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RARBG MAGNETS AND HOW TO USE THEM

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Part 1/2

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RARBG was one of the best-known and largest public torrent trackers for media. It died in May 2023. The official reason was various accumulated troubles maintaining the site, but it's suspected that the actual reason had to do with the new-ish copyright laws in Bulgaria that were lobbied by international media giants.

RARBG IS DEAD.

This is a HARD FACT.

Some random shitty websites nowadays are pretending to be "new rarbg", "the rarbg" or similar. DON'T TRUST ANY OF THEM. Not even "rarbg 2". Not even "rarbg official". Even back when RARBG was still alive, there were copycats like this. Best case scenario, they'll give you a poorly organized collection of magnets from random places and try to sell you some shitty vpn. Worst case, they'll redirect you to dangerous websites with malware scripts.

Consider this: Any good service or product doesn't need to pretend that it is supposedly some other service/product.

Consider also this: There is nothing on these shitty clones that you can't find on much more trustworthy public trackers, like below. You _don't need_ these "new rarbg" clones for anything.

Actual decent alternatives for 2025 that picked up RARBG's flag: https://torrentgalaxy.to/ or https://ext.to/

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While RARBG was alive, some people were archiving its torrents/magnets. Now that it's dead, several different collections are floating around online, in different formats.

I highly recommend that you use THIS one:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ulfihylx35oldftn7qosmk6hkhsjq5af

^ This is the original upload, shared by the person who collected and posted it. There are also some reuploads of this by other people, which have a different hash (different magnet). You can use them too, it doesn't matter, as long as the actual file inside is the same:

rarbg_db.sqlite - 775 MiB - CRC32 checksum 3F03CB95

(it's usually inside a smaller-sized .zip archive, that's perfectly fine.)

Continued below.

Part 2/2 - Continued from above >>1345446

Why use THIS one?

- It has ALMOST 3 MILLION magnets from RARBG. It's the largest one.
- It's a DATABASE - "kinda like" a special set of Excel tables for efficient searching. MUCH better than some unwieldy text file.
- It has EXTRA INFORMATION about these magnets, such as torrent size and more.

To view it and search it, install https://sqlitebrowser.org/ or any other SQLite Viewer/Browser/Editor/etc.

Open the file rarbg_db.sqlite in this Browser. Go to the "Execute SQL" tab there.

Write the following and press Ctrl+Enter or the "Play" button:

SELECT printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib, title, dt, printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link FROM items WHERE imdb = "tt1745960" ORDER BY size DESC;

> SELECT
a command to pick certain data and arrange it as follows
> printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib,
the first column in the table of results will be the size of the torrent. it's stored in the db in bytes. this formats it to gigabytes to be readable
> title,
next is the title of the torrent
> dt,
date of the upload to RARBG, to help you guess if it still has seeders
> printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link
this assembles a ready-to-use MAGNET LINK from hash and title. you can COPY it from the table of results with RIGHT CLICK
> FROM items
we're searching in the table called "items"
> WHERE imdb = "tt1745960"
we want only the entries that have the "imdb" field matching Top Gun Maverick
> ORDER BY size DESC;
results are ordered by size, largest to smallest

Some torrents don't have an imdb field. Either they are not movies, or the uploader messed up. To find them, write this instead:
> WHERE title LIKE "%Top%Gun%Maverick%"
Use % before and after and between words, like this. It's a wildcard for text search. You don't know how EXACTLY each torrent is called ("Top_Gun" or "2022 Top Gun"?)
Beware, this is much slower.

>>1310087
Nope, it's alive and well.
https://1337x.ninjaproxy1.com/home/

torrent newbie question:

How do you safely torrent while being safe from viruses and glowieware? I don't even mean exe files. Do you run everything in a VM? what is your torrent setup like?

does it matter if i choose any countries on my vpn?

Where can I download movies in other languages? 1337x only has stuff in English, I'm trying to find stuff in Spanish

If a torrent has stalled due to no seeders, does this mean its no longer actively searching for connections? Ie if a new peer connects and starts seeding, will it automatically start downloading again or do I need to stop/restart it?

If so, is there a way to prevent stalling?

>>1346615
"Stalled" is a poor/misleading - but sadly established - name for "I don't see any peer who has more parts that I need". Basically, it's "paused because no one is seeding right now afaik". The client doesn't consider the torrent "done" despite what the name might imply. It just doesn't have anyone to get more data from right now.

> does this mean its no longer actively searching for connections?

Your torrent client is searching for new peers regularly. It connects to trackers and to DHT at set intervals, which is somewhere in the settings depending on your client, but it's *most definitely* a thing that it does because otherwise torrenting wouldn't work at all. Also, you can manually send a reannouncement to a selected tracker at any random moment if you want.

Also, if you're connectable, then those other peers can discover you even in between your own client's periodic discovery attempts. For example, you last pinged a tracker at 16:02 and your next ping is set to be at 17:02. Meanwhile, at 16:23, a new peer who has more than you have connects to the tracker, and the tracker sends him your IP: "this guy has 23% and hasn't sent me a message that he disconnected, so he's probably still online". Then this new peer's client can connect to you at 16:23 to send you data, even if your own scheduled next discovery is at 17:02. But only if you are connectable (= your port is open and your machine is reachable).

>Ie if a new peer connects and starts seeding, will it automatically start downloading again or do I need to stop/restart it?

To sum up, yes, it will.

Side note, clients usually have status options for torrents like Download / Pause / Force Download, but this Force Download only means "Download despite any other additional rules that might be present". That is, it overrides settings like "no more than 5 torrents downloading at once" or "seed only until ratio = 2.0" etc, and will download or seed anyway. This has nothing to do with stalled torrents.

>>1346279
If you're using VPN for the sole purpose of hiding your IP address from copyright watch dogs, then the selected country doesn't matter at all.

>>1346240
The only realistic way for you to get infected is by running malware executables (.exes, scripts, etc) that you willingly download and click Open on them, or by visiting infected shady websites that can infect your machine through malicious scripts on the pages.
While it's teeeeeeeeechnically possible for media files to be intentionally malicious in the sense that they would exploit a vulnerability in the media player (MPC-HC or Foobar or whatever), this is so exceptionally unlikely to be found in the wild (and additionally exceptionally unlikely to work on your specific machine) that you should rather worry about a meteor falling from the sky to kill you, because that's more probable. It's not an attack vector that propagates well, but fearmongers love to bring up the possibility of it - however astronomically miniscule it is - to dissuade people from using torrents.

