Start with doing simple disc rips, like cd's(Exact Audio Copy), dvds(MakeMKV, DVD decryptor, eac3to), blurays(MakeMKV, eac3to).

Figure out how to encode and compress video so that it still looks good, you can still find some old scene rule nfo's to have a better idea on what settings to use to encode. I use a gui called qvs to do encodes, theres also another one called staxrip, you can also learn how to just use command line arguments and just use x264 or x265 from the command line.

If you're not just wanting to just make remuxes with makeMKV, you're probably going to want to use mkvtoolnix to put everything back together as a video file.

You can use SubtitleEdit to convert PGS or VOB subs into the plaintext format SubRip(SRT) which has more compatibility with media servers like jellyfin.

Consider trying to find some obscure titles which may only have dead torrents, no torrents, or only low quality ones (old ~700mb VCD rips) to track down a physical copy to make a new torrent from.

Pick out some dead torrents to camp indefinitely. A seeder may one day return. Also, if you're on a private tracker, a lot of the time you can download the same torrent that also exists as a dead public torrent, and bring the public one back to life. This can be a bit tricky sometimes.

If you have a beefy computer, you could consider making encodes in the new AV1 codec, which is really good at preserving quality but is rather intensive to encode in.

If you join a private tracker, a lot of the time their forums will have some educational resources on making rips yourself.

Actually cracking new drms requires skill, and the skills you need are called reverse engineering. You're going to have to learn the ins and outs of assembly language, specifically decompiled binary represented as assembly language. Theres a site which has simple tutorial programs called crackme's for dipping your toes into this sort of thing. Theres not going to be any public tutorials on how to crack xyz drm because if those existed, the drm would just be patched. Speaking of that, if you're doing software cracks you'll need to learn how to obfuscate your crack to keep the origin company from figuring out how you did it, or else it will just get patched before you do your next one. That doesn't really apply to audiovisual drm since that is all about extracting a stream, and is a bit more straightforward.

I may update this post if anything else comes to mind, good luck to you!

Edit 1: Make your own ascii art NFO's with PabloDraw

From what I have read on the upcoming implementation on i2p in qbit, I do not forsee it being adopted by the core torrent user base. The main issue I have with it is that while you can download from clearnet peers, you are only able to seed to other i2p peers. This completely eliminates any adoption by anyone using private trackers. Its not like the guys in brazil are going to jump through an extra hoop to hide their ip since they never needed to in the first place, so they can be ruled out for adoption as well. What I really fear is that its going to create a completely unnecessary schism in the userbase with a sort of 'leechnet' walled garden of i2p users which would hurt the greater availability of seeders. I also haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone how ports are going to work in i2p, since normally its imperative to have a forwarded port in order to be a full participant. Unless i2p users can seed to clearnet users without issue, I am going to be worried about the impact on torrent health as a whole.

Lots of crossover between 4chan and the general piracy community. First place I actually heard about soulseek was on the 4chan music board. I don't really go there anymore. So yeah, its 4channers thinking they're in good company.

I miss the old malwarebytes. Used to actually be good, and the serial keys I found actually used to work :( CommonSense 2023 works a lot better for me these days though, that and ublock origin.

From what I've noticed, plenty. Hopefully people aren't jumping off their rarbg torrents because the site went down.

Looks like archive.org has it

https://archive.org/details/c2cam_202208

https://archive.org/details/artbellshows

Search for DVDRip, filter by upload date and check for ones that aren't well seeded. See if you can find ones that don't have any other rips available, and seed whatever looks at-risk. Godspeed!

.sfv is a text file that lists the crc32's (hash) of the scene release rar files to verify if they are broken/modified in any way. They can sometimes have ascii art in them, or vague info on what topsite the release last went through, but thats rather rare these days. .srr files are created by a program called PyReScene which records exactly how a scene release is rar'd, and with what winrar version to re-create the original release format (rar'd) at a later date. Super useful program for reseeding and cross seeding stuff.

Bitsearch.to lets you upload anything, and its searched by jackett. Same with the sister site solidtorrents.to. Solid actually has a python plugin for qbittorrent so its even easier to search/discover.

eac3to will let you extract the mt2s files into their individual parts (video, audio, subtitles). You can then use mkvtoolnix to remux them into an MKV. MakeMKV works fine imo, but I read some vague waffling on a private tracker forum that it messes something up that eac3to doesn't.

I found out the hard way those boxes have an expiration date. The manufacturers don't really bother to get the custom boards updated to newer versions of android, so its quite a headache to keep them operational. Theres forums that do custom firmware for them, but ymmv depending on what box you get.

Theres r/trackersignups and the telegram channel r/opensignups migrated to of the same name.

Try searching it on telegram for the one with the deluge icon.

