Thread 214396770

Anyone else notice that it's getting harder and harder to find torrents of things you need? Not only is new stuff not being uploaded to torrent, but old stuff is slowly being weeded out with zero seeds, even if you are lucky enough to find them.

>physical media really is the only way to actually preserve things for the future.

>>214396770 (OP)
Like what? I can still find everything I need

>>214396770 (OP)
Torrents are such a boomer thing. Glad it’s finally dying off

no?

>>214396770 (OP)
I just use mega or something. people never seed rarer things anyway. never have, even long ago. I would always be stuck with some obscure movie stalling at 5 percent forever.

>>214396793
>>214396822
Maybe you are only after mainstream disney things. It is near impossible to find older stuff.

>>214396770 (OP)
>spreading FUD about peer to peer networks
did some investor get this idea from chatgpt?

>finally find a rare show I've been looking for
>set upload speed to 0.1kbs
>stop seeding the moment I download it

>>214396770 (OP)
Yes, work in infosec and saw this comming so built a physical library of three thousand boxsets DVD/Blue ray and 1000+ old console games and PC games. I bought in bulk buying in 20 lbs and gave the duplicates to charity shops. Even three years ago you could get new sealed stuff in bulk for nothing but its gone now. Have about 100 titles left on my list mostly movies from the 70s back to the 30s but the bad news is prices have risen and availability has fallen off a cliff in the last 12 months. Act now and you might catch the tail end of it. I started with different lists of the top 100 of each major movie genre and series and then branched out. Did the same thing when PS1, PS2, 360 games and PC game media was being thrown out along with teh consoles. Have lots of players as well from decent makers like pioneer as well as pimped SFF PCs with optical drives and the 360s and PS2 also are players for DVDs. I got with bulk lots from estate auctions. I did not want to do domestic file serves and NAS as I have enought of that shit in work, Ikea shelving is your friend. My own private blockbuster gives me immense joy as does the movie/game room I have. Its going to suck for those left behind though. Act now. the only thing I left digital was music and porn and what I had on steam but I picked up a few hundred albums and best of on CD because I got them for nearly nothing. All this shit has become way more expensive in the last 12 months and even in the charity shops I see that there is less and less.

>>214396872
Infosec has made keying hashes of prirate streams and torrents and DNS and IP blocking dynamically on national backbones childs play anon. You are just techy enough to sail the seas but not techy enought to know what is happening. Lgeally its backed by age verififcation and cenbsorship laws that have come in everywhere recently but have been proposals and drafts for five years

e.g
https://www.theverge.com/news/754987/senators-foreign-piracy-sites-block-beard-act

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

etc etc

>>214397037
TLDR
The same tech that alloows for near real time blocking of DDOS and exploits on internet backbones facilitates blocking data containing pirated media. AI in inforsec is the final lap. As soon as something gets fingereed for being a rip it can wind up on the same blacklists used to block malware or exploits which is helped by the fact that is mostly how bad actors distribute them from tube sites for movies and porn but it can also hammer torrents.

>>214397037
A hash is the fingerprint for a lump of data by the way. Origins in cryptography. a decade ago this would have been compuationally too expensive and induced massive latency but the tech is there now.

>>214396872
IT is not fud see
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o
Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/791
H.R.791 - Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act

etc etc Its also happened at the state and national level in over a hundred nations and states. Its evry real.

torrents die because fat ass data hoarding seeders eat slop and die

No, I can still find everything I want to watch.

What can't you find, OP?

>>214397133
>the most popular pornography sites
I'm in bongland and people just go on the sites that aren't blocked instead. You can literally just google "porn" and there are tubes that aren't blocked like page one.

>>214397145
A bet on the charitible good will of others forever is always a loosing bet aside from that as p[hysical media died in retail there was less and less easy material for people to rip

>>214397149
I like your sandcastle. Look the tide is coming in but everythings fine.Right? At the moment the only places outside it areplaces in Asia and Russia etc but they will be using this tech to censor and control everything that is streamed or downloaded anyway to suit their governments soon anyway simply becaus ethey can.

