porn-packs-magnets net is down. Do you have any similar site to torrent porn packs ?

Is there a better way to acquire TV shows than finding and downloading individual episodes? Torrents of whole shows, whole disc rips, and whole seasons don't seem as popular
rip doge

>>1308496
Look for TV packs. Torrent Galaxy has a setting in the search bar that you can select to only download tv packs.

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>>1308308
how do i go on torrentgalaxy without a vpn?
It works fine when i use a vpn, but now that i found out that i dont get in trouble for torrenting without one, i cancelled my vpn subscription. Only problem is that this message pops up.
thanks

>>1308592
Get an free VPN such as ProtonVPN, it'll allow you to browse rhe site though it turns off immediately after it recognises you're doing a P2P connection.

Although you should have a VPN that supports P2P stuff, just in case. My personal choice is Mullvad for it's cheap pricing, and it not being subscription based.

>>1308635
cheers

>>1308308
any advice on vpns? both proton and air seem good due to their ability to port forward, not sure which one i should go with
>mullvad
doesn't have port forwarding anymore

I'm trying to find audiobooks in German. Has anyone here come across them? I've been searching for a while but all I'm finding are in English.

I've seen one(Hexenfanger) on Audiobookbay but it's been removed for some reason.

Do any of you have that classical music torrent thread saved?

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>To answer your question, walk over to >>>/t/
im here, now where do get cracked adobe lightroom?
the monkrus version kept getting disabled even after following the faq

>>1308948
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A5FD7C9CCE5E39C6053E1BF02CCAF5288461C81C&dn=Adobe+Photoshop+Lightroom+CC+2015+6.1+%2B+Crack&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker4.piratux.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Feddie4.nl%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pomf.se%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.aletorrenty.pl%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fcoppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.zer0day.to%3A1337%2Fannounce

Not very hard to find.

>>1308308
what are the current size drives that give the most bang?

also is see a discussion about wd vs seagate, what if i buy the same amount of both and put them in a nas.
so that they cant be of teh same batch

Anyone has dump of Udemy practice tests for AWS i.e. Maarek's? I DON'T want an exam dump, I mean the practice tests. I'm looking for SAA-C03 but others are ok too.

I know too use a VPN when downloading movies and stuff, but if I'm downloading a porn torrent, should I still use it, or am I alright without it?

>>1308371
This.

>>1309252
Porn companies shut down torrents more than movie studios shut down movie torrents

>>1308371
Looking for an alternative myself, seems porn-packs-magnets is down for good

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>>1308308
Very simple, dumb question
How do I make a torrent?
I tried a few years ago but it didn't work for whatever reason

>>1309475
>How do I make a torrent?
What client are you using?

>>1309485
qbittorrent

Where do I pirate sports? Especially fights like mma and shieeet? Is there a nice streaming site or torrent one?

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>>1310034
720pier

Did 1337x just die?

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>>1310087
>porn-packs-magnets
>ded
>1337x
>ded
It's over torrent bros...

HDD vs SSD vs microSD, 1TB each for simplicity's sake.
What is the proper use for each, as far as downloading and storage?

>>1310219
HDD - actually storing data
SSD - 20gb for operating system because you are running Linux, the rest for more storage.
Microsd - backups, shove it in your peehole for safe keeping

Sorry if it's been asked before but where can one go that isn't the pirate bay for general tv shows and movies?

>>1310642
1337x, Torrent Galaxy, EZTV, Lime Torrents. Just google "best torrenting sites" and you'll find some sites

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>>1308308
Probably a stupid question, but why do people use blender instead of torrenting zbrush and maya, especially since many blender plugins are behind a paywall anyway (x-muscle system, etc)

>>1310642
I only use torrentgalaxy and torrentleech (if you do get this, best to setup a torrent program you can run in the background with ninety 11mb or higher torrents, they'll never upload anything but you get TL points to exchange for keeping your ratio up to avoid bans and for buffer when you actually want to download stuff from it) and I've rarely needed torrentleech anyway.

>>1310859
using cracked programs will always, always, be far more risky than just getting the thing that's 100% free. if something goes wrong with blender you can just look it up or even ask since everyone's on the same level of ownership of it, but with a cracked program there's always the chance of a crash or a bug and now have to wonder if it's a maya/zbrush issue or you just got a bit unlucky with a poorly-optimized crack.
also, even if some plugins are paywalled there are way more that aren't, and blender is FOSS so it's much easier for people to do their own scripts or changes or whatever.

another thing is that there are many people who just prefer open source alternatives because of the community and because they (have more of an opportunity to) know exactly what they're getting into, even if the overall thing isn't as versatile or widely used as the bigger thing, like with linux, openBSD, krita, gimp, and so on.

>>1308308
Do people still use blocklists and if so, any links to them?

>>1310881
Thank you, I went with blender after I found a way to make it work on Windows 7.

>>1311037
No problem, and yes I should also have said blender is far easier on resources than the alternatives. Don't have any stats on it but I had a shitty $100 laptop from 2018 that could easily render out most anything I did in the default blender renderer and this was before version 3+ came out when it wasn't as well optimized. Though, if you're working on a real project and not just fucking around then your mileage may vary!

>>1308308
Is this thread still active?

How do I join a private group?

I have a VPS from OVHCloud with 100mbps. I'd assuming using it as a seedbox would be a no-no. Has anybody had success using a VPS as a
seedbox without getting caught?

can anyone please get me this course?

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-introduction

I'll buy you a soda

>>1308308
Torrent Galaxy is down for a few days, does anyone know other sites that I can find packs easily?

>>1310034
https://vpn.stream2watch.com/

Which VPN do you guys use?
Port forwarding that much of a deal breaker?

>>1311907
Mullvad is good and cheap

Is there a "best place" to get obscure, unlikely to find, rare, never been re-syndicated or put in a box set TV shows because they got cancelled or sold off or something went wrong with them?

I'm looking for:
The Odyssey
Breaker High
Student Bodies
John Doe
UC: Undercover
FlashForward
Black Sash

and several others, but a good place to start would be great.

Which thread do I go to request an onlyfans to be ripped before it gets deleted?

I'm looking to share the Smiling Friends season 1 DVD commentary but I don't know where. 1337x, Bitsearch, Torrent Galaxy and TPB have a broken registration system, and I'm not sure about other torrent sites. Honestly I haven't uploaded a torrent in like 10 years, can anyone help me out?

>>1313079
https://bt4gprx.com/magnet/QACIlmTYHLji0texlcOhj1bKbSVG4rYuB

>>1308308
Elden Ring DLC coming out and i am broke. i already have the base game on steam. can i use a pirated version of the dlc on my steam copy without getting banned? or is it better to download the pirated version of the game with the dlc ?

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Anyone got a VEGAS torrent? My install started acting up and I think I deleted the installer for it sometime ago.

>>1313099
It's a bit larger than the version I have. It's still loading the metadata after a couple hours, and the .torrent file is nowhere to be found on that website or the ones it links to so I don't know what its contents are, but mine has both the commentary and original audio, plus chapter markers I added since it's a single continuous video.

I still don't know how to add it to trackers, but here's the magnet link for what it's worth:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7afbf56b8ca4ff6370dd52e95bfd0b13359056a3&dn=Smiling%20Friends%20Season%201%20DVD%20Commentary.mkv
And a wetransfer link because why not:
t-AhndfM0moW

>>1312307
Find someone who is a member of private sites, you should be able to find a lot of them there, so maybe he/she would be helping you!?
(Had a look at r/trackers?)

what are some good legal torrents to seed to get my ratio up?

>>1313503
official torrents
Think Linux ISO images or games that offer torrent downloads

>>1313503
Try seeding the latest versions of software like Libre office or blender.

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How do I maximize my upload speed? I'm seeding tons of media and want to help as much as I can

I've been seeding a Lain collection Torrent for God knows how long but it doesn't seem like other people are actually downloading it properly, as there's a 3 digit amount of peers and not a single seeder, how do I help with properly seeding it?

Still no option to porn-packs-magnets is up ?

>>1310859
As someone who moved from Maya/zBrush to Blender
>Blender simply has more resources now. Who cares if Pixar uses Maya when there's no real way for you as a hobbyist to learn those tricks or use those proprietary plugins
>Even if you were hell-bent on rendering like Pixar, Renderman has a Blender plugin now
>Sites like Open3dLab run mainly on Blender
>Blender can do everything these two can do, and in many ways is surpassing them now
>No cracks to jump through
>Eevee shits on anything non-raytrace competitor, and it uses the same materials as cycles if you ever upgrade your GPU
>Rigging, sims, etc in Blender are a LOT easier (and a LOT less susceptible to pitfalls) and just as powerful as Maya and BiFrost or whatever

tl;dr Blender started gaining the momentum to surpass shit like Maya and zBrush a few years back and hasn't stopped. Anyone you see married to Maya in 2024 is simply coping.

Where the hell and how the hell do I even search for stuff similar like in https://www.happydownloads.net/ ?
I know where to get movies, audio, books and shit but not this type of stuff.

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i got american dad a while ago but noticed a lot of episodes were missing per season. must've been a bad torr yes? same with frasier, didn't notice episodes missing but it said the index was messed up and the videos hang on vlc

Not specifically torrents, but a piracy-adjacent question. I use Freetube to download music from youtube, and to get around their shitty anti-adblocking, but the video-downloading feature is total ass. You can only download either video OR audio, but not both. This works fine for music, but there is a series of videos that I want to rip for a project that I am working on and none of the full-video downloaders I used back in the day seem to still exist. Is there a way to download youtube videos in more than 360p quality, with sound?

>>1316913
Nvm I discovered Jdownloader

>>1316913
>>1316915
i mean that's cool for now but i really think you'd be better off using the command line and ytmdl for music, and yt-dlp for everything else.

>>1316978
This shit is pretty impenetrable, why is there not a GUI with a button I can press instead of fucking around with the command line? I cannot be the only person demanding this product, how can no-one have built it yet?

is there any chance for TVPaint to be cracked? I'm not paying the studio price. Also CSP is suck at animation.

Had no problem accessing nyaa.si a couple of days ago but now I just get errors, tried VPN as well.
Anyone with the same problem or is it just me?

>>1317015
well on mobile newpipe does what you're asking with just a few buttons, but on desktop i'd assume it works well enough for most people that the only people who would know how to program a gui for it are already terminal wizards, sorry lol. for what it's worth, it'd be for the best to learn some terminal basics anyway.

>>1317299
not sure what's wrong for you because it works on my machine, with and without vpn.

qbittorrent keeps crashing my computer when trying to recheck large (~1TB) torrents. i've even done a full re-install of my OS (ubuntu-based) and changed out my GPU (yes, i have the right drivers).
is this a known issue for qbit? or am i doing something wrong?

>>1317433
I have qBit 4.2.3 and it does just fine with large torrents. I downloaded and am currently sharing the SNL pack. 1.681 TB. No issues with sharing or rechecking.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:412a0717bfcdb677793c74ce504ede43f9348b49&dn=SNL%20Season%201-46%20(Best%20Quality%2cFixed%20sound%2cAll%20extras)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

>RMMMMJ

If anyone cares I am using ProtonVPN and it was easy to setup and did not need any tweaking for me to use it with my torrent client. Everything just worked. And they have a one year package thats like half price or slightly less than half.

Whats a decent VPN to use? Im looking to get cracked versions of software cause im too jew-y

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>>1308308
Here's a stupid question. /r/ is for ADULT request. Where do you go for normal torrent request (NOT porn)?

My cracked Photoshop CS6 torrent no longer works (the register trial step fails to open Adobe webpage). I'm yet to find a torrent that does work. Anyone have a working photoshop torrent? Doesn't have to be CS6.

