Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?
I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.
Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.
And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.
Somewhat related, you can use iknowwhatyoudownload.com to check and see if your IP address was part of a torrent download recently
This is great, thank you.
That is pretty cool. I just checked it from my cellular connection. Obviously it’s not stuff that I downloaded, it’s still cool to see.
Nothing for me. Not sure how historical their data is but I've been using a VPN (exclusively) for about a year and a half and about 6 months ago switched to a seedbox.
I’m excited to check this out when I get home. I wonder what will show up. Hopefully nothing haha. But we often have guests that stay for a week at a time. My building may also put me behind a cgnat.
That is pretty cool. I just checked it from my cellular connection. Obviously it’s not stuff that I downloaded, it’s still cool to see.
I used ipleak when setting up my seedbox, super cool resource
For some reason i don't know ipleak.net won't load for me. These work too though: https://ipleak.org/, https://browserleaks.com/ip.
What am I looking for on there to know if my VPN is working as intended or not?
I like to use this. It generates a custom torrent. Then shows the IPs connected to it. Whatever it shows should not be your public/home IP https://torguard.net/checkmytorrentipaddress.php
While connected to the VPN you shouldn't be able to see your real IP address. There is a torrent magnet link near the bottom left of the page that you can download and run on your client (qbit, transmission, etc) which will check whether that's leaking anything too.
I wish that sabnzbd had the same feature where you can force it to only function over the vpn interface. Such a nice feature to have.
I get a big red exclamation point and "The address 140...** is not in the database" Is this a sign that I have NordVPN set up correctly or not? Thanks for mentioning ipleak.net!
If you use over@lemmy.dbzer0.com to link a user, lemmy will instead create a link for the instance you are currently using.
Google searches show the DMCA takedown notices that list the sites that illegally stream content. It seems to me that if an interested party were to search for something on google and happened to see the DMCA take down notice, they might peruse that takedown request and see a number of sites that might illegally host such copyrighted content - so they know what sites to avoid of course.
😉
Unfortunately they've recently stopped doing this. It was a great way to stick it to the man though
Just checked, you're right! When did they stop this and is there any report on why? I was seeing these up until just a few months ago.
Must depend on the search. I just checked, and the links were still there same as always.
OMG! What a great way to stay safe online. This is a great tip. Guys remember, you wouldn’t download a car!
Avoid TS, HDCAM, CAM movies
If you are looking for German (or German + English dual language) content it can be very hard to find stuff on public torrent trackers and it's pretty hard to get onto private German trackers - but don't worry, there is a solution:
Usenet and the indexer sceneNZBs.com that specialises in German releases have got you covered!
If you want to automate the search for German Dual Language content using Radarr/Sonarr I made a guide (that also works for torrents too): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language
Docker, if you can run it on your hardware (either your normal system or on dedicated hardware) is a Swiss army knife that can help level up your acquisitions, and provides you with an isolated application environment if you don't want to install the applications directly to your device. For media specifically, there is a suite of applications under the same *arr naming scheme that allows you to index, monitor for releases of, and acquire different television shows, movies, music, and books.
Some container maintainers build in different capabilities into their torrent client containers, such as Binhex's qBittorrent and Deluge applications, that have VPN connectivity built in, so any network traffic running through that container will automatically use your VPN provider's WireGuard or OpenVPN capabilities, depending on who you use. Once you have that running and your tags tuned in the *arr apps, you have a headless, mostly independent machine constantly working on acquiring and upgrading your media.
Sidenote: the *arr apps can be controlled by mobile apps like LunaSea on iOS, and nzb360 on Android. The latter can also integrate with your torrent clients.
Yes this has been a game changer and would've been my advice too (but you posted before me).
Using a deluge container with vpn baked in is amazing. And also it makes setup so much easier. Instead of messing with tags and complicated configs I simply run a deluge docker container for each other app. My movies docker compose file starts up radarr and it's own deluge and jacket etc. My television docker compose file starts up medusa, it's own deluge, etc.
Provides for maximum flexibility. And put traefik in front of it all.... so I go to "movies.mydomain.net" and can use radarr.... or "television.mydomain.net" and it goes to medusa. Much more family friendly.
I'm still rolling Binhex's (now deprecated) rTorrent/ruTorrent container, and I'm glad I got it before it stopped being maintained. Tbh the scheduling capability built into that far exceeds anything else I've used (three tiers of scheduling on top of "off" and "unlimited").
I make use of reverse proxying through Nginx Proxy Manager to hit nzb360 from outside my home, though if I can get it working properly I might be dropping that and going through Tailscale with local routing. I just haven't had a chance to futz with that yet.
thats fuckin sick, i didnt even think of doing that. i tired using one of those apps like overseer or whatever and i never got used to it.
My choice is haugene/transmission which doesn’t open unless it has a connection to the VPN. Great for PIA, but I’m thinking about switching to proton unltd so will have to do some testing in another container before I take the plunge.
Binhex does the same thing. There are checks performed before it allows connections to make sure it can resolve DNS across the VPN interface and that it can obtain an IP address from PIA (I also use them, grandfathered $6.95/mo baybee).
why is this the first time hearing about haugene. I use pia too, what are you running it on?