Probably palantir’s fault

>>214396770 (OP)
No.

>>214396770 (OP)
No I have not run into this problem but I’m not sitting on thepiratebay like a pleb

>>214397207
IT indusctry wide anon, port mirroring packset shiffing and hash checking and heursistics originally used to block malicious traffic

>>214396973
>work in infosec
>I did not want to do domestic file serves and NAS as I have enought of that shit in work

You are retarded. This post is filled with retardation. Then again most infosec guys nowadays can't configure RAID or a distributed file system.

t. sysadmin with a rack of powervaults in the basement 700tb, encrypted backups onsite and cloud and multiple usenet servers using obfuscated nzb's load balanced to download a blu-ray in 4 minutes. enjoy your ikea shelving faggot.

>>214397184
Piracy is a never ending game of whack a mole. I was copying 5 1/4" floppies before you were a tingle in your daddy's balls, so spare me the histrionics, zoom zoom.

>>214396770 (OP)
Literally no. Everything is still available.

>>214396807
>dying off
I disagree. Still alive and well. What is supposedly replacing them?

>>214397328
I've been in IT for 30 years anon and your've probably passed exams on shit I wrote when I was stoned thanks for your insight 'sysadmin'

>>214397485
I was ripping amiga games for BBSs. Your screaming in rage at technological evolution. No I don't was some crappy server room of my own to babysit either I've done my time with fibre raid arrays. I wated by private blockbuster because I am randy marsh. Find your own way by all means but don't ignore the tide coming in and be left with the normies in the sandcastles is my message. Get your library now while you can whatever way you choose. A billion optical disks a year go to landfill.

>>214397613
What's replacing them?

>>214397552
I've been around since the Novell days. 30 years and you still think optical media is the best format for file archival and retrieval? You haven't progressed in 20 years.

52 weeks in a year
520 in a decade
20 years 1040 movies games and series required for kino minimum
3000 for choice and variety because this is the 1990s and a man has to have a little variety

>>214397660
For a man who claims to have known PCON your insights are a bit worthless. If you want to keep a junk pile in your basement that's fine. I do my think you do yours. Enjoy the batteries on those raid cards dying clown. I have my blockbuster. I'm happy.

>>214397660
Funnily enough though, we both have private libraries. I like the whole thing of picking a movie of the shelfI miss video stores and optical media will outlive me and provide kino to my kids for free as well. tranferable rights are kewl. Whatever the solution the message is get your kino when you can because its going behind paywalls fast. I would not trust cloud storage for my media, nothiong that depends on conectivity is yours.

>>214397698
If corruption happens I have backups, but corruption won't happen because it's not 1995 and controllers failing won't fuck your shit up. Better my junk pile in the basement then a junk pile in your living room of burnt dvd's that are worthless. I threw about 1k of burned plastic away in the mid 2000's when magnetic media outscaled price per gb. My collection is far larger than yours at a fraction of the size and I can access each piece of media instantly when I want it on multiple devices. You enjoy wasting all that space, I keep mine for actual analog media like books and vinyl records.

>>214397621
member megaupload and the great data death? I do.

>>214396770 (OP)
The tube sites have fucking everything, I don't need to torrent anymore. I've been working through a watchlist of old comedies I used to see in video stores as a kid, and I find 9/10 of all of them between Tubi and the one illegal streaming site I use.