>>1317884
Have you checked M0nkrus or GenP?
>>1317015
Use MediaDownloader, get it from github. It uses yt dlp

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Where do you guys get your movies from? For example, this nice site t0rr3ntg4l4xy still not showing actual rips, and there are on 1337. Are there any other with a nice layout?

>>1315395
download more internet

>>1317879
if you want port forwarding, airvpn seems to be the only good option, not the cheapest tho

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>>1317946
HMmm... torrent only trough Telegram.
Yet another stupid social media app.

>>1308308
what happened to the language learning general?

My ISP is throttling my torrents HARD. Is there a way to circumvent this?

>>1318306
Try changing the default port, forcing encryption, or using a VPN. Maybe a seedbox.

What's the largest French tracker? I'd like to download some movies or TV shows to practice

if i make a site with servers and domain registration in a country like sweden and let people upload movies and tv and shit like that, are there any legal problems i could get in? or would i have to host the site in russia or vietnam or something?
basically i'm just asking if there are any servers i could keep a website on where a company legally couldn't do much as long as i don't openly say shit like "hey everyone look at me i'm the new pirate bay!"

>>1318308
Tried changing ports, forcing encryption, disabling/enabling router NAT and port forwarding, even installed NordVPN.

I was able to reach high speeds with a single downloader who only had the U and X flags. Maybe that's a hint?

>>1318465
It would make more sense to host the links and not the actual files

>>1318624
is there a difference legally? for the record i wanted to host links only anyway to save on bandwidth, i just didn't specify since i assumed it would be the same thing.

so when i set qbittorrent to use my vpn there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY it will download when the vpn is off, correct? sometimes i need to switch it off. Right now I always totally exit qbittorrent which is annoying because sometimes it stays running in the background.

>>1318627
I imagine it's the difference between selling someone crack and pointing them to your friend who sells crack.

Is uTorrent any good?
It's listed in the sticky and I'm too cheap to pay for a torrent client

>>1318872
if you've properly set it to stop on vpn disconnect, then yes it will fully stop with no chance of starting again. if you're still paranoid about it then you don't have to turn off qbittorrent though, you can just click the pause all torrents button when disconnecting your vpn.

>>1318900
no it's shit, absolutely stay away. use qbittorrent (probably the best), transmission, deluge, ktorrent, or pretty much any other client. i'm also not really sure which paid clients you've seen since all the good ones are free, but you'd still probably be paying for a vpn if you don't want to risk your isp sending you letters when you torrent something by a litigious company.

is thepiratebay accepting registrations right now? there's a thread about jannies manually creating new accounts on the piratebay forum but it was locked a year ago

Is there any real reason to get a seedbox over just a VPN?

What VPN do you all use? All Google results disagree with the /t/ sticky, so I'm trying to narrow it down.

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So I downloaded The French Connection off RuTracker and it came in this "wholesale BluRay" form instead of one .mkv file like usual. How do I run this properly? When I tried opening the entire folder with VLC, it sort of worked, but it just played the movie instead of opening the menu like I expected it would (so that I could access the settings and additional material).

>>1308308
anyone got the olympic opening ceremony 2024 recorded? I hate the post livestream cuts they shoved us after the ceremony. some details might been loopholed on purpose.

>>1317299
Since around the same time I can't connect normally either. Tor works in my case though.

So how do I find torrents of comics like deadpool?

Somewhat of a stupid question. How do I view individual files/folders prior to dl a torrent on transmission qt? I'm able to do it on qbitorrent but it does not show up for me on transmission. Am I missing something?

>>1320349
Came here to ask this, even a streaming site is fine if there's no torrent.

man there is this torrent of lana rhoades got no seeders there was one now he is gone too....and now idk what should I do. :(

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How does bt.okmp3.ru always show up in the tracker list with 1 seed? I have tested it by creating a new torrent from files on my drive and this tracker shows up immediately the second I start the torrent.

how come anime torrents are always so fucking big?

Anyone know a good place to upload torrents? I don’t want to seed myself but I want to make torrents to share

>>1321884

ThePirateBay.. If you don't want to seed then don;t even bother and just use a cyberlocker like Mega/Mediafire.

>>1321691

Because anime series are really long with lots of episodes. You can always just individual files instead of the whole torrent.

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>>1321691
>define big
anime torrent sizes arent standarized. There are some "trends" in which people like to upload old anime with upscaled video. I dont really know if those upscales are good as I am not a video encoder expert, but on average, users dont like it because MUH size complaints.
>episodes
But typically anime series are on an season format, that is, they usually come in 12-13 episodes (quarter of a year) or 24-26 spisodes (half a year) sets. Some series have multiple quarter year seasons so they can reach 52 or even 100+ episodes, depends manly on popularity / filler arcs, etc.
You can find individual episodes for the newest series, but usually when a season is over, some encoders like to re relase them as a "season batch", so its easier for them and for the community to track a few batches that a lot of 1-episode torrents. You know, like with 'murrican IV series.
>>1322132
>Because anime series are really long with lots of episodes. You can always just individual files instead of the whole torrent.
>DAT spacing
you are throwing a blanket statement. yes there are extra mother fucking series with 100's of episodes.

>>1322234
My problem with upscales is that they usually look like ass, not muh size. As for muh size complaints, some encoders release individual 23 minute episodes at 1080p that are upwards of 700-800MB a piece, which is pretty large if you ask me. Even if you're a quality nut you can encode it visually lossless with av1 for like 300MB.

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>>1308308
When it comes to torrented content, what is the pipeline going from a Blu-ray disc or Netflix screen capture rip to torrent swarms? I know any Joe schmo can rip content and create the initial torrents but how do you even get the word out in the first place? Suppose [mainstream show] releases on Blu-ray so I buy them, rip them onto my computer and organized subdirectories organized by episode and seasons. Now watch? I can create the torrent but I'm a literal-who nobody, so how do I guarantee I can share it with others?

>>1308308
Are there any ways to torrent games on MacOS?

I am an IT retard. How do I download this folder please? I am aware there is a download link, I click on it, and it tells me it is creating a zip for me and does nothing. Is there any way to scrape the files, and please could a kind anon create a torrent for me?

Thank you

https://cyberfile.me/shared/cv6pleq259

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>>1322271
Look at nyaa, The standard -so to speak- sizes for current episiodes are:
>480p 365Mb
>720p 700Mb
>1080p 1.3GB,
Some are done with AVC , with HEVC some group gets 1080p with 427Mb. So expect that, as for more in-depth video codecs parlay, I'm not your guy, as I am not by any means an expert, just a common user.

Is GenP for Adobe products safer than Monkrus?

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Recently I got an ipv6 connection and since then there are tons of ipv6 addresses in my peers. The thing is, most of them are similar: they belong to a mobile operator in one country, report 0% progress and never download, just constantly shuffle across different torrents. A dozen or more of them can sit on one torrent at a time.
I tried to ban them manually (just to see what happens), but new ones pop up in their place.
Am I being gangstalked and should I ban the range or even the whole country? Or are they not malicious?

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I was ass raped by a RAT a few weeks back and I realized I did not export a torrent file of a film I've been seeding for a hot minute. I autistically waited 3 months for the metadata to load the first time and vowed to seed this film forever. My question is:

Is there anything I can do to get the metadata to load while I have the torrent files/data already downloaded? Or do I need to wait another 3 months before whatever powers that be load that metadata?

It's a somewhat obscure film: Motivation Growth (2013).
There are other torrents of the film available, but none with the director's extras/behind the scenes.

I was able to seamlessly return to seeding various other films as I made sure to secure their respective torrent files.

>be me just wanted to find the best quality rip of Deadpool
>Board hecking filled with porn

Where do I find the best version of the movie bros?

>>1323568
Bumpn

Let's say I want to create a torrent. In this particular case, it happens to be a downloaded vtuber stream.
>how do you decide on what trackers to include?
>do you *need* to include trackers at all? what happens if you don't?
What are the "best practices" in general?

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>>1312307
Found FlashForward and Black Sash on soulseek. Haven't found the rest you mentioned.

Onto my own stupid question:
How do you "move" files from download to "comsumption" directories. When I download a torrent, I want to keep seeding while moving the files to a different folder structure, rename files and delete unneeded ones. How do I go about this without duplicating the files?

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Until about a week ago RuTracker worked well for me, but since then - all the movies I've been torrenting have been downloading at literal crawl speed (that is if they're not stalled). I've tried to force reannounce and set a static IP and used a VPN (VPN's sometimes yield results for a few minutes before speeds slow down to a crawl), there's usually 1 or 2 seeds tops. What gives?

How come decent sources android versions of games are so hard to find?

The dragon quest ports for android for example. I've been looking for decent source for (unmodded) V for ages, and its impossible.

You can find it easily on the usual suspect sites that give you tainted apks that require 1million sketchy permissions. But clean as in user verified ? Nah. I thought torrents were the answer but it's just as bleak.

I know that a VPN is practically required for torrenting while direct downloads are fine without one, but what about uploading to direct download/streaming sites? Should I enable my VPN when uploading or is it also fine without it?

Second question, should I use a VPN when browsing public/private tracker sites?

How do I get into the Japanese P2P sites (Winny, Share, Perfect Dark)? I must be doing something wrong because I follow the tutorials I find online but I can't seem to connect to any nodes.

>>1309252
Depends. Is the porn free? then no. If it is, then try to get it before the production company shuts the torrent down. As for the vpn, you should only really use it if your country has harsh torrent moderation or if you just want to hide you IP address from others while torrenting.

Where can I download full balkan fun and fakehub videos?

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>dude rtorrent is so good bro!!! best seedbox client bro!!!!
>doesn't support uTP so you end up with a shit ratio due to leechers never choosing you as their seeder unless they absolutely have to fallback to BT
can the rtorrent nigger devs fix this shit already

>>1308308
doge

>>1309252
Always use a VPN. Just, always. Unless for some reason you can prove your ISP is throttling you, in which case either change ISP's or stop torrenting until you can use a VPN.

>>1324573
OH WAIT! I'm a moron. Sorry, you said you wanted to keep seeding.
OK so you can right click and rename things in your client, but the people receiving will still have the original names. You won't mess anything up. You can also move the whole torrent to a different directory/folder with right click and "Set Location" but as far as moving around files within the folders I think you may mess things up. Generally I keep seeding until I get tired of looking at it, then I delete the torrent, keep the files, and move around or delete as I like.

>>1324855
yeah regular downloading streaming is also not safe. Use a VPN.
The main issue is that torrents are incredibly easy and popular, so that's what most people are using, so that's what studios are monitoring. They aren't stupid. They know if Deadpool Vs. Wolverine gets posted on TheRARGB or the pirate bay then there's a good chance the bulk of sharing will be done with that torrent. So their people who are constantly monitoring this shit will download the torrent too, then collect all the IP addresses they can see, then send out DMCA notices to ISP's.
They know the ISP because each one is allotted so many IP addresses and that information is public. They also know the IP's of proxy's and VPNs so I am guessing they don't even bother contacting them. At least I doubt it.

By contrast if you use DirectConnect or news groups I don't even know if Hollywood studios will bother tracking you, or care. Its much less popular and there's less data being shared.

Lets say that I have lots of old torrented content, files have been renamed, moved around. The files are intact and have their original hashes though.
Lets say that I have the torrent files for many (but not all) of those files.
Is there a client that can
> import a load of .torrent files
> scan a folder of media
> match them up and seed
Going beyond that I know that DHT scrapers exist and so could fill in for the missing torrent files in the event there is some activity for them in the swarm, does anything like this exist? has this been done? am i misunderstand what's possible?

are magipack and gnarly repacks safe ?

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Any Polish anons here that now a decent polish tracker? I'm looking for Jacek Bartosiak's books in pdf.

