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> “ I can download any show or movie I want and have it playing in minutes without having to deal with multi platform bullshit.” Is this as true as it once was

> “ I can download any show or movie I want and have it playing in minutes without having to deal with multi platform bullshit.” Is this as true as it once was? It seems most of the old trackers are offline or dead now. I’d guess because of the success of streaming services finally meeting the market demand. It’s also possible I’m just old and out of the loop now.

U6XWpjvdqi4xTPJ 4y ago
Just hop on over to Rutracker, there's plenty of stuff. And Usenet is still great for movies and TV, although in my experience music is getting a lot harder to find (the wide and free/cheap availability of music streaming probably has something to do with this).
geraldwhen 4y ago
Google and bing filter out the results you want. Other search engines work fine.
Fezzik 4y ago
TPB is still going strong. Older content is sometimes difficult to find but anything new or even slightly popular from the last 50 years is more-often-than-not obtainable.
ElCheapo 4y ago
Imagine a world where anyone who wants can set up his little torrent seedbox sharing with the whole globe some content they really like without worrying about getting a nice little letter in the mail. I'm pretty sure if people were free to do so (and cheap and easy commercial options sprung up) we would be able to find any content we desire and download it and (if it's popular enough) even stream it
davidgerard 4y ago
For comedy gold, look through the DMCA notifications that Google links you to, and that's your index of helpful and current torrent sites. Many are very usable through machine translation too.
EB-Barrington 4y ago
Hi, yes, as true at it ever was. Indeed, the choice is wider than all the paid streaming services combined.
radlad 4y ago
Yes, this is absolutely still true if you have access to a couple private trackers.
Lev1a 4y ago
I wanted to watch the currently in-progress season of a certain anime via the usual legit sites like Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. All of this anime's seasons are now "not available in my region due to licensing issues". The DVD/Blu-Ray season sets cost 85-90€ each(!!!) for 13 (~20-22 minutes) episodes per season. That price to me is simply unacceptable, since that's more for one season than the entirety of series like "Friends" or "House, M.D.", either of which provide vastly more content and are WAY more popular than any anime. As it stands now, I'll probably just wait until the last six episodes of this season become available then use the free "test period" for the "aniverse" channel on Prime Video, on which I arbitrarily can't watch 1080p HD because I have the absolute audacity of not using Windows (a problem which downloads from certain ... 3rd-party sites do not share).
- charcircuit 4y ago
  >and are WAY more popular than any anime. Which is why they can get away with charging less per copy.
  - hakfoo 4y ago
    But it's a self-perpetuating death loop problem. At those prices, the only buyers are extreme fans buying it almost more like a merchandise item (compare figurines) than people who want to view the content. I know this is a thing in Japan-- the anime releases tend to be a few episodes at a time, at prices that would be considered astronomical most places. There are potentially many market equilibria-- selling 200 copies at $100, 400 copies at $50, or 1000 copies at $10. If they switched to a bargain-priced model, you enable tsundoku-style purchasing-- put up a big display of "here's a hundred back-catalog series, 13 episodes on two DVDs in a flimsy cardboard sleeve for 1000 