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.
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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.
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 used ipleak when setting up my seedbox, super cool resource
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!
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
and DOLBY Vision or DV movies if your hardware doesn’t support it.
Another option is to add tdarr to your *arr stack and have it automatically convert any problematic audio/video streams into ones your devices can handle.
I have it set to encode truehd(?) audio since none of my devices support it and it also ensures there’s a video stream that my roku device can play since it’s a bit pickier than my smart tv
I’d avoid this as you’d like be converting from lossless to lossless compression (like taking a photocopy of a photocopy). I think (not by my server ATM) that you can set exclusion words in both sonarr and radarr, do you could add “Dolby vision, DV, etc” to this list and they shouldn’t grab them.
Thats the first thing you learn unless you enjoy trash quality movies
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.
And if you get it working you can put Docker Experience on your resume
Yup! Something I’m absolutely going to leverage whenever I move onto my next job.
Don’t forget to include your seed ratios! Employers don’t want to hire leechers
Haha true! They totally won’t ignore my application for pirating.
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.
why is this the first time hearing about haugene. I use pia too, what are you running it on?
There’s a nice Docker container for it. https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn
awesome, thank you
You can configure openvpn in regular qbittorrent, probably transmission too. What they are talking about is a docker container, particularly useful when combined with sonarr and radarr containers.
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).
Are you using port forwarding? Back when I had PIA (before they sold), they would randomly assign you a port when you connected which caused major issues with QBit as you have to set a fixed port number. Not sure if that’s your issue but it might be worth looking into.
I do, and qbit (through Binhex’s container image) matches that port in qbit whenever it gets assigned. I think. Personally I’ve almost never had an issue reaching peers
Nice, im grandfathered into a cheap yearly rate, i thinks its like 60 a year
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.
Yeah im just about there. Eventually i want to build my own nas, but i got a pretty solid synology for cheap and it is good enough for plex and all the docker containers so far.
you are spot on about lowering the barrier of entry tho. I remember trying to set up programs to auto run on boot on a raspberry pi lol, now all i do is double click an icon and supply my ports. crazy easy
Nothing wrong with using what you’ve got and upgrading. And the beautiful thing about Docker is you can just spin up the container elsewhere, point the mount points to their new locations, make sure your perms are good, and continue like nothing changed.
It really is so much easier now. And with UnRAID acting as my container host, it saves everything I spin up (permanent or not) in its last state as a template, so if I need to destroy my docker image disk (which I recently ran into) all I need to do is find the template I was using from the dropdown they give you and click Create. Not a backup solution (which you should also have), but it’s such a time saver if and when something goes horribly wrong, or if you want to spin a container you used to use but since destroyed back up.
when something goes horribly wrong,
I like how thats not IF, lol. I swear dude, i have so many sd card images ready for when i inevitably mess something up.
Do you use a server rack for your nas? or just an old pc case?
100% when. I’ve learned that the hard way too many times to count at this point…
My NAS is built into an (I think) Thermaltake mid-sized tower running consumer hardware (ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4, Ryzen 5 series G proc, G.Skill non-ecc RAM) with the exception of one hard drive. Both that and my proxmox host are repurposed or custom built towers.
I do still use the QNAP NAS too, though only as SMB for my desktop/NFS for my server.
Yeah, im debating on just diving in and getting a rack, or continue duck taping together rpi’s and old computer parts.
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
As a German, I can confirm: Usenet is the way to go. For me it’s fileleechers (invite only afaik) for German content, and nzbgeek for the rest. All combined with Sabnzbd and Plex. Will have a look at your guide tho!
fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can’t add it to Sonarr and Radarr
Feel free to correct me, I don’t know a lot about them since they are invite only
Oh yeah that’s true, just a board. But it’s ok for the occasional German content I need. No premium membership needed at least.
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.
Take a look at annas-archive too. It’s run by the same people, and includes both libgen, but also z-library books. I find the search on the site to be better as well.
Hell yeah, dude/ dudette. Comment saved.
As much as I love z-library, libgen or Anna’s Archive they are coming through for me for my kids books. Subjects like HVAC or construction or not showing up. Thanks for the IRC tip.
LibGen is the damn tits, I have never failed to find a title and the quality is always good.
IRC is useful for other content as well: https://www.xdcc.eu/
sorry, I may just be absolutely retarded, but how exactly do you download things from this link? I can’t figure it out after navigating around the site for a little bit- after searching for something and finding it, it looks like there’s a link but anytime I click it it doesn’t do anything
It’s IRC servers (think pre AIM messenger) this search engine allows you to find things and connect to the servers to download via the IRC server (like Usenet but not lol)
If you review the link and have an IRC client it will let you download the packs.
awesome, is this the same kind of concept as direct downloads or more along the possible legal trouble lines of torrenting?
There’s no uploading involved if that is what you mean.
But you connect to a public server and when issuing a download command there, it will usually be logged in the chat log in some way.So, the server has your IP address, the XDCC bot which sends you the actual file has your IP address, your IP address usually gets (publicly) logged in the chat when connecting to the server/room and sometimes even the file transfers get logged publicly.
It’s not a very private system, but AFAIK nobody has ever gotten in any trouble for downloading from IRC.Legality aside (fuck the feds and big tech). Yea it’s direct downloading. Not p2p. (I’m like 90% sure) I’ve never used them to dl because of using private trackers.
Also pretty sure courts in America set presidency that a downloaded of illegal files (copyright stuff) isn’t liable.
Trust me none of the big companies kind stealing, at Amazon the fines and settlements were just the cost of doing businesses. Bet your ass they would go after you if you did the same thing however.
This is also great for ebooks. https://annas-archive.org/
Use for scientific articles annas archive :)
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
#ebooks on IRCHighway has alot of newer books. Older books are more likely to be found on Undernet
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.
and you’re less likely to get a letter from your ISP for torrenting with them.
isn’t that why we’re using vpn?
Yea, but you don’t need one with a private tracker.
cool thank you
the getting into them part haha
Ah, you just need to pass an interview for many, which involves doing some reading and waiting in an irc channel
I can find just about anything I want through public trackers or DDL sites, so I haven’t bothered to look into them.
yeah pretty much. but the 5-10% I never found would be nice to look for again
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. :)
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- Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically “fail” to find the page. For instance,
0.0.0.0 www.whatever.comwill completely block that domain. It won’t blockwww.whatever.co.ukorwhatever.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)
Another pro tip: just use an ad blocker, lol.
This is functionally what PIHole does. Though you can do this with any DNS you control, such as Unbound or Bind.
- Any line starting with 0.0.0.0 will automatically “fail” to find the page. For instance,
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.
- Janis ( @Janis@feddit.de ) English14•2 years ago
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?
- Janis ( @Janis@feddit.de ) English6•2 years ago
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.
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
Real Debrid + Kodi or Stremio is awesome
Could you possibly give me an elevator pitch on what debrid is and why someone would want to use it?
It’s a paid service where you can enter a premium link or torrent link to it and it will generate a direct download link. This is very useful if you visit premium sites like Mega and RapidGator where if you don’t have an account, it enforces limits such as:
Slow download speed (e.g. max 1MB per second while downloading) Maximum number of downloads per hour (e.g. 1 file per 5 hours) No resume support Unable to download if file is larger than a certain amount (e.g. no more than 5GB per file allowed for non-premium users)more on the old site: https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/q3vqgv/introduction_to_debrid_services/
To add on, the real magic is in Kodi plugins (Umbrella, Ezra) that connect to your debrid account and let you stream any show/movie without you having to set up any *arrs. You basically get a Netflix UI, but with all the content.
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.
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.
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.