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>>1308308
How trustworthy is this VPN service?

cryptostorm.is/

Main use case for me will be pirating capeshit media, animu, and forcing my phone to stay locked to one IP (frequent phone poster) when traveling. I don't like having to re-auth every 5 minutes while on a road trip.

I recently began torrenting a large pack of videos. Half of the files in the folder are pictures showing the contents of each video.
I'm not interested in those, so (using qbittorrent) I checked them all as "do not download" in the content tab, and deleted whatever images had already been downloaded. Torrent seemed to continue fine like that for the rest of the evening.
Now when I boot up qbittorrent today it keeps throwing me I/O errors and complaining that those files are not available. It's getting annoying.

The image files are still marked as 100% progress in the content tab, despite being deleted on disk and set to "do not download" priority. Is it possible to tell the client that they do not exist?
If that's not possible, can I tell the client to redownload them so I can just bite the bullet and let them take up space?

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>>1327143
wait nevermind I'm an idiot, I just need to force recheck

>>1326056
No, because .torrent files (or their representation in any other form, like the version in the client's memory etc) don't contain the hashes of files at all, in any form. The torrent client has no way whatsoever to know this. Torrents contain hashes of individual parts (typically 1/2/4/8/16 MB in size), as well as the hash of this bunch of hashes plus folder and file names etc and the private flag and I think something else, which is a mess that cannot be computed from hashes of the files themselves. So, forget about finding the right files by hashes entirely. It's useful only for some other types of file transfer, but not for torrents.
If your files are large enough (movies), then their sizes are unique enough, and I imagine that you can uniquely ID them by size. Torrents DO have file sizes written in them.
But it's such an incredibly super-niche task (look at a folder and match its files with the sizes of files in these .torrents over here) that I seriously doubt that anyone on earth thought about it, let alone written a program for it.
If anything, it's probably not a task for a torrent client at all, but for a separate (hypothetical!) utility which would read the .torrent files, make a list of all files inside them in order of size, look at your folder, and rename / group by folders the matching files. And then it would tell you "I matched what I could, here are the .torrent files that happen to be matched fully in all their contents, now import them into your client".

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>>1323187
>Is there anything I can do to get the metadata to load while I have the torrent files/data already downloaded? Or do I need to wait another 3 months before whatever powers that be load that metadata?
Not really. The "metadata" is the .torrent file itself. Obviously you know the hash, but the torrent file contains much more.
You can *CREATE* the torrent file yourself, since you have the complete downloaded contents of it. I mean just create it like you'd normally create a torrent. But you need to match that original torrent, which can be tricky.
- do you know the piece size of that torrent?
- do you know the order of files in that torrent? it's probably alphabetic, but not necessarily so
- do you remember whether it contained the root folder of what you have, or didn't?
- probably one more tricky detail or two that I'm forgetting?
All of these options result in a different torrent with a different hash.
But if you guess everything right and create a torrent file with the matching total hash, then you have successfully recreated THE right torrent (what you call metadata). You can drag it into the client, point it to the folder with the files that you already have, it will recheck them and you'll start seeding, and everyone who is looking for the torrent with this hash will download them from you. In this successful situation, you didn't create some hacky substitute for that "metadata", you have created exactly the thing that was needed.
The tracker URLs are irrelevant in this context and they don't affect the hash (which is a large part of how private trackers work, for example: for every user, the server sends a unique .torrent file with a tracker URL that typically has their passkey in it, but all of these unique .torrent files are the same hash / same torrent). For better discovery by other peers, consider adding a bunch of open tracker URLs to the torrent in your client.

Also,
> I was ass raped by a RAT
What do you mean? What's a RAT in this context?

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>>1319969

Go to the folder \BDMV\STREAM. The largest .m2ts file there is the movie. The other smaller .m2ts files are extras and other videos on the bluray.

The above works for 90% of blurays.

But sometimes, the movie itself is split into many fragments, which can even have non-sequential filenames. This can be a pain in the ass. The bluray itself (when opened like an actual bluray disc) handles it because it has a playlist of specific files in specific order. So, in this case, go to \BDMV\PLAYLIST. There are a bunch of .mpls files for triggering seamless sequential playback of .m2ts fragments as a single video (which is what the bluray disc normally does). You can either try each of them one by one to find the one for the entire movie, or use mkvtoolnix-gui (google it). Drop ONE of those .mpls playlists into its UI, and it will offer to you to go through all .mpls files in that folder and present to you their lengths. From there, you will be able to instantly see which playlist is the movie.

This structure of the bluray, when the movie is split into many fragments, is usually used for 2-in-1 Theatrical+Director's Cuts. The majority of the movie is the same exact thing, and the differences are only in a few places. So you can put both editions onto the same bluray, with all of the parts that comprise them, and then play Theatrical or Director's Cut for the viewer using the mpls playlists. But occasionally even single-edition movies are authored onto the disc this way, for no apparent reason.

> When I tried opening the entire folder with VLC, it sort of worked, but it just played the movie instead of opening the menu like I expected it would (so that I could access the settings and additional material).

MPC-HC lets you open the bluray properly and use it like you'd use it in a dedicated bluray player, with menu navigation and all that stuff. File -> Open DVD/BD. Many other players support this too.

>>1327147
Thanks for taking the time to reply. My understanding is V2 does contain a file hash but I don't know common support for V2 is.
With regards to V1, i'm not sure what stops me from matching a file, surely i could just match by the array of piece hashes instead of the whole file in that case? Collect up all the torrents, identify the set of piece sizes then hash the first piece for each file for every piece size - then of those matches hash the remaining pieces according to the identified size until a total file match is established?
I need to spend some more time with the spec but if i've understood it right and no such tool exists then i will get to work making one - libtorrent seems like it can be coerced pretty easily.

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>>1327189
V2 isn't widespread at all, and I guarantee you that, especially among "older" torrents, ~99.7% will be V1. It's a very new feature with very poor adoption. Don't count on it just because you once encountered a V2 torrent somewhere.

> then hash the first piece for each file

Picrel, and you're fucked. Files inside a torrent aren't aligned by piece size. The first piece in this example torrent isn't the first 1 MB of the .mkv, it's the entire jpg + 1019 KB of the mkv.
Also, even if the file starts right at the boundary between two pieces, you'll have a similar problem at the opposide end of the file - the *final* piece is shared with something else.

> then of those matches hash the remaining pieces according to the identified size until a total file match is established?
Yes, but why don't you start with the size in the first place, since size is readily available in the torrent. Much much less computation required. Then, when you've identified matching sizes between files on the hard drive and files inside torrents, it's worth considering comparing hashes of some pieces.

>>1327189
>V2 does contain a file hash
On this note, I've read a little bit about its generation and apparently it's not even a popular hash function applied to the file itself, it's not a sha256 of the file, it's some hash of the file+padding. Therefore useless in comparing with naive hashes of files that you already have on your hard drive. (why couldn't it be sha256 of the file itself?)
Btw, V2 started being supported in tracker engines only since late 2023 - not specific existing trackers, but just the engines themselves - so, you know, good luck finding such torrents anyway.

>>1327203
Thanks anon, i hadn't considered unaligned torrents.
Do you know if there are any good resources where i can learn more about the evolution of the protocol? It's clear that a lot of effort has gone into BEPs that could take it quite far but i have no idea what clients support what for example.

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>>1327160
I had answered "no" to all those questions/requirements. I am glad it is possible, appreciate the how-to, and am thankful for the clarification as to what constitutes a torrent. It appears the easiest solution is to create a whole new torrent and just share as I normally would.
>> I was ass raped by a RAT
>What do you mean? What's a RAT in this context?
A remote-access-trojan (presumably, I have no way of knowing). I had downloaded an infected video game from a site that seemed be trusted. Attackers stole various video game accounts (Steam, Microsoft, EA) and accessed one email address. I think the attack lasted 2 days before I noticed. Only time will tell how much data they got and how nefarious they are. It's my own fault and I managed to recover all accounts except Microsoft (Minecraft) after changing all passwords, replacing drives, and making sure 2FA is on for all accounts. All drives except my media drive have been replaced. Media drive (films/shows only) seems clean and has gone through various scans (Malwarebytes + MSdefender).

>>1327241
nta but do you have the infohash? if so drop it here - long shot but i ran a DHT crawler for some time and still have the database

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is TGx kill?

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>>1327244
God speed, anon
92ae3abe3ff65b15b00b8f89b9379e9168fb1ca9

>>1327260
No dice i'm afraid, I did find some active hashes that may happen to have the same file though.
f2e6c102b250e0c53929abc1034c6c427c85ca7c

ac1db5d74292fb1ddd38e40b578c73a9bef3e2dc

>>1327260
>>1327271
can you share the file size?

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>>1327272
>file size
3.29 GB
I originally got it from qBittorrent's built in search function. I checked those two hashes and they are not the torrent in question.

Here is some more info. Not sure if it'll help because I have generally no idea what magic you're conjuring.
The torrent is labeled "Motivational Growth 1080p + Extras" on qBittorrent, but once metadata loads the folder is named "Motivational Growth 1080p" with the following contents:
Motivational Growth 1080p.mp4
Motivational Growth 1080p.srt
and an additional folder called "Extras" with the following mp4's:
1 Inspiring Growth The Mold
2 Stunts
3 Gross Outs
4 Characters

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why is nobody getting anything

>>1327273
Nothing at that size - i'll keep an eye out. Film looks interesting

>>1327279
The Mold appreciates your efforts, Jack. The film is available on Tubi for free. I'm going to wait 2 more months before creating a new torrent.
tubitv.com/movies/621128/motivational-growth

>>1327273
>The torrent is labeled "Motivational Growth 1080p + Extras" on qBittorrent, but once metadata loads the folder is named "Motivational Growth 1080p" with the following contents:
>Motivational Growth 1080p.mp4
>Motivational Growth 1080p.srt
>and an additional folder called "Extras" with the following mp4's:
>1 Inspiring Growth The Mold
>2 Stunts
>3 Gross Outs
>4 Characters

That sounds like a QxR release. If/when TorrentGalaxy comes back alive, check it there. Some QxR releases were uploaded there.

>>1327285
I've located the torrent, by a duck duck go search of the infohash. It's on a pretty sketchy site tho caution.

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>>1308308
I downloaded the AnimeTime release of SteinsGate and I noticed that when I dragged and dropped the file into mpv, it didn't start it. I had to double click on the movie to get it to open. After watching, I tried to make webms and got an error message. So I checked the movie file and saw that my location had a question mark in front of it. For S1 of SG (from the same release) there is no question mark and I can load it/make webms without issue. I tried deleting and retorrenting the release and the problem was exactly the same. What even is this issue and how do I solve it?

>>1327603
Wild guess: is there anything unusual in the filename (or sub-folder name, anything in the path) that makes some software process the full path incorrectly? Some right-to-left-override unicode symbol or any other shit like that. Rename the file using whatever tool can do something with this file (Windows Explorer, I'm guessing), and/or temporarily move it to the root folder of the drive. Will the problem remain?

I know from experience that some software can't process Cyrillic letters in the filename or path (or anything non-unicode really), and seeing that your download is an anime, my best guess is an "unusual" filename.

>>1327627
>(or anything non-unicode really)
Brain fart. I meant anything outside of Western-character-encoding ASCII.

>>1327627
Fiddling with the folder name fixed it, thanks. Below are the names of one of the S1 episodes (which worked), then the movie file itself, then the folder it was in.
[Anime Time] Steins;Gate - 17.mkv
[Anime Time] Steins;Gate - The Movie - Load Region of Deja Vu.mkv
[Anime Time] Steins;Gate - The Movie - Load Region of Deja Vu
I made a new folder called "[Anime Time] Steins;Gate The Movie", copy pasted the movie file, and renamed that to "[Anime Time] Steins;Gate - The Movie.mkv", and now it works.
Presumably the issue is with the double hyphen, since the single hyphen in the S1 release works fine

>>1327675
The names you provided are fine and they all contain only the basic latin letters and punctuation, the regular ascii set.