>>1346395
RuTracker has Russian and very often Ukrainian.
Complete Blurays in any source where they exist typically have a good few audio tracks in different languages, because they are literally a full copy of the entire retail disc.
I've seen some uploads on TorrentGalaxy that have English + Italian, I think they're often uploaded by the same user.
Spanish, idk. If you know the language, can't you ask people from Spain or Latin American countries whether they have their own locally famous torrent trackers? I bet they exist.

>>1346834
appreciate it anon, good info

>>1346838
thanks anon. what about those torrents with the compressed files in them that hides what's inside, such as executables? or am I stupid and there's a way to view inside them beyond downloading metadata?

>>1346882
By compressed, do you mean torrents with .zip and .rar archives, instead of the files being laid out directly?
It doesn't matter in the slightest. So what if it's a zip archive with some files inside it? The action of unzipping the archive doesn't launch the files that are inside it.
And the action of downloading the files (through torrent or otherwise) doesn't launch them, either. You and you alone can hover your mouse over some ImNotAVirus.exe or AwesomeScript.vbs and double click it.
It's safe to TRANSFER/DOWNLOAD any file, or CREATE a file on your hard drive by means of unzipping a .zip archive, etc.
It's not safe to RUN / EXECUTE / LAUNCH a potentially malicious file, which is an entirely different action altogether.
(and it's also not safe to visit shady websites that want to pwn you)

If you instead meant "compressed" in the sense of a special format of .exe files that obfuscate their contents from antivirus software etc, then it's still an .exe file that you shouldn't run/launch unless you trust it. It doesn't matter what the exact build method of it is. And as a regular end user, you don't know this anyway, to you it's just some .exe file.

I've already made posts on /b/, /r/, and /gif/ for this. It was suggested that someone here might be able to help further.
Does anyone have a torrent of Claire Gerhardstein's original videos?
I'm searching for about 70GB of videos. I only have 9GB.

Does anyone have the torrent magnet for the 3.6TB cellebrite mobilogy from ddossecrets? I tried to request access buy i was ignored. I want to see what these things are, i think they are cool.

https://ddosecrets.com/article/cellebrite-mobilogy

This isn't a torrenting question, but does anyone know the best way to mass download videos (from a command line, preferably) from sites that aren't supported by yt-dlp? wcofun doesn't want to work with it or wget.

I've done a lot of movie torrenting but I'm a bit intimidated by games. Am I just overthinking it, is there anything I need to know or do?
Another reason is I've gone looking around before but could never seem to find anywhere that had the games I actually wanted.

>>1345445 (OP)
What's the main difference between UDP and TCP connections? I can choose either or in my vpn's settings but I don't know which one is better.

Why does qbittorrent keep deleting random torrents from my list?
Sometimes i just check back and its gone, i wanna keep seeding, or especially i dont want it to remove the ones i added but didnt start yet and want to download later

>>1348503
This is definitely not normal behavior.
Are you shutting down qBitTorrent correctly, File->Exit (or the same option in the right click menu in the tray)?
Also, do you show ALL torrents in the main window? The left panel has categories which show and hide torrents based on what categories they fall into.

>>1348561
File > Exit > Yes im sure
Yes, obviously im viewing all, random torrents are constantly going missing its annoying

>>1345445 (OP)
Is there anywhere I can look up when a specific movie is going to be available in high quality?

>>1349447
https://www.blu-ray.com/digital/movies.php?show=comingsoon
https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/digital-releases/
That's for legal streaming releases, though. A random no-name movie that no one heard of apart from 3 fans of some Z-list actress might not get ripped by pirates for a very very long time.

>>1345445 (OP)
I Want to get IT certifications, I know there have been threads regarding sharing IT ebooks, but I cant find them on archive, and im sure new ones have been updates. Where are some places I could find such free information?

>>1349448
Oh but this works great and it's exactly what I needed: to know when a movie I want to see is going to be available in high quality instead of that awful telesync and cam quality. Thanks.

>>1345445 (OP)
I really want to only use my mullvad vpn JUST with Qbittorrent and not the entire pc, which is running linux on KDE Plasma.
So just the torrent program. Is there a way to do this easily? I'm having trouble finding reliable information.

>>1349954
Enable split tunneling in mullvad client. Only select qbittorrent to use vpn.

With vpn running, in qbittorrent under options>advanced settings>network interfaces, select your vpn interface from the dropdown menu. This will prevent qbittorrent from connecting to the internet if that interface goes down.

>>1349975
I see, thank you! So there is a way.

I was trying to find a way without using the Mullvad client, because they don't have a flatpak package for it and sticking with only flatpak would have been easiest for me, but it looks like using the client can't be avoided after all. I appreciate the guide anon.

>>1349975
>>1349983 (me)
AHAHA I figured it out without the client!
I didnt know it was called split tunneling, so I researched a bit using that new terminology.
With your post and this forum post from 2021 https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff=18&t=171315.html
I managed to figure it out.

>1) Downloaded the wiregaurd config file from mullvad
>2) Add that preconfigured vpn file to KDE network manager using the dropdown menu
>3) Click on that connection -> IPv4 tab -> Routes (bottom right) -> check "use only for resources on this connection" box, described as "If enabled, this connection will never be used as the default network connection".
> 3.1) Do the same in IPv6 tab
>4) Go to Qbittorrent settings -> advaced and select the vpn connection under "network interfaces" (as you described in your post)
>5) Disconnect and then reconnect to the VPN

I checked the Mullvad website in my browser, which showed I wasnt connected. Then I used a torrent-IP-checker site to download a magnet link and see the ip they got from me and it was using my vpn!
Everything worked!

I couldn't have done it without your help, thank you anon.

Why do so many bluray rips done by scene groups have the size of 6.55 GB? Or 6.53-6.57, give or take. Way way way too many examples for this to be a coincidence.

What is this size?

* It's not 1/4 of a Bluray disc. (it's more than that, but also much smaller than 1/3)
* It's not a single DVD (a lot larger than that) and not a double-layer DVD (much smaller).

At least with 700 MB / 1.4 GB / 4.37 GB rips the size is obvious (1 CD, 1/3 DVD or 2xCD, 1 DVD). But 6.55 seems really arbitrary, yet very common.

So, I'm a total no-knowledge retard who downloaded qBitTorrent just now because I need photoshop.

Wat do?

