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I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video

I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video, english audio / japanese audio + english subtitles) and reencode it to h264 mp4 so the files aren't gigantic and are compatible with everything. A bit old-school maybe but it generally works fine for me. I live in the UK so I'll also sometimes pull stuff from iPlayer, which yt-dlp works perfectly for, and also off youtube

_zoltan_ 9mo ago
that seems like a lot of work compared to click click watch that one can achieve with *arr stack.
- voidUpdate 9mo ago
  Sure, but this way I know what I'm getting, rather than just hoping I get the right thing. I don't mind doing a little bit of cleanup to make sure I'm getting what I want
  - squigz 9mo ago
    Just to be fair, the *arr stack can filter by various things so you only grab the releases that meet your requirements.
- throwaway98753 9mo ago
  And if you don't want to torrent at all, there are recent tools (nzbdav) to build a large *arr library that streams directly from usenet, without need for self-storage
  - _zoltan_ 9mo ago
    in several countries it's fully legal to download anything for personal use, so I don't care :P
IlikeKitties 9mo ago
Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience. Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem. [0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/torrent/ https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...
- voidUpdate 9mo ago
  I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine
  - bigmadshoe 9mo ago
    If you're connecting through a VPN there is no way for your ISP to know that you're using TPB or any other website.
    - voidUpdate 9mo ago
      I know, that's why I use tor to get the links
    - hypercube33 9mo ago
      They can if you let DNS leak to their servers so make sure you really firewall your ship off
  - IlikeKitties 9mo ago
    Can you share the magnet link that they send you and maybe the name of your ISP? I'd be super interested in analysing this!

_zoltan_ 9mo ago

that seems like a lot of work compared to click click watch that one can achieve with *arr stack.

voidUpdate 9mo ago
Sure, but this way I know what I'm getting, rather than just hoping I get the right thing. I don't mind doing a little bit of cleanup to make sure I'm getting what I want
- squigz 9mo ago
  Just to be fair, the *arr stack can filter by various things so you only grab the releases that meet your requirements.
throwaway98753 9mo ago
And if you don't want to torrent at all, there are recent tools (nzbdav) to build a large *arr library that streams directly from usenet, without need for self-storage
- _zoltan_ 9mo ago
  in several countries it's fully legal to download anything for personal use, so I don't care :P

IlikeKitties 9mo ago

Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience. Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem. [0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/torrent/ https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...

voidUpdate 9mo ago
I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine
- bigmadshoe 9mo ago
  If you're connecting through a VPN there is no way for your ISP to know that you're using TPB or any other website.
  - voidUpdate 9mo ago
    I know, that's why I use tor to get the links
  - hypercube33 9mo ago
    They can if you let DNS leak to their servers so make sure you really firewall your ship off
- IlikeKitties 9mo ago
  Can you share the magnet link that they send you and maybe the name of your ISP? I'd be super interested in analysing this!