However, it's possible that when you posted it, 4chan itself forcibly converted some "weird" unicode symbols into their ascii analogs. Many websites and the underlying libraries that they use try to sanitize user input this way, so that bad actors can't break the website by posting some weird symbols that break text on the page etc. If you really want to be certain yourself, and if you care at all, then you can copy the file/folder names (from your own Windows Explorer, NOT from your 4chan post!) to this website: https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect and see what it says.

I don't think that two instances of minus-dash is something horrible that some programs can't process, but then again, weirder bugs exist.

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>>1308308
Why do people claim you don't need a VPN to torrent content when lawsuits like this exist? They're allegedly being sued for downloading the content alone?

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ansys-goes-big-with-texas-lawsuit-5201167/

>>1327789
Thanks for the info, when I rename the file I am able to make webms, but in order for drag and drop to work, I have to rename the folder it's in.
I had a file where the drag and drop wasn't working, so I put the folder name into that website, but everything it gave me was basic Latin. Everything seemed to have a normal name, except the hyphen was called "hyphen-minus", maybe that means something? I'm not very familiar with unicode. The folder name is below, and that doesn't have a double hyphen. So I really have no idea what the issue could be. Either way, making a new folder with a similar name tended to fix things.
Also, when I would delete the torrent file, I got an "are you sure you want to delete" popup, which I never get with anything else. That's probably related, but again I don't know how
[Anime Time] Steins;Gate Kyoukaimenjou no Missing Link - Divide By Zero

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2 Things:
1.
What Is the best video player for MKV?
I Have VLC but I've heard its bad and it an anime I downloaded glitched slightly when I watched it
The Only better option i have seen linked to is on Github and I don't know how any of it works

2.
I Have heard lots of talk about the importance of seeding, and being sympathetic to the idea I have left the system to run, but it seems to have seeded very little. is there something else I am meant to do? do I need to keep the application open? Or is the only reason it hasn't done much that no one is looking for the same niche anime as me?

>>1327973
>except the hyphen was called "hyphen-minus"
It's the name of the regular "-" minus that is available to be typed from the keyboard. There are many different fancy hyphens and dashes for different contexts (– — etc, unless 4chan will now convert all of them to - when I send this message). Most people who type in plain text just simply type "-", but fancy 100% proper grammar requires specific hyphens/dashes. That's why different symbols for them exist in character sets in unicode.

Look, I will not be able to troubleshoot the specific problem for you this way. I don't even see why it would be that important. If you want, put some .mp3 file into that problematic folder, try to open that mp3 file with various software (media player, audio editor, etc), see how many of them will also "break".

The bottom line is that "something" in those file names or folder names is causing some software (and the outdated code libraries that they are using) to freak out. That's the end of the story, there's nothing more sinister going on. Even if you get to the bottom of it and pinpoint the super-specific issue with the file names, it's not like you will be able to fix the dumb software.

>>1327973
Btw if anything, I think the offending symbol might be ";", because in some contexts it can be used as a divider between several different listed entries in a row. So the software with the bug/oversight might interpret the command to open your "Steins;Gate All Those Other Words" as a command to open two separate things "Steins" and "Gate All Those Other Words".

>>1327982
> is there something else I am meant to do?
If you don't have an open port it will help to open it up see https://superuser.com/a/1053429

>>1327982
>is there something else I am meant to do? do I need to keep the application open?
I mean, what other software on your PC is doing the seeding, what do you think? Windows Calculator?

>>1328008
The download seems to run with the tab closed
Although I now realise those may be different things

>>1328052
... what tab, mate?
Your torrents are downloading (and seeding to others) in a separate program called a torrent client. Not in your web browser. qBitTorrent, uTorrent, and many other programs are torrent clients.
Inside your web browser, you either clicked a magnet link, which took you directly to your torrent client where you had to click "confirm, download into that folder" or similar stuff, or alternatively you clicked to download a .torrent file which you then opened in the torrent client.
The web page on the website still being opened or closed has nothing to do with anything in this process whatsoever.

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>>1328058
This
I guess this is a client then?
I knew it wasn't running via firefox but does the client need to be open or will it seed in the backround?

>>1328063
>I guess this is a client then?
This will sound harsh, but you need to brush up on general computer vocabulary (not specifically torrents) because yes, client (as in, client vs server) should be pretty self-explanatory. A client is a program that you as a user run on your machine that connects to server(s) somewhere online to do whatever work needs to be done.
>does the client need to be open or will it seed in the backround?
If a program is closed, it cannot do anything at all, so yes, you need to keep Transmission running to seed stuff.
Keep in mind that closing the *window* (your screenshot) isn't necessarily the complete shutdown of the program. Somemodern-day programs, especially those that are designed to do some "background" tasks without user input, are often (but not necessarily!) left running when you close the window itself, and they for example collapse down into the icon in the tray (near the clock in the corner), from which they can be opened again, but they don't stop working during that time because they aren't closed, only their window is closed so that it doesn't get in the way.
I never used Transmission, but see if it behaves like this too. Consult any random tutorial about it. The File menu in your screenshot most likely has an option like File -> Quit which will close it completely for good.

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Any places to watch paid YouTube stuff ?

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Why are they such weird snowflakes?

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it's pretty much impossible to find dubbed movie torrents nowadays. there used to be ilcorsaronero for italian movies but it's gone.
can anyone help me?

>>1328350
kek he probably just renamed his client

What's a good TB per dollar size for the WD external 3.5 drive that is above 5TB? I can't afford a NAS yet but I need an external drive to connect to my computer for basic storage and download. I usually get each year the 5TB elements 2.5 portable HDD when they go on sale and thought about getting the new 6tb variant but the price is somewhat more than I'd like so I'd rather get a desktop 3.5 drive instead.

>>1328728
https://diskprices.com/
is good for comparison

retard here, I want to make a seed box, what is wrong with just using an old android phone, connecting it to a hotel's or company's wifi and plugging it in and letting it seed for years, hidden away somewhere? I have access to some covert rooms at the shit business I work at and cant seed much from home because of reasons.
>VPN
I can make that happen on an android if I have to

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>>1308308
How do I get these to be seedable again, they are on different drive letters. From the last time I torrented them.

>>1329248
What client is this?
Most clients have an option to "Set download location", "Move", etc, somewhere in the list of options of what to do with the torrent (found with a right click or a similar action).

>>1328972
this should work in principle but i guess it depends how much you want to seed and how powerful the device is. I'd probably use a cheap mini pc - it'll be more powerful, standard architecture will make setup and maintenance easier - even if you never go back to that room you can maintain remote access.

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>>1327297
>If/when TorrentGalaxy comes back alive, check it there.
No such luck, but at least TGx is back :)
>>1327402
I couldn't manage to find it using infohash. I just get results regarding MAC addresses.

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1. Why do many release groups release bluray rips at exactly 6.55 GiB size? What is this magic number? It's not a single-layer DVD. It's not a double-layer DVD. It's not 1/4 of Bluray. What is it?

2. Why does the movie industry (this is a broader question, not just torrents) release some movies on home video (streaming and blurays) at 24.000 fps, and some other movies at 23.976 fps? I know about the history and reasoning of 23.976 and about how it was the only reasonable option during the analog SD era (NTSC, to be specific), which is the DVD era. But the actual studio masters for movies are 24.000. And in the current HDTV/Bluray era, clearly *both* fps are easily supported, because some blurays and streaming versions are 24, and some others are 23.976. So why are *some* movies slowed down by the studio to 23.976 for the home releases, and some aren't?

>>1313503
Archive.org is a decent choice
Pick a somewhat obscure but also active collection and put it on the backburner or pick and choose popular things
You may also need some scrutiny, but IA is probabaly going to take the flak well before you, if they even bother with you (small fry)
+
>>1315322
>>1313439
Though they might be more saturated

>>1308308
Does anybody know how to disable genuine software of adobe?

>>1328350
I fixed it:
[code]
diff --git a/src/bt_peer_connection.cpp b/src/bt_peer_connection.cpp
index fa480c06b..2a1bb96dc 100644
--- a/src/bt_peer_connection.cpp
+++ b/src/bt_peer_connection.cpp
@@ -2113,6 +2113,13 @@ namespace {
disconnect(errors::upload_upload_connection, operation_t::bittorrent);

stats_counters().inc_stats_counter(counters::num_incoming_ext_handshake);
+
+ bool annoying_politics = false;
+ annoying_politics |= m_client_version.find("Brandon") != std::string::npos;
+ annoying_politics |= m_client_version.find("Trump") != std::string::npos;
+ if (annoying_politics) {
+ send_choke();
+ }
}

bool bt_peer_connection::dispatch_message(int const received)
diff --git a/src/peer_connection.cpp b/src/peer_connection.cpp
index c37a5e95b..f13812582 100644
--- a/src/peer_connection.cpp
+++ b/src/peer_connection.cpp
@@ -3852,6 +3852,14 @@ namespace libtorrent {
INVARIANT_CHECK;

if (!m_choked) return false;
+
+ peer_info info;
+ m_peer_info->connection->get_peer_info(info);
+ bool annoying_politics = false;
+ annoying_politics |= info.client.find("Brandon") != std::string::npos;
+ annoying_politics |= info.client.find("Trump") != std::string::npos;
+ if (annoying_politics) return false;
+
std::shared_ptr<torrent> t = m_torrent.lock();
if (!t->ready_for_connections()) return false;

[/code]

>>1330086
no [code] tags outside /g/, sorry.
also this reminds me of how i just downloaded a sinatra best hits from soulseek by a guy called TRUMPWON2020 lol, twitter and it's consequences

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>>1330099
oof ow ouch I got caught outside of my home board

How is soulseek by the way, I stopped private trackers after what shut down and heard people moved to it but it looks so jank I ignored it

>>1330135
personally i've found it way more convenient than torrenting music mainly because you get to open people's music folders (if they let you, but most do) so you can find more albums really easily, but yeah it's somewhat annoying in that you both parties need to have their clients open for anything to be transferred, so you might run into someone who has exactly what you want but never opens their client so it doesn't matter.

also, you need to deal with some people not knowing or caring about properly organizing their shit, so you end up having to either do it yourself or just go back digging for another one. not the biggest problem with musicbrainz, but never a welcome sight regardless.

>>1330150
The big value from what was the flac/log/cue quality checker and now I feel like I can't trust bare flacs anymore but nobody cares about quality validation anymore. Feels bad man

>>1317015
How about you get off your point and click ass and learn to write a few lines yourself before demanding a fucking thing.

>fucking shitbird. No one is going to help you you fucking plebian

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how is a single nigga uploading/seeding this much? I have uploading speed set to unlimited and never reach such speeds

>>1330279
damn, what country is xe from?

>>1330294
same country as mine, i guess that matters?

does adding more trackers mean I get to contribute/seed more?

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>>1330452
Basically, no.
A tracker is like a centralized DHT. They both let find peers find each other.
It only helps if the swarm is small and if the peers can't find each other.
If the swarm is large enough, not all peers need to connect to each other.

See in picrel how not every peer in the swarm connects to every other peer, but there is a network path for each peer to get all the data. Some peers are DHT only, some peers are tracker only, and some peers have both DHT and a tracker.
In practice, the only people who disable DHT are private tracker users, so adding trackers to public torrents only helps a little bit.

