fuck the mpaa
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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Saddens me. I mean we are starting to lose good sites; RARBG, ZippyShare and now maybe TorrentGalaxy (and 1ficher?).
dbzer0 eventually. maybe soon. there's a reason pirate sites don't use .com
True, but like any piracy system there are endless heads to the hydra that pop up every time. 1ficher is a bit worse since those files are gone, but at least mirrors for trackers have some utility in finding old torrent swarms.
Sad that one of my favorite go-to sites for shows/movies is slowly dying. I hope the site gets itself together and can keep running.
Same. To be fair, 1337x and TPB work fine, but idk why I just really liked TGX
I just cannot bring myself to go to TPB in this day and age. It got too mainstream and seems like prime honeypot material now
Also the site itself is ancient, searching for stuff sucks over there.
Time to go to usenet.
The beauty of torrents is it’s completely free to use (+ decentralisation rocks). Unfortunately usenet doesn’t have that.
Genuine question...why's this comment getting downvoted?
I use both torrents and usenet in my setup, and none of the usenet sites I frequent have done down like the big torrent sites in recent years. It seems like a reasonable suggestion.
Usenet is harder to use
Usenet is more expensive
As someone who's been around a while, I disagree. The tools now are so much easier than those when ISPs mirrored usenet, and the cost is so much less than just internet back then
~~I don't think Usenet is really more difficult to use than Torrents.~~ While writing I noticed you have to pay for a Usenet provider (and likely the indexer too), which does make it more difficult than torrent. But only if you live in a region where piracy is not persecuted and you can skip the VPN.
Usenet: You buy a provider and put it's credentials into sabNZBd. You have an indexer, which gives you a .nzb, which you put into sabNZBd to download your files. If your provider is missing pieces the download might fail.
Torrent: You buy a VPN and bind qBittorrent to it. You have an tracker, which gives you a .torrent, which you out into qBittorrent to download your files. If there's no seeder or you aren't port forwarded the download might fail.
Is usenet the Arch of piracy? Like in every thread about torrents someone jumps in with "I use usenet btw"
I use Arch to access usenet.
I use torrents because they're free. A friend uses Usenet, and while it's a good service, they've got to pay for it.
RIP. Though personally I haven't used them in years since cloudflare was blocking prowlarr.
Flaresolverr FTW!
I've tried! but recently it seems to not work anymore? Github seems to imply it doesnt after my failed attempt (it picked up requests but cloudflare bot protection beats it).
i think there's other alternatives that can beat cloudflare bot detection but now that Ive got access to 2 private trackers I'm not usually picking through public stuff now.
Private trackers also use CF protections.