yen each", people would be willing to take much more risk on buying them. Arguably, there's a lot of information being lost because they only see purchase data of people hardcore enough to pay the current high prices. (I wonder if to an extent this impacts anime's tendency for fanservice choices-- they're chasing an artificially narrow market) There's still the opportunity for price-discrimination for fanatics with limited editions with better packaging, extra content, and feelies. It's interesting to contrast that the price of manga was almost impossibly low. In Japan, (at least it used to be) like 1/3 the price as in the US for a 200-page volume, and the omnibus magazines were pretty cheap, which made it more amenable to risk-taking purchases.
no_time 4y ago
The availability of content is still superior to paid offerings. The problem is discoverability. 10+ years ago you could get a well seeded torrent anything by googling "anything+torrent". Nowadays you can still get anything but you have to be way more tech savvy and have to break out of your comfort zone. This could mean invite only sites,Russian speaking sites,Fiddling with baidu download scripts etc. Seeing how much activity peak mininova had[0] compared to the public tracker offerings of today makes me a bit sad. There are still great places to leech some warez but "the more the merrier" is always true for p2p based sharing :^) [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090114215808/http://www.mininova.org/sub/9/seeds https://web.archive.org/web/20090114215808/http://www.minino...
- Jiro 4y ago
  I've literally looked for things that I could reasonably expect to be on the Internet and couldn't find them on the Internet. The newest hot thing is still available, of course, but an obscure 5 years old show may not always be.
  - no_time 4y ago
    With all due respect, probably you just have to look harder. I managed to track down a clean scene release of an 18 year old PC game[0] just a few hours ago with the help of Yandex and the offline translator plugin for Firefox. [0]: https://predb.de/rls/Wings_Of_War_DVD-HOODLUM https://predb.de/rls/Wings_Of_War_DVD-HOODLUM
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    Be like me and keep seeding the stuff that’s going to be obscure in 5 years. Of course, you’ll need to wait for me to open up my client every couple weeks, but you’ll get it eventually.
    - U6XWpjvdqi4xTPJ 4y ago
      The problem with seeding, for me, is that it effectively implies a need to keep two copies of content. One however you downloaded it and then one actually named properly and stored in a reasonable hierarchy... (Not to mention all the *.nfo and *.lnk they include!)
somenameforme 4y ago
More so than ever before. The only difference is that it's all a lot more decentralized. The easiest source of information is from legal filings. A lazy way to get this it to search Google for whatever, and at the bottom it will state something like 'In response to US DMCA we've removed [x] results from this page. You can read the complaints here, here, here...' Read the complaints. Otherwise you can search for more select filings. For instance this [1] is an older report from the RIAA on "Notorious Markets." They're quite a friendly organization - providing URLS, descriptions, and details on each site even including their modus operandi. Also if you happen to speak a language outside the big Western languages, then it's all trivial and a simple search anywhere will yield even better than above. [1] - https://torrentfreak.com/images/Notorious_Markets_Submission_for_2020_final.pdf https://torrentfreak.com/images/Notorious_Markets_Submission...
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U6XWpjvdqi4xTPJ 4y ago