I'm just now dipping my toes into docker. I started off self hosting a bitwarden server, and im working on moving my *arrs over to containers on my nas. I need a bit more experience before i move my seedbox over fully, dont need any more isp letters.
I had no idea about those apps, thats sick dude
I used to run the applications on bare metal when I ran a Windows server (because that's all I knew at the time). Eventually graduated to a QNAP NAS, that wasn't enough, and moved on again to Unraid, where many of these apps are available through templates in their Community Apps section. It really lowers the barrier of entry for using Docker and makes it stupid easy to assign your container an IP address on your host network, so it can be its own "device" on your LAN (which helps for me since I've got that all segmented off in its own VLAN).
It's not too deep a rabbit hole to jump down, but it'll take time to get things just right to limit the amount you need to interact with the apps and manually select what you want to grab.
Make sure you have backups of your vault. Reliable backups.
Especially if you are just starting off with docker, you don't want to loose access to all your accounts because you f up some configuration (e.g. redeploy an updated image)
Is there something to allow you to browse and filter movies an be tv shows? I've just gotten into sonarr and it's great for managing shows but I still fall back to browsing sites for inspiration
I use Overseerr for that purpose personally. It gives me enough suggestions of "this show is on xyz service" and a good number of genres to poke through.
Pick one: Ombi / Overseerr / Jellyserr
edit: fixed Ombi misspelling
RARBG used to fill this need for me (inspiration) since they'd highlight popular stuff, but now it's mostly word of mouth or I'll occasionally check places like IMDB (or just straight googling) for what's currently popular/highly rated and what's coming out in the near future that might interest me or my users.
I just can never wrap my head around getting Qbittorrent (Binhex) to work with VPN. I'm with Proton VPN and when I attempt to add it, it just won't actually download anything.. Works without it which ain't helpful!
If anyone has the skills/expertise, please help aha.
If you have qbitorrent installed and also your VPN is installed:
Open qbit Click Tools> Options> Advanced Change "Network Interface" drop down and click your VPN there.
Hope that helps
The free version of Proton VPN blocks torrents, fyi.
You're using the correct OpenVPN creds from your Proton dashboard, and the applicable nameserver/sIP addresses for the VPN endpoint and DNS lookup for Proton? If DNS lookup is failing, try setting it to 9.9.9.9 or 1.1.1.1 and see if you get resolution.
Usenet is worth every penny
Is there a very good guide somewhere for usenet?
If you're completely new, familiarizing yourself with any guide would be beneficial. A basic search resulted in this and this, which are better than nothing, I suppose. I'd appreciate someone skilled adding their two cents, however, especially concerning common pitfalls and anonymous payment for Usenet providers.
Also curious
Is it? I never used it, i went down the torrent path. Usenet would have to be super easy to use for me to consider paying for it
It is. I torrented for years, Usenet is so much better once setup with radarr/sonarr. So much faster
I feel you on the difficulty. Mostly it took me just taking a leap into it and deciding that if I lost a little money on it no biggie as I've gotten so much for free over the years. Biggest thing that tipped me into finally trying was black Friday sales from Usenet providers. Getting a pretty dang cheap deal and then fiddling with sabnzb, getting my first download going was awesome. Especially the speeds. And 99% of the things I'm looking for being available. Even really old stuff that is pretty hard to find active torrents of. Would highly recommend.
Just jumped into Usenet a year ago, been torrenting for decades. I concur, worth every single cent spent, and I messed up and overspent when I was setting up…. Still worth it.
I miss when Usenet subscriptions just came as part of your ISP package. What the hell ever happened with that?
Seems like it was a mix between usenet being a magnet for piracy, which all the ISPs were getting pressure to combat, and demand for usenet cratering - as newer users came on the internet they went to other places (myspace had started which appealed more to young users)
Dang, that'd be cool. Didn't even know that was a thing. Probably before my time on the internet. Mostly got connected in the late 2000s and haven't ever heard that was a thing.
This comment 100% .... You get popped uploading not downloading.
Usenet was great 10-15 years ago but nowadays it's flooded with fake / private downloads and retention is shit simply because the few remaining backbone providers comply with takedown requests. Absolutely useless for older content by any major studio. It's all new stuff which is mostly garbage anyway. We were able to get a ton of "this old house" recently though.
Its important to have a supplemental block account, that won't generally accede to DMCA requests. The big guys will of course, but they don't get rid of the whole file, so you can grab the remainder from the block account. I can't even think of the last time I wasn't able to download something between my main and block account.
I’ve personally found it better to pay for a seedbox and connect to it via encrypted FTP than to worry about VPNs and downloading torrents locally. I share the cost between a couple of friends and we all access the seedbox and download/stream what we need from it. I don’t have to worry about keeping my computer running either.
So my question is, whose name is on the seedbox? I've seen people say this...is it one of the special hosts that will just send you a notice and not tell the complaint filer who you are? Connecting to a VPN or proxy has been easy enough and cheaper lol.
