that you're actually contributing, and not just freeloading.

>>106917805
They only exchange IPs if you're caught selling, cheating, or anything major shitty like that.

But like the other anon said, it's not like they have some crazy ways to figure out your entire dox.
All they know about you, is what you willingly give to them.
Your home IP, your seedbox IP, your email, and your username.
If you change all of these, you can easily get around cabal bans.

Just keep in mind that your location (based on your IP), says a lot more about you than what you might think.
If you live in some hillbilly town, with a population smaller than BLU, you're gonna stand out like a sore thumb.
Get a residential proxy, from a major city in your country, and you'll fly completely under the radar.

Or, you know, just don't get banned in the first place.

>>106919415
>residential proxy
I have never understood residential proxies. Aren't those just hacked computers that are part of a botnet?

>>106919454
Many of them are probably are.
There was a whole debacle about the popular VPN add-on "Hola" basically using the users home IP for this kind of shit.
If you buy a cheap "Android TV Box" from China, there's also a high likelihood it'll silently use your connection for shady shit on the side.

But not all residential proxies are obtained in shady ways.
Some vendors will buy IP ranges from various ISPs, and run the connections on their own hardware in their own datacenters.
And other times there's an incentive for users to share their connection, so they set everything up themselves fully knowing other people will be using it, and they then get a cut-back from the traffic that goes through.

Since Oppaitime isn't around, where's the cute and funny trackers at?

>>106919687
Do you know any reputable residential proxy providers? Not even for anything tracker related, but still might be interesting to look into them.

>>106919702
we all moved to cunnytime

>>106919415
I do wonder how the DDoSer kept getting caught, then. I recently evaded a ban on e621 and it's easier than you'd think. Best to keep a low profile, though, and change up your language a bit. Wait at least a few months first, too.

nice website ggn, what the fuck are you doing

>>106920097
it looks cool

>>106899447
>three fucking days
How will anon ever recover..

>>106920168
I don't have my PC running 24/7, so that means I have to seed more than three days

>>106920125
it's fucking broken go check

>>106920220
vinnie says it's up 25% of the time

>>106920220
the oldschool look without css is cool. now only the background is missing

>>106920225
I'm going to FUCK vinnie in the ass

So do you guys treat red as a stepping stone that you don't really ever go back to or is it a perpetual gateway to other trackers that you have to keep using forever?

>>106920459
i love RED and use it all the time to get music

>>106920459
I use RED for music and the Holy Trinity of trackers are recruiting there, so I'd say it's the best path.

I still don't get the point of private trackers when one can already torrent over a anonymous and separated network (namely i2p) without having to worry about getting caught by authorities.
>muh, download speed is crap
i2p is already faster than tor and could in theory improve with more active routers

>>106920571
a private tracker hosted on i2p would be cool

>>106920571
The torrents that are available over i2p are even fewer than the normal public torrents. Youll never get there what you actually want if you arent solely interested in mainstream slop

Can you change metadata of RED albums on your machine while still seeding them 100%?

>>106920611
new content is uploaded on postman's tracker everyday.
It is also relatively easy to make regular torrents available on i2p.

>>106920728
>new content is uploaded on postman's tracker everyday
That doesn't contradict my statement, the offering is still incredibly limited. I bet it won't have my obscure Iranian 50s arthouse slop there

>>106920750
All right, but wouldn't everyone benefit from using i2p?
Private trackers have more content simply because they are popular, not because they are a better solution.

>>106920788
Sure, anonymity wise it's better, but currently it's kinda slow and limited, so I would never bother with it. I'm also satisfied with the privacy of private trackers in the sense that they're invite only and no copyright trolls can get to me.

>>106919704
Reputable ones would be VPN providers.
I know that at least Surfshark and Windscribe offers residential (dedicated) connections.

Unfortunately most of the other ones in my knowledge are more shady sites.
Places where you shouldn't use your real email, and only pay in crypto etc.