Just hop on over to Rutracker, there's plenty of stuff. And Usenet is still great for movies and TV, although in my experience music is getting a lot harder to find (the wide and free/cheap availability of music streaming probably has something to do with this).

geraldwhen 4y ago

Google and bing filter out the results you want. Other search engines work fine.

Fezzik 4y ago

TPB is still going strong. Older content is sometimes difficult to find but anything new or even slightly popular from the last 50 years is more-often-than-not obtainable.

ElCheapo 4y ago

Imagine a world where anyone who wants can set up his little torrent seedbox sharing with the whole globe some content they really like without worrying about getting a nice little letter in the mail. I'm pretty sure if people were free to do so (and cheap and easy commercial options sprung up) we would be able to find any content we desire and download it and (if it's popular enough) even stream it

davidgerard 4y ago

For comedy gold, look through the DMCA notifications that Google links you to, and that's your index of helpful and current torrent sites. Many are very usable through machine translation too.

EB-Barrington 4y ago

Hi, yes, as true at it ever was. Indeed, the choice is wider than all the paid streaming services combined.

radlad 4y ago

Yes, this is absolutely still true if you have access to a couple private trackers.

Lev1a 4y ago

I wanted to watch the currently in-progress season of a certain anime via the usual legit sites like Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. All of this anime's seasons are now "not available in my region due to licensing issues". The DVD/Blu-Ray season sets cost 85-90€ each(!!!) for 13 (~20-22 minutes) episodes per season. That price to me is simply unacceptable, since that's more for one season than the entirety of series like "Friends" or "House, M.D.", either of which provide vastly more content and are WAY more popular than any anime. As it stands now, I'll probably just wait until the last six episodes of this season become available then use the free "test period" for the "aniverse" channel on Prime Video, on which I arbitrarily can't watch 1080p HD because I have the absolute audacity of not using Windows (a problem which downloads from certain ... 3rd-party sites do not share).

charcircuit 4y ago
>and are WAY more popular than any anime. Which is why they can get away with charging less per copy.
- hakfoo 4y ago
  But it's a self-perpetuating death loop problem. At those prices, the only buyers are extreme fans buying it almost more like a merchandise item (compare figurines) than people who want to view the content. I know this is a thing in Japan-- the anime releases tend to be a few episodes at a time, at prices that would be considered astronomical most places. There are potentially many market equilibria-- selling 200 copies at $100, 400 copies at $50, or 1000 copies at $10. If they switched to a bargain-priced model, you enable tsundoku-style purchasing-- put up a big display of "here's a hundred back-catalog series, 13 episodes on two DVDs in a flimsy cardboard sleeve for 1000 yen each", people would be willing to take much more risk on buying them. Arguably, there's a lot of information being lost because they only see purchase data of people hardcore enough to pay the current high prices. (I wonder if to an extent this impacts anime's tendency for fanservice choices-- they're chasing an artificially narrow market) There's still the opportunity for price-discrimination for fanatics with limited editions with better packaging, extra content, and feelies. It's interesting to contrast that the price of manga was almost impossibly low. In Japan, (at least it used to be) like 1/3 the price as in the US for a 200-page volume, and the omnibus magazines were pretty cheap, which made it more amenable to risk-taking purchases.

no_time 4y ago

The availability of content is still superior to paid offerings. The problem is discoverability. 10+ years ago you could get a well seeded torrent anything by googling "anything+torrent". Nowadays you can still get anything but you have to be way more tech savvy and have to break out of your comfort zone. This could mean invite only sites,Russian speaking sites,Fiddling with baidu download scripts etc. Seeing how much activity peak mininova had[0] compared to the public tracker offerings of today makes me a bit sad. There are still great places to leech some warez but "the more the merrier" is always true for p2p based sharing :^) [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090114215808/http://www.mininova.org/sub/9/seeds https://web.archive.org/web/20090114215808/http://www.minino...

Jiro 4y ago
I've literally looked for things that I could reasonably expect to be on the Internet and couldn't find them on the Internet. The newest hot thing is still available, of course, but an obscure 5 years old show may not always be.
- no_time 4y ago
  With all due respect, probably you just have to look harder. I managed to track down a clean scene release of an 18 year old PC game[0] just a few hours ago with the help of Yandex and the offline translator plugin for Firefox. [0]: https://predb.de/rls/Wings_Of_War_DVD-HOODLUM https://predb.de/rls/Wings_Of_War_DVD-HOODLUM
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Be like me and keep seeding the stuff that’s going to be obscure in 5 years. Of course, you’ll need to wait for me to open up my client every couple weeks, but you’ll get it eventually.
  - U6XWpjvdqi4xTPJ 4y ago
    The problem with seeding, for me, is that it effectively implies a need to keep two copies of content. One however you downloaded it and then one actually named properly and stored in a reasonable hierarchy... (Not to mention all the *.nfo and *.lnk they include!)

somenameforme 4y ago

More so than ever before. The only difference is that it's all a lot more decentralized. The easiest source of information is from legal filings. A lazy way to get this it to search Google for whatever, and at the bottom it will state something like 'In response to US DMCA we've removed [x] results from this page. You can read the complaints here, here, here...' Read the complaints. Otherwise you can search for more select filings. For instance this [1] is an older report from the RIAA on "Notorious Markets." They're quite a friendly organization - providing URLS, descriptions, and details on each site even including their modus operandi. Also if you happen to speak a language outside the big Western languages, then it's all trivial and a simple search anywhere will yield even better than above. [1] - https://torrentfreak.com/images/Notorious_Markets_Submission_for_2020_final.pdf https://torrentfreak.com/images/Notorious_Markets_Submission...

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