It doesn't really need to be some ultra fancy version with AI or nuthin'

>>1350087
Connect to vpn. Go to index site (tpb, 1337x), search for photoshop, and find the version you want. Either download and open .torrent file in qbittorrent or open magnet link in qbittorent. Follow instructions in readme file or on torrent post.

>>1350089
>VPN
Is this necessary or just an america/europe thing? I live in huezil, so I don't think anybody gives a single shit about pirating.

>>1350090
Necessary in any country that honors US IP law under a trade agreement. I don't know if Brazil does this.

>>1350091
Well, I've never heard of anyone getting a scaary letter about it.

Honestly, I literally just want photoshop. I couldn't find any direct download sites so i came here. Why's this shit gotta be so complicated when games are so easy?

>>1350092
Ok, the instructions are there if you want them. Just pay for ps if it isn't worth your time to learn.

>>1350093
So I just go to an 'index site' like 1337x and get the magnet link? Like this?

>>1349457
Bumping regarding IT cert resources.

How to create a magnet link and populate it with trackers?

Como puedo hackear un correo electrónico? Tips

Any quick and easy way to rip an entire thread off of /gif/, including all the gifs/mp4s in their video format, instead of just the thumbnails?

I'm trying to download GITS from Nyaa.si and I'm stuck on "downloading metadata", wat do? I torrented a kdrama from there earlier today, am I in some kind of queue? I tried changing listening ports, renaming my qbitorrent appdata settings folder, trying several different vpns and flushing dns. wat do?

>>1345445 (OP)
so, a few months ago my hdd died/was dying, and I pulled everything I could off it before it went, the one folder I couldn't was my mass torrent dump

in there was more or less anything I had a passing interest in, everything that's not hard to get has been reacquired, however fakku wani bs kind of took a lot of torrents down, im wondering if there is a 1 mega torrent for content, either that was lost or just a mega torrent for all of fakku, If I can get everything in one go that would be the best, my old torrent archive saw 5~ copies of some things just because they were in packs with other previously released things, I can spot check from there on if I already have things or if things are new, but I really don't want to go into my old torrents and redownload everything from that as the problem is already known.

is PIA (Private Internet Access) a solid vpn?

>>1350083
it's metric

Anyone have AWS stuff? Adrian Cantrill? Any AWS SAA-C03? Anything!

Q: do I need to enable DHT for the initial seeding if I post a magnet? will the trackers in the magnet be enough?
>>1351373
I use it. I've seen other people clown on it, and it's based in the US, so the NSA is probably watching. I figure it's enough to hide from copyright trolls, and it's cheap and has port forwarding.

>>1351422

If you mean decimal/metric gigabytes (10^9), then it still doesn't make sense. These ~6.55 GiB releases range from 7.02 decimal GBs to 7.04 GBs. It's consistently, *always* over 7 GBs. I'd accept this explanation if they ranged from 6.98 to 7.02 (or something like that), where the goal for encoding would obviously be 7 GB. But they are always 7.02-7.04 decimal GBs (which translates to ~6.55 binary GiBs).

>>1351373

This kind of question is meaningless without your location and your intentions. (the latter is somewhat obvious in a torrent thread, but still).

>>1351865

Peer discovery between clients happens through trackers and through DHT (and also through other peer exchange mechanisms which are a distant third). If both peers use the same mechanism, they'll find each other eventually. If they are on different networks / different trackers / etc, they won't find each other.

If these trackers are working for you (you connect successfully) and they are also working for your intended leechers, then yes, you'll be fine. If not, then you won't find each other. The more options to discover you you enable, the better. Also, if someone copies the magnet link without the trackers (deliberately or accidentally), then their client will be looking for peers only in DHT and won't find you. Also, various automated DHT crawlers and other magnet scrapers archive only the magnet hashes (and the content) and completely disregard suggested trackers, even if they find a magnet link with trackers. So, for example, if someone will find your upload in the database of such a DHT crawler / scraper, then he won't have the URLs of the trackers that you provided, and therefore won't connect to you. (but I guess that you're probably more concerned about the initial seeding to people in some thread, not about what happens months and years later)

What tool(s) can I use to compare the *video streams* inside different mkv (and also possibly mp4 or avi) files to check whether the stream is the same but different, to figure out which releases are repacks / remuxes of which ones?

I know that MediaInfo is a thing, but it's kinda flaky about what it does and doesn't show for different mkv files, and it's also very approximate. It can show bitrate in detail (avg and max etc), or it can show only some "generic" number for bitrate. It can show bitrate as Mbit/s or kbit/s. It can show the *size* of the video stream inside the file, or it can not show this at all. And even if the size is shown, it's an approx number and doesn't say whether the stream is the same.

I want some tool, or perhaps a string of actions by different tools, which can compare the video streams inside two different video files and tell me whether or not they are identical or not.

Can I unpack the "raw" video stream out of an mkv?

Will the result of this unpacking be completely identical (checksum) to the same action taken on a different mkv file where someone added a new audio track (remuxed it for this purpose)?

> to check whether the stream is the same but different

... I'm a retard. I meant to type "whether the stream is the same OR different".

Also, forget about mp4 or avi requirement; I can remux most (if not all) content from mp4 or avi to mkv anyway. So the question can then remain solely about mkvs, for simplicity.

>>1352085
>>1352087
ffprobe and ffmpeg are your guys. ffprobe to inspect the file and ffmpeg to process. If the metadata is there, ffprobe will tell you.
And yeah you can extract the video out of an mkv unmodified using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -an output.mp4
("-an" means no audio, "-c copy" means copy the stream unmodified)

If you're looking for some utility that automates querying the video details and doing re-encodes or whatever, I think you'll have to make a script that uses ffprobe to do exactly what you want.

>>1352083 to third reply
Thanks! I do 99% of my torrenting on private trackers, and occasionally feel like playing robin hood and filling requests. I just have DHT, LPD, PEX off by default, and will just seed to a ratio of maybe 10ish.
I'll probably just continue copying the top 5 from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_best.txt
not even sure how much of a resource load DHT, LPD, and PEX use, and I know my client respects the private flag, but I figure why not disable something that's unused or redundant for my usecase

>>1345445 (OP)
best seedbox service? im want to keep seeding things even if dont have the space locally but i dont know which site is best

I just decided to get back to /t/orrenting but I need to jog my memory.

I got some old series of torrents called MTCDC-NMC with saved torrent files. Decided to seed them, hoping there are still people after it.
I've already got them uploaded on a machine, but obviously all those trackers (demoind, heet) are dead.

