RARBG shutting down left a huge hole for me and I can’t figure out what’s a good alternative for it other than 1337. Any suggestions?
Rarbg going away was what finally got me to learn how to use qBittorent’s built in search engine which has solved my issues and made it effortless to find torrents without going to sketchy websites.
Go to the search section and add custom search engines and fill in all the good sites from this list:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins
TorrentGalaxy is a pretty good alternative for RARBG. There’s a ton of other sites out there too but 1337 and TorrentGalaxy are probably the two best options at the moment for general torrents.
I took the time after RARBG to setup my torrenting flow. TorrentGalaxy and 1337 have been great especially combining them with Prowlarr and Radarr.
Is there a public tracker where scene releases of video games are not uploaded by IGG?
TGX abd 1337x both has scene releases uploaded by IGG. I can’t seem to find non-IGG ones.
1337x also has fitgirl torrents or just go straigt to fitgirl-repacks.site
Since no one has posted it yet, this site hosts a massive dump of every RARBG release ever, and you can easily search through it. Games, movies, shows, books, everything RARBG ever released is available there. There’s 5 and half petabytes of data there, it’s absurdly large.
Here are the sites I use with Jackett
btdig.com
bitsearch.to
eztv.re
glodls.to
kickasstorrents.to
limetorrents.lol
torrentz2.nz
2torrentz2eu.in
torrentdownloads.pro
torrentdownload.info
torrentgalaxy.to
showrss.info
nyaa.siEven better if you connect Jackett with Sonarr and Radarr
recently I got a subscription to AllDebrid.com and just connect that with Kodi + Seren or Stremio + Torrentio. Alldebrid is a torrent cache server, if you add a torrent to their site it usually is already cached on their side and then you can download the files at your maximum speed. It’s great for streaming high quality Blu-rays with Kodi or Stremio (which have built in scrapers, so no need to manually add torrents). Just google a tutorial with Kodi+Seren+Alldebrid or Stremio+Torrentio+Alldebrid. The sub is super cheap. And game torrents, like from fitgirl, are also cached on there.
I highly recommend upgrading from Jackett to Prowlarr.
More indexers available, Prowlarr syncs its indexers to the rest of the 'arr suite automatically, you can use it to manually search your indexers for whatever instead of just specific categories via the 'arrs (sending the desired results directly to your dl client), and there’s a nice history page where you can see what software performed what searches to which indexers, all the parameters it used, how many results it got, and even manually re-trigger individual searches to see the results.
For games rutor.info is very up todaye. It is in Russian but name of torrents are in English. Also it doesn’t use https so always connect to it using Tor browser
The Bay never went away. It’s always been there for you and it will always be there for you.
but it’s not moderated??
Much like international waters, its always required a bit of watching out for your own well being.
Correct! Is that particularly important?
For variety of reasons. First, if an uploader sends a file that is malicious, it can’t be taken down since it is not moderated. Second, I could create a torrent for “Oppenheimer” and name the file as the same with proper meta data but upload a fake one. It can’t be removed since there is no moderated. Also, the chances of people uploading “bad” content are high too, though I don’t know whether people do that though.
Total files size: 12.98 PB
Today files size: 61.51 TB
Total files count: 115,771,023
Today files count: 596,671
Today added torrents: 27,922
What is it ?
Because I’ll shamelessly throw this on every related post: I highly recommend looking into the *arr apps. There’s Radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for books, lidarr for music, and some other smaller ones for stuff like subtitles, nsfw, comics, anime, etc. You basically setup indexer sites to search, connect them to your download client(s), add whatever you want to get, and they take care of the rest. You can even use an app called prowlarr to make a single list of the indexers and sync that list across all of your apps so it’s super easy to add more.
Personally I have 1337x, piratebay, and internetarchive tied for highest torrent indexer priority and they get most of what I want, but I also have badasstorrents, bitsearch, eztv, kickasstorrents, torlock, torrentgalaxy, and yourbittorrent that will get searched if those three don’t have it. You can even use prowlarr to search all of your indexers for a file if you really want, but the only case for that that I’ve seen is for very niche things or things with messed up titles in the other arr apps (series scene 1 instead of the actual title is the main example, but I’ve only run across that once)
Want to go balls to the wall with your piracy, I highly recommend looking into usenet! It’s basically like torrenting, but with a handful of massive servers that store stuff. You need to pay for an indexer which basically keeps a list of all the stuff it’s found to be uploaded on the usenet servers (I use nzbgeek since it was recommended by a friend and I have no complaints, but you’re free to find another one) so it’s not entirely free, but I get ~95% of my stuff through usenet instead of torrenting. I have it listed at a higher priority than my torrent clients since it’s a lot more reliable and safe, plus you can basically max out your bandwidth instead of fucking around with slow or stalled torrents which made the cost (I got lifetime) entirely worth it to me.