>>214396770 (OP)
>torrentgalaxy is still down
Fick this gay earth

>>214397823
Dude you are misisng my point do what makes you happy I got sick of server rooms a long time ago and don;t wany to be looking for parts for old servers for the rest of my life and again I LIKE picking movies of shelves, I like the cover art, I like my genre sections I like my kino you do to but have gone about it differently. My digital stuff is held on five SFFs that mirror each other via peer to peer to peer in a domestic lan that is airgapped btw but its music, a porn library and my own document stores and a library of stuff like vids on engineering and the best of youtube my movie and games are on disk again that's just my way because I'd rather have everythig up to 2016 on physical, shit like the best off 360 library or PS2/PS1 library, yes even PC games on physical release hell I even have big box 5.25 releases. BY point is we are doing the same thing in different ways that are comfy for us. Me? I don't want to prick around with server rooms or connectivity based solutions that go outside my home and again I am randy marsh, I like my physical media, I like the whole process of eating popcorn and picking a movie or a game off a shelf. I'm not even sure the window for getting that cheap is still there. I don't want a blade server in my basement, I'm sick of that shit.

>use built-in search engine on qbittorrent
>search for some forgotten '70s and '80s trash that even the tards from /hor/ never heard of
>download it in less than an hour
Ah, yes. Torrents are totally dying.

>>214397916
What is this fucking word salad? Use punctuation, you retarded pajeet piece of shit.

>>214397921
If the two oldest real techies on this thread have personal kino libraries that are doomday proof what does that tell you?
>In bf ok boomer
Shit sucks but denying what's happening and ending up with the normies outside of paywalls in a drying pond is dumb

>>214397947
A)I'm not a jeet, jeets live in overcrowed hellspaces that don;t have room for kino libraries and moie and game rooms
B)Cunts like you needed more headbutting but never had the guts to be mouths IRL

>>214397947
Oh look he has a connected spellchecker spying on all his posts. Nice. Really nice. But below my paygrade,

>>214396770 (OP)
No, my private tracker has a request feature. Someone is always hoarding what you want.

>>214396858
Not really

>>214398018
The sandcastle is only fine until the tide hits it.

>>214396807
Still paying for shit he bought the rights to a hundred times over. Fucking infants and their Tide pod brain damage.

>>214398018
Hello from 2012 I keep all my shit on megaupload I can get anything I want everything is fine.

piracy is easier than it's ever been. i don't even have to download kids shows for my children, the good wholesome ones are on archive.org

>>214396770 (OP)
The pillars of the old internet have all left now they've seen what it is they're propping up.
This good stuff didn't just fall from the aethers

>>214396880
Fucking asshole. kek

>>214398038
It's human instinct to assume what has been for a while always will be. However it is not true. The technological tide and legal tide has swung hard against the high seas built on the same shit that blocks exploits and malware

The Ukraine war has disrupted piracy like you wouldn't believe.

>>214397972
Cool. Now learn English, fucking pajeet.

>>214398082
Nothing to do with it, the exponential improvements in hash computation and backbone tech combined with shit like the incessent crap like SOPA and now the
>>214397133
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o
>Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
>https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/791
>H.R.791 - Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act

Got us here, nothing to do with the Ukraine war.

>>214398075
>The technological tide and legal tide has swung hard against the high seas
I guess that's true depending on where you are.

>>214397953
>don't believe what you see
>believe only what you hear
kek

>>214398131
Wrong. Rarbg had great quality and well seeded classic films. Now it is gone because the slavs are killing each other.

perhaps it's time to build a NAS and start hoarding. Thread feel like FUD though, I'm caballed up and the libraries keep growing and improving

>>214396858
Give one example

>>214398102
You're just jealous of my blockbuster obsolete raid array battery hoarder. To the soldering iron cave batman. The effect of jeets on IT and the internet has been disasterous as you well know. Muh timesharing mainframe penny scimping always connected dystopia backed by sloppy code and worse testing. Using shitty old servers to hoard high seas treasures on SSDs is pure jeet though because they don't own rooms lined with media shelves, they live in them ten to a room clutching their fake CVs and fake degress.

>>214397916
ight man do you. I've setup my little datacenter cabinet to be set it and forget it, I only go down there if an alarm sounds or im upgrading storage.