However it seems it is working on opentrackr.
Can someone remind me what kind of tracker is opentrackr as opposed to former ones like demonoid or h33t?
Is this a common practice to refresh my outdated torrent files with a "generic public" and remove outdated ones?
Any way to do a batch work on 55 files?

>>1345445 (OP)
Where can I safely download adobe programs like premiere and ae? Ive always used m0nkrus' cracks, but I downloaded premiere 2025 and it bricked my PC :( where can I go now?

>>1352423
pick one from
https://www.torrenttrackerlist.com/torrent-tracker-list/
you could search for lists of trackers yourself.

how do I find the source tracker for torrents I find on btdig? I'm guessing they are from public sources, but searching on google and yandex by file names returns nothing

>>1345445 (OP)
>Naming Conventions
Why are people adverse to using proper naming conventions for their files?
What file naming conventions do you like to use?

>>1345445 (OP)
Why are many of the images for threads missing?

>>1353421

Really depends on the material.

For music, stuff like this

> Illitheas_and_Ahmed_Romel-Lands_Of_Soho-BLS181-WEB-2015-JUSTiFY

is scene releases (warez scene), which are distributed by warez groups between themselves (but then are immediately leaked to p2p anyway). Their "original source" is scene FTPs. From there, they are reuploaded to all kinds of trackers, first to private ones and then to public ones and also various random blogs with filehoster links etc. They don't have a "source tracker".

Also, some "local" music releases (originating from some tracker or forum or whatever) might be tagged in a similar manner, but the releaser (tagged at the end) is not a scene group, but some local releaser of some tracker, or the release is outright credited to the tracker itself (like -TT for TranceTraffic).

Random assorted titles => fuck knows, it could be from anywhere.

For movies, it's similar.

> The.Critic.2023.2160p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.265-FLUX

That's by the release group FLUX, which may or may not have a "home" where they upload the release themselves (idk about FLUX, this is just an example), but then this quickly gets distributed everywhere. You might identify the source of *this specific* magnet/torrent by shit like [TGx]Downloaded from torrentgalaxy.to.txt inside the folder (in which case it's obviously a torrent from TGX), but it doesn't really matter. If the release (and the movie itself) is popular, then this release is uploaded to a dozen places, with minor differences like these misc txts.

Some trackers have their own internal groups that release stuff. These might or might not get leaked to public sources.

>Joes.Palace.2007.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PTP

This is from the private tracker PTP, and by their internal releaser, but it's been leaked at least to RARBG in 2020 and probably to many other places.

"Random" filenames (not structured like above, or without a releaser credit) are anyone's guess. Could be from anywhere.

>>1353893
>>1353917

(continued)

For movies, you can also encounter torrents with names like "1O8Op" or "14OOMB" (notice: that's a letter O, not number 0). These have a Russian audio (and usually no orig language audio) and built-in ads in the video stream.

These are telltale names of releases by Ultradox (fka Koshara), a Russian pirate website / releaser group, which cater to the lowest common denominator. Their main focus is pirate online streaming, but they provide files as torrents too. Their target audience is the ultra-normie, not-tech-savvy type of Russian users who don't know any better and eagerly watch stuff as online streams with flying ads and interruptions. These releases are useless for international viewers b/c they don't keep the orig audio, but what's interesting is that Ultradox have a WIDE network of suppliers and get their hands on rare stuff from the most obscure fucking sources. For example. I like the actress Charlotte Hope and follow her work. Her recent-ish TV series Catch Me A Killer was a joint South African / UK production (the story takes place in SA) and it originally premiered exclusively in SA on some local streaming service or TV channel a month before the worldwide networks (Amazon etc). Inexplicably, Ultradox got their hands on that South African stream immediately upon that local release date, and they also got one of their translator teams to produce a voiceover Russian track for it within days (Ultradox is a "releaser", but they have close ties with some Russian-language translation teams, and commission exclusive voiceovers/dubs from them). I mean, do YOU know where to get stream grabs of a South African streaming service? Or some HDTVrip of some Chilean TV movie? No one in the "international" warez scene has that shit, yet Ultradox routinely manage to get their hands on such obscure stuff. It's fascinating. Useless for English speakers (unless it's the only source of the movie/series that you want), but still fascinating.

>>1353917
well, i obviously meant random filenames, since your examples have the source in the filename itself

>>1353923
BTdig and other similar automated scrapers don't even know themselves where a given torrent originates from. Recently, some anon created a brand new torrent/magnet/upload for me, right here in /t/, to share a file. I have no reason to think that he posted it anywhere else, it was a specific request by me. A couple weeks later or so, I started seeing this brand new hash/magnet on btdig for a relevant search query. I seriously doubt that btdig's bots regularly crawl 4chan's html pages in search of magnet links in the text (that's waaaaaaay too specific), but their crawlers eventually picked this new hash (and its file contents) through DHT, by connecting to me or to him or to somebody else who might have grabbed it. By the time this torrent was in our clients, there's no way to trace it to the web page where it was posted.

So either there's something readily identifiable in the contents of the torrent, or sometimes this or that tracker lets you search by hash (to quickly check whether such an upload is registered on this given website), or otherwise you're shit out of luck.

Anyone know what's going on with 1337x? Shit's not loading and i wanted to grab something

>>1353939
It's loading for me just fine right now. It was also loading for me earlier, when I first saw your post soon after you made it (maybe 1-2 hours after the timestamp of your post), but I was on my phone and couldn't be arsed to wait for 900 seconds.

Your ISP might be blocking it or maybe your IP is in the range that 1337's hoster's ddos protection doesn't like.

>>1345445 (OP)
I am lookig for any AI to make short form video. I havent had any luck on webbased prompts.

>are there any torrents floating around with good share ratios so i can generate video locally?

Looking for the Vocal Factory full sample pack to torrent

Kinda tempted to get a seedbox, should I go for it? Getting really bad upload speeds behind a VPN on my main linux pc and I would also like to seed 24/7.

>>1355339
Yeah I am in basically the same situation and I built my buffers on all my trackers using seedboxes. It makes more sense than paying for a VPN.

>>1355340
Cool. Yeah and I agree it makes more sense. What seedbox are you using? Also regarding accessing the seedbox from your PC, do you need to be behind a VPN? Also I've heard that some seedboxes don't allow public trackers, but I guess if they don't explicitly state anything about trackers, they allow them. I could be wrong I don't know.

