DemSpud

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How does Usenet content not immediately get DMCA'd into oblivion?

For instance, say I search for “The Dark Knight” on my Usenet indexer. It returns to me a list of uploads and where to get them via my Usenet provider. I can then download them, stitch them together, and verify that it is, indeed, The Dark Knight. All of this costs only a few dollars a month for me....

DemSpud,

Hey, yes there is. I was 100% torrents up until recently, also using multiple torrent sites including private trackers. The thing I struggled with was getting all the episodes of TV shows. Like if I added a niche or old TV show to Sonarr, it would be a constant struggle to find missing episodes or seasons (for some reason Southpark was a misery). This was pretty much completely eliminated with usenets. So now I have usenets as a primary and torrenting as a fallback if something cant be found. This config gives me almost full coverage. The downside is that usenets typically aren’t free whilst torrenting is (although they are very cheap)

DemSpud, (edited )

Yo if you ever find a good source PLEASE tell me, this is a constant struggle for me too, I will return the favour

DemSpud, (edited )

You can write a python script to interact with Qbittorrent as it has an API. I wrote one to delete stalled torrents and another one to set them to the lowest priority (so they don’t fill up the download queue). If anyone is interested im happy to share the code. Whichever one I chose just runs every 30 mins or so using windows task scheduler

DemSpud,

Sure, youll need to change the info at the top of the scripts for your qBitTorrent client:

Remove stalled torrents pastebin.com/embed_js/aTjh8LYm

Move Stalled torrents to low priority pastebin.com/embed_js/LxrXd07N

DemSpud,

Not what you asked, but what resources did you use to get into this space? Was it just CrackMe or were there others?

Shkshkshk, to piracy
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Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't . So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

DemSpud,

This was a great write-up, thankyou for the effort!!

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