Just show them how to use searching on qbittorrent lol
Wait, there is a search? But isn’t it would be like full of viruses? Its better to use good torrent site and even it sometimes can have viruses
The search lists are community compiled and maintained and use dozens of those sites. Of course don’t completely trust it… but it works really really well…
The biggest benefit is you can search everything so you don’t have to trawl multiple sites. You can also add private trackers to it as well.
Anyone using torrents is a bad pirate 😂
Good pirate = Gets the stuff with minimum effort and acceptable risk
Exactly, that’s why torrents suck.
How so? Torrenting is super easy
If you don’t want junk, you need to be in closed communities. For those you need to upload a minimum ratio or get banned. Or buy premium or upload credit. But closed communities don’t have everything, so you’re limited, and need to have several communities to find what you need. But in some places you will be fined when downloading anything, like in Germany. So you also need a VPN, one that does not log. Then you need a proper download application, one without ads and which doesn’t use your machine for crypto mining in secret in the background. Or you can fill up your drives with malware, viruses and other junk, wrong files, etc. by using open websites. While still being tracked, having to upload data, being vulnerable.
Sure, torrents are super easy, so was limewire. But it’s not a good and safe way to pirate. It’s like buying street food in Africa: it’s super easy but the chance of not getting food poisoning is rather slim.
I find pretty much everything in good quality from public trackers. However Usenet is probably better, I might test it in the future. Since people are giving it very high praise. I am just too lazy to do it, and the current system works fine for me.
Usenet. It’s the way to go. Trust me. Torrents are shit.
How come?
Insane amount of malware and viruses, plus your constantly uploading which is what cops are looking for. Usenet is thee way to go.
Which indexers are you subscribed to? Using Geek and Ninja currently and have not run into many issues outside music availability being quite sparse
Most is found through drunkenslug, the other 2 I can’t remember the name of and I can’t look as I’m on holiday.
I’ve managed to get an account there recently but found that 3 might be overkill for my purposes. Enjoy your holiday!
One is with mostly stuff from my country, the 3rd one is redundancy in case drunkenslug is offline
I see, thanks I’ll look into that
Your friend must have tried piracy like 15 years ago.
Friend: gets DMCA notice
ah, but you have heard of me!
Yesterday I’ve 15 minutes trying to download ISO from https://www.haiku-os.org/
I simply didn’t see that big, bright, and very obvious “Download it now!” button.
There is a link to the download mirrors inside the installation guides.
Poorly designed button. Wrong colour and too much information. Green and “Download Here” would have been better.
this is 90% of what being a professional marketer is.
Me constantly fucking myself out of sales by trying to offer customers informed options lol
Ah, so you’ve heard of me?
With jackett installed, I haven’t seen a button to download anything in ages
You guys use the internet to download torrents?
I get them on DVD from a guy selling them out of his car by the pub.
I personally get my torrent files delivered via postal mail.
Mine come with the floods, like in the olden days.
It’s on an SD card attached to a pigeon for me.
Hawks can seriously mess with my download speed.
RFC 1149 for the win!
We shan’t discuss the reliable methods
That’s the secret handshake to get to the real dark web goods…
I’ve seen a vlc site without adblocker on windows yesterday, it was experience
Whats a vlc site? vlc as in the media player?
Yes, videolan.org.
Couldn’t replicate it in mobile by turning off ublock on fennec, probably because of the cache. But I am assuming it’s just as obnoxious as lot of news and pirate sites.
I was lost for a few seconds before download started automatically. There were 20 download buttons, popups, everything.
But you have heard of me…? 🫠
Lawyers of media companies certainly have.
Is that so? Well, they’ve got nothing on me, since I have a jar of dirt! Eat that, sleazy lawyers!
But it’s for LLM training, I promise.