>>1355342
I don't currently have one but before I bought from seedhost, feralhosting, and whatbox. I am currently looking to set up my own on a server I am renting from oneprovider that I also need for hosting other things. If you set up your own you won't have any issues with using it on public trackers. You shouldn't ever need a VPN to connect to it in any case.

>>1355454
Aight.

>>1345446
>>1345447

lol
this has to be a joke
who the fuck is gonna do all that to search for movies
i dont even think i should keep that file as it's extremely seeded already
who the FUCK is gonna go...

>>To view it and search it, install https://sqlitebrowser.org/ or any other SQLite Viewer/Browser/Editor/etc.
>
>Open the file rarbg_db.sqlite in this Browser. Go to the "Execute SQL" tab there.
>
>Write the following and press Ctrl+Enter or the "Play" button:
>
>SELECT printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib, title, dt, printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link FROM items WHERE imdb = "tt1745960" ORDER BY size DESC;
>
>> SELECT
>a command to pick certain data and arrange it as follows
>> printf("%.2f GiB", CAST(size AS FLOAT) / 1073741824.0) AS size_gib,
>the first column in the table of results will be the size of the torrent. it's stored in the db in bytes. this formats it to gigabytes to be readable
>> title,
>next is the title of the torrent
>> dt,
>date of the upload to RARBG, to help you guess if it still has seeders
>> printf("magnet:?xt=urn:btih:%s&dn=%s", hash, title) AS magnet_link
>this assembles a ready-to-use MAGNET LINK from hash and title. you can COPY it from the table of results with RIGHT CLICK
>> FROM items
>we're searching in the table called "items"
>> WHERE imdb = "tt1745960"
>we want only the entries that have the "imdb" field matching Top Gun Maverick
>> ORDER BY size DESC;
>results are ordered by size, largest to smallest
>
>Some torrents don't have an imdb field. Either they are not movies, or the uploader messed up. To find them, write this instead:
>> WHERE title LIKE "%Top%Gun%Maverick%"
>Use % before and after and between words, like this. It's a wildcard for text search. You don't know how EXACTLY each torrent is called ("Top_Gun" or "2022 Top Gun"?)

you gotta be kidding me
fucking NERDS
and yes some fake rarbg sites still work just fine, just go to rarbg.tw and pick around

guys how do research into safely torrenting, especially in the UK. The pinned post seems outdated and i wanted to search the board via the archive but it doesn't work.

>>1355834
Either get a VPN or get into private trackers. It's that simple.

>>1355836
this just leads me into more questions, respectfully i mean understanding what torrenting is, best practices, etiquettes, good to know etc.

don't want to go to jail.

>>1355837
install qBittorrent and do this with your vpn >>1354131
then just add any torrent to your client. 1337x.to is a decent place to find them
https://lifehacker.com/a-beginners-guide-to-bittorrent-285489

>>1355958
Thank you anon

hi, im very new to torrenting and i was wondering if there is a good, free vpn option, since i dont want to use it all too much anyway? Maybe also not one of these where you get like 10 days for free of the premium version, in case i want to use it again later

>>1356359
https://www.vpngate.net/en/
I recommend using the Japan or Korea servers. They do keep logs but they're not going to really give a shit about you torrenting with it. Be weary of free VPN services because usually what they do is they open up a proxy on your machine to sell your bandwidth to people looking to spam and do other nefarious things. This one is a research project for anti-censorship run by a university so that's not really an issue. It will do in a pinch.

Where does VODanon on /tv/ get his torrents for his VODs

>>1356427
From what I can see in the archives they're all P2P releases from private trackers. He's usually removing the group name from it so I can't tell you which specific tracker they all come from. Trackers also get releases that originate on other trackers so he might not be in the best ones. One time he did leave the group name FLUX in the release name. Their releases originate from https://beyond-hd.me/

>>1356427
I looked closer at his posts and I think he's probably getting most of those from PassThePopcorn.

>>1356451
>>1356457
OK. Thank you!

>>1345445 (OP)
why do I get this sawtooth graph when seeding or downloading in qbittorrent? google says it's a disk speed issue but it's an nvme drive capable of 2gb/s and the network maxes out at 2mb/s. arch btw

so gelbooru is down. anyone have anything?

How do you treat results from virustotal? I've been torrenting pretty care free from good sources, although always checking with virustotal just to be sure. But after looking up some stuff I've been starting to get more cautious. I don't know just getting paranoid in general, looking at a. exe file with a single detection from MaxSecure (...) That I downloaded from rutracker.

>>1356864
>single detection
i call false positive. pay attention to the big names like Sentinel or Kaspersky. if you get a combination that includes one or more of the popular ones then you should worry

>>1356874
aight!

>>1348292
udp is faster. tcp is more reliable.
tcp requires acknowledgements that you received the data. udp makes one acknowledgement and transfers the rest of the data continuously. if you drop connection or something happens somehow you lose the rest of the download. TCP you can recover and continue downloading

>>1356864
even with the big ones, 3-5 detections are "safe-ish" but 10+ you should proceed with care. Also, teake into account the type of stuff you are downloading and the source, most err... tools... are flagged. it helps to have your firewall configured to not let all outbound data run free. In windows I use Windows Firewall Control, a somewhat easy to use tool and use medium filtering, since malwarebytes bought them the interface got a little clunckier IMHO, but the functionality remains the same.

>>1357822
try Tinywall

>>1356600
i think that it's the problem with qbit itself improperly sampling/calculating speed

I don't have a HDR-capable screen, but I will be getting one soon.

I'm aware of the "regular" HDR (the one that looks greyed out on SDR screens without software hacks in media players). I'm also aware that there is a newer thing called DV / Dolby Vision, it's the one that looks green and purple on incompatible screens (and/or GPU drivers etc?)

I'm familiar with what HDR "does", I mean the color spaces and all, but since I don't own a HDR screen, I never had a reason to tinker with HDR releases of movies. My understanding is that most(?) modern 4K blurays nowadays are not only just HDR, but also have DV baked into them.

Recently, I grabbed a specific 4K bluray (full disc, not rip/encode) from a private tracker for a friend who requested it. In the MediaInfo / Bluray Disc Summary report, I noticed that it has two video streams inside it: one is the expected high-bitrate 3840x2160 HEVC stream with 10 bits and BT2020 etc, while the other one is a VERY tiny 1920x1080 stream that is less than 100 MB, and apparently this is the DV stream.

Am I understanding it right that any DV release can be turned into a "regular" HDR release by simply remuxing it into a new video file with removing this secondary DV stream? Is DV essentially a hack that adds an additional small stream of additional info, while the actual meaningful imagery is in the main HDR video stream?