>>106920459
RED was made for the aboose!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL1AV_eAWps

>>106920928
flac on tidal when

I wanna rip and upload this to red

>>106920618
no

If I upload something to red and a mod asks me where did I get it from (since it's a bad looking flac) and I say got it from squid.wtf will I be ok or is it somehow against the rules to upload stuff from there?

>>106921033
squid.wtf doesn't release content, say Tidal/qobuz or whatever the actual source is and hope it's a lossy master

don't be a retard

>>106921084
yes i know but what happens if he asks me for receipt or some other shit like that do I just say "I don't have" and hopes he moves on? or am i just overthinking and this shit doesn't even happen?

>>106917256
>Without wanting to make things "difficult", this is something we want to change, and plan to do that by giving people a bigger incentive to upload, and a bigger incentive to seed.
if they want a bigger incentive to upload they should talk to cabal buttbuddies and lower the reqs for top cabal to RED levels. Why the fuck would I waste my time on OPS when it's easier on RED (and even easier on AB)?
And bigger incentive to seed? My only incentive to seed is that it's cheaper to grab something from OPS then RED (I permaseed everything I grab). If it's not ... then I'll just use RED.

At least they didn't remove token stacking like shit-ass RED. Be thankful I guess.

>>106921170
tell them you used hacked/3rd party accounts? they never ask for a reciept

at most your upload will be removed as a transcode, and you warned for uploading trash without verifying spectrals or selfreporting it for lossy master.

you're 100% overthinking and the anxiety you give is neonvibes not set4lyfe chad

FL is kill apparently
RIP, hope it comes back

>>106922486
Romania has been nuked, check CNN

>>106922542
Only found that some commie block exploded
Wanted to get some vidya

>>106922607
Thats where FL was hosted

this GGN ddoser lmao

Did ANT remove a couple of thousand users? It has only 6941 users right now, I remember it closing in on 10k last time I checked. Massive purge

>>106923428
Alastor probably had (yet another) manic episode.

Why use ANT or ATH when TL mogs both?

>>106923900
TL what. I use HDB PTP KG and for slop I use ANT

>>106924062
I don't believe you

Still alive, still in all of Cabal.

How long is the guy who got banned from GGn going to do this for? For fuck's sake.

>>106925107
why doesn't GGn just add cloudflare?

>>106920571
If there were a cabal equivalent on i2p, I would definitely use it. I did try check it once, and the selection wasn't close to private trackers. I also probably didn't set it up correctly, I was getting dial up speeds lol, or maybe it's my shitty ISP.
I do not like how trackers are often anti-privacy, but i'm here for the content in the end, which private trackers have plenty of, and active users.

does anyone know if RED will reject me because my isp is starlink? i interviewed a year or two ago and they said "sorry we can't accept starlink users yet"

>>106925228
private tracker devs and mods move at a snails pace so never

>>106925186
>mitmflare

>>106925256
better than being offline

>>106925228
I don't have an answer to your question but can maybe you join their help channel on IRC and ask? Or maybe it's stated somewhere on the interview website, but you've probably already checked that.

>>106925297
Offline for a bit now or offline forever. Make your choice.

>>106925256
works for hdbits

>>106923428
>Did ANT remove a couple of thousand users? It has only 6941 users right now, I remember it closing in on 10k last time I checked. Massive purge

I think kitty fucked up a bunch of things with all the backend updates. If you look at the user statistics page then there haven't been any mass disableds. Probably just a bug in the stats.

CAN YOU HEAR THE DIFFERENCE IN THOSE 8 EXTRA BITS?
>No.
THANKS FOR DOWNLOADING IT ANYWAY

>it cannot returning
Is Kitty indian?
Also, does ANT purge dead torrents after a certain amount of time? I'm 95% sure I uploaded a few movies there at one point...

>>106925578
>Is Kitty indian?
Are you?
It cannot and returning are obviously part of two different clauses within the sentence, simply missing a separator like a comma or period because that's how people type online and you'd understand via context if you weren't retarded like yourself.