>>1330279
Generally ISPs do not give you symetrical up/down
You generally get like 40 down and 1 up because that is what 99% of people use
You could probably ask your ISP for symmetic/etc but you might have to pay for it

You may also have a limitation on your side if using HDDs, in that you may not have what they want buffered yet, and if somone gives them that before you, they don't request it (from you) coalescing read/writes (among other things like a larger buffer and suggesting pieces you have ready) helps fix this

>>1330551
I dont have symmetrical up/down but I still got 500Mbps up so that shouldnt be a problem

>>1330753
Are you getting the "u" flag when uploading? (Case matters)
It could also be their end is saturated
A larger watermark might help aswell as previously mentioned tricks

>>1330840
yes i get the "u"
larger watermark? whats that?
anyways i think the problem its on the chinese guy

>>1330970
The u means you are the one that is choking (U is fine)
If you want to be double sure it is you, you will also get "U" "O" periodically from them seeing if you are unchoked yet
Assuming your torrent program is the bottleneck, and not you PC/ISP(ISPs may throttle((READ: not cripple)) torrents when busy(mornings/evenings) so that people watching netflix/doing work aren't interupted)
>increasing watermark afaik increases the buffer that the program creates, you may setting it to a few hundred MB/one GB should be more than adequate for a maximum, you also may want a slow ramp up
>OS cache should be enabled, and a decent size (RAM and maybe swap for linux, readyboost cache/RAM for windows)
>lot's of asyncronous I/O threads, but not too many
Ultimately though this is about the edge of my knowledge
t. 1MB/s up

Ok, I had a problem with seeding and slow downloads with my VPN, but the solution was just port forwarding which fixed everything, but now I have a new problem. When I turn off my VPN, qBittorent stops uploading/downloading (by design), however when I turn the VPN back on, uploads and downloads refuse to resume until I close and reopen the application. There must be an easy fix for this, so what is it? I have PIA VPN btw.

I use Mullvad VPN, which doesn"t allow port fowards. Is it possible to create and seed my own torrents while using Mullvad? I created my own torrent with a bunch of trackers and I'm trying to download it from another computer but I get no peers. My torrent is in "Seeding" mode on computer connected to Mullvad.

I wanted a very high definition version of my favorite movie, but the only 4K version I could get that had any seeders was 60 GB and the bitrate is too high for my computer to keep up.

What program would I use to reduce the bitrate but still keep it high, aiming for like 10-15 GB file? Handbrake?

>>1331817
The bitrate is NOT too high for your computer to keep up. Even at the highest end of 4K blurays, which is 144 Mbit/s and barely used on real releases, it's far below the throughput of even USB 2.0. It's not putting any strain on your storage devices or on the bottlenecks of getting data from there to the RAM, etc.
(well, unless you store it on a hard drive that is VERY near death. but you'd notice it manifesting a long time ago)

If you're seeing constant terrible stuttering during playback of 4K, the actual most likely reason (by far) is that your GPU doesn't know how to decode HEVC/H265 codec + 10 bit color depth + 4K resolution. Either it can't decode any ONE thing from this list, or it can't decode a combination of them (for example, even GPUs from 10+ years ago usually can decode 3840x2160 in H264/AVC with no problems - but not HEVC). Therefore, your media player sends the task of decoding the video stream to your CPU and not your GPU, and if your CPU is also old(ish?), then it can't decode 4K HEVC in real time.

> What program would I use to reduce the bitrate but still keep it high, aiming for like 10-15 GB file? Handbrake?

3 problems with this idea.

1. If your computer can't decode/process 4K in HEVC in real time (like I wrote above, the CPU is likely the weakest link), then the task of re-encoding 4K video, and from HEVC to HEVC no less, will be *agonizingly* slow. Especially if you're aiming for anything better than absolute rubbish quality. You're welcome to try yourself, with Handbrake or anything else, and see it. Video encoding is a massively resource-intensive task, more so than video playback.

2. What many people fail to understand that there is no meaningful reason to go for very low bitrates / file sizes while trying to preserve resolution at any cost. Resolution is not some Magical Most Important feature of a video stream. For example, those 2 GB mini-rips in 1080p, like YIFY/YTS or RARBG? That's retarded rubbish.

(continued below)

(...continued)

At this low size/bitrate, it would be much wiser to lower the resolution to at least 1280x720, or maybe even 960x540. Consider this: there's only so much *information* (about the contents of the video) that you can pack into N gigabytes. You are losing clarity in any case, this is not debatable. At very low bitrates, you are going to start seeing noticeable compression artifacts, which look unappealing and they also look like they are not a part of the 3D scene that is being shown, they are seen as these "2D artifacts on top of the scene", you know. A much better choice - if you really do need a 2 GB rip - is to lower the resolution, so that the codec isn't forced to try (and fail) to preserve all of those 1920x1080 pixels and result in hideous artifacts. Pick 1280x720 - yes, you will lose visual clarity, but you will lose it in a much more visually nice way compared to a 2 GB 1080p rip.
The same applies to 4K at 10 GBs. Yeah, you can do it if you want... but 10 GBs is a reasonable size for a 1080p bluray rip - not for 4K. Why would you want to try and cram high-res, high-def footage into a size that is normally better suited for 1920x1080? See the detailed reasoning above. There's a good reason why 4K bluray rips are often in the realm of 20+ GBs, not 10.

3. You wrote yourself that you wanted the "ultimate" version of your favorite movie. I understand that you want to keep and cherish it. Then keep this HQ 60 GB version that you downloaded! Seed it and keep it alive. For now, accept that your current PC can't handle playback of 4K in HEVC codec (see above). Keep it as an archival copy. Make a decision: what's important to you: to have a very HD/HQ copy, or to be able to watch the movie in the highest quality that your PC can handle. Or both,but they'd have to be two separate things.

Also. What movie is this? Are you sure that the 4K in this movie is actually real, not an upscale from a 2K master (2048xN) by the studio? Because this is VERY common.

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>>1308308
I'm trying to build software that can translate text into different languages on pictures and fill in the translation in place of the original text (basically an open source version of Google Lens). When I eventually get a working prototype running, I want to test it on untranslated manga. Where can I find torrents of untranslated manga? Already looked on nyaa.si, pirate bay, and even limetorrents but they either keep stalling or have non-existent peers because they were created in 2015.

I'm trying to pack a newer missprincesskay torrent and need help finding good relatively obscure upload sistes to scan for new shit.

Not wanting to pollute the insertion thread asking for random sites so Post here If you have any.

Oh great ones, I come to thee in search of guidance. Anyone know where the fuck I might be able to find a copy of the full Operator's manual for a JCB 506-36 Loadall? Feel kinda weird asking for heavy equipment manuals... but the noosphere isn't as clear as she used to be. Asking for a friend in need.

Most things I've looked for elsewhere are all zogged bullshit.

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>>1331831
>>1331832
First off, I did not expect someone to answer with that depth of information, so I commend you on that

I am trying to play this file:
>Pacific Rim (2013).
>Video: HVC1 3840x2160 23.976fps [V: hevc main 10, yuv420p10le, 3840x2160 [default]]
>Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo [A: Stereo (aac lc, 48000 Hz, stereo) [default]]

On a brand new mini computer running Linux Mint (dual boot with Win11):
>GMKtec Nucbox G3 mini pc with 16GB DDR4 RAM
>integrated Intel UHD Graphics 24EUs (max 750MHz), AV1 decoding,

So it looks like you're right that it won't decode HEVC by itself. I thought I downloaded a bunch of codecs when setting up Mint but if it's a hardware issue then I'm hosed. I could try converting the HEVC file to AV1 with my desktop computer that has no problem with HEVC.

I am not a stickler for ultra high quality video, but Pacific Rim is one of very, very few movies I would ever feel the need to watch in as high resolution as possible. I can get the physical 4k blu-ray for $15...

>>1308308
How much can the seeder learn about me, from me downloading from them?

Currently trying to download some stuff on qBittorrent, and no matter what I do the program gets stuck on "downloading/retrieving metadata".

I've tried updating and I've been going through what feels like about a hundred "Random Ports" to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? Sorta new to this so I understand it could be just about anything, but the two options I tried to fix the situation were (from what I found) the most common fixes. Any help is appreciated!

>>1332387
>integrated Intel UHD Graphics 24EUs (max 750MHz), AV1 decoding,
>So it looks like you're right that it won't decode HEVC by itself.

It's a modern GPU (even if it's integrated), so I have no doubt that it actually CAN decode HEVC/H265. A random page with tech specs confirms it: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/igpu-intel_uhd_graphics_24_eus_jasper_lake . At the same time, it says that AV1 decoding is NOT supported.

This is very expected. AV1 is an even newer / more demanding codec, and hardware support for it is still spotty. Meanwhile, HEVC/H265 has been around for several years and is widespread. It's common that GPUs can decode and encode HEVC but can't deal with AV1 - NOT the other way around.

(at the same time, plenty of old PCs and laptops still have old GPUs that don't support HEVC; these PCs are still fine for browsing internet and doing basic tasks - it's not uncommon to have one like this, that's why I mentioned lack of hardware support for HEVC as the very likely culprit).

To sum up:
- your GPU should decode HEVC natively
- it actually shouldn't decode AV1, unless you have some special edition / updated drivers / idk what on top of the basic model
- the above is normal and expected for a modern integrated gpu

Basic troubleshoot:
- Try watching this movie in Win11 with your video player of choice
- MPC-HC for Windows explicitly tells you whether it's "Playing" a video (CPU decoding) or "Playing [H/W]" (hardware acceleration = GPU decoding). Other software players probably have a similar indication somewhere.
- Try watching some 3840x2160 video that is encoded with H264/AVC, not HEVC. Like, just encode 2 mins of Pacific Rim into H264 using any conversion tool and watch the result.

From there, you should get an idea of what's wrong. Codecs? Drivers? Like, "my GPU fails to decode HEVC under Linux"?

> Pacific Rim

The master for this movie is 2K (movie industry 2K, which is "roughly full HD", not 2560x1440). The 4K release is a studio upscale.

>>1332395
Client, IP, educated guess of your country. IP can be used for fun stuff like iknowwhatyoudownload.com, but otherwise it's not a major vulnerability on its own. (unless, let's say, the other person is actively interested in you and he can cross-reference your IP with posts that you made on some forum, where he has admin rights and can see poster's IPs, that kind of stuff).
Also, IPs are often dynamic, so even that is not a very interesting thing.
The above assumes that you're not using VPNs, or obscured client name (...why).

>>1332454
>iknowwhatyoudownload.com
Did that site just recently die or something?
>can cross-reference your IP with posts that you made on some forum
What could someone do with that? Assuming that you're not downloading something like CP or something like diaper fetish stuff that could embarrass you publicly(if you were stupid enough to have your real name or social media linked to it somewhere).
Assume you're just downloading normal tv/movies, what could be done with that information?
Like the IP holders would just go directly to your ISP, right? They're not going to go website hunting.

>>1332472
>Did that site just recently die or something?
Yeah, seems to be down at this very moment, with some error on their side. It's a well-known site that has existed for years. It gives a live example of how it's easy for "almost anyone" (with resources) to compile a list of what a given IP downloads, by having spy peers that crawl DHT and record the peer lists that they encounter.

>Like the IP holders would just go directly to your ISP, right? They're not going to go website hunting.
IP holders employ firms that do the above, monitor torrents of stuff that they have rights to, and compile lists of IPs.
Then, since it's relatively trivial to obtain what ISPs these IPs belong to, they filter the ones in jurisdictions where the following will fly, and send letters to ISPs. "Hey, such and such IP at this or that timestamp was sharing our copyrighted IP, make them stop or we'll sue them and/or literally you, the ISP"
Then, the ISP, having knowledge of which client had that IP at that time, takes action by sending you a scary letter or punishing you otherwise.

Obviously, highly depends on the country, the legislation, the ISP, etc. A random Romanian or Russian ISP will just say "lmao go fuck yourselves" so these companies don't even bother.