Also, for archival purposes and preservation, let's say a movie or a TV series exists as three different webdls, from one streaming service:
- SDR
- HDR
- DV

SDR and HDR are obviously different, but is the DV release simply the same as the HDR release (+ small DV stream), so for archiving / data hoarding I can keep the DV version and make the regular HDR out of it by remuxing, if needed at some point?

Also, am I wrong in some other assumptions above in this text?

Do I need a special type of screen to correctly view DV releases without manual removal of this additional stream?

>>1345445 (OP)
best current public tracker? also best current tv show/ movie streaming site(a la soap2day)?

>>1358853

In the wake of TGX's apparent death, for now you might want to use ext.to. It's nothing special and it's just an aggregator, but if you were using TGX for new stuff, extto will get the same job done. Scene releases and p2p releases are the same anyway across trackers, it's only a matter of how fast they are reuploaded and/or indexed.

Consider the four big Russian trackers. Obviously you'll need a translation tool (a browser plugin or similar) or just remember where to click after the first few times, but don't disregard them.

- rutracker.org. It's better to register an account, which unlocks usable search and gives other quality of life things. Downloading magnets is available even when you're not logged in, but it's just easier to use with an account.

- rutor.is = rutor.info (two domains, same website). You can easily search and download without an account. There's also a rutor.org which is FAKE and demands that you pay for a paid account to download torrents. Don't do that. But it connects to the same database and its search engine behaves a bit better (rutor.is's search won't find Django Unchained if you query "django 2012", but .org's search will). It's useful to search on BOTH websites and then download the torrent you need from .is/info (the url format and the torrent ID is the same anyway).

- nnmclub.to. You can easily search and download without an account. A few torrents here and there can demand an account, but it's very rare (a remnant of earlier times when it did demand an account).

- kinozal.tv. Having an account is mandatory and this tracker keeps track of ratio, like private trackers, but anyone is free to browse through their library of torrents, and registration is unrestricted.

Rutracker = by far the biggest library of (very!) well-seeded torrents
Rutor = typically fastest releases of new stuff

Obviously, torrents here have Russian audio added to them, but otherwise they are the same bdrips and webdls and remuxes as anywhere else.

How is it possible for a regular 1080p bluray disc to be over 50 decimal GBs / over 46.6 binary GiBs?

Picrel. I can't download it because it has 0 seeders (RIP), but this is the contents of it. And yes, these measurements are in binary GiBs (that is, it's 47.28 GiB = 50.77 GB).

This is not one of those custom "repacks" where an extra audio track is added to the original bluray. There's also nothing else in the torrent apart from the bluray folder - there is no sample included or any other additional data.

What gives?

>>1358592
that screenshot is from my taskbar network monitor which mirrors my qbittorrent network speed graph, so if it is a speed calculation problem then it still affects the actual transfer rate. transfers ramp up for about 10 seconds then stop for a few seconds, then repeat

>>1358894
I doubt there's any difference between that and the 45.94 GiB version I'm seeing here. Should be same disc, same files.

I recently downloaded a complete bluray of a certain movie release. I saw that an essentially identical release of this same thing was dead on another tracker, and decided to revive that torrent. It was a release by a different release group / person, but it was the exact same disc.

When I re-checked the hash of this dead torrent against the downloaded folder, there were a couple tiny mismatches, which resulted in a few pieces/parts being missing (so the torrent was at 99.8%).

Specifically:

- There were minor differences in some files in /BDMV/JAR and /BDMV/PLAYLIST
- /BDMV/MovieObject.bdmv was different between them
- The /CERTIFICATE folder was missing a couple "online.*" files
- More precisely, ONE of these torrents had the contents of /BDMV/BACKUP fully match the contents of corresponding files in /BDMV, whereas the OTHER torrent had the contents of /BDMV/BACKUP being different from the files in the main /BDMV folder that they are meant to be a backup of.

On a whim, I tested it this way: I copied the files from /BDMV/BACKUP/JAR into /BDMV/JAR (overwriting the differing ones), and now the piece/part of the torrent that these files were in successfully passed the hash check.

The actual video files of the disc perfectly match between the two torrents/releases, of course.

How does this happen? Outside of some weird fuckup, what can cause this? It appears that one of these two releases had some of the files (in JAR and PLAYLIST) deliberately modified, while their /BACKUP/ copies stayed the same.

Does this have something to do with different methods of copy protection removal?

----

>>1358931
Thanks, that's interesting. The torrent in my screenshot is genuinely 47.28 GiB (binary GBs, I checked it with the client to make sure), and the main STREAM folder is 47.27 of it. There are no duplicate large files. The largest files are 00424.m2ts @ 29.18 GiB, 00101 @ 6.15 GiB, 00102 @ 6.14 GiB, 00103 @ 5.34 GiB, then 00326 @ 139.7 MiB and then even smaller. Very weird.

how often are subs downloaded from subtitle sites desynced?

>>1359122
Maybe I'm pessimistic but these days if the torrent doesn't come with subs I don't bother. Can't tell you how many times I've either painstakingly spent like the first 10 minutes of the movie trying to sync it just right or find out that the subs are for a different cut or that they're some ass translation with a bunch of OCR errors. Maybe there are good subs out there but I've had it with releases that make me find my own.

ProtonVPN, PIA or AirVPN for linux with wireguard?

i'm starting to build a movie collection for my media server. am i stupid for wanting to remux all the mkvs i download into mp4s and extract subtitles i need into their own files? i don't like having embedded subs and besides i only need english subs so i can just trash everything else. if i could extract audio too i would but i guess that's not much of an issue since im a firm believer of executing anyone who doesn't watch media in its original language

>>1359281
Yes mp4 is an abomination that should be eliminated from this earth. Shit fucking container. One thing goes wrong and the goddamn thing won't play. I don't know why you want to make a mess out of everything. Everything in one file keeps directories tidy.

>>1359284
i will consider your wise words

>>1359281
That is the exact opposite of what I do. I copy the srt and mp4 into a new mkv container.

I thought it would be relatively easy to seed on public trackers, ports are forwarded and all. 90% peers are just "checking me out". Even if there are like 10 seeds and 50 peers.

There are some long-long dead public torrents (stuck at some low %) which REGULARLY see a supposed full seed appear in the swarm for a few seconds and then disappear without having seeded anything. Sometimes I can catch a glimpse of that with my own eyes (this supposed seed connecting to me for a couple seconds and therefore availability briefly jumping to e.g. 1.034 instead of 0.034), but more often the evidence of this is the "last seen complete" field always being a recent timestamp.

