My favourite BitTorrent sites...

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.

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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.

;)

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