I signed up using an anonymous email address and paid with bitcoin. I get an email from the seedbox provider when an “abuse notification” is receiving which recommends I stop the torrent. They claim no personal information is given out.
I havent used one, but thats what it seems like to me. someone sets up a server in a country that doesn't care about dmca, and you pay for them to download torrents and handle the encryption, etc.
Yeah, but i hate like messing around with docker and setting it up myself, lol
Personally I switched away from a seedbox to a VPN, but only after building up a stupid ratio on several trackers. It's annoying to manage two copies of everything, you have to download everything twice, and drive space on seedboxes is expensive.
Plus longterm seeding is impossible with a seedbox unless you pay those high storage prices. This is bad for sustainability as a whole.
How big is your seedbox that you split it with friends? I have a seedbox with 4 TB and it's like $17/month. That's a lot of content..
Yeah mine is about the same. More than enough for what I need.
You can use IRC to pirate ebooks that you won't be able to find on torrent sites.
Wait until you hear about library genesis.
Man I completely forgot about IRC, used to use this so much in my teens. Good to know it's still alive
IRC is useful for other content as well: https://www.xdcc.eu/
This is also great for ebooks. https://annas-archive.org/
But never anything my wife asks me to get for her
Is this topic-specific or are there other bots other than the one in UnderNet? I've never found on IRC a book that wasn't in libgen
Synology NAS (with SynoCommunity) + Transmission + Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/etc + Kodi
It's amazing, the new episodes or movies just show up right there in the media center, with correct metadata, ready to be watched.
Is there a guide to get all that setup?
General information on all the software setup and configuration: https://wiki.servarr.com/
Flexible solution based on docker but complicated for a beginner: https://nick-rondeau.medium.com/creating-the-ultimate-media-server-with-docker-portainer-plex-and-ubuntu-server-f47a4503897f
Simple script based solution (easy for beginner but less flexible): https://swizzin.ltd/
I have this same setup on Synology using docker and funnel all the searches through Jackett and Transmission downloads through a gluetun VPN container. Living in the UK it was a game charger on the ISP restrictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSfaKwyfXE
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=xbSfaKwyfXE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Thanks! I needed this, have been doing something similar but through a VM on the synology and it is not really workings
I never tried out all these "arr" services because I thought they only deliver english language. Is it possible to use other languages?
Yeah you can can choose a language profile and download movies/tv whichever language you want
They can work with other languages, but it can take a while to find a correct setup
Just curious, why do you prefer Kodi over Plex?
I have a dated opinion, it's probably still true, but compute power is much cheaper now.
If your player doesn't support the format, Plex will transcode it on the server -- which is extremely slow if all you have is just a junk pc as server, while on Kodi (or what I personally use, Infuse), you can use any file server, like smb, and they'll just play. No fuss, any lags will definitely be a network issue.
I only watch on one device (Nvidia Shield Pro) directly and do not need streaming over the net. Because of this I have also not looked into Jellyfin much either.
Overall I got to know Kodi first and like the customization and add-ons etc. I have my library/metadata set up that way and am too lazy to check the others out and maybe switch (don't fix a running system, right? xD)
This is the setup I have. Almost perfect!
I have done basically the same thing. With a few differences.
I setup Transmission and SaBnzbd on the NAS but offloaded sonarr/radar/prowlarr + jellyfin to my server so it's not taking up resources from the NAS.
Found Usenet to download significantly faster overall and sonarr/radar get releases from them much quicker then torrents. Only about 1/15 downloads end up being torrents.
Also overseerr is an amazing tool that you should add into your system. I use it for myself but I also have made accounts for my family so instead of asking me to download something they can just press two buttons and it automatically does the rest.
I've been doing basically the same thing on a QNAP NAS slowly as I find time to learn.
My current setup is NAS with a docker running Jellyfin (Plex alternative that is FOSS and also better in my opinion). I setup a reverse-proxy via https to Jellyfin on the NAS.
I have VPN+Prowlarr+Radarr+Sonarr+Lidarr+qBittorrent setup on my PC and uploading locally to the NAS for Jellyfin.
I have a domain purchased and using DDNS to point the url to my IP, though that doesn't appear to be working properly right now.
So as is, it works quite well at least on my local network, but when I find the time I'll get the domain working so I can properly login to Jellyfin remotely with it. Then next up is moving the torrent setup onto the NAS in it's own docker stack.
My NAS also has two physical network interfaces so I'm also going to setup the other one to be exclusively a VPN connection so I can let different docker stacks use different network interfaces. (VPN for torrent docker stack and non-VPN for remoting into the NAS or something. I'm not sure yet.)
Look into jellyseerr. It's a really nice way to add content and to let others add content.
I seriously need to learn all of this stuff. For years I've just been doing the same thing. Turn on my VPN, find the movie or show I want on whatever torrent site, download it with qBittorent and then hook my laptop up to my receiver and play it with VLC.
I use DuckDNS and Wireguard, was pretty easy/quick to setup. Don't forget to forward the relevant VPN ports on your router/modem.
How much space are you guys running for these setups?
I'm running a mini-ITX system with three 3.5" drives, the case dimensions for it are 240x207x401mm. It's a pretty tight package, and way smaller and more efficient than the dual Xeon Dell T7500 I used to run.
