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It's been forever since I've fired up a torrent client besides grabbing the latest iso of this distro or that distro. Where do the cool kids grab their torrent

It's been forever since I've fired up a torrent client besides grabbing the latest iso of this distro or that distro. Where do the cool kids grab their torrents from these days?

dima55 7y ago
From the pirate bay :)
kzrdude 7y ago
eztv. They do only tv shows.
armitron 7y ago
Private trackers.
- dcbadacd 7y ago
  Private trackers are just mostly ran by power-hungry people with basically 0 benefit to the regular person.
  - krackers 7y ago
    I think it varies from tracker to tracker. The "cabal" ones probably match that, but a lot of the smaller niche private trackers have been very welcoming and a great place to get content in my experience. They are still very strict in terms of uploading requirements, but that is to be expected in order to maintain quality.
  - dbancajas 7y ago
    nobody's forcing anyone to use private trackers. There's a good reason they exist though.
  - bahama_mama 7y ago
    Yes, this problem can definitely be seen on some of the trackers, but many old school players have crews that are mature and behave normally. The only proof for this is their long track (10+ years) of successful existence. What the regular person gets from it is the access to the great quality of content in easy way.
simongr3dal 7y ago
If you have an adblocker (to prevent cryptocurrency mining, and giant transparent overlays with links taking you to horrible ads) I hear that skytorrents, 1337x, the pirate bay, or eztv are pretty good.
- krackers 7y ago
  It's interesting that the even the footer of piratebay recommends an adblocker: >By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker
throwaway55554 7y ago
if you don't want to deal with Torrents, there's NZB (usen... ssshhh!!! first rule!) and Good ole Google (intitle:index.of MKV <video>)
magnamerc 7y ago
tpb proxy list is pretty good. Ad block is required.

It's been forever since I've fired up a torrent client besides grabbing the latest iso of this distro or that distro. Where do the cool kids grab their torrents from these days?

dima55 7y ago

From the pirate bay :)

kzrdude 7y ago

eztv. They do only tv shows.

armitron 7y ago

Private trackers.

dcbadacd 7y ago
Private trackers are just mostly ran by power-hungry people with basically 0 benefit to the regular person.
- krackers 7y ago
  I think it varies from tracker to tracker. The "cabal" ones probably match that, but a lot of the smaller niche private trackers have been very welcoming and a great place to get content in my experience. They are still very strict in terms of uploading requirements, but that is to be expected in order to maintain quality.
- dbancajas 7y ago
  nobody's forcing anyone to use private trackers. There's a good reason they exist though.
- bahama_mama 7y ago
  Yes, this problem can definitely be seen on some of the trackers, but many old school players have crews that are mature and behave normally. The only proof for this is their long track (10+ years) of successful existence. What the regular person gets from it is the access to the great quality of content in easy way.

simongr3dal 7y ago

If you have an adblocker (to prevent cryptocurrency mining, and giant transparent overlays with links taking you to horrible ads) I hear that skytorrents, 1337x, the pirate bay, or eztv are pretty good.

krackers 7y ago
It's interesting that the even the footer of piratebay recommends an adblocker: >By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker

throwaway55554 7y ago

if you don't want to deal with Torrents, there's NZB (usen... ssshhh!!! first rule!) and Good ole Google (intitle:index.of MKV <video>)

magnamerc 7y ago

tpb proxy list is pretty good. Ad block is required.