I'd understand if this kind of ghost seed was just deciding not to connect to ME specifically (based on connectivity issues, or his rules about IP ranges, or any other random reason), but literally everyone in the swarm is stuck at the same low % forever, so this ghost seed is not seeding anything to ANYONE.

What is the nature of these random ghost seeds? DHT crawlers and other bots? Why would they announce having 100% instead of 0%?

whats the best public torrent site that doesn't have a bot-protection page? i just want to scrape a certain category of magnets

>>1345445 (OP)
Best place to pirate games? I've only ever done movies and music and feel like games are more dangerous for viruses and shit. Can I play a pirated game online?

>>1360837
Old advice: "Get it off cs.rin.ru or igg-games, compare with hashes on steamdb, and apply goldberg or rune emu yourself." If the hashes match what's on steamdb you know you can trust it.

>>1360838
Thanks man!

ive got a pc running truenas scale for torrents and shit.
what vpn is good? id only need it to not reveal my ip while torrenting. just a privacy concern as ive already been torrenting anime and movies for a few years with no problems on the isp side.

is the free protonvpn usable for my case? id prefer the least amount of damage to my 1000/1000 down/up speed.

i see some vpn providers just sell you a bunch of unnecessary shit to bloat the price. i just want to mask my ip.

Here's a question that doesn't deserve its own thread:
How is everyone doing? What have you guys been up to as of late? Torrented something interesting?

I can't add these trackers and I've no idea how to add them to deluge. Help pleasd

>>1307656

why can't i connect to any good peers? the 1mb/s average download is all from 3 days where op seeded to me at 20mb/s, since then it has sat mostly at 100-200kb/s. no matter how much i restart i never get good peers. i see other peers rocket past me in completion percentage, im sending them hundreds of gb and they send me megabytes, so either all the peers are disgusting leechers which i hope is false, or it is a problem with my client. i'm close to giving up on the torrent. help
qbittorrent

Any recommendations for a site to get books off of?

this post is going to sound indian but I want to get photoshop and after effects on my macbook. it's piss easy on windows with genp but that's windows only. anyone know a reliable way that won't get my macbook locked by russian malware?

Where can I download wrestling wwe stuff from like 2005 in 1080p? does that exist anywhere? surely it does, right? it's hard to imagine that it's all just gone now that it's removed from streaming services but I don't see it on the usual sites.

Is there a client that can prioritize downloading the least available pieces? If availability is 1.8, I want to prioritize the 20% that the seeder has that the other peers don't have.

>>1345445 (OP)
Where do I find education courses torrents?

How to make a torrent and start seeding it, without using public tracker?
AI apparently block this for me.
And for """REASONS""" I can't do port forwarding.
So how would I be able to seed?

having a problem getting maya running
>1) Unzip Installer (Setup.EXE) from your .ZIP archive to your torrent folder.
easy
>2) Password to extract archive is THEPIRATEBAY007!
easy
>3) Launch it.
windows 11 isn't launching setup exe
>"the application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000141). Click OK to close the application.
>4) Select path to your .DAT for activation.
tried bringing the DAT file to the same folder as the setup.exe file. didnt work
wat do /t/

>>1362531
a couple of other details as per troubleshooting
>package launcher compatibility assistant popup
>the program may not have installed correctly
>NVIDIA Package launcher
>NVIDIA Corporation
i feel like i already have the most recent or relevant driver. not sure what to do

As trupornolabs is taken down after several others, does anybody have a good alternative?

Has there even been a leak/dump of cults3d?
I'm looking specifically for a file from MysteryMakers "Andor Cassians Bryar pistol".
>>1361154
https://annas-archive.li/
>>1359781
idk but i've had this with a couple old torrents and it's frustrating.
>>1359122
I found a lot of old shows or cartoons were missing subs or were out of sync so i used McCloudS/subgen to generate them. its not great but better than nothing until it improves i guess.

Im trying to find a short film called "Awaydays" (prequel to the 2015 film "The Survivalist") but cant find it on Youtube, Vimeo, VidLii or any of the free streaming websites. If I dont want to buy the DVD, how would I find it?

I've seen threads where anons said they can seed torrents. Does that mean they need to download the files completely for that or that they can somehow find missing files?

I have two torrents that have been waiting for almost a year to download completely, and I'm thinking of deleting them. Is there really no way to finish download?

programming video courses (346gb) - stucks at 36.1%
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:HRNAOGXY4SRMO3XRWIYYE4Z6LROKFY5X&dn=programming_math_video_courses_300%2BGb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ft.nyaatracker.com%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.doko.moe%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fasnet.pw%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tfile.co%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fpt.lax.mx%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fsantost12.xyz%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bt-hash.com%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.vanitycore.co%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker2.istole.it%3A60500%2Fannounce&xl=371349401150

knowledge (75gb) - stucks at 34.6% iirc
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0ea2900a2f0a88b5305c69b2eda726d20ab0a8cf&dn=Knowledge&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce

>>1363705
You need to download the files completely. The only thing other anons seeding does is increase the chances for someone out there to find a seed, i.e. if you don't personally run the torrent client 24/7 or you have connectivity issues or whatever.
Generally speaking, trying to revive a dead torrent is a long shot.

>>1363705

If a torrent is dead with no seeds, then it's dead and can't be revived out of thin air. Rarely, it's possible that there is a lone seed somewhere and you two aren't connectable to each other for some reason, and *maybe* if someone else joins the torrent then he can get data from that unconnectable seed and transfer it to you. But this would have to be a freak accident, and not a realistic model of reviving torrents.

When people offer to seed, they mean one of these two:

- They have free disk space and don't mind joining some (presumably rare) torrent to keep it alive. They download this torrent and keep it in their client, remaining a seeder and helping it stay alive for now.

- Many torrents of movies, music etc are not unique. Let's say a release group released a bluray rip, and over time this release got uploaded to a few different trackers, some of them private and some public, sometimes the torrent has just the mkv, but in other cases the re-uploader made a folder with movie.mkv + bestonlinecasinos.txt. But the actual video file is almost always kept intact. In this case, if the torrent that you want to grab is dead, you can ask around for someone to grab this same matching file from another source (like a private tracker) and to join this dead torrent while having the video file from elsewhere, as a seed, which will "revive" the dead torrent.

