• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    This might be true, but it’s rapidly changing due to a collaborative effort from big gaming companies, streaming services and hollywood. People are relearning the art of torrenting.

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          5 months ago

          Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people’s rooms to consume media.

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          5 months ago

          Nothing. It’s fine. I can’t fathom why people are out here paying for their piracy. Seems like it defeats the purpose. I still find everything I ever want on the same sites I’ve always gone to.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            5 months ago

            I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

            So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

            If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so

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            5 months ago

            Is torrent galaxy still down? That was my go to and sounds like I have to find another. I am a little worried if they keep bringing down the big ones like that, that we’ll be left with less choices and it’ll be more difficult.

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              5 months ago

              The nice thing about torrents is how lightweight they are. If one thing goes down, ten mirrors of that thing can pop up to take its place.

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              5 months ago

              TorrentGalaxy is up, but if you can’t open it maybe your country has DNS censorship.

              Just change your DNS servers to something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 (Cloudflare DNS and Google DNS respectively).

              You can change your DNS from either your computer settings or your router (the latter is recommended because it applies to all connected devices).

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                5 months ago

                It always makes me chuckle a bit how internet censorship (at least in western countries and on a personal level (school and work networks excluded)) is almost always just done through DNS. I mean I’m sure not going to be the one to tell them how laughably ineffective that is, but it’s just funny.

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                  5 months ago

                  Most ISPs I have seen these days actually block stuff properly. DNS hacks are no longer sufficient. Luckily VPNs are cheap these days.

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                5 months ago

                Oh Yay! Admittedly, I didn’t try it recently but I remember seeing an article that was down. If it’s back up, I’m glad to hear it.