My favourite BitTorrent sites...

For your Daily Show needs:
http://tracker.shuntv.net/

I have a Bit Torrent question, though. I'm using Azureus on a Mac and it's giving two problems: When I download the torrent (not the file itself), somehow the full-size of the file appears, before I've even begun downloading it. And if, for whatever reason, I have to force quit or reboot, the files will start from zero %, even though the total received might be nearly %100. Any hints as to what might be up? I've been using the straight ahead Bit Torrent client for months now and wanted something with a bit more control. Azureus seems to work, save for these annoying glitches.

of cocks.

Honour among thieves, indeed.

They probably hit their user limit and need to purge some dead users before opening the gates again (my guess).. Most trackers seem to do this from time to time..

Yeah. Bittorrent is rubbish. Use Kazaa!

* how do i configure things? i'm on mac os x, using internet connection sharing thru an ethernet cable in order to get my connection (the primary computer uses a shitty USB dsl modem to connect)

1) in Azureus do i set incoming TCP listen port to some random number, or use the default 6881?

2) in "enable tracker on http port" in the tracker server prefs, do i set to 6969, or some random number?

3) in my sharing preference pane, in the firewall section, do i make an exception for both these port numbers?

if i do these things right i ought to be "connectable," yet relatively safe, right?

i'd like to point out that uknova currently has episodes of the channel 4 program 'absolutely', get yer vidos ready.

Hey, me too. I liked Shaun of the Dead better tho.

Unless somehow my ISP has a firewall set up? I don't think that's possible.

Thanks anyway folks.

Tools/options/files/torrents

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will

http://football.hn.org:6969/index.html

www.suprnova.org

Where do you go now to get, you know, everything?

http://www.bi-torrent.com/

someone help me please!

I have a new love.

djremote@geeeeeeeeeemail.com

I'd also love to find a sports site, pref baseball -- last year I couldn't even find any World Series games, which I thought would be, you know, everywhere.

suprnova used to occasionally have football games, Steve, but I don't know whose tracker they were on -- it may still be out there.

this 'trackers' thing and how it works
why i never get a green circle (only yellow) despite port forwarding thru my router config
if there's a way to queue up torrents automatically?
seeding after/if you've closed the client window

The configuration stuff and everything, I'm no good at fixing -- I just kind of tinkered with my settings randomly until it worked, and as soon as I tried using a different client, it stopped working except at a snail's pace.

A lot of clients ought to let you queue up automatically -- BitComet is what I use despite some security concerns (but like I said, when I switched clients, it barely worked), and you can either run a crapload of torrents at once, or set a maximum number of downloads of three, let's say, and once it finishes one it'll move on to the next.

I don't think you can seed if you close the client, but I could be wrong about that.

i just fiddled around with the port forwarding thing on my router, which is something i have no idea what im doing just followerd in structions on some website, like opening port 6881-6999 to my computer and holy shit my speeds shot up from 10kb/s to as high as 225kb/s sometimes. now im getting one documetary at 75kb/s, and some other one at 30kb./s

I'm crying!

:''''''(

any more uk tv sites?

im looking for a torrent of flash mob: the opera and some other stuff.

Should I be going the standalone route or as a locally installed daemon deal?

www.mpaa.org/MPAAPress/2005/2005_05_12_BitTorrent.pdf

(apparently, Channel 4's new More4 station will have The Daily Show (hopefully the proper version rather than the 'International' edition), but that doesn't start until at least Sept/Oct!)

i s o h u n t.com

has the Daily Sow.

hxxp://dhawaii.mine.nu:6969/

Audiofarm mainly consists of samples, hosts and vst instruments and fx, all cracked.

Before anyone asks - I don't have invites. Sorry.

a u d i o n e w s . r u

Scroll to the bottom.

I just had a thought that maybe I can create a new account. I'll check tomorrow when I'm back at home.

http://www.elitetorrents.org/

depends how many people are seeding (if any). sometimes there'll just be one seeder and he'll go offline for days. it also depends on both of your connection/transfer speeds.

Alternately, if anyone would like to gmail me eps 2x02 through 2x12 or 13, that'd be groovy.

Goddammit why aren't the new Season 3 eps of Corner Gas available anywhere? Not even that dude in Yorkton with the lame encoding seems to be at it. Grrr.