Bitsearch is definitely your best friend here. It seems like it has the most complete collection overall. If the torrent is dead dead, the infohash isn't entirely useless, because you can use it on torrent caching sites to try and retrieve the .torrent file. The main ones that come to mind for me are itorrents.org, torrage.info, and btcache.me.

Personally I like this one. Has 24 hours freeleech on all new torrents, and a reseed request system open to everyone on the site (2nd rank & above maybe, can't remember for sure) makes it pretty easy to build ratio by cross-seeding if you can find whats missing (PyReScene with srrdb.com helps out a lot here) Smaller community size makes it a bit easier to get upload on a residential connection. Its mostly a scene focused tracker, so expect release rar's with most torrents. Lots of gems on there though.

eac3to to demux video and audio, mkvtoolnix or mkvmerge to remux to mkv. edit: You need to extract the dirs from the iso first though, you can use something like 7-zip for that though.

Yep, filesize is probably going to be your best bet here. Just keep in mind site sometimes report filesize differently, so a lot of time you'll have to guess if its close enough to be the same file, also factoring in other stuff that get packed like cut samples or tracker promo txt's.

That script makes this a lot more convenient, thank you. As far as adding trackers, I'm not sure if there would be a way to compress them, which is what I was going for with the infohash encoding. If you try to encode a whole magnet link in base64, it ends up being a mile long with all the trackers added in (most of which do not connect). You could just encode the infohash of the magnet, but thats going to kind of defeat the point and confuse people. I don't notice a difference most of the time with or without trackers, but if you need them, you can set qbittorrent to automatically appened trackers to torrents.

Yeah, pretty much. Just as long as it doesn't have the previous trackers tracker url, and ideally have it generate a different infohash.

Oh, and if you start out with the unpacked files, but don't have a srr file to re-scene them, you can probably find one by searching the release name on srrdb.com. Mileage may vary though.

Would anyone be interested in an additional .csv spreadsheet that got posted? It probably is mostly duplicated with this list, I've also got a short list that was just saved as 'arthouse.txt' and a bunch of miscellaneous .torrent files that got posted, most of them are porn though. I was going to roll everything up into one torrent (including this and the sql file), which would be about 2 gigs. Might be some that fell through the cracks, but I'm not up to the task of sorting.

Cinemaz opens its doors pretty regularly and has quite a bit of rare content.

I actually got soulseek working through a VPN properly for the first time a few days ago. First thing I try to download, I find out the user has geo-IP banning, and the dude called me an asshole for trying to find a working server to download from, then permabanning me from his shares. So even if you do get it working through a vpn, be careful.

Since mullvad doesn't support port forwarding anymore, you'll want to split tunnel it outside of the vpn. However, if you're considering switching vpn's at all, airvpn has a dynamic dns service (and port forwarding) which you can set up to have a static url for your jellyfin.

Just be sure to enable the DLNA server and allow remote connections in the jellyfin settings either way.

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Found it

Why eac3to and not something like MakeMKV? Yes, MakeMKV is really easy to use because it's basically a one-click program. However, it does have its shortcomings when it comes to detecting and correcting authoring errors on Bluray discs.

Take that for what you will I guess. They didn't elaborate at all.

If you're interested in using a command line tool to demux, you can get it here, at the original thread on doom9.

I may be wrong, and I'll have to check later tonight to be sure, but I think rarbg may have had a custom encoder for x265, which includes the ion265 rips. You can check it yourself though by checking the mediainfo, which a lot of the time will reveal what commands (x264/x265 commands, not ffmpeg) were used for the encode, along with the encoder name/version. There several programs that will let you check mediainfo, but the easiest to link is this one, just open your video file with it and display as text.

Sonarr and Radarr actually take a bit after the initial upload to discover it, autobrr can grab quicker because it relies on the irc announce channel of the tracker.

I found an optimized ini file on nexusmods that has the game running real well and still looking pretty good. Good lord though yeah the performance is awful.

Looks like a great replacement for rats on the boat.

RIP EVO o7

i like nfo's. :)

Yes. Usually your VPN will be something akin to the name of the vpn or the vpn client.

The private tracker CinemaZ.to has open signups relatively often. Its a tracker for obscure/european content, lots of b-horror on there.

Unless something has changed since I used it, you'll need to set PIA to wireguard only, and the adapter shows up as wg-pia. (or similar)

You make a good point, but I don't think I've ever seen a v2 torrent in my life.

Might be worth it to give dvd flick a shot. You can play tetris while its authoring.

So far I've only run into this with public torrents. Most of the time all my private torrents see little to no traffic. Its probably not the best idea to try and seed everything on the front page of a tracker, but older torrents which would have to be searched for are probably cool to just seed 24/7 without them competing over each other.

usually just upload it to virus total

Share em on soulseek!