Lemmy.world banning piracy made me realize it's something a client can solve
Brickfrog @ brickfrog @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 0Comments 309Joined 2 yr. ago
I don’t know if I’d consider this a issue with Whisparr or with the tracker.
Maybe a bit of both, you could reach out to both of them I guess. But overall I'd think the onus is on Whisparr devs to work towards being compatible with any indexer thrown their way. It is unlikely that any tracker admins will prioritize being compatible with Whisparr so tracker admins may not see it as an issue worth fixing on there end.
EDIT: Not sure if you can see this reply since Lemmy.world just started blocking piracy related communities (see https://lemmy.world/post/3175920), may be worth creating an account here or another Lemmy instance that isn't blocking !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Lemmy world is turning into Reddit v2
Not really, even Reddit still has piracy related subreddits (at least for now).
Unclear what you are talking about, you mention Scene but also quote my comment about P2P. Which one did you mean? They are totally different.
The scene doesn't do anything with torrents/usenet/etc., they are all about their own FTP servers. Yes, other people do have access to them & then spread those releases over to torrents/usenet/etc. but that's not the scene doing it.
P2P are the internal release groups at private torrent trackers. Most of them are not interested in uploading anything to usenet/IRC. Other people do grab those releases & then spread them elsewhere e.g. usenet/IRC.
You can though it's a bit of a roundabout way of doing it.
P2P releases typically come from private trackers, so you're having them go from private trackers --> usenet --> public/private torrents
Scene releases that leak to the public typically hit private trackers/usenet around the same time, so you're having those go scene --> private trackers/usenet --> public/private torrents
In others words anything you're seeing in usenet has already been uploaded to at least some private trackers & possibly public torrents.
Of course with public torrents anything goes, unfortunately with the demise of RARBG public torrent users are only seeing a fraction of scene/p2p releases. 1337x/TorrentGalaxy does cover some of this but they aren't covering nearly as much as the RARBG uploaders used to. So IMO if you're seeing a scene/p2p release that hasn't already been uploaded at 1337x/TorrentGalaxy then sure go ahead & create the torrent from your usenet download.
If it's indeed an issue then you may want to submit it in their Github so that it could be fixed in the future?
https://github.com/Whisparr/Whisparr/issues
Interestingly someone did submit something similar a while back, but for some reason the submitter closed their own issue without any code being submitted to resolve it. Unclear what happened there or if it's related to your issue https://github.com/Whisparr/Whisparr/issues/58
OP had a different issue (see comments further below). They throttled themselves by severely limiting their own upload speed in the torrent client.
That aside you can always torrent without a port forward but the speeds & connectivity will heavily depend on other peers present in the torrent swarm. You're relying on other connectable peers in the torrent swarm to be able to download torrent data through. If they don't exist, or there's not many of them, then you will have performance issues.
e.g. In large torrent swarms you may not notice much difference since there should be plenty of other connectable peers to make direct connections with. The smaller the torrent swarm the less likely you'll find as many connectable peers which can lead to slower speeds.
And in much smaller swarms without any connectable peers you won't be able to download anything at all - All the firewalled (not connectable, not port forwarded) peers can see each other but they cannot initiate a data transfer until a connectable peer joins the swarm.
It is impossible to port forward with a VPN service that does not offer port forwarding. You'd have to subscribe to a different VPN provider.
Make sure you are fully connectable (port forwarded). To check this you will want to test your torrent client's incoming connection port with a 3rd party port test website e.g. https://www.canyouseeme.org/, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/, https://portchecker.co/, etc. Those websites should be able to successfully connect to your torrent client's incoming connections port. If the test fails then you need to look at adding an incoming port forward in your network router's configuration.
Also make sure DHT/PEX is enabled in your torrent client (those are enabled by default).
PS - The above is if you're not using a VPN/Proxy (you didn't mention using one).. definitely don't re-configure your router configuration if you intend to use a VPN/Proxy, all port forwarding needs to happen on the VPN/Proxy server in those cases.
You may need to reach out to your VPN provider's support to check if that is a supported feature. Many VPN providers with port forward support can only do it within their application.
Bitsearch and Solidtorrents’ Login and Sign Up buttons don’t work at all for me, even with extensions disabled (Firefox, Chromium)
I don't think you require an account to upload/add a torrent hash there, give it a go without registering.
TPB either loads the takedown page (brazilian one), or refuses to load (VPN), otherwise I’d upload there, I have an old account.
See the TPB official domains in their forums https://pirates-forum.org/status
For blocked websites you can try changing your system's DNS, or use a VPN, or use a proxy, or use Tor Browser.
Note that you do need to register/post in the TPB forums to request to register/upload at the main TPB site.
Yes, some of the old staff rebooted the site after the main admin passed away a while back. It's not quite the same as the old one (all the old accounts are gone, old torrents from the old site are gone) but otherwise it's still around. In terms of public / semi-private torrent sites it's probably one of the easier ones to join and upload at.