The modularity of docker makes this great! I have a docker stack with overseerr, 2x sonarr, 3x radarr, 2x readarr, lidarr, unpackerr and sabnzbd. Another stack with nordvpn and qbittorrent. It's so easy to setup and it becomes very powerful.
I have some users on Plex that simply do some requests on overseerr, I approve them, then everything gets downloaded automatically. They just have to wait for it to be available. I used to be suscribed to Netflix, not anymore since their offering dropped while their prices raised.
Why do you run multiple *arr containers? What can two or three do that one couldn't?
I don't know overseerr yet, sounds like it might be useful for my gf 🤔 Also never heard of unpacker, gotta check out the advantages of that.
I only recently finally got into docker and it's amazing. Good thing I spent the extra bucks for the NAS that supports it back when I bought it some years ago. Maybe I'll switch Sonarr/Readarr/Readarr and Prowlarr to docker too, so that I can manage everything the same way.
I was so close to going legal and signing up for Netflix, and then all the other platforms started to pop up and the content got split over all those. I just want one platform for all my favourite shows and movies. It should be shared like with Spotify/Google-/Apple-/YouTube-Music, not the exclusive chaos that it is now.
You are my hero. Can this power be learned or do you have to run a story arc for some internet wizard?
Which model Synology? I'm hoping to do this as well as store family photos soon
Don't cheap out on a NAS, I got an entry level Synology when I first started it was great for learning but was quite slow. I needed to sell that and buy a more powerful model to get one that could run Docker. I went for 716+ which I bought used off eBay and works well for me, the difference in speed is night and day. Ram can be upgraded onboard if required. Good luck 👍
Yandex is currently the best search engine for pirate stuff. You might need to change the language setting to only show english results, tho, as it gives preference to russian stuff.
If you're on Windows, you can block any address "forever" by running Notepad as an admin and opening the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
0.0.0.0 www.whatever.com will completely block that domain. It won't block www.whatever.co.uk or whatever.com, so you'll have to add one line for each top level domain. It's great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page)This is functionally what PIHole does. Though you can do this with any DNS you control, such as Unbound or Bind.
Why Yandex over other search engines?
Yandex is good. Sometimes Qwant.com and Metager.org will find things, too. When Google/Bing/Yahoo/Startpage, etc., don't find what you're looking for, just try search engines based in other countries. Russia/Yandex probably cares less about western DRM than Qwant/France and Metager/Germany. Incidentally, if you open a VK (aka Vkontakte, Russian Facebook) account, you can also open a mail.ru (part of VK) account. Don't forget to set the UI language to something you understand :)
Russia has long been a haven for digital piracy and Yandex doesn't block pirate results at all. When I noticed that duckduckgo began quietly censoring some pirate sites I frequented, I ditched it for those purposes.
Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically “fail” to find the page. For instance, 0.0.0.0 www.whatever.com will completely block that domain. It won’t block www.whatever.co.uk or whatever.com, so you’ll have to add one line for each top level domain. It’s great for blocking the worst ad networks (the ones that leave 6 clickjacks per page) 11
Pi-hole is worth looking into if you're into this
Pihole is a good option, but it's extra hardware that you need to keep running. Changing your own OS's etc/hosts doesn't need anything you might not have ;)
If you have a large steam library, the rin forum has some tools to help backup a good chunk of those games. Usually you can't run a steam game without the steam client, but steamless and goldberg can make them run without needing the client.
Won't you lose out on achievements and stuff if you run it without the client? 🤔
Yes, but there are work arounds if you really want achievements
With just goldberg yeah. There's another program, i don't recall it's name at the moment, that keeps track of acheivements.
SlavArt Revolt bots are THE WAY to go for high quality music from almost any service
I love you. I was finally able to get a flac file for one of my favorite pieces of music of all time.
Glad i could help, happy sailing o7
How do they work, do you know?
There is a bit of a learning curve. Please read thoroughly. https://rentry.co/slavart
This is awesome. Any site to direct download entire playlists?
Depending on the size of the playlist i guess ? I've been able to get the bots to download them from Spotify if they are under 100 songs or so
IPv6 torrenting for the most part goes unchecked by the companies who send threat letters to your ISP. I have a US seedbox which doesn’t have IPv4 and it’s been working great with a lot of public torrents
VPN seems like a bigger hassle for me, I change one parameter to off in /etc/network/interfaces and it works great.
If you really want to build an awesome Plex/Jellyfin library, start using Usenet instead of torrents.
Please tell me what I can get on usenet that isn't on PTP, BTN, or RED.
I would bet that 99/100 releases are uploaded to private trackers before usenet.
I’d like to know this as well. Haven’t used Usenet for over 10 years. PTP, BTN, and Red are all I need. Seed box and Plex. I’m into indie/obscure films also, so what would Usenet offer that they don’t?
It isn't availability that makes me prefer Usenet, but its speed and security features.