>What could someone do with that?
If you meant my example, I was just illustrating that as long as you're just one random-ass online user in a sea of other random-ass online users, no one fucking cares about you, apart from the automated process that I described above.
But if, for example, you requested something specific and niche on some forum (not illegal, just specific) and someone shared it with you through a torrent, then that someone - who seeded it to you - now saw the IP that you were downloading with. Use common sense. Is that person someone who might decide to fuck with you? Embarrass you on that online place or something? Or figure out your country/city by your IP? Is this important to you in your context? Etc.

>>1308308
anyone got a torrent for solidworks? preferably the 2022 version, but any works

>>1332484
Thanks for your time and explanations. You answered all the questions I always wondered about, but never knew who to ask.

Help
I can't seem to find any torrent for the fourth season of this show https://www.primevideo.com/region/eu/detail/0QUG87GQAWB9NHFY7S40JBPVMC/

I've been trying to download some files using both torrent files and magnet links, and no matter what I do, either the download page (where you select what files you want and where they go) gets stuck on "Retrieving Metadata" with a little green load bar or it starts downloading but immediately gets "Stalled" at 0.0%.

I've tried countless ways of supposedly fixing the situation, and nothing has worked. I've randomized my ports hundreds of times, messed with almost all the settings that I can, and even updated and redownloaded the program to hopefully fix it, all to no avail. I currently use Nord VPN and even have it bound to qBittorent in the advanced/connection settings.

If anyone has any ideas on what I should try or what might help, please let me know. Any and all help is appreciated, thank you!

>>1332634
Are you trying to download something that's reasonably popular and "should" have easily accessible seeds?

Like, let's say... Grab this, and make sure to download the .torrent file, not the magnet link:

https://torrentgalaxy.to/torrent/16178800/Wolfs-2024-1080p-ATVP-WEB-DL-DDP5-1-Atmos-H-264-FLUX-TGx-

Well-known new movie with big name actors. Released 2 days ago. Untouched web-dl in 1080p. Obviously, the most popular torrent of this movie. And it's not just a magnet with no trackers; it obviously has functioning trackers embedded in the torrent.

Does it download? (I mean, wait for a couple minutes before panicking) If not, go to the "Trackers" tab of this torrent (idk what client you're using), there should be a list of tracker URLs and their status (like "working", "can't connect", etc). Do trackers work for you at all? If they don't work, do you have DHT enabled? Do you see some number of available peers mentioned somewhere in the interface?

>>1331446
Ok, attempt #2. I think I've narrowed down the issue, but I'll try to explain it more effectively

I turn off my VPN briefly to post /here/, and naturally qBittorent stops. I turn my VPN back on, but the torrenting does not resume. However, fixing this is simple. I just need to close and relaunch the client. But, that's a pain in the ass. I believe I just need to prod the client to look for my new IP address so it can resume its thing. Or maybe my VPN can tell the client what it is when it's changed? I don't actually know, I just know this would make my life a little easier.

>>1332230
https://btdig.com/b0a297551351eaa92e8bc4c45757d7ccf213ed36/jcb-506=36-loadall
Has one seeder
Couldn't find what you are looking for specifically though

>>1332849
When you disconnect from your VPN, does qbit stop (close) or pause? If the former, there's no choice, you have to reopen it after reconnecting to your VPN. If the latter, after reconnecting why can't you simply push the resume button?

>>1333032
It's not the latter. It says at the bottom DHT:0 nodes. So ig I have no choice v_v. Maybe I can script my VPN to close and relaunch qBit when I use the snooze function.

Anons where do people get clean game ISOs nowadays after RARBG kicked the bucket?
I've tried looking through popular public trackers and all game ISOs seem to be uploaded by the cancer than is IGG-GAMES as if they have the monopoly on games.
I'm aware about csrin but I don't want any repacks and DIY builds, just the vanilla scene ISOs.

Does anyone have First Encounter Assault Recon that isn't a pain in the ass? i don't want to deal with virtual cd drives or anything like that ideally.

>>1333093
it's on gog to

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I have a large list of trackers that I need to clean up and sort and deduce.

I'm running qbittorent. I have 216 tracker errors.

>What does this mean?
Just that one of my trackers isn't hosting a certain file?

>What is the best tracker list around?

>where can i find a black list to add for my own safety?

Thanks?

>>1332849
The problem is that qBittorrent is bad at detecting IP changes. To force redetection without restarting qBittorrent, change your port number down 1, apply, then change it back, and apply.

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Pic related - Does anyone have any idea what the peers tab "quota" column information reflects (this is uTorrent)? On most peers, it's usually around 200 | 200. But occasionally, there will be a peer, not the same IP address but usually from China, that gets huge numbers like 200,000,000 | 200, and it seems to correlate to download speed. That peer will get up to 30MB/s, where everyone else is usually <1MB/s.

Basically, I'm trying to figure out if someone has hacked a way to get the fastest speed possible on every torrent, and how I might be able to use that information to my advantage :)

I have a torrent for 5k files but out of those files I have 3k. Is there a way to run some script and leave only those files I don't have active? I am using qbit. loading gui makes my browser shit itself so clicking is no use

>>1333174
Thank you bro

>>1333174
>>1333495 (me)
Actually, while I have you. Is there a torrent client that's better at catching IP changes without my extraneous input? I do prefer open source, but if it's worse, then so be it.

When people post these

>The.Platform.2.2024.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX
>The.Platform.2.2024.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX
>The.Platform.2.2024.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX
>The.Platform.2.2024.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX
>The.Platform.2.2024.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX

How exactly do I turn that into a torrent to download? I only know magnet links.

>>1333571
You don't turn that into a magnet/torrent. It's the name of the release. It serves only two purposes:
1) to let you know the exact name of the release (irrelevant for fresh movies because of course you'll easily find alive torrents, but can be useful for old releases b/c maybe this version is the one you're looking for and some other one is a different version, etc)
2) to make you aware that the movie was finally released and is now available on the torrents
Go to your regular torrent tracker and search either for the title of the movie, or the exact provided release name (if it's important in some specific situation).

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Is this realistic or some botfarm that wants to kill bandwith for whatever reason
some have the same port

>>1333783
You have alerted the horde
(Who knows with china)
>>1333571
>>1333583
Assuming you are talking about multiple different torrents for the same thing there are a few possible reasons
>poisoned torrents (most likely on new torrents)
>different piece sizes
>additional files(readme/etc, maybe even a lower quality version(though that may be given a more generalized name (The Platform....))
>>1333487
You should be able to tell it to not download files (under content) at any time

>poisoned torrents (most likely on new torrents)

Completely unrelated to the original discussion, but: it recently occurred to me that since the FILE LIST of a torrent isn't included in the hash, then the identical bit contents of two different torrents that are chopped into different file lists can be a fun little attack on the swarm.

Consider:

- 1.txt: "hello "
- 2.txt "dear friend"

vs

- a.txt "hello dear "
- b.txt "friend"

The total contents of the two concatenated files are identical. Therefore, you can take some popular fresh torrent (typically containing a large .mkv and a small .txt or .nfo), make a copy of that content but chop it into files differently, and join the swarm with THIS in your client. Then, people who grabbed the MAGNET from the source - NOT the TORRENT FILE - will be asking around for the "metadata" (torrent file), and your client will be sending them this "wrong" torrent with the same checksum with the same pieces. They will be downloading the correct pieces from the swarm, but their client will be assembling them into incorrect files on their machine.

It's not well-suited for any malware (good luck turning a random piece of a movie.mkv into a malicious .exe), but you can still disrupt the swarm, if you have a lot of clients deliberately joining with this "false" torrent and spreading it through DHT to people with magnets. I think the bittorrent protocol doesn't have any way to combat this, because the clients aren't sending junk data with incorrect checksums, literally everything is correct, all the pieces etc, but the file list is deliberately wrong.

I'm probably not the first person to come up with this, though?

>>1333893
For some reason my first response to you didn't get sent, trying again

> Assuming you are talking about multiple different torrents for the same thing there are a few possible reasons
I wasn't talking about different torrents, I was just explaining to the first anon above about what this text string is (it's just the name of the release).
By knowing the name of the release, he can easily find it on TGX or ExtTo or the search plugin in his client or in DHT crawlers or on private trackers or anywhere else.
What you wrote isn't wrong of course, but I'm puzzled as to how it relates to that original discussion above.

>>1333991
... never mind, I was wrong, the hash DOES include the file list. Too bad, it could have been a fun disruptive attack. "Useless" and easily preventable by simply using .torrent files, but still.

>>1333991
>>1334009
Shouldn't sha generate a new hash if you change the contents regardless of how you change it, or is this a specifically sha-1 thing?
>>1333993
I think I included you for redundancy

>>1334049
The DHT hash is the hash of the torrent file, which is the file list and block hashes. SHA1 is how the hash is calculated, not why or when.

>>1334049
>Shouldn't sha generate a new hash if you change the contents regardless of how you change it, or is this a specifically sha-1 thing?

My wrong assumption was that the list of files wasn't included in the part of the torrent that is hashed. I thought that only the total checksums of pieces (and a bit of other information) was hashed.

There's a couple good explanations in the replies here, with examples: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28348678/what-exactly-is-the-info-hash-in-a-torrent-file

>>1334063
Still might be noteworthy even if just an argument for v2 AND v1 hashes
If you can modify the hashes (within) to be consistent with one (or 2 hashes for hardmode) you could have real files rejected. It is possible but probably more annoying than just uploading a poisioned torrent. You would want metadata to be consistent though
It's also less classy

>>1334074
I Shift+Deleted the folder that I experimented in and I can't be arsed to recreate the files now, but here's a couple screenshots to clarify:

https://i.imgur.com/kwEEYro.png
https://i.imgur.com/FlfKKZ4.png

Note that the hash of pieces is identical. (these txts are tiny so this torrent has only one piece). This is because it's the same line of text split across two txt files in a different way, like I described above.

It's kinda neat, but the hash / magnet of the entire torrent is still different, because it's calculated from the entire "info" block, which includes file names and sizes. Therefore, my idea wouldn't work. The idea was, suppose that the 1st screenshot is the "real" torrent that I want to partially suppress; I would then generate the 2nd torrent file like the 2nd screenshot and add it to a torrent client on a bunch of machines. Then people who grabbed only a magnet would ask around DHT, and some of them would get response from my machines with the deliberately wrong torrent, therefore downloading the correct bytes but assembled into rubbish files.

It's essentially just a collision attack.

But even now, when you (and me) know that you can not bother about pieces hashes and you can focus only on the file list in an attempt to deliberately generate a collision with the same overall hash, it's an astonishingly resource-intensive task. Good luck creating a collision for sha1.

>>1308308
Do Trackers download along with the torrent or magnet link? Do I need to install a tracker list to download stuff from /t? It seems like everything from /t is slow download or stalled.

>>1334318
> Do Trackers download along with the torrent or magnet link?
If they are embedded in the .torrent file or in the magnet link (which you can easily see with your own eyes in the link itself), then yes. If not, then no. If you really don't know, go to the "Trackers" tab for this torrent in your client and see whether there are some built-in trackers that were already added with it.
Many anons on /t/ already add a bunch of public trackers to their links, as you can see in many posts.
Peers can discover each other either through these trackers that are added to the torrents (seeds ping these trackers to let them know that they have 100% of the contents), or through DHT or PEX.
You can also manually add trackers from a list like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_all.txt . It can help with some obscure torrents that you find in the wild, but the seeders need to be pinging these trackers too for this to be useful.
>It seems like everything from /t is slow download or stalled.
Far too many variables to confidently blame your issue on the lack of trackers (if they are even missing in the first place).
Personally I had no issues downloading whatever was shared by my requests here. Keep in mind that if you're trying to download something from months ago, something obscure that was requested by one anon and fulfilled by another anon, chances are good that neither of them are seeding it anymore and that no one else wanted that thing.