But yeah I've been archiving since the 90's, some of the digital music from release groups back in the days are not available anymore unless you frequent forgotten IRC hangouts. Most of the autist storage hoarders know that media versions also change year to year, so that TV show you remember being different is actually different. My late 90's early 2000's JAV porn collection you can't find anywhere is a good example of data that's disappeared on the net.

>>214398146
It is what I see.
>>214398202
Do what is comfy for you but get it before it's gone. You don't want to wind up with the normies and zoomers outside of paywalls and on a VPN trying to download something at 9600 bps.

>>214398215
I am mainly after japanese classics from the 70s and 80s. Here are a few examples out of hundreds:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085757/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322118/?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109430

Ironically some of them are even available on DVD before they're available on torrents.

>>214398234
I really got into this when I bought the library of PS1 games from a video rental store that closed 20 years ago but I dived on the blockbuster plan about six or seven years ago when I saw a demo of a port mirror Jupiter router that could block torrents and frames off a hash blacklist that was generated in near realtime. At that point new sealed media was being sold off in bulk by weight

what are private bittorrent trackers?

>>214398298
just as vunerable as public ones.

>>214398234
I still need mash, hill street blues and a about 100 others incuding klute for example. Amazing how little in games and movies it all boils down too and I've gone decade by decade back to the 20s. Same for games, althought I do keep te 8 and 16 bit stuff mostly in digital too. I try and keep my digital under 3TB

>>214398295
cool yeah I've never done torrents, too slow for me and obviously traceable protocol. SSL and obfuscation is still king. Security through obscurity works. I've stuck with usenet and private release groups for years.

>>214398253
all three are seeded via rutracker, zoomer

>>214398357
They had their day just like BBSs which were prime in their time, stuff would be up on them before it even got released and that's where most people got their first copy of the doom wads. Most people who read this thread will be going spastic at how physical media prices go up as supply shrinks and demand spikes, seen it all before from people who would not have taken a PS2 or 360 library for free and now seethe at prices. They only want things when they are not being thrown out. Same for DVDs and blue rays.

>>214398218
I can't be jealous of anything, since I wasn't able to understand your word salad in the first place, pajeet.
But I see you're starting to use commas and dots. Good bitch.

I hate how dvd extras have basically never been pirated.

>>214398412
Random rage post from (you). Again an SSD packed with mp4s is the jeet way, I'm going to wander into my movie room now and bask in its glow.

>>214398450
All you had to do was using English, pajeet.

ahem

>>214398439
The strangest stuff is becoming rare and sought after, it is quite bizzare

>>214398483
Look at you with your cloud connected spellchecker helping profile your every post. Neat, very jeetlike.

>>214398526
>punctuation
>spellchecker
The eternal jeet strikes again.

The 2 autists arguing while still trying to sound poetic are 100% esl and my guess is Indian.

>>214398548
Clues you are a jeet,
SSDs packed with MP4s (check)
No physical media (check)
Thinks a pile of old dell servers in a basement is magic. (check)

>>214398569
Jeets don't have movie and game rooms. They have dark smelly places with no plumbing crammed full of sublets and the inbred contents of their village because saaar.

>>214398215
'War of the Worlds' (1988)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(1988_TV_series)

>>214398581
Why are you writing fanfics about me, pajeet? My first post in this thread was this one. >>214397947
Why are you such a fucking schizo?

>>214396770 (OP)
Torrenting doesn't work in a majority brown internet, just like civilization doesn't work in brown countries. This is why private trackers are important.

>>214398692
fair observation the message is still get your kino library now

>>214398253
You should probably try to get an AvistaZ account if you want Asian TV and cinema.

Lmao join a private tracker scrub and actually seed

>>214397133
Skill issue.
I'm happy for normies to be locked out, not my problem.

Fun fact the google chrome spellechecker monitors everything as you type as does the microsoft offerings

https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/03/27/new-google-chrome-spell-checker-monitors-everything-you-type-while-fbi-secretly-watches/

Most large corporate implementations flag low tier people typing executives names in email along with a list of other keywords like quitting, salary etc. Beautiful dystopia.