If you have cabal and able to maintain ratio (yeah BTN is ratio less) you don’t need Usenet
But thats such a small proportion of people. Usenet is what I recommend to entry level people who want top tier access but aren’t will to spend time/effort/networking but will spend money m
I’ve personally found that usenet isn’t that good unless you’re trying to grab things immediately. I find trying to grab older stuff really hit or miss, mostly miss.
Idk man, Usenet was solid for me for years but now everything is DMCAd in a flash.
Yeah, setting up the Servarrs (Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr) along with your bt client, then trawling opensignups to get onto private torrent sites.
Was does trawling opensignup mean ?
piracy is a latter.
at the bottom there is the person getting a pirated ware physically from someone who copied it.
then steps later there is rapidshare or whatever filehosters still exist.
more steps up are public torrents and trackers.
then there is forums that use a variety of sharing technologies like (private) torrent or hosters.
nzb is next.
then there is irc - which at best is linked to some of the outer ring ftp servers.
ftp servers run by currygroups is next. and they leech from
the core of scene ftp servers.
sure i missed exotic outlets of the piracy latter like ondemandpiracystreaming, ssd-by-snailmail and so on.. we all agree vpn is key. i think irc always has worked better than torrent ever and being easier to access thab nzbs.
Sure, the magic of torrents is that it's hard to truly take down. If 100 people are seeding something, good luck getting them all to stop. The next best option is to stop sites from hosting the torrent files that help you connect with seeders. But, now we have DHT that is like torrent sites automatically being peer to peer. Shits unstoppable.
But, ftp has great benefits as well for sure. Not to downplay that.
Do you mind sharing some more information about irc?
well for starters you could just go xdcc.eu,search some shit, fire up hexchat, obey channel rules (e.g you have to register your username) and xdcc request the file. next up you might want to do you own irc bot maybe selfhosted on a Pi or as a service and teach that bot what to get you on a regular basis like tv shows. then never use xdcc.eu ever again and run your searches through said bot. maybe get lost in the whole topic and have a telegram bot run on the irc bot Pi to update you on latest downloads and so on... you can have an irc client on your phone and then tell your bot what to request and download.
Wireguard creates a new network interface that accepts, encrypts, wraps, and ships packets out your typical network interface.
If you were to create a kernel network namespace and move the wireguard interface into that new namespace, the connection to your existing nic is not broken.
You can then use some custom systemd units to start your *rr software of choice in said namespace, rendering you immune to dns leaks, and any other such vpn failures.
If you throw bridge interfaces into the mix, you can create gateways to tor / i2p / ipfs / Yggdrasil / etc as desired. You’ll need a bridge anyway to get your requester software interface exposed to your reverse proxy.
Wireguard also allows multiple peers, so you could multi-nic a portable personal device, and access all your admin interfaces while traveling, with the same vpn-failure-free peace of mind.
I know some of these words
I counted a whole 3 that I knew!
Maybe if they drew a picture
me too, but not many
Have a good guide on this? I am very interested..
Yeah, or just do it properly on your router and be done with it network-wide.
Real Debrid + Kodi or Stremio is awesome
qBitTorrent has an inbuilt search feature that is kind of hidden. It supports plugins to search your favourite sites.
Here's a complete article on how to enable it and get the plugins.
This would be such a minor time saver if there's a plug-in for libreoffice. I cannot wait to try it out for other sites, too. Such a good tip.
You can also host deluge with the scheduler plugin on a raspberry and set your torrents to only download/seed at night!
You can also use ghe YaRSS2 plugin to monitor RSS feeds with torrent files/magnet links and have each rule downloads to a specific directory. Quite useful for TV shows.
Get into private trackers if you can and then you won't have to worry much about any of this.
i've been pirating things for ~15 years and still don't understand private trackers
What's the confusion? They're just like public ones, but pristinely organized, extremely well seeded, and you're less likely to get a letter from your ISP for torrenting with them.
I can find just about anything I want through public trackers or DDL sites, so I haven't bothered to look into them.
Same, being elitist about who you share japanese cartoons or whatever with just seems weird.
NO
Your username makes me think you go around in elliptic orbits just to say NO at things due to your skepticism. :)
Anyone got good options for ebooks? Currently got calibre setup but only sourcing my books from libgen. Tried using jackett + readarr but the indexers didnt seem great... is it worth paying for indexers? Which ones?
Anna's Archive?
I only found out about it on here recently and I've been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.
Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.
So.. I feel ancient just mentioning this, but for literally 20 years now #bookz on undernet has been a solid source for books.
Use something like hexchat, get in the room, search your book, profit. Just got some stuff a few days ago.
Edit: actually, followed JC1's link in their comment, and it's a whole guide about how to get set up.
EBook tracker, read their rules then hop on irc for an interview. You can use jackett/prowlarr with MaM to automate Readarr
LibGen?
I personally use zlibrary https://singlelogin.re/
I saw this the other day, might be helpful! https://lemmy.world/post/835536
ebooks, and manga! advice would be appreciated
I recommend tachiyomi for manga / graphic novels for mobile, which is where i read most manga. you can get series from a lot of different sites, add custom sources, and locally download. it rules
Myanonamouse is the best tracker for books, audio or digital.