LimeWire is filling in my holes nicely, surprisingly.

http://thepiratebay.org/

er demonoid down, what to do

patience, it's a hardware thang apparently

isohunt/mininova still up, otherwise it's private trackers

MySp133n and Th3B0x are tops.

any suggestions for UK TV sites? UKnova kinda sucks - my main complaint is that they miss stuff all the time and the files are all in too-low resolutions. i'm after comedy and music/culture documentaries...

any suggestions for UK TV sites?

The aforementioned Th3B0x is terrific. Lots of documentaries turn up on mvgr0up too.

To be fair though, USENET binary traffic has been exploding now with some of the larger torrent sites going offline. I pretty much grab everything from there now.

who do you go through for access and how much do you pay?

both have open registration (b0x & mvr)

pls explain 'usenet binary traffic' for noob :(

who do you go through for access and how much do you pay?

$16 a month for unlimited bandwidth from Supernews.

pls explain 'usenet binary traffic' for noob :(

USENET = old school decentralized discussion forums. Home to the worst sort of spam and Internet trolling, but like a good cockroach a near-impossible protocol to kill. Check some of the other usenet posts here then search on NZB files.

Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes 'Legal'

yikes

no mininova, no demonoid... argh!

does that leave pirate bay as the only somewhat comprehensive site left??

does waffles exist anymore?

I think I pretty much only use torrents to compensate for my lack of cable television these days. 3ztv.it for American TV, th3b0x.bz for British TV, my$pl33n.cc for comedy/animation. t0rr3ntz.com is the best search engine at the moment.

Yeah, I've switched over to Torrentz. DO waffles and what still exist? I still to this day haven't found a suitable OiNK replacement, other than slsk which I don't love.

And demonoid's not gone, apparently! It's just on a looooong hiatus.

What and Waffles still exist. What has over 100,000 users and is just as good as Oink ever was.

I got an invite to waffles recently but it didn't work for whatever reason : /

h33t.com is getting better (not googleproofed, actual name)

no mininova, no demonoid... argh!

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, December 6, 2009 11:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ :(

i do torrentz or isohunt search for mainstream movies & complete tv seasons
eztv for new tv show eps
what for music n mac software
karagarga for lol art moviez
cheggit for porn

ive read that torrent traffic is way down from peak a couple years ago - streaming is the shit now hulu spotify etc

since Comcast started sandvining I can't really torrent anymore, it kills the internet connection for the whole house if I run one.

it does seem that torrents are on the way out. is there a new next big file-sharing thing that'll take over or has the war been lost?

i'm just trying to find "cuisine et dependances" which is not available at my local video store, nor available on lovefilm. it is available on amazon.fr, but without english subtitles. if i had a rip, i'd be able to score english subtitles..

tht's up (but unseeded) on karagarga, not tht tht helps u sorry

"since Comcast started sandvining I can't really torrent anymore, it kills the internet connection for the whole house if I run one."

Comcast doesn't sandvine anymore, but that isn't the problem you are having anyways. Your client has too many connections open and your router can't handle it. Try lowering the number to about 150-200 or so. You also need to set your upload limit to about 75-80 percent of your max upload. That way others in your house can use the internet.

it does seem that torrents are on the way out. is there a new next big file-sharing thing that'll take over or has the war been lost?

― NI, Sunday, December 6, 2009 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rapidshare and its various cousins are def growing in popularity - but they just seem too shitty to ever get really big

being limited to downloading one thing at a time from rapidshare is the biggest drawback alongside the slow slow speed

jdownloader is useful for rapidshare etc

if u pay u get multiple downloads and faster speeds is my understanding - tho obv paying is a huge roadblock - also there doesnt seem to be any good way to search/aggregate

thanks svend, will try that

xp

Oh: forgot $0n0f$hun.com, which I don't use much, but it's where Daily Show, Colbert, and a lot of documentary stuff gets uploaded.

Searching for filedumps is terrible. But if you find the right sites/forums (many of which are googleable) for these filedumps and scene releases, that + jdownloader are all you need - the program even autoupdates every week or so in a tug of war with the filesharing sites as it kills its captchas. Damned if I'm gonna pay for a rapidshare "premium account" or some such though. Might as well go the Usenet route then.

hey jh0 and webinar, are either of you in a position to dispense a karagarga invite? on the off chance someone decides to start seeding it again?

sure dawg jus give me an email addr an ill hook u up

sweet! i used the web form.