>>214398768
Again fair but the message is still get your kino library while you can whatever way you like because the pendulum has swung against the high seas.

>>214396770 (OP)
Works on my machine

>>214398749
Sadly private trackers don't help against backbone packet sniffing and hash detection and they still rely on active seeders each to their own, if it relies on connectivity it's not dependable.. We know what happens with physical media from what has happened with game physical media repeatedly. Supply and demand. Last exit from the gift shop.

>>214396770 (OP)
I stacked 4k blu rays. engame is getting a diskstation and just uploading to that and make a streaming service network in my own house with the back ups physical copies on standby.

I seed because it's the right thing to do

>>214398883
why are you concerned with packet sniffing? legit question

>>214396770 (OP)
>>214396858
the fuck you talking about
almost every day i see new torrents of old stuff
just the other day i discovered a public torrent for butcher baker nightmare maker and that shit was impossible to find a couple years ago even on private trackers
so far there's only been one thing i've never been able to find and that's a seeded dvd rip of resident evil apocalypse where you get a more thorough look at sienna guillory's arm pits as they are cut off in subsequent releases

>>214398898
How you do it is up to you but do it kino frens. For me its a private blockbuster. I really have got immense pleasure from making a movie room and do everytime I browse through it for kino, if you prefer to do that on a filesystem so be it but don;t be left with the normies in a kinoless hellscape of paywalls and arbitrary shutdowns.

>>214397851
>he doesn't know

>>214398922
Because port mirroring packet sniffers feed off hashes to block exploits and malware. Most torrents are actualy seeded by the same rips which have distinct fingerprints and are childs play to throw on a blacklist which can now be done automatically Then there is national level automated IP blocking initially because muh cyberwarefare but of course now creepy national firewalls see

>>214397133
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o
>Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
>https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/791
>H.R.791 - Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act

The tech is already there now and it was not even a decade ago.

>>214398941
i have a humble 4k film collection. i had a lot of DVD's and i know that it can become very easy to buy a DVD because you kinda like the movie. watch it once ever 10 years and thats it. I got favorite movies, and holiday movies. even though i dont think holiday movies are true kino. when its the time of the season, watch a scary movie, watch a christmas movie. but when i got the 4k's, i went for smaller.

>>214399019
Nearly every night I'm on my kino couch watching something from my library. This gay earth could spit my movie room and me into outer space and I'll still be enjoying kino. About 3000 titles and series its the sweet spot for variety. It's also triue that in new releases worth watching the last decade has been absysmal and the gold to be mined is from 1920 to 2016 or so (roughly). How many crap remakes and reboots do you need?

>>214398939
Nice sandcastle there. Shame about the sea getting really close.

Imagine using cloud storage from amazonn of microsoft or google when they alll also sell media behind paywalls. Or are you going to spend decades encrypting slowly while your CPU fan goes full throttle all your files and relying on connectivity for one of your main pleasures in life, the kino? Whether digital or physical it has to be local.

IMO by far the most improtant thread on /tv/ but I've said my bit so read up if you open it. Get your kino locally and make your library anons. This is the darkest era yet for internet freedoms and privacy.

>>214397826
false equivalence

>>214398038
I just watched Paths of Glory Criterion on my UB820-K. Barry Lyndon 4K is sitting on the player. Eyes Wide Shut and Lolita are on the way as well.

Pleb.

>>214397851
Actually it's not and you're just a fucking dunce.

>>214399306
Not really, that was a good example of a government hit based on legislation if not the technological angle. That was the most massive kill of human knowledge and information since the library of alexadrea got destoyed and it was not just megaupload either, all the fileshares fully of copyrighted stuff etc went in the tailspin. Memeber limewire and napster? I do. Where are they now? Shit happens.

>buy a 20tb hard drive thinking that will be enough
I only have 3.7 TB left kek.