With all due respect, your two examples that you want are fucking AWFUL for revival, because, well.. WHAT are those torrents, exactly? The magnets are terribly non-descriptive. Where did you learn about them, where did you find them? Do you know who made these compilations, where they originate from? Did more than 1 person ever seed this EVER? It's some random "knowledge" folder. Maybe even the author updates it every month and you came across a long-dead version from a random month. You can't hope to revive a random magnet. Learn where this came from, and look for alt ways to get that.

>>1345445 (OP)
hello, i want to thank you for helping me pick pc parts 5 years ago, i hope i could get another list of parts that work well together. my previous pc had future proofed and was 1200 euro as requests.

now i have more money to spend so i could go for some good stuff.
my main reason last time was to play monster hunter world and now i want to play monster hunter wild on better settings.

i want it to be able to do the following
-monster hunter wilds with no problems
- at least 3TB direct space so i can have all popular gacha games installed just in case i want to play them (the 3 hoyo games WUWA and maybe something new that comes out) i dont really play these but sometimes i do the story or log in for some weekly rewards. maybe this need 4TB internal space, if its not to much more expensive i can just go to 8TB so i never have to deinstall a steam game again.
-AI capabilitys. i feel like trying out generating ai video and images
-a lot of usb ports for my data hoarder hard drives
-ability to open multiple programs, when i was playing monster hunter wilds or satisfactory i had to close all my tabs and torrent clients

i hope i can get some help here again, i know to to lego block it together but i have no knoelwdge about current parts

>>1364711
> AI capabilitys. i feel like trying out generating ai video and images
Get the GPU with the most VRAM you can afford and the most RAM you can afford.
If you're serious about AI video and you want to future-proof your computer, get 128GB RAM. You'll also want a GPU with at least 16GB VRAM but more if you can afford it. Models are also large and combined with the environments needed to run them, you'll use hundreds of GB in storage space.
If you can afford to do heavy AI stuff locally, everything else is nothing by comparison.

>>1364734
i was planning on a 8TB SSD and i have a lot of external drives but maybe i want to internal hard drives as well

>>1345445 (OP)
what's the old looking public anime tracker that starts with tokyo? i remember it had .info domain but it may have changed since i last used it cuz i can't find it anymore. my isp blocks nyaa and i don't want to bully free vpn providers with animus.

>>1364782
For reference, my Stable Diffusion folder alone is 350GB and it's already been pruned of old stuff. I have a single virtual environment for a TTS that's 50GB. It doesn't necessarily have to all be on an SSD because models load completely into memory, so an internal mechanical drive or cheap SSD would be a good investment,

>>1364872
as in a second ssd to load from ?

>>1364879
Yeah. For example I have a fairly expensive NVME as my main drive and a second cheap sata SSD. Much more economical option.

>>1345445 (OP)
IM GOING TO HAVE A STROKE
>put in magnet automatically with firefox
>nope
>put in manually with "add magnet"
>nope
>delete qb entirely
>reinstall it from scratch
>dont touch any setting
>do both options again, still DOESNt work!
what do? heres an image of the it before i hit confirm with what file it is blured out

>>1365304
What are you trying to show? That you're stuck retrieving metadata? That can happen sometimes.

>>1365307
>What are you trying to show?
if theres anything a seasoned /t/ anon can see im doing wrong. ive had this thing download for nearly and hour and a half and its hasnt downloaded jack shit it stuck.
what do?

>>1365308
It's called a dead torrent, my man. Assuming you can download others just fine.

why there are never any bukkake threads anymore? are they forbbiden?

>>1365308
Do you think people online have an obligation to seed stuff for you eternally?
You came across some random torrent that isn't seeded anymore, or maybe seeded by some guy from Egypt who only comes online once a week for an hour, or maybe seeded by some guy in Indonesia where the two of you can't reach each other due to ISP networks' configurations.

Is this your first time encountering a dead file / torrent / etc on the internet?

Are there any deployments of AI assisted video compression? I found this, but it's a paid product.
https://visionular.ai/what-is-ai-driven-video-compression/

>>1366349
If it's not out there on huggingface as a free and open source model, it doesn't exist. Even if someone leaked a proprietary model, you wouldn't be able to run it.

The french media torrent site I liked became paywalled, whats a good one?

Ok, no stupid questions. Does any have an torrent of an updated Tears of the Kingdom

I am completely out of the loop about digital book piracy.

A few years ago I read this book on Internet Archive and I wanted to revisit it, but apparently Internet Archive lost a big copyright case and now most books are not available anymore.

https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofstpier00erne

There is some way to borrow (read) it "if you have a print disability" (????) but I have no idea how people do it these days. Also, ideally, I'd like to keep it in at least some form locally (even automated screenshots of all pages, if it's not available to grab from there in any other way).

What are my options here?

>>1346904
People have always been wary of zips in torrents because of zip bombs. You have to at least examine a zip archive before you can be sure it’s alright. The rarbg_db.zip is not a zip bomb, for any anons reading this.

>>1371909
I'm really not sure what possible danger a zip bomb can present to a regular user running a home PC. In 2025, at that.
Zip bombs are "dangerous" (more like "annoying") in semi-autonomous environments, like when some antivirus software on some server decides to unzip everything to check it and fills the entire drive. Even then, I don't think it's been relevant in real world situations since, like... 2010?
What can possibly go horribly wrong for a user on a home machine, though? Also zip bombs are usually (if not always) nested; typically it's not one tiny archive file containing one exabyte-sized file, but there are several layers inside with increasing size. You'll need to be unbelievably retarded not to notice these nested dolls and keep manually unzipping them.

>>1371924
I mean this is /sqt/ the users who venture here, may be, retarded home users who MIGHT think there is something inside those nested zip archives, and be completely unaware of this concept. Probably not, given torrenting is a little more advanced, and their AV will hopefully say something. But still, Murphy’s law.

met someone recently who has one of those auto searchers and downloaders and a usenet subscription
does any other anon still use usenet? is there any benefit in current year + 10 to do so?

Is there a way to torrent a large youtube video archive? Mostly interested in popular / older stuff but I would prefer torrents since yt-dlp takes forever. I know archive.org has some stuff but its also very slow to download

>>1372383
Most torrents are of endangered or dead youtube channels. There's not really a better alternative for an average channel than good ol' yt-dlp.

>>1345445 (OP)
What are some torrent sites for general stuff? 1337x isn't working for me.

What is the current state of play anyway?

utorrent still good? or is something else better
tpb or something else
do i need to manually add trackers