I am so old I remember most of the pirate stuff and did all of it. I am pissed at myself for disconnecting drives and messing up boot order, won’t boot so far. I had an old pc (still do) they were IDE drives in it. The boot drive was over one 1tb and needed special driver to break the 1tb barrier. I think it was from Acronis’ partition editor. I have at least 300gb in flac music, tons of movies (mostly yify). One day I hope to revive it if I can find an anything partition reader so I can nab it of the drives. I will make it available for everyone to grab an old slice of pirating.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 5 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don't know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.

I am rusty and don't have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.

[–] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

There are quite a few apps on Linux that will let you dl music from streaming sites and keep it if you have a subscription. My personal favourite is qobuz-dl. I have pretty much all of my favourite movies still from way-back-when but usually don't downloading new ones as 1) streamio with torrentio is so effective and 2) they don't make 'em like they used to.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

iptorrents, it's a bit of a scummy private tracker but you can donate a few bucks to get in and they have pretty much everything. It's a good first in for private trackers. Keep in mind with private trackers, you typically need to seed whatever you download for at least 14 days.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The best site right now (in my lazy opinion) is

http://1337x.to/

qbittorrent is the best client these days. uTorrent went and did some bad stuff that I can't remember off the top of my head.

You should really get a VPN to keep your isp from bothering you about it. I use Private Internet Access (PIA) because it's relatively cheap, has port forwarding, and doesn't store any user data.

That's the basics. Happy sailing matey. Remember to seed to a ratio of at least 2!

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

thanks.. I guess santa can put me on the naughty list early this christmas cause I got the presents already!

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

https://fmhy.net/ all you need right here!

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

thanks for the deets I have some thing to do for christmas

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Qbittorrent and https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

thanks for the deets I know what i will do for christmas!

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

People just have some random site they found on tiktok

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 14 points 9 hours ago

be me

born in 2005

used to use steam unlocked

torrent

is bisexual

the meme is partly correct i guess :3

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Nice meme 👍

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago

We're doomed to help our parents AND our kids.

cries in millennial

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I hear if you torrent you get a nastygram from your ISP. Meanwhile, I hear if you find a site that offers to stream it for free, nothing bad happens. Also I hear that Yandex gives better results for such sites than Google or DDG/Bing.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If you're in Canada those nastygrams are merely scare tactics, generally.

[–] Uri@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

And i live in a country that doesnt give a shit about piracy ,:)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

If only I were in Canada 😭 so free it hurts here in the US

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hear rumors being eastern european negates the nastygram, but that's just a rumour.

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ukrainian here, pretty eastern European. ISP doesn't make enough money to care.

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 42 minutes ago

Lithuanian ISPs also really don't care the worst that happened is the government shutdown a film site but it is back online.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Depends what you torrent. Torrenting exposes your IP to all the other peers.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I hear VPNs exist. Though that could be a rumour.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

For now they still do...

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 9 hours ago

it's slopsay

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Where do i find games outside of steamrip.com and gog-games.to

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 6 hours ago

inside qbittorrent's builtin search

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/games/

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 80 points 1 day ago (24 children)

They'll never know the magic (read: virus minefield) that was WinMX, Kazaa, Limewire, etc.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 34 points 21 hours ago

I’ve watched so much free anime by being bisexual

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