I got into MAM pretty easily. Readarr doesn't support text and audio with a single instance, so I abandoned that for audiobookshelf. People rave about calibre but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Follow up question: does anyone have a good source for ebooks in Spanish? currently using lectulandia
althub.co.za has been a decent indexer for ebooks for me. But ebooks are just not as readily available on usenets. And new books are rarely available upon release. I'll manually download from libgen and import to readarr in those cases.
myanonamouse is by far the best private tracker for books, and getting an invite was super easy.
Z-library is my personal pick, It's currently on the darkweb, however, you can access it through tor, or with a web browser that uses tor (like Brave). Once you're in you can generate a personal clearnet link. You can even set up your own telegram bot.
Bit tired to format, but these should help. Start here:
Evanbuss/Openbooks docker
Zlib via tor is fantastic
If you prefer usenet, work your way into a few good private trackers. If you prefer torrents, get an invite to a couple of indexers. Backup methods are key to success.
Are there free indexers?
Short answer: no
Long answer: yes, but they are basically useless. Except for some indexers that cost money but also have a free plan where you are capped at like 5 downloads per day.
Since not many seem to know about it. Plex_Debrid is an awesome program and works on more than just plex!
Thats crazy, does it work well? I havent gotten into the debrid scene, but this is neat
I use jellyfin, should I be using this instead?
Plex Debrid works with Jellyfin too. You just also need to setup Trakt for the watchlist. As you add movies and shows to Trakt watchlists, plex Debrid will grab them and add to real Debrid and then refresh your jellyfin library.
Plex is just a little better since you can use the plex discover feature to add items to your watchlist
Using file hosters instead of Usenet, that's a Paddlin'. Using JD2 instead of PyLoad, that's a Paddlin'. Using a headless version of JD2, that's a Paddlin'. Using an overpriced RPI, that's a Paddlin'.
Go through plex. Pay some guy to do your dirty work for you.
Not that advanced, but two things I found useful:
Also what's the safest/cheapest/possible free(?) VPN you can use to torrent? Thinking about doing that as Direct Download, while nice and more safe, can definitely be time consuming
I'd rather pay for a decent Usenet backbone and use exclusively SSL downloads than rely on a VPN with torrents.
You don't want a free VPN. I'd cough up for Mullvad if I was going that route.
Mullvad got rid of port-forwarding so it's not good for torrenting anymore. IVPN, which is where the Mullvad refugees fled to, just got rid of it as well. I think AirVPN is the next option people are flocking to, but who knows when they'll do that next.
I've also seen stuff about torrenting over I2P which shouldn't have this limitation, but I'm not sure how usable it is right this moment.
I couldn't agree more. Usenet all the way.
Which one do you personally prefer? I used to use easynews and some giganews back in the day but dunno how the latest and greatest is these days.
Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I've had minimal issues with it.
Mullvad is great
Why would you need a free VPN? They are so cheap, and the safety and security and features that comes with a paid subscription is more than worth the very small yearly cost.
I'm more interested in paying for a VPN that isn't a subscription. Are there any good options?
You prepay for it using digital currency, it's superfast, you can use it on all of your devices, you're spoiled for choice on how to use it, and there's a ton of options for location.
Without a doubt it's the best pay VPN that I've ever used
VPN is one of the few "services" I'm happy to pay a subscription for. Because it's actually a service with ongoing costs.
I got a lifetime subscription to keepsolid VPN a few years ago £12 for up to 5 devices, figured if I got a year out of it then that's my money back, still going great now for me. Occasionally they do these lifetime subscription options for bargain price on stacksocial which is where I got mine. Worth keeping an eye out. There are better featured ones out there but all I want is something to funnel my Torrents and indexers through and this works fine on 150mb broadband I have with no speed drop.
Not sure what you want here. A VPN which you can cancel each month? I just pay the Mullvad people some money in advance and get x months of VPN for it. Is that a subscription?
Windscribe. It's free but has a 10gb cap per month. I've used it plenty of times to torrent movies and they don't do logging.
There isint. This is your moment, do you take the plunge and buy a vpn, sign your soul to a pirates life?
100 years before the mast!
soul signing it is matey. Yarr
Proton VPN has been good to me so far.
Protonvpn claim they have a few VPN. Honestly one of the easiest ways to torrent imo is to get a real Debrid subscription let them torrent them download the file through them without a VPN.
I really want to thank you for this post, it opens up some long hidden secrets and gems inside the piracy world <3
I want to add something to this thread for my advanced pirates: irc xdcc chats for directly downloading content use http://sunxdcc.com to search for the content you are lookin for! (though, it's very manual)
I legitimately forgot about this option - XDCC searches are a real boon
if you can
Everyone can.
I got in via an interview for what.cd, way back in the day. The interview process is still a viable way in for those willing to put a bit of time in.
Easiest way to get started at the moment (imo) is to go through the interview to get into MAM, get VIP status, then use the invite threads in the forum to access other trackers.
Now maintaining your ratio however... I'm having a hard time at Orpheus, with a seedbox.