>>214398082
No it hasn't.

If anything the Russian search engines are especially noncompliant with western copyright enforcement now.

>>214399363
that was a false equivalence megaupload isn't even close to what p2p pirating are

>>214399097
nah too much for me. i am probably going to go for a couple TV series. maybe X-Files and Sopranos. maybe a couple more.

>>214399319
For me it was young frankenstein in 4K last night but I don't have a problem with 1080p when it happens. Kino is kino.

>>214399398
Read up. Bye. You know enough to sail but not enough about the winds to see you are going to hit a brick wall face first.

>>214397149
Not him but The Lovely Bones, Big money hustlas, the CKY films and the elm-chanted forest, none of them are on yts.mx, it's also hard to find subtitles for some movies or director's cuts/extended editions.

>>214399427
don't need to i've been into this since before you were born
don't even bother replying your AI ruined brain can't ever prove it isn't a false equivalence

>>214399399
I worked through top 100 lists by genre , then top 250 lists and then branched out into directors and actors and by decade
>>214399399
>X-Files and Sopranos
Have them and most of everything else minus a shortlist with mash and hill street blues and third rock from the sun and some 70s kino.

>>214399460
Whatever. You make your own hell because dumb. Things are changing fast and a few click can shut down every private torrent in the US in minutes.

>>214396770 (OP)
If anything, we need less information

>>214399460
I'm older than you, read up, get your kino, bye.

>>214399441
Most of that is on ext

Have you even bothered searching on a non Google search engine?

>>214399333
That's a skinwalker site anon.

>>214399441
https://watch.plex.tv/movie/big-money-hustlas

https://archive.org/details/the-elm-chanted-forest

https://archive.org/details/cky-landspeed
https://archive.org/details/cky-iso-file
https://archive.org/details/cky2k-iso-file
https://archive.org/details/cky3-iso-file
https://archive.org/details/cky4-the-latest-and-greatest-dvd-2002
https://archive.org/details/cky-5-2025-ytrip
https://archive.org/details/cky-documentary

>>214396807
hi, officer

>>214399624
>archive.org
yeah nice megaupload you have there

>>214399499
>Things are changing fast and a few click can shut down every private torrent in the US in minutes.
if they could then they would have done so decades ago

>>214396770 (OP)
I've started storing stuff because some of the rarer more obscure stuff will eventually stop being seeded. I don't want to have an urge to watch one of those films and have it not be available or god forbid have to use a shitty streaming service to access it.

>>214399646
ok schizo

>>214398616
Season 1 is on the internet archive

>>214399658
>t. tech illiterate zom zom

>>214396770 (OP)
It's getting harder to find anything. You clowns decided "muh amazon" which shut down actual stores. Now, when the supply on the Amz side goes away...too bad.

>>214399697
ok schizo

>>214399698
But...but that would mean you had to use Amazons paywall media? Why would amazon do that?

>>214399709
>t, Zomzom who thinkgs what is will always be and anyone who knows different is a skitzo.
Nice.

>>214396770 (OP)
Skill issue.

I can find anything in seconds.

>>214399871
Can you find me a large breasted girlfriend?

>>214399871
there's still no decent Weapons (2025) torrent. all I see is a HDCAM rip

>>214397106
>>214397076
>>214397037
>>214396973
is the punchline that torrents already bypass this bullshit by not distributing whole files?

>>214398181
its gone because bulgaria decided to make piracy a criminal offense, punished with military conscription.

>>214396770 (OP)
The collective consciousness will be there to help when it is needed. Humans are cool.

>>214399624
Nice, thanks

>FUD
>check 4plebs
>mainly in the paid livestream threads until very recently
>heavy use on /pol/ but mostly from non-US flags

saar very organic thread saar

>>214396770 (OP)
i rip my own shit all the time, the problem is finding good quality. some shows are just shit and will look like shit. blurays are getting harder to find and dvds are all rotting. physical media is ok but its going to to worse in the future