See the Torrentfreak articles for an overview
https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-staffers-launch-new-site-to-keep-the-legacy-alive-190724/
https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-founder-deimos-is-believed-to-have-passed-away-190416/
It is but they do have a manual process now. See their forums https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available
Unfortunately most public torrent indexers tend to restrict ability to upload so it's not quite that straightforward.
There's a few you can investigate, let us know how it goes.
- 1337x - Not sure what their registration requirements are, if any.
Angie Torrents - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements. (their website isn't great, maybe check out the others before trying here)Might be down?- BitSearch - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
- Demonoid - I'm pretty sure registered users can upload there, keep an eye on when they open registration.
- GloTorrents - They do have specific uploading requirements so probably not for you but maybe will help others, see their forums https://forums.glodls.to/threads/uploading.5/
- SolidTorrents - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
- The Pirate Bay - They have a manual registration process explained in their forums https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available
- TorrentFunk - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
- YourBittorrent - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
- Ext - They have registration/uploads per https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527
Also note that many of the russian torrent forums do seem to allow registering & posting torrents but am unsure of their specific requirements. Also non-english. (ruTracker, Rutor, etc.)
EDIT: Added Ext
EDIT: Fixed SolidTorrents link, crossed out Angie Torrents for now
I tried it out a while back but wasn't too impressed, it still has a ways to go. During testing what I did was write a script to pin (aka "seed") any public torrent downloaded in qBittorrent into IPFS. My goal was to see if anyone ever found/downloaded my pinned content via the available IPFS search engines.
But the reality is that the available IPFS search engines were crap, they sound nice in theory but are so bad at finding/indexing anything. It was rare that anything I had pinned in IPFS would show up in a search engine let alone someone find it & attempt to download it themselves. There's still a lot of work to do.
The IPFS software itself also had a lot of performance/memory leak issues, I never could get it to run long term before it crashed & I'd have to figure out how to restart it or wipe its data & start over.
The other issue is that the IPFS project sort of feels like it's treading water. The IPFS devs went on to create Filecoin & seem more focused on that nowadays. Think of Filecoin as IPFS + cryptocurrency, so you have the privilege to pay people to pin/host ("seed") your data. And to top it off the Filecoin version of the IPFS network is incompatible with original IPFS network. Funny since it's the same devs but also is a bit illuminating that they purposely designed it that way.
i know the bitcoin atm’s and banks do “know your customer” stuff (basically they id you first)
Depends on your area so make sure to double-check. Many (most?) BTMs only require KYC for larger amounts. e.g. buying $800+ might require KYC, buying less than $800 may only require text message verification. For text messages you can buy a temporary burner phone with cash, or if you're lucky you can find a SMS service that works with the BTM - just be aware most BTMs don't work with virtual SMS phone numbers.
Or your other option is maybe buy bitcoin via cash by mail, some crypto trading websites/platforms offer that.
Or going non crypto you could technically just purchase a pre-paid credit card with cash, you'd just need to make sure the card would work with whatever services you are subscribing to.
Cash is still more anonymous than cryptocurrency, I suppose you can ask the services you're subscribing to if they accept cash by mail (I don't know of any offhand).
PS - Not sure if your post is breaking rules here, this Lemmy instance is anti-cryptocurrency and does have a rule forbidding crypto shill topics. But it might be okay if you're just asking a general question.
especially giga-rapid and ultra.cc
No. The torrenting is happening on their servers, not yours.
However if you're still running torrent clients locally on your own internet/computer/laptop/whatever then yeah you may want a VPN for that. But that's for torrenting you're doing outside of your seedbox service.
May also want to try !seedboxes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Sort of makes sense, if you go to their home page their description is
A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance.
So the entire instance is just bots re-posting content from Reddit.
I don't normally browse /all so haven't seen the posts myself. The Lemmy web ui doesn't allow blocking instances so you'd just need to block the bot for now. I've read that some apps can do instance blocking.
May also want to post over in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Is this for work? Just have your work pay for your Microsoft 365 or whatever, not sure why you'd need to pirate anything for work related reasons.
If this is for home use just get your workflow working with the free open source alternatives, IMO LibreOffice is pretty great.
Or just start using the online office apps like everyone else is nowadays e.g. Google Docs (free with a Google Account), Microsoft 365 (I know at least Word you can use for free with a Microsoft account haven't checked what else), etc.
It's just a bit odd needing to pirate that. But sure if you're dead-set on it then just create a Virtual Machine with Windows OS in it (LOL you may end up pirating that too) and install your MS Office and whatever other cracks/activators you want. Now you have MS Office in your virtual machine whenever you need it. You could use VirtualBox for example.
Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a rule forbidding that).
It's strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from "piracy" communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself https://lemmy.world/post/3175920
Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.