The best part of the arr apps? You can add and use both usenet (called nzb) indexers and torrent indexers/sites! Anything that isn’t found on usenet (not found, worse or higher quality than I want, missing tags, etc) is basically always found on one of the torrent sites I have added in.
Another huge benefit, you can also add things that have been announced but not released yet, and it will grab it for you when it’s released. Want something asap? Set it to “announced” and it may find some leaked copy of the movie when it’s available on one of your indexers. “In cinemas” is normally what I go for, then set it to webdl, Blu-ray, webrip etc to avoid cams. You can also do released to wait until it’s fully released. And you aren’t stuck with the version you have initially, the apps will automatically grab you better quality versions until it’s at the desired quality (e.g. you get a crappy 480p leaked version because you allowed it, when a 720p version is released it will grab and replace it for you). A concrete example is I have the latest season of Futurama, sonarr (handles TV shows) will grab the first episode that’s releasing tonight and it’ll be downloaded overnight most likely.
*arr apps still need a tracker. *Arr by itself is useless without working torrent trackers which are becoming fewer and fewer, unless you’re willing to play the private tracker games.
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Plus, you can setup multiple and it will search them all for you. I have mine skip anything with fewer than 10 seeders and I basically never get stalled torrents now. If I do, I just add that release to the blocklist and try again
Just got my Usenet setup with Radarr and Sonar and I am LOVING it. It’s fast and so easy to use. Hardest part was getting all of the folders situated with my existing library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
I definitely recommend adding some torrent indexers too (and using prowlarr to manage all of your indexers) if you aren’t already! Also, don’t forget to stick your download clients behind a VPN! If you’re running them all from docker (highly recommend doing this), you can route all through a gluetun container to help protect yourself from being tracked
ditch torrents. usenet is still alive and kicking
Usenet requires paying for a service though, right?
Cheaper than a vpn (usenet instead of vpn), better availability/more content, 70+mbps continuous downloads, no copyright claims.
Worth it. 6$/mo with Frugal Usenet + NZBGeek
So, wait, for usenet you don’t need a vpn? Sorry if this a somewhat naive question, usenet is just such a foggy concept for me tht I have no idea how it works.
No you don’t.
For one, you’re not hosting the content (seeding) like you are with torrents. Claimants aren’t generally concerned about the people downloading, they go after the hosts.
And two, you are establishing an encrypted connection to a usenet server which you are then downloading through. Because that traffic is encrypted (like it would be with a vpn), it can’t be inspected for illegal/copyrighted content (though that’s incredibly rare, ISPs have no incentive to inspect your traffic like that, torrent or otherwise).
Usenet at its core is just an old message board system. People have uploaded files to those message boards by splitting them into small parts and posting the compressed plaintext of each file part into a message on a usenet server. You then read/download each of those posted messages, decompress them, then reassemble all the parts to get the original file. (this is all done automatically by your usenet client and an .nzb file telling it what parts to grab in what order).
Copyright claims can still be filed/submitted, but they go to the usenet provider and are their responsibility to handle and takedown content, not yours as a user/customer.
Thanks for elaborating!
If you don’t mind I have a follow up question. Why would a usenet provider protect users who clearly store illegal files on their servers, when ISPs are easily ratting out their customers?
It’s less about protecting them, and more not pushing away your customers. Very little activity on usenet isn’t file sharing now a days and few of those files are above bar… But they’ll take on that risk for you, for a little bit of your money. It’s part of the business model.
Again copyright holders aren’t generally interested in those downloading content, but those hosting the content to be downloaded. With usenet you are shifting that hosting away from you, and paying for that security of it being someone elses problem. If a usenet host gets taken down/raided, it’s very very unlikely the authorities would then go after everyone on the customer list; that’s neither practical nor worthwhile, especially as it typically crosses international borders amd very little info is stored about usenet customers. They’ll just move on to targeting the next host.
With torrents, you are the host. You’re broadcasting to trackers what content you have and the fact that you want someone to download it from you, painting a big target on your back.
Usenet also provides a little bit of reasonable doubt as the host isn’t the one posting data to the service, and the files posted to usenet are broken into many parts and compressed individually. Without the index file (which isn’t posted to usenet) to re-combine the parts in the right order and see the whole thing, it’s not clear at all that it’s illegal or copyrighted content to be able to take action on it. Maybe it was a rip of the new Guardians movie, maybe it’s just a cat picture 🤷. This heavily delays the takedown process and allows the host to say they were reasonably unaware of the content, dodging responsibility/consequences.
What’s the advantage over a seedbox for example?
I hear it isn’t great for niche content. I don’t want Barbie, I want Mars Needs Women, so I’m worried that isn’t the option for me.
I’ve found more content to be available through usenet than public torrent trackers. The first two days of usenet instead of torrents I grabbed 2.8tb of content that I had been searching for via torrents and 15+ indexers. (content accumulated in Sonarr/Radarr that previously couldn’t be found)
Theres currently one 2267 day old copy of Mars Needs Women available via NZBGeek that I just downloaded successfully.
