The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are you aware of your operating system's ability to screenshot?

[–] generalEdo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Tactic to work around screenshot restrictions or (more likely here I imagine) to prevent automated moderation action?

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wish someone could rip and upload The Simpsons Complete Series Ultimate Collection Seasons 1-17 & Season 20

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Why? What makes it different from grabbing each season individually?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 6 months ago

Honestly I’m at the point where I just rent the discs and rip them losslessly (BDMV for movies, MKV for TV shows).

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Normal is a relative term. How many did the tracker say there were?

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 9 points 6 months ago

It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

If you're using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you're connected or firewalled.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

Then that's probably okay. Is your DHT enabled?

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 months ago

Some trackers don't update seeder info on the web page. Another possible reason is you are behing cgnat and most (all) of the peers are behind it as well, so you just can't connect with each other.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Go to usenet, it is way better, or IRC if these torrent are slow.

https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=Planet+earth+ii

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could you explain what this is? A torrent aggregator?

I was using torrent galaxy.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for messaging and XDCC is a file sharing method that it uses.

IRC: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/k08hje/when_people_say_irc_is_dead

Usenet is basically the first forum to exist on the internet and people discovered that they could share files by encoding them into messages, for example lets say I take a file encode and divide it over a 1000 tweets. I would also make a file called NZB to find the messages and share it, so people could download it. Usenet still exists for file sharing, but it is paid. You would need an indexer that finds the files and a usenet service. Honestly you could get both indexer and the usenet service for as cheap as $2.5 per month way cheaper than Netflix.

For more info about usenet check out: https://reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't usenet cost money? Why should i pay for something that public trackers does almost ass well?

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I though the same too, but realized that it is easier than looking for torrents with seeders. I used to pay more for netflix than what I currently pay for Usenet. Torrenting these days isn't the same as years ago, many public torrent sites closed. I selfhost a server that basically does everything for me I only need to pick the show to download. You can try usenet for free, usenet.farm offer a 10 GB block to trial Usenet, also the indexer NZBGeek offer a trial if I am not wrong.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't you need an indexer and some other service too. I've got a server too, and to be honest, I've noticed the decline. But right now, even 15 dollars a month is a bit much for me.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

NZBGeek an indexer offer a trial and Usenet farm offer a 10 GB trial if you want to test it. If you want usenet to get it you look for deals. You got two ways for usenet either ultimate or block (basically prepaid you pay for data and they don't expire you get them forever)

Block 6 TB for €15 (2800+ retention ) : https://bulknews.eu/en/%C2%A0 and use the code bf241.

NZBGeek an indexer costs $12 a year they also offer deals throughout unfortunately black Friday is over so no deals now.

If you got this you get a total of $27.62 for the year which is $2.3 per month.

Of course if you are comfortable with torrent just stay on torrent and maybe use IRC for anything you can't find a torrent for.

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I usually have 4 torrentleech invites that go to waste every month, hmu if you want one. All I ask is you dont hit n run.

EDIT: all gone for December.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the offer it’s really kind but I have everything I need with public torrents.

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you ever change your mind feel free to DM

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

Welcome back.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Man, I gave up on torrenting. I can't figure out how to keep my ISP from seeing it and every time I try, I get a threatening email. They don't give a shit about Soulseek, apparently, so at least I have my music.

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tribler has it's own in-built onion routing. That might be difficult for your ISP to identify. Idk

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a look.

[–] Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Sounds interesting thanks!

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Use a VPN? If you're using containers, you can bind qbittorrent to gluetun to prevent leaks

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used a VPN (Proton) and it didn't do shit. I am not using containers because I'm not even sure what that is, what it does, or how it works, and I've never heard of gluetun. I need instructions. Not a fucking manual to try to sort through and figure out. Not vague names of things I may or may not be able to find through a search engine Instructions. A tutorial. Something. Shit's gotten way too convoluted since I last torrented over almost 20 years ago.

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you're using proton and your isp found out, something is configured wrong or working incorrectly. (or user error 😢)

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I've come to seriously dislike Proton. Yeah, it's cool they don't log any data, but they're starting the ai shit and their fucking UPGRADE NOW shit everywhere just because I use the free email (I have literally zero use for any of the paid features). It's commercializing and enshittifying rapidly.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I contacted Proton's support and everything was configured correctly. My ISP is Verizon (I don't have a choice) and they're the kind of fucks that would do deep packet sniffing, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's why.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They shouldn't be able to see anything except encrypted wireguard traffic. Are you sure all torrent-related traffic is going through the VPN (e.g. requests to indexers) and that traffic stops flowing when the VPN connection drops?

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it was the stand-alone app, not the browser extension. When it's on, everything goes through it.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 6 months ago

Have you verified that? I would start by checking (with wireshark) for any non-wireguard traffic coming from your machine

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Binding VPN to torrent client didn’t work?