Invitation failed!
The e-mail address tracer✧✧✧@x✧✧.c✧✧ is already in use.

???

tehparadox dot com is a good community for the rapidshare style things. you have to join, which is very easy to do. lots of good applications, games, movies, even comics. Just be wary of posted files from dubious as you would torrents. they moderate it thoroughly too. It's the best site for mac warez that requires no invitation that i've found. just have to tolerate waiting a while because of the rapidshare/hotfile/megaupload services.

ay u guys http://www.demonoid.com

Well, look at that. About effing time. I'm guessing pretty much none of the torrents work at the moment, though.

isohunt rip

i'm still using piratebay. i don't know exactly how Magnet links works or how they're inferior to what came before, but it's good enough for me.

btjunkie, plus demonoid

After all these years, slsk is still more reliable.

btjunkie rip
piratebay blocked

?

It's like the Worldwide Copyright Police have woken up from a coma and realised that everyone in the world is taking the piss.

pbay blocked by whom? was just about download the whole world onto my new hard drive.

yeah works for me

you want d 3 m o n 0 1 d DOT m 3

eircom

does anyone have a good replacement for l 1 b r @ r y DOT r u yet?

wtf people

bought danny baker audiobook (£25) but want to read on kindle too (£10). begrudge paying twice for same(ish) product, esp as virtual item costs more than hardback (£9.30). with this in mind, are there any private ebook torrent sites out there? seems be fuck all since death of demonoid.

if i were to google danny baker audiobook torrent i'd be very confident of getting a hit or two

thegeeks.bz could be what you are looking for.

its the most wonderful time of the year, screener season

kickass torrents is pretty good

your confidence is misplaced, darraghmacson

checked out thegeeks, looks good. no danny there either though. seems somehow the publishing industry has won and a solid source of pirated ebooks simply doesn't exist. guess it's kinda good in a way, keeps artists/writers going. (but in this niche instance it's a right pain in the arse)

what would this danny baker audiobook be called

Going to Sea in a Sieve. im not after the audiobook mind, got that already (but that's not out there either)

Isohunt has the DB Ebook

dodgy fake that one

just out of interest like say you had torrented a file, say a pdf, and it wanted a password, how do you get round this, say

read the comments in the torrent page

hmm the readme.txt in the .rar archive is trying to get me to link to a dodgy site to get the passwords, i'm beginning to smell fish off this tbh

I would purely hypothetically conjecture that someone like myself might never have had any luck with "enter the last word on the 5th line of this dodgy website" passwords actually working even if they foolishly decided to go to the dodgy site in question.

They also may not have had any luck with the RAR password cracker they might possibly have tried on a few occasions, because the password is probably not actually a word but e.g. ~~~d0dgy-webs!tez.com~~~ and it'd need to try every combination of between 1 and 48 characters to find it, which would take... a very, very long time.

That hypothetical person would probably suggest looking for a different copy elsewhere tbh.

i would concur with yon passing hypothetical person

i'm shocked that someone would want to listen to a danny baker audiobook.

btw dmac someone may have ilxmailed you, if that goes to a real email address

i'm shocked that someone would be shocked by, ah fuck it

but yeah all those 'go to site x for password for this encrypted rar' torrents are bad bad news, all lies and virus

a solid source of pirated ebooks simply doesn't exist

On USENET, alt.binaries.e-book.* is pretty solid

Also check out m 0 b 1 l 1 s m . 0 r g

Danny Baker audiobook probably OK. Where do you find Danny Dyer audiobooks though?

That m 0 b 1 l 1 s m site is very good.

l 1 b g 3 n . 0 r g >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

NI, genuinely shocked but i enjoy people's craziness so, <3.

;)

i feel like such a NOOB

yer a noob with a heart of gold tho

DerSpiegel64 at 2012-10-21 02:16 CET:
I like how the uploader mentions his "50-inch LCD" - not once but TWICE!!! LOL Like he's obviously just soooooo proud of it. Like it's just so huge no human could ever comprehend owning a humungous 50 inch TV!!! Gosh, I didn't even know they made TVs that big. "Hey everybody, look at me! I got a 50-inch LCD. Jealous much?" So ridiculous.

