In the wake of increasingly expensive streaming services, I have already switched from Netflix to Stremio with real Debrid and torrentio. Works wonderfully on the TV with the FireTV stick.

I have Disney+ for my child and would like to get rid of that too. The problem is that I need German-language content for the child and I don't always get it reliably via Stremio. I've already set German as my favourite language, but Stremio doesn't have most of the films and series in German. Is there a simple solution here?

I've been using mpc with madvr for years, and the upscaling setting for stuff that isn't 4k.

I've been pirating my whole life in mobile and rarely in pc. What are some the best download managers to use in windows?

So I have to seed a torrent for up to 10 days. Doesn't sound that big of a deal right? Just leave it running in the background. Here's the problem. Despite me turning off battery optimization on my phone and turning Libretorrent's battery usage to unrestricted it will still for some reason stop seeding in the middle of the night. Because of this, a torrent I started seeding on the 5th is only at 2 days 13 hours!

Is there any way to fix this? Would switching to another client still count for my torrentleech seeding time? I really need to fix this or it's going to take an eternity to reach 10 days of seeding time.

I'm just gonna apologize already for some long run-on sentences and stuff, the text below the questions are more just unorganized thought piles then actual organized specific confusions.

Q1: Are private trackers worth it?

I've been seeing a lot recently about how private trackers are like the holy grail for piracy, better rips, faster releases, no ISP notices (I use a vpn so this doesn't matter), etc, but I have never had issues like that. Every time I want to torrent a movie (including new ones) I can get them from places like 1337x, (rip) RARGB, or even tpb with good enough quality for what I need (3-7gb usually). I don't have issues with finding new releases or higher quality ones and all the torrents I need I can find on public places. So what actually would be the appeal of private trackers for someone like me, like what do private trackers actually have that public ones don't? Also, it wouldn't help that my internet connect is absolutely horrible for torrenting, 500-600+ down and like 15 up with a vpn on and it isn't better without one on much, just faster downloads. And so this would just make meeting the "share ratios" or whatever the trackers call it really hard to achieve because for me it can take days or longer to sometimes reach a 1.0 share ratio outside of some specific cases. It doesn't help either that people seem to often be purged or kicked from private trackers if they don't meet certain standards or aren't active enough and then they'll have to go through the whole rigorous interview process again or have to start from scratch with working their way up from trackers like RED.

Q2: What makes a torrenting site safe / unsafe?

I saw some stuff recently about how 1337x isn't safe anymore because of some malicious game torrent being posted from some person connected to the owner of the site. I personally do not pirate games often (I've only done it once and I mainly just pirate movies and shows) and so I do not really know what makes a torrent site safe/unsafe for people to torrent from as I thought regardless of site, unless its from one specific trusted group like fitgirl, that there was always a risk of downloading malware and so you had to be really careful of what torrents they download and make sure that what they downloaded wasn't malware either by checking things like seed counts or reviews or whatever (never had to do this so idk what the signs are). Do some sites just not have malware on them or what does it mean for a torrent site to be safe / unsafe.

I'll edit this post or comment if I have anymore questions but thank you for taking the time to actually read this.

Greetings friends!

(First time post on Lemmy, hope I'll get the hang of this!)

I've been looking for a good source for the Masterclass stuff, particularly Gaiman, but I keep coming up empty. I found something on a Chinese streaming site that if yt-dlped, but the quality is really meh. I'd like to avoid torrenting these.

Does anyone have a good recommendation? I tried going through the lists but if there is an applicable subsection, I must've missed it.

Thanks, everyone! It's greatly appreciated!

With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for.

So I am wondering if it's possible to have a Netflix like GUI but powered by piracy? And as this is the pirate world, it shows shows and movies not just from Netflix but also from the other streaming services? And finally it is available on TVs ( Samsung tizen in my case). Something like this would be the best case scenario. Wondering if someone has a similar setup?

As the title says. do you guys know any pirate sites which have released their logistics, like cost of the servers, video servers etc. how much it costs to run them.

I have bee looking into a few offshore DMCA ignored hosts and wanted to compare.

I know i can use adblock in safari but the problem is with safari you can only watch 720p

Would installing an OS on an external ssd and booting into that to run pirated software while blocking access to other drives in your system or physically unplugging them be one way?

Or are there better ways to isolate the software you run and use as much as possible?

I'm looking for things like Amazing Race (all the spin-off countries), Survivor, Gladiators, Ninja Warrior, etc.

If I dip my toe into the Usenet thing, will I find this sort of stuff? Do I have to look in a certain spot? By this I mean do different servers tend to store different styles of catalogues, or do they network like a P2P system?

Apologies if I'm not making sense, I don't really know the correct jargon.

The version that my seedbox provider has available is extremely out of date, and many of the bugs I've experienced I know are fixed in a newer version (because for whatever reason they downgraded Prowlarr? That's a separate confusion).

The actual downloading of the torrents would remain with a seedbox provider, only the Prowlarr would be on a regular VPS

So, this is the guide: https://gist.github.com/Irastris/31766414a981a056d49c1242a019829a

It talks about FunKiiU (which works fine on Linux) and cdecrypt (which is Windows-only).

Are there alternatives to cdecrypt which run on Linux?

Basically the title. If anyone has got this working can you please point me in the right direction? I don't want to manually generate the port each week and then manually update qbittorrent

General purpose private tracker. Not the largest archive by a long shot, but it’s decent and people there have filled my requests quite quickly when I’m searching for hard-to-find media, so I haven’t needed to go elsewhere for TV and movies. 🙂

I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I decided to convert my flac files into mp3 and I prefer minimum amount of quality loss; what is the best software for it?

• Doesn't matter if conversion take some time if the quality would be decent.

Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?

I want to stream videos with audio on my pc to my friends. I'm on linux, and video streaming is broken on discord (no audio of the source gets shared). Looping audio through mic (Soundux) results in poor audio quality, while discord-screenaudio just provides stuttery video. Any suggestions what to do?

I use a laptop with R4600H chip and 1650Ti.

Why are there good mods for Discord (Aliucord, Vendetta...) and YouTube (Revanced), but no good mods for WhatsApp?

I feel like all apps by the user-stalking company Meta are not modded enough, though they are some of the most-used apps.

(Repost ish, from Technology), So I just bought a new telly and to my surprise, not, the OS is rather bad and has very limited amount of apps. Therefore I'll invest further in either Apple TV or the Firestick. Anyone got any recommendations, tips or hot takes on this in terms of pirated content? Which is more accessible and I reckon both support Jellyfin?

Why am I getting this error several times while using BitTorrent?

i set up a webui for qbittorrent and everyting is great, however, i would like for it to sign me out when i reload the page. i can achieve this by manually clearing cookies, but i was hoping for a better way. blocking cookies completely doesnt let me log in. i dont want to clear all cookies upon closing ff either.

using qbittorrent webui with http on firefox

Hi, does anyone know a webpage, which allows to check upon the equipment of specific car, based on the VIN number? There are a lot of pages, but can't find a free one.