Orpheus is tough in the beginning. It's important to essentially only use freeleech tokens since a download rarely manage to get above a ratio of one.
i thought they were dead? whats the irc channel?
is it possible to easily setup a way for your jellyfin server to be used outside of your house? For instance, if I wanted to let my grandfather use it with the rokus from his house, or if I wanted to leave the server at my house and still use it from college, could this be done fairly easily without too much trouble?
Or would this be an issue legal wise or difficult to code/network somehow?
It’s possible, but without knowing how familiar you are with networking, it’s difficult.
I’m assuming your Jellyfin server is on your home network. If this is the case, it might not be worth it because you have a data cap.
Your home’s isp probably designated your connection a dynamic IP (changes every time your modem is rebooted and also periodically). You should be able to reach Jellyfin through this IP right now if your router is forwarding http requests to your Jellyfin server. For example, if Jellyfin is watching port 8080 for http requests you would need to set your router to port forward all requests on 8080 to the Jellyfin host
Since you have a dynamic ip this would not be a “set it and forget it” solution. There are ways around this, you’d need to research buying a domain name from a registrar (I’ve used porkbun) and setting up a ddns client that updates your ip with the registrar when it changes. I haven’t been able to figure this out yet (I just tinker with computers I don’t know what I am doing. I also have capped internet so I’m not interested in hosting my Jellyfin outside my home).
Also, setting up https is a good idea and is easier if you have a domain ( but you can do it without, I hear.)
Good luck
Edit: the other suggestions about setting up your network as a vpn and connecting that way is probably much easier. I went the domain route for some other stuff I was doing.
It's free for a limited number of personal devices. Add the jellyfin server to your tailscale network and it will receive a local ip. Add you grandfather's roku (or possibly router) to that same tailscale. You'll then be able to enter the Tailscale ip address of your jellyfin into the roku app to get access.
I don't have a roku, but use tailscale to access several home services while I'm out including a jellyfin instance. It is incredibly easy to setup and use, particularly if you are limited by complex router situations.
Yes it's a legal issue
Wireguard would be the ideal choice instead of old school vpn
Could also use tailscale as it's easier to set up
Its easy with Jellyfin and the config will tell you if its set up right. You can either go directly to the Jellyfin port or thru a reverse proxy but either way you're exposing ports. I ran mine behind docker so I could easily keep everything up to date.
Not a networking guy, but from what I read the included port forwarding features (any port forwarding really) can open up vulnerabilities if you’re not knowledgeable with network security. The safer way to do things is through a vpn. I set up a WireGuard vpn on a raspberry pi and it has been good enough for me. This might not allow you to use it on a Roku though.
I’m sure you could, biggest issues are exposing yourself to security threats. Most home networks are pretty secure due to the fact that in general using any router locks down your network pretty hard. So to access jellyfin remotely you would need to poke holes in your security.
Second issue is network bandwidth/throughput limitations. But if you are happy with your speeds then it’s just a matter of keeping your server up and running, especially if you are away from home for any length of time.
Personally I would really suggest a seed box of some description. It will really change your piracy life. I could never go back. And typically you can run plex/jellyfin/emby and serve to anyone you like without all the networking or maintenance or really security issues.
What you are looking for is a VPN or to port forward Jellyfin. Not to be confused with a Commercial VPN. You want him to Virtually connect to your Private Network. Personally, I don't trust port forwarding Jellyfin directly. So, I setup a wireguard VPN and port forwarded that. Then, connect remotely through the VPN to the local Jellyfin. Idk about Roku though. I cannot say wether they have a good wireguard app.
I cannot afford a vpn what do you recommend?
Use ProtonVPN Free with direct downloads only (their P2P servers are paid). Check the megathread categories for links.
Setting up qbit with tor
Please don't. The tor network is not made for this. You vän use i2p instead. https://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/
what exactly do you mean by that? is tor something that protects you somehow?
What I really want to know is what you guys use for getting torrents for entire seasons of shows, or even the entire show at once. I'm not new to piracy, I'm just new to talking about it with people.
We use the *arr suite of software. Search up Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr, that will get you started on the right path
1337x or TorrentGalaxy
I can't believe I didn't know about 1337x. That's so awesome, I'm deadass downloading the entirety of futurama right now. It's gonna take 4 hours but hey, that's not a problem for "about to fall asleep BeezKnuts"
rarbg :(
Private trackers.
I think a lot of people use radaar and sonaar. Generally speaking I just add s01 or s02 to my search terms. Sorry if that isn't hitting on what you were asking.
flexget, more ghetto than sonarr but works just fine
the classic, ThePirateBay
Don't forget to use a vpn on the bay, that's how I got a stupid letter from my isp. ngl the email sounded like "use a vpn next time you dummy" I forgot to turn it on that day.
A good IPTV service is worth it’s weight in gold. Yes, it’s paid, but thousands of live channels and some providers offer on demand video. The service dwarfs whatever price you pay. Run all of it through Tivimate.
I run everything with saltbox (cloudbox fork) it’s ansible, it’s automated, and I hardly have issues. I host from home but have a 10gb uplink.
