I’ve been on 1337x, ABC, torrentquest, eztvx, msearch, and pretty much all of the other sites on the megathread, both for “greatest treasures” (the general purpose section) and the movies & TV section specifically. Yet, the show that my wife and I want to watch is nowhere to be found in any of these. We’re confused why, as it’s not exactly an unpopular show.
Despite it not seeming to exist in a torrent format anywhere, among many other shows, it is forbidden both here and elsewhere to ask for help on finding a specific title. I was just hoping to learn the reasoning why. Is it just because the forum would be flooded with people asking for titles instead of taking the time to dig through the resources? What are people supposed to do when they do dig through the resources then?
If you use qbittorrent, they have a search function built in so you don’t have to manually search every site. I have found many shows that were impossible to find on sites because they have odd names.
Is the Piracy room on Matrix an acceptable place to ask for that kind of stuff? I mean it is End-to-End Encrypted. Even if it isn’t allowed there you could always ask someone else via DM on Matrix, is why I highly recommend people make and link their matrix accounts to their Lemmy profiles. You do have to know who to ask of course but these types of vague posts are great for that.
Note: Can’t use Lemmy’s built-in DMs you need to use Matrix or some other E2EE service, especially if they’re going to share direct links to you. Don’t use a corporate one like Facebook messenger or Whatsapp which is advertised as E2EE, those are a scam and they break their own encryption.
Huh, could’ve sworn when I joined it the first time it was encrypted since it said I can’t see the history of encrptypted messages and I got “can’t decrypt message” errors a few times on my Android client.
After I check the usual torrent sites, if I can’t find it on Usenet then I try finding random sketchy streaming sites (just by duckduckgoing title + year + stream) because usually you can youtube-dl them with a little fiddling, then my last resort is a DHT indexer like btdig. That’s more risk with viruses but if you’re paying attention it’s not that hard to avoid, but DHT indexes have lots of ancient stuff so be prepared to wait for seeds if you find it.
Sometimes I also find what I’m looking for on like page 7 of duckduckgo results at archive.org
Edit: also check soulseek - it’s primarily for music but you can share any file. I share my entire movies collection and get a constant stream of people downloading from me daily so it seems people search for and seem to also share TV and movies so it’s worth a check.
Private trackers usually have a request mechanism that you can use. I currently use seedpool and digitalcore which let you request media after you’ve spent enough time seeding media
You can always try 4chan’s /r/ board. It’s specifically for requesting shit, usually links to pirated content.
Haven’t teied using it in almost a decade though, so can’t vouch too well for it.
If it’s hard to find, first i try searching via jackett integration into qbittorrent. if unsuccessful, i go over to xrel.to and search for it there (its a pure information site, don’t ask for downloads there pls). You can verify if there has ever been a release of the specific title, and if, you can see the exact name of the release. if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene. if it’s newer content, you can try to search later; if its older content, go buy it and upload it yourself (safely!) so the next person doesn’t have the same issue.
Apparently xrel.to doesn’t always have films listed, IMDb does. I couldn’t even find Boefje
if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene.
This is not really true. I tried a few searches of more obscure movies and they don’t have releases that are available on multiple private trackers.
That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.
That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.
And then rip it and upload so that the next person doesn’t have to.
yeah, i didn’t want to get into the private tracker stuff, since i never used one before; i described pretty much the ressources you have as a “commoner”. I am aware that there are many specialized sources out there, where a lot more obscure material is available, but most of those take special effort to gain access to.
There are also non-english language public trackers that don’t leverage western style filename rules.
E.g. mazepa.to (Ukrainian) and rutracker.org (russian). The sites require registration (open to all), but the torrents are public (no ratio requirements and torrents do not have the private flag).
The search functions support English language titles with no issues at all. You can find any mainstream movie/show on both trackers. Rutracker has some niche content that I’ve not been able to find on specialized private trackers.
One drawback is that the trackers require local language dubs/VO, so some some content is never released on them.
What are you trying to find
Private trackers have usually most stuff.
Only with very rare or obscure content it depends on where you are.
Some trackers specialize in specific genres or regions (e.g. horror or latino/asian).Maybe you can say the initials? Or what does it rhyme with? Not sure if I’m being \s
get an easy news membership, their search function to search all UseNet is the best
Wow, that’s shit. I’ve been with Newsgroup.ninja for the past… decade. I’m grandfathered in on some /r/usenet promotion from a long time ago but they’re still pretty cheap and offer the same retention as easynews. Everything is on usenet, it’s just a matter of finding the right indexer, nice thing is the good indexers just want money so barring a few sites it’s pretty easy to get started.