Are people able to track what you've downloaded? Like, if I downloaded a video that claims to have a special ID or a program with anti-piracy, would the original publisher or someone be able to see if I've downloaded said info?

Like, can my downloads be tracked by people beyond the seeders and leachers by code? Or by extension, really anything?

>>1334480
>>1332454
>>1332472
>>1332484
The above probably only really uses infohash, and names of the files contained within

>>1334480
>>1334518
>or by extension...
They can upload anything and call it whatever they want, they could replace the exe with a nasty trojan/etc, so long as they are the ones that made the torrent
Basicaly check your sources

>>1334519
What if it's just viewable files, like videos and PDFs? Would there still be a way for IP holders to have some form of protection on the mp4s or PDFs themselves?

On top of that, should I be using more than an VPN and proxy when it comes to protection? I'm reading stuff about obscuring client names and other terms for protection. Just a tad anxious about it all.

>>1334542
If you are really paranoid, time(as in sitting on it), anti-virus, and being in the right circles is the best disinfectant
The amount of time correlates to your paranoia
*knocks on wood*
Media formats don't really have zero days (at least the established ones that I know of)
As for obscuration if you need the above the answer is yes

If you are doing older stuff (probably 5+ years), common sense and an antivirus is probably all you need

>>1334546 probably should say at least 15 years for copyright stuff, but the spirit is there and generally the poison fades to just leave copyright

>>1308308
Not completely related but still relevant:
does anyone know how to open mega.nz folders and watch their videos without downloading their app

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Does anyone know about this site? It’s interesting because the site owner is Japanese, and there are possibly good magazines and photo books that never come out outside of Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangamura

Want to contribute but don't know how to get the magnet links to appear.

>>1334880
Should be able to r-click on the torrent and there should be an option to export it as an infohash, magnet, or .torrent file

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>>1308308
>Post your question here

So I'm assuming the files with zero seeders/leachers are honey traps or scams of some kind (the show airs on Wednesdays)?

>>1333499
There probably is, but I only use qbittorrent. You could use the web UI API to change ports with a script.

How well do torrents(qbittorent prefered) work with (Z)RAID
do you just have to let it reconstuct then recheck it or what(intended question for if no other seeders are available)
>>1335039
You can never truly know
But if a torrent is popular that is an indication that it might be safe

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This is my download graph. Someone is seeding like this. why.png.

For some this might sound stupid, hence thread title.
Im making av1 encodes of my bluray stuff i have using svtav1 preset 0 at crf 25 for highest quality with comfortable size but in some cases the 7.1 DD audio track is lager in size than the av1 video.
Im thinking of converting the 7.1 to stereo sound in Opus does it make sense to use stereo in 2024. Alot of folx use soundbars and im guessing that's stereo system

>>1336666
Good ones are triphonic. Once something is mastered in surround it's hard to convert to stereo without losing a ton of dynamic range or making volume go all over the place b/c you get cancellation between stereo speakers that doesn't happen with a center.

>>1308308
Where is the joy, and how must it be used responsibly, and other questions?

Is there a website other than /t/ where I could post my torrent collections? Blogspot maybe? I would update it frequently so maybe some other P2P file sharing software would be better but I've got no idea about that.

>>1308308
I downloaded Belle Delphine's Ultimate Archive a while back, but I notice file size (and sometimes quality) discrepancies with the same images as uploaded on coomerparty. Does anyone know why this is?

>>1338192
porn hoarders transcoding their stash because they're too busy beating off to get a job

>>1338117
Such website are called torrent trackers, anon.

>>1338281
I didn't know trackers work as search engines allowing to read torrent descriptions and provide video thumbnails

>>1338224
I'm retarded, what do you mean exactly?

>>1338345
Some people download a lot of videos. High quality videos require more space on drive and that costs. When your HDD gets filled you have 3 options: remove some files, compress them or buy another drive. Screen captures of that video you downloaded were made before someone compressed them, saving space by reducing quality.

>>1338357
So you are saying he compressed JPGs again? But the file size is often bigger than on onlyfans. That seems unlikely then, right?

>>1338323
Go visit Rutracker or TGX or TL or any other public or private tracker.
A torrent tracker consists of a backend server that handles the database and announces etc and a frontend that does what you are looking for.
For how long have you been using bittorrent? I'm asking because organized trackers have LONG preceded the modern terrible practice of just posting random magnet links which lacks all the features you're looking for.

>>1338361
Most people online have zero idea what they are doing when it comes to any technical task.
You have people screenshotting images online instead of saving them like a civilized person.
You have people uploading images elsewhere while having AI beautifying filters or AI upscaling turned on even if it makes zero sense. I've seen random-ass screenshots of TEXT run through horrible "AI enhancement" tools, just fucking why.
For every autist that cares about the quality and the "provenance" of images or videos that he collects, there are a hundred of imbeciles that don't know what they are doing.

Does anyone use IPTV? I wanna pay for IPTV, but I can't even find a place that will list them! Obviously, anything that comes up via search is going to get taken down. Can't even find a discord for them.

Is there a way to block websites like iknowwhatyoudownload.com ? I wanna seed torrents and be helpful but many of the contents on my PC being visible online for anyone to see is kinda creepy. I can use a VPN but it slows the internet down so i am looking for an alternative.

>>1338778
Learn to use vpn correctly. You shouldn't route all your internet traffic through it. Most retard friendly option is set a proxy in qbt.

There is a picture that showed recommended settings for qbittorrent does anyone have it ?

I just got DCMAd for the first time in 10 years, they didn’t list the reason I torrent without a vpn, my question is could it be from streaming live tv on a website?

Mega stupid question here
I really don't understand how to find torrents, when I search on torrent sites I often find things one by one
Let's say I really like a pornstar, so I want a torrent to just download all their porn instead of doing a bunch of video downloads, but when i search said pornstar i always always get each video one by one, at that point i'd rather just download normally

Can someone please walk an idiot through on how to possibly do this? I've been stumped for years and keep coming back

>>1339664
Your ISP should give you more info than that, maybe you need to look elsewhere(ie what they found and how)
>>1339668
You should be able to sort by size and find collections easier, unless the content is fairly new
>porn

>>1339668
>Let's say I really like a pornstar, so I want a torrent to just download all their porn instead of doing a bunch of video downloads, but when i search said pornstar i always always get each video one by one, at that point i'd rather just download normally

Was someone kind enough to make a pack of her and upload it to a reasonably well-known place? You'll find such a pack.

No one did that / it's on a torrent tracker that you don't know about / this torrent is old and wasn't popular and therefore it died? You won't find it.

>>1339784
thanks for the insight, I already tried that on the very few torrent sights I heard were popular, sorting by size but it didn't help at all.

I'm guessing the other commentor is right and that it doesn't exist, shame but strange, thank you both again for your insight

So i take it there's really nothing that can be done for someone who's search illiterate to find stuff easier and just try to grab stuff one by one if i happen to stumble upon it

okay, so I'm trying to get back into torrenting but fucked-up twice (i.e. letters & cut-internet; yes very retarded of me)

my questions are the obvious ones; how to do I safely torrent,
how do I check files for malware & trojans,
what do I need to do to to prep my computer, what things should I avoid at all cost, and do I need a VPN given the current copyright bull

if anyone has a guide, FAQ, or anything of the sort that I can dig through that would help a lot as well. I know I'm asking a lot of questions, but I'm lost and can't find clear info on what to do

I haven't even looked at torrenting in well over a decade by now, got a torrent stuck at 99.8% done, by the looks of the progress bar it's either the very first chunk, or the very last chunk, but there were reportedly 0 seeds the whole time, and anywhere between 1-4 peers
Do I just have to wait and hope that someone guy with that final chunk loads his computer?
Admittedly, it's helping my upload statistic a bit I guess?

>>1339986
What kind of torrent is that? Is it a movie and does the torrent contain movie.mkv + rarbg.txt or bestonlinecasinos.txt and other such crap?
There is a workaround for this case, but not for any random data.

>Do I just have to wait and hope that someone guy with that final chunk loads his computer?
The reason why it's missing depends on the contents (see above), and chances are good that it will "never" be complete again unless someone who has this content from elsewhere deliberately decides to revive the torrent, which is unlikely.

is bittorent or utorrent better? I've used both ages ago but I'm not sure what to install on my new pc after the qbit fiasco

>>1340144
>qbit fiasco
as a qbit user, what's the deal?

how would I create a torrent? I have the file in its' own folder, and from searching I need to specify a tracker server, but I have no clue what that means (I'm a noob)

>>1340565
People don't - and can't - magically become aware of your torrent, or of your computer seeding it.

You need:
1) a way to let people know about the torrent in the first place, such as by making a proper detailed post on a torrent tracker's website and attaching the .torrent file there, or by posting the magnet link somewhere, like here on 4chan
2) of course you need to seed - that is, you need to keep your torrent program running, the torrent added to it and active, and your IP to be connectable to
3) a way for other people's torrent programs to find you - the seeder - in an ocean of random IPs

Torrent trackers do the latter. Your client connects to the tracker URLs listed in the torrent/magnet and announces that it's searching for such and such torrent, or announces that it has it and is available to seed. The tracker then points peers to each other so that data exchange can happen.

If you're making a torrent for some particular torrent tracker website, they have their own tracker and its URLs will be mentioned in the guide for uploaders there. A specific announce tracker that belongs to some particular website can also do other things apart from connectivity, for example it can keep track of your upload and download stats on that tracker etc.

If you just want to share on 4chan as a magnet link, or in some other random online place that doesn't have its own dedicated tracker for its own torrents, then you can use various open trackers, such as these: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_all.txt - these are very bare-bones trackers that help connectivity (direct peers with the same torrent to each other) but don't do much else.

Refer to the user manual/help pages of your specific client to find out how to add trackers to a torrent that you're creating.

>>1340565
Strictly speaking you can just create a public torrent file and start seeding it. As long as your client has DHT enabled and an externally reachable port. DHT scrapers will pick it up and people will be able to search it. Everything else is optional.

Is there a way to spread files from a torrent to multiple folders for reorganization without using links/junctions/shortcuts? The purpose of the question is not neccessarily for individually selecting destinations of files while downloading but to allow multiple folders to be "scanned" for seeding. If not, what are the difficulties that prevent such? I could see torrent folder structure making things more complicated but not anything that would prevent functional implementation, duplicate files I'd guess is probably the bigger issue.

>>1340791
Use a filesystem with thin copies like btrfs.

>>1340791
That depends on what you are trying to do
>organize items within the main torrent folder
Categories and seperate paths for incomplete torrents
>put individual torrents(the whole torrent) somewhere that isn't the main torrent folder
Specify path, and/or manual torrent
>anything else
You will need to make a mess with alot of torrent clients

>>1340791
qBitTorrent allows you to "rename" files inside the folder structure, for cross-seeding. You can download movie.mkv into /roottorrentfolder/kino.mkv on your hard drive, but it will correspond to the pieces of movie.mkv in the torrent.

But it doesn't allow to change the folder structure.

I'm not sure if any client can do it, and frankly it seems like a thing that only 0.01% of autists would need. Personally, I've only ever encountered a need for it exactly once, in a fringe case.

You'd need to use symlinks and similar stuff, I'm afraid.