Being consistent and seeding is what makes everything work. So my best advice is seed! (Private trackers are a no brainer). Using a few and backups. I have replaced all the streaming services with a self service portal and all I need to do is updates and every few year upgrade the hardware.
I have and do purchase lots of movies and entertainment. But I’m tired of services deleting shit.
I host from home but have a 10gb uplink.
Fuck outta here (as i cry in american)
Swizzin is definitely the most prominent solution for selfhosting a seedbox. I highly recommend it.
OSMC (a Kodi OS) on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Seren Addon + a Real-Debrid or Premiumize.me account is the absolut shit.
Idk why you got downvoted. I wouldn't call that advanced. But, we could all be happy with that setup too :)
Flatpaks in Linux (for isolation)
When running kinda unknown things? Maybe, but I don't see why we need that for anything else.
Debrid services > torrents.
yes?
Did you know the contacts to the head, preamp and the motor on regular spinning disks are not soldered nowadays? That's right, after some clever PLM engineering, companies decided NOT to do this. Why? It shortens the life span of the disk, thus, your disks die and you go and buy new ones.
Mitigation of this problem: Remove the controller board from the drive and solder (add solder) to all of the contacts that connect to something to the aluminium chassis of the disk.
DON'T DO THIS, at best it'll do nothing and at worst (muuch more likely) you'll short and kill your HDD.
The whole point of contacts is that they aren't soldered, the transmit current by physical contact. There's a matching pair on the HDD chassis:
They're not soldered, as in soldered to pins on the aluminium chassis. Look at the image I posted, have I soldered anything from that board to the aluminium chassis? No. The're solder cushions to act as pillows for the metal head/preamp pins, which leads to having wider contact surface and no oxidation, which in turn leads to better conductivity, no head fly-bys and no head crashes when the head looses contact with the control board.
BTW, they used to make them with solder cushions, but stopped after a while, cuz those disks could go through hell and back. Remove the boards from some old early 2000's drives, you'll see what I'm talking about.
stop manually browsing torrent sites! You're wasting your time.
Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.
You should check out Prowlarr, its like jackett, but integrates better into sonarr/radarr
Prowlarr has a prettier UI but the torrent sites they support are maintained by Jackett. It noone gives credit, at some point Jackett won't be maintained and Prowlar neither.
Disclaimer: I'm qBittorrent, Jackett, Flaresolverr and Bazarr developer.
I have all of these programs running on raspberry pi, including Flood (mobile friendly UI for qBittorrent, also supports Deluge), and plex media server. It can't be easier to watch movies and tv shows that way.
I've tried just about every type of automated system Sonarr, Radarr fully integrated with usenet and my libraries etc.
After a while I realised I quite enjoy doing things manually. I get to vet the content a little before I grab it, a bit like going to the video store.
Jackett isn't automated, it's just a search tool. You can open any search result in-browser if you wish to double check it. I do it all the time
Get Prowlarr instead of Jackett and then install sonarr/radarr too. No more manual searching at all!
Can you use this with a seedbox? I don't use qBittorrent, and haven't looked into the arr apps - I just use torrent files (or magnet links) with ruTorrent... I don't mind adding the torrents/magnets manually (or uploading them to be scanned). I have more content than I can keep up with watching, so the arr apps seem like overkill, but improving the torrent sites process would be nice...
(If anybody has a tutorial/recommendation for the arr sites with a seedbox, I'm interested in reading that too, but it looks like more than I need. Maybe not though, IDK.)
It appears to be seedbox compatible. I don't use a seedbox though so I can't help you there :)
my seedbox provider (seedhost.eu) supports that stuff out of the box I think (you do have to turn it off on). I just use ruTorrent as well though.
Oh wow this sounds pretty often. From time to time I find it hard locate some file. Especially old audiobooks. Would this be a good way to do that? And do you know a mobile equivalent?
I doubt you can find anything equivalent on mobile.
I don't torrent audiobooks often, but on the rare occasion that I have I've used Jackett to find them. with the right trackers, you can find anything.
It turns out if you have a library card you can get tons of free audiobooks. I don't think it counts as piracy but there are other ways to get free books.
Myanonamouse.net is an incredible private tracker for audiobooks that has semi-open sign ups. You just have to pass an interview.
What about private trackers? I very rarely touch public trackers
Yeah, pretty much all trackers worth using are supported. I like to use it for manual searches, real useful when you are member of multiple trackers
I was looking into this like last week but paused it because I'm an idiot who can't figure out which package to grab off their git lol. I think it is amdx64 but I have intel everything, I know it isn't arm though.
It's called amd64 because AMD invented the x86-64 processor instruction set, it works both on Intel and AMD
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uname -min your terminalSometimes it's cool to browse sites for FL alone.
When TorrentDB existed I liked zo browse the current hot section just to download stuff and 1. profit from it being FL and 2. increasing my ratio.
Other times I got a fee good recommendations because I was curious why so many downloaded something
Thank you for this. I set this up yesterday and started combing through my list of things that I've wanted to download but couldn't find even on my private trackers. I wish I knew about this sooner!
As a person who is not an advanced pirate, I'm reading the Jackett page and I have no idea what it is or how it works.
Did this a few days ago, total game changer.