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When Is it Time to Look Into Private Trackers or Usenet? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by WanderingVentra@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So far, public trackers have been working fine for me, but think I've finally run into some niche shows that have been hard to find or only been able to find individual episodes instead of a single collected season torrent. (Nothing too special, just some baking shows.)

I'm wondering if it's finally time to look into private trackers or Usenet.

If you use them, what did it take for you to finally look into these more time or effort intensive piracy options?

A movie you wanted to see that was too old to be seeded on public trackers? TV shows too old or niche? A game, an obscure music artist? Something else? Was it just curiosity? Or something you did immediately upon getting into piracy? I'm just curious myself lol.

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (16 children)

I like private trackers for music because what I’m looking for is niche and I’m a lossless whore. I like private trackers for movies/TV because I don’t have to use a VPN and I can find remuxes or tiny X265 rips to fill my Plex server with. I can’t remember the last time I used a public tracker.

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Which tracker(s) do you use for music? I'm looking into ditching $potify

[–] ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seconding soulseek. It has a lot mare flac than it used to. I more often will find flac of an obscure album and no 320 mp3 than the inverse.

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stupid question I think but since this isn't private, I should use a VPN?

[–] ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dont feel the need to, its all direct peer to peer so you're downloading one file from one person. Its not like a torrent where you're downloading little bits of a single file from many people. However it's still theoretically possible for a rights holder to share something on the network to bait you and get your IP.

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