>>1340810
The hope was for increasing seeder retention on those big archives with thousands of files that don't have intuitive organization that people will maintain, game consoles, swfchan, pastebin or creative writing websites etc. Very few will keep around a massive archive just to seed and so having the files "transparent" makes more sense. Even so everyone's going to want to make their own curated collection with their own organization criteria out of the files and delete what they don't want, but doing so removes one from being able to seed what they like if you move the files. You can just create links and have them point to the hidden archive folder where the client refers to and it works well enough, but most don't bother and it would be nice if you could just point to a path and have it scan there as well only taking one of each matching file in case duplicates are found. There's also advantages to having the actual file where you want to view it, but the main motivation is the first statement.

>>1340817
Yeah you need to get a NAS or stop using Windows.

>>1340817
Wasn't aware you were making a collection
An alternate idea if you are deduping files from multiple collections is to make something akin to a table of contents
>file(ver) /games/bin/tendo
> (ver2) /games/roms/
This would likely be a pain to make but would be a single place for all you files, and likely faster to search
Alternatively you could make something that hashes files and let you know if file name, or file contents matches the hashes ("manual" deduplication)(or make a sha256 file of all items and have a program look for hashes/names that are identical)
Depending on what you want

>>1340817
If you want to play the role of an archivist, you're going to have to come to terms with the fact that you'll have to store some additional terabytes of data organized by someone else which you yourself will barely use.

>>1340822
Or, you know, have btrfs and duperemove do that automatically.

Is there a torrent client that can show WHICH EXACT piece/part is missing when the torrent has 99.9% availability with, like, 4514 out of 4515 parts available?
I know it can't materialize it out of thin air, but it would be very helpful to know which exact 2-megabyte piece is missing (and currently filled with placeholder junk in the file on the disk).

>>1341162
Best you are probably able to do is with qbittorent
>pre allocate space
>looks for which file(s) don't reach 100% (you can see progress of each file)
>open file with a hex editor and look for lots of 0s
If you have another torrent that has those pieces copy and paste, as long as the piece checksums you are good

>>1341166
Also should probably mention you will need to turn off read only for the files, it shouldn't fight you, its more so that you don't screw your torrents

Which site let me find german dubbed animes? Still prefering subbed but in case the nostalgia hits me

is redacted down or did they move to another domain?

>>1308656
seconding this

When you download only a select few files from a torrent with lots of files, the client needs to handle the indivisible pieces/parts/chunks that span between the files you needed and the files you don't need.

Different clients handle this differently, but qBitTorrent stores this in files called .hashofthetorrent.parts, inside the folder to which you download the torrent.

Do these .parts files contain any identifying / unique information, apart from the raw data of the pieces? Something like, the tracker url which might have a personal unique passkey?

In other words, are these .parts files safe to share with others, if you're sharing a particular download folder with other people (through other means than torrent)?

>>1308656
Air is still supposed to be good afaik. /r/vpn is actually a good source for recommendations. Go with a vopono supported provider if you use Linux.

>>1341298
site and tracker are both down for maintenance

Does /t/ typically bake new threads when old ones archive, or almost right away when they reach bump limit?

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I had a sperg moment and wrote this guide. Thoughts? Improvements?

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"A TORRENT IS STUCK AT 99.9%, CAN SOMETHING BE DONE?"

Depends on what you want to be done. If it's a movie and the incomplete video file is making the media player act up, then SOMETIMES it's fixable.

PART 1: WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON

Don't skip this. It's important.

The contents of all files inside a torrent are glued together and cut into thousands of blocks of identical size (2^N MiB), called pieces. The clients (torrent programs) can exchange only these pieces. They are indivisible for the BitTorrent protocol. Your client arranges these pieces into proper files on your disk, because the torrent contains information about file names and sizes.

This means that some pieces are located at the boundary between two files and contain the ending of one file and the beginning of the next one.

Public torrents of movies often contain the main .mkv and some extra files, such as RARBG.txt, TorrentGalaxy.txt, etc. These tiny files share the same piece with the beginning or ending of the .mkv file.

Torrents die over time.

Someone who has the main .mkv from other sources can decide to revive a dead torrent by joining it and seeding the movie file.

However, he doesn't have the neighboring small files. His client can seed almost everything, except for that one missing piece that has RARBG.txt and the beginning or ending of the main .mkv. It doesn't matter that the .mkv file is complete. Some more bytes of this piece - that junk .txt - are missing. The client can't transmit an incomplete piece.

Leechers, who downloaded 99.9% from him, don't have the missing piece either. Even if they grab the correct RARBG.txt from elsewhere, they still don't have the complete piece. The good samaritan with the full .mkv can't send them his 85% of the piece. They can't send him their 15%.

And so, regardless of who is currently seeding this - that first guy or others - THIS MISSING PIECE IS UNOBTAINABLE.

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PART 2: WHAT YOU CAN DO AS A LEECHER / DOWNLOADER

First off: you can NOT re-create the missing piece. Forget about it. Even if you have the correct matching RARBG.txt / etc from elsewhere, it won't help at all (see the final words in Part 1 above). If the piece size is 2 MiB, there are ~1.24*10^5050397 possible 2 MiB-sized sequences that have a matching SHA-1 hash. It's a number with 5050398 digits. You can't "guess" the correct one. If this seems absurd, read about hash functions.

Now, see which exact piece is missing.

First, look at the File List tab in your client and see which files are incomplete or even at 0.0%.

The order of files inside a torrent is determined by the program that created it. It's often alphabetical, but it doesn't have to be - EVEN IF your client displays this alphabetically for your convenience! Use any BEncode Viewer / Editor, like https://chocobo1.github.io/bencode_online/ , and look at the file list there. If the small .txt isn't downloaded at all according to your torrent client, and it's located BEFORE the main .mkv inside the torrent, then the .mkv is missing its beginning. If it's located AFTER the main .mkv, then the .mkv is missing its ending. Refer to the beginning of Part 1 if you are confused.

Sometimes it happens that the pieces with small files are actually complete (these .txts show as 100% downloaded), but the missing 0.1% is somewhere in the middle of the .mkv. This can happen if the torrent had a long turbulent history of being partially available. Eventually many different groups of people had various random smaller parts of it with some overlaps, but no one happened to have one particular small part.

IF THE MAIN .MKV IS MISSING THE BEGINNING

Nothing can be done. Full stop. The beginning of an .mkv file contains essential information about its contents, codecs, etc. A file with a missing header is a completely incorrect/meaningless file that can't be played.

Your only hope is to wait for a miracle - a full seed.

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PART 2 - continued

IF THE MAIN .MKV IS MISSING SOME RANDOM PART(S) IN THE MIDDLE

Most video players and even TVs will play it, with visible glitches and/or a skip in the damaged/missing part.

If you have major playback-breaking issues, read the next "IF" about the ending. The workaround from there applies here too.

IF THE MAIN .MKV IS MISSING THE ENDING

MKV files are structured so that some useful data is located in the end. Video players can have severe issues with an .mkv with a missing or damaged ending, such as completely freezing when you try to skip forward or back, change the audio track, etc.

To fix this, you can REMUX this video file into a new one using an editor / muxer that goes through the file byte by byte.

1. Download MKVToolNix: https://mkvtoolnix.download/ . It's a cross-platform toolset for handling .mkv files, open-source and used by many releasers. It's very safe.
2. Launch mkvtoolnix-gui.exe. Drag-and-drop your damaged .mkv file into the window, into the Source Files box of the Input tab.
3. Don't tweak or adjust anything else (or do, if you want)
4. Press "Start multiplexing" below. Now WAIT. There's a progress bar.
5. Your NEW .mkv file is now in the same folder, called "oldname (1).mkv". You could adjust the filename in the Output tab.
6. The error log will show that there were errors in the final seconds of the movie - in the corrupted/missing ending - and MKVToolNix skipped them.

Congrats: this NEW file is error-free and perfectly playable, and it contains the same exact video and audio tracks, without any re-encoding. It's the same process as any other REMUX, for example from a full bluray into an .mkv. It just misses the final seconds. Luckily, for movies, that's ending credits!

Keep in mind: you can NOT seed this new file in place of the old one! Even though the tracks inside it are the same, it's been re-assembled anew, by a new program. You can't hope for a byte-by-byte perfect match. Not to mention the missing final seconds.

PART 3: WHAT YOU CAN DO AS A SEEDER

If you are someone who has the full .mkv file and you want to join a dead/dying torrent, please consider the following:

A. If the torrent is still alive with 100%

You can simply join it while having only the .mkv and not having the other misc files. Your client will grab these few missing pieces from the existing swarm of peers. You don't need to do anything else.

B. If the torrent is dead, or at least no one seems to have the .txt etc files

I urge you to grab these files from elsewhere, add them into the folder, and join the torrent this way. Otherwise, you will create this situation where no one can get the beginning or the ending of the video file from you.

If you truly have 100% of the video file from another source, then you are in a unique position to be able to fully revive the torrent - which can't be done in any way by any of those other peers who have 99.9%. Please strongly consider doing this.

RARBG.txt and RARBG_DO_NOT_MIRROR.exe: There are minor variations of these files over the years in different RARBG torrents. The first file is usually around 30 bytes and the second one is around 100 bytes. Search for these filenames on your disks, you likely have them in folders of other torrents! Find the one(s) that have an exact size match to the one in this torrent, down to a single byte. As far as I know, there are no such variations of these files which are different from each other but match in size. Therefore, the file that matches in size most likely matches in its contents, too.

Downloaded from TorrentGalaxy.txt (and very similar filenames): Same story. There are some variations over the years. Search your hard drive and find the .txt that matches in size, it should match in contents too.

ReleaseName.nfo: This is tricky. Sometimes it's the legit original NFO with ASCII art by the release group. Sometimes it's just someone's copypaste of MediaInfo output. Try to find this .nfo online and see if the size matches.

PART 4: MISC NOTES

> But anon, if someone decided that he doesn't need the junk .txt's, then he marked them as "skip" / "don't download", but his client still downloaded this piece and still has it in a separate file like ~uTorrentPartFile_HASH.dat!

Correct. Someone who joined the torrent while it was still 100% available can have all 100% of pieces, even if he didn't want the junk .txt files. His client would keep the bytes of unwanted files separately, and he would still be able to seed this piece to others.
However, the problem that's described here occurs when someone joins an already dead torrent without having those .txts. This incomplete seed doesn't have that missing piece and can't have it until someone else sends it to him, or until he manually completes the entire contents of the folder.


> Can this method be used to "fix" torrents of other files, not just movies?

No, because this does NOT fix the torrent. You're still missing that 0.1%. There's no way to recreate it.
This works for movies because the final 0.1% of a movie is the ending credits. You "fix" the *video file* (remux it into a new one), but not the torrent itself!
Binary data, such as software or archives, can't be fixed like this. In them, every single byte matters and can't be discarded.
Music formats can be "fixed" the same way, but do you really want to listen to an album if its last 4 minutes are missing?


> Stitching the file from several different torrents

If there are a few different torrents that have an identical large file, and each of them is stuck at like 70% or more, then - with some luck! - maybe their *total combined* availability overlaps to 100%.
Download one of them to its max availability. Then join the other one with this incomplete file. Have your client re-check the hashsums. Download some more parts that are available here but weren't available there. Repeat with some third torrent. See if you reach 100% this way.

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My ISPs sent me a email for torrenting a fitgirl repack for a PC game I downloaded awhile back. Been torrenting for 20 years and this is the first letter they've ever sent me so I never used a VPN til now. Based on the time it looks like they waited until my download was finished in order to flag me, it was like a several hour download.

If that really is the case then wouldn't it be better to not download the full torrent? I doubt it'd be that easy. Is direct download safer?

>>1341532
>If that really is the case then wouldn't it be better to not download the full torrent?
Likely info gathering / processing delay. Pieces of copyright content are still copyright.
>Is direct download safer?
If you're not using a VPN, but then you're responsible for verifying the files on your side. Afaik the only way fitgirl provides checksums is torrent files, so you DDL to check a torrent offline.