>>106925650
Kitty or a jeet, which one are you? You got awfully offended by that, lmao.

>>106925692
Sit down poo.

>>106918136
for buying the invite. They bought multiple

are AR and FL hosted in the same datacenter? It feels like they both go down at the same time sometimes

>>106925784
How do we know this beyond 4chan rumour mongering?

>>106925899
staff in the IRC. said they knew they were breaking the ruled when they bought an invite because they'd done it before. I could be misremembering it. For sure said they knew it was against the rules and would be banned for buying an invite and still bought one. I may have incorrectly inferred that it was because they had already done the same thing

>>106925951
dayum so he just straight up admitted it and then presumably threatened to ddos them if they banned him anyway? and then went through with it? lmao what a gigachad retard

>>106925969
idk if they admitted it or staff knew some other way, but yeah

>>106925973
Funny. Almost funny enough to make up for not being able to access ggn

>>106925985
yeah, I just hope my dwarves have dropped a bunch of loot once we get back it

>>106925997
Does it even work that way bro? I would expect everything to just be paused while the site's down.

>>106926005
the backend has been up the whole time, and even the tracker has only gone down for a little bit here and there. it's just the frontend that's down. I've had a few pet drops already when I've been able to get on

GGn chads, what's the easiest way to get most points without talking too much and forum shitposting ?
Where to get the games to upload ?

>>106926053
max download + upload GB & snatches will get you enough for Legendary. Snatch big romsets and upload untrumpable individual roms or upload shit from csrin if you want higher classes without talking

>>106926053
snatch and permaseed all the lowseeded FL on the homepage. You can also just sort all torrents by number of seeds low to high and seed all that stuff when the next freeleech rolls around

>>106926071
whoop, ^^^ is the gold meta, I got confused.
>>106926053
But yeah, >>106926068 is right. Use the mass downloader to snatch 2k DOS or Atari games, there's a thread in the gamer class forum about it. Snatch a few extra to factor in for trumps

>>106926053
My computer can't even play the games I seed :^)

Is there a tracker for apps or should I keep subscribing to the mobilism jew?

>>106925228
I heard starlink was really strict about torrent use, that getting caught was a one strike and they cut your service.

>>106926091
>snatch 2k DOS or Atari games
this is so pathetic
there are hundreds of good games on FL each day, download those

>>106926320
fucked up if true
was planning to switch since I live on cursed aboriginal land that has slowly reduced speeds to 50/20 (for equivalent to 60USD/mo)

>>106926385
you won't get a strike on private trackers

>>106926385
>reduced
That's crazy. Never have I heard of internet speeds going down over the years. Australia?

>>106926321
it's easy to permaseed 2k games when they total to ~1GB. The next level would be games right over 1GB since they'll earn FL tokens and generate more gold. I still snatch plenty of games I want to play too

>>106926410
yeah, Australia
I think a year or 2 ago, they reduced the "standard plan" speeds to 100/20 at the same price
now I suspect they do some bullshit like forcibly cap down to 40-50 well past peak hours, at least my current ISP

>>106926463
Your fault for living in the middle of nowhere SA instead of in QLD or NSW like everyone else.

we're back! for now at least...

>>106925107
I kind of like how he's inconveniencing people who usually face zero consequences for their actions either way. I'm patient enough to just get my games elsewhere for the time being, even if my partner wants the new Pokemon game.

All the more reason for another games tracker to start up. Diversity is strength.

>>106926569
PxC is right there if anyone wants to start uploading

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>>106926642
lmao look at this newfag

>>106926642
Nice discord formatting.

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>>106926651
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>>106926654
is this really all we have?

Big titty goth girl

>>106926654
you trying to
use code tags?

>>106926662
nig
yes
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>>106926682
it like your second attempt here >>106926642 but use [] square brackets

>>106926694
I did but I think I forgot spaces

henlo

>>106926710
success

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