Lol, look at my 50" flame dick

"Demonoid Founder ‘Deimos’ is Believed to Have Passed Away"
https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-founder-deimos-is-believed-to-have-passed-away-190416/

such an iconic and well curated site of the early torrent period and often had unique and rare content. None the wiser to what happened to Deimos, but it certainly sounds like a sudden and unexpected event that killed him - RIP.

Do the best sites require accounts? Do I need an invitation? Can I get a witness?

I'm sure the "best" sites require accounts and invitations, but I have no idea what the "best" sites are these days. I just know I have yet to be stumped looking for something on the broader internet, and I really have no fear that, like, a documentary about dub music or Bill Frisell or even, for example, some Hitchcock film will be a vector for a malicious virus or whatever. (That said, if there was an invite site that is full of stuff I'm missing out on ... ).

Zooqle is worth checking out, although my pc is probably bitmining for Putin since I've downloaded about a hundred movies from there. I can send you an invite for a members site if you want WMC.

Fwiw it's not a particularly good members site, but it is a relatively safe one!

Thanks -- I may hold off for the moment. I found what had been eluding me this morning.

im still using l1metorrent with fair reliability

That's what I've been using too, but kept getting frustrated earlier by a bad gateway error.

the ytmnd or yify variations were good for a while but similarly frustrating after a short time each

i have one i used last week of that ilk that seemed ok, will post later when home

wait, i thought ytmnd was for sean connery memes, not torrents

i'll occassionally pop in through a tpb proxy, there are a billion of them about

im old and confusable

yifyhdmovie.net

hesgoal.com for football streams not that it matters now

btn for general TV
red for music
ptp for general films
kg for arthouse films

all are elite private trackers, next to impossible to get invites for

i'm over it, ok? i'm fucking over it. the bbs scene when i was 13 was fucking scene rats trading games that weren't any good and that nobody had time to play anyhow, and all these private prestige trackers, same shit different day. fuck digital capital, give me digital potlaches. what's the point of digging up some incredibly rare digital transfer if it's only available to an "elite" cadre of seedboxers whose primary concern in life is their ratio? the ones who hoard what they have are worse than the ones who steal everything that aren't nailed down and give nothing in return. upload it to youtube, or fuck, even just fucking sell it, ok?

i ain't promising i'll buy it mind you but if i don't, that's my own damn problem.

Like I said, I've had no trouble finding high-quality rips in the open web/torrents of literally anything I've ever wanted to see.

well, if you don't want to see yahoo serious' first film, a documentary about the effects of the coal mining industry on australia, that's your problem

if on the other hand you have found a high-quality rip of "coal town" out in the open i would love a link

Just doing some deep googling, and ... is there a chance that it has never even been released on home video in any format? I can barely even find mention of its existence, period.

(btw, I totally saw Young Einstein in the theaters.)

Coaltown doesn't seem to be available on any of the private trackers so yes, it's probably never been released.

In general though, if you're interested in anything vaguely obscure or underground you're not going to find it on public torrent sites. Those interested in Shinsuke Ogawa, for example, aren't going to get hold of his films anywhere except on KG or PTP.

I miss the W sites and was not cool enough/missed my chance to be on their successors, but tbh 95% of my listening these days is NTS radio and I should spend more on bandcamp (and then there's also spotify and 20 years of accumulated mp3s and 30 years of accumulated CDs), so what do I actually want to download GBs more music I'll never listen to for

ogawa's a good example, there's so much cultural bias (anglophone in particular) implicit in what hits public torrent sites and what doesn't. i see the unavailability of certain works as a cultural barrier to be overcome, and the people on the private trackers behave more like it's a form of currency to be accumulated.

well, i'm not here to fix the world's problems, i don't even have time to watch narrative media these days, but i'll always find time to bitch and moan about things on the internet!

But it's only the people who are seeding Ogawa's films on private trackers who are overcoming that cultural barrier by making them available to other members. It's nothing to with "currency to be accumulated". I've built a healthy ratio on private trackers but I don't have a seedbox and never have.

no more rarbg??!

Yup. https://torrentfreak.com/ has been tracking the fallout.

anything comparable?

I find idope.se very reliable and free of annoying stuff

ty!

thx