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background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

A lot of people recommend AudiobookBay but FreeMediaHeckYeah warns to only use their torrents. Are there any known safe sources that provide direct downloads of audiobooks? Preferably something I don't have to sign up for.

And no, unfortunately I do not have access to a library at this time.

Astronia is a lightweight and modern M3U8 video player for Android, built with Material Design 3. It provides a clean and intuitive interface for watching IPTV live streams anytime, anywhere.

I've run into a wacky ass problem.

I've been trying to search for a movie called "9", which was made in 2009. It's an animated movie about sentient burlap dolls that I remember fondly as a kid and want to watch again. IMDB

Problem being, the title of it is basically impossible to search on my sites of choice. I rely on 1337x for the most part. and for the life of me, I cannot search the name of this movie. It either pulls up everything with 9 in the title, some unrelated movie called Nine also released in 2009, or nothing at all if I try to quote-search it.

Anyone have a better site (with search by imdb?) to get it from or can find a mag link to dm? Or maybe know the right way to trick the search box into actually finding the movie

Is there any website that hosts JB tweaks? I know about CyPwn repo but it doesn’t have all tweaks like TrollrecorderX.

Paywall removed https://archive.is/CVRiy

Over the last year, most of my search plug-ins have stopped returning any results. Now only The Pirate Bay plug-in still works.

Any recommendations for working plug-ins for general purpose public torrent / magnet sites?

Title says it all.

I have the 1990s remastering on VHS, but my VCR doesn't work anymore

I have the original phantom menace on VHS and original versions of 2 and 3 on DVD

so what do I have to search to find those?

I am debating between those Western Digital portable drives that go up to 5tb that function with USB only (WD my passport) and the bigger ones (eg my book) that are bigger and need power outlet besides the USB connection.

Is there any difference in quality or durability to store media?

I have been unable to find certain digital-only eShop releases out there in the seas, some of which I had got from Tinfoil shops years ago. I managed to find an XCI collection in the Tapochek forum, where the downloads are only for paying members, and some of said releases are there; but there are plenty of games I still couldn't find. I can't even find out whether they were dumped (I searched predb but some queries give 0 results).

How can we be sure all those digital-only games are dumped and safe? What if something ends up being nuked from N's eShop? Will those dumped games ever be publicly available out there?

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a source for content from german tv stations (or their streaming pages) like RTL or similar.

Anyone have any ideas, would be great. Thanks

I haven’t wanted to watch something new in quite a while so I hadn’t noticed the bookmark for a torrent site I used to use had vanished.

It had a slick layout, cleanly organized anything and made it super simple to find other episode in a season and stuff like that. If I remember correctly it had a dark blue and black theme.

Does anyone know the site I’m talking about? I can’t find it anywhere. I’m about to give up and resort to postman.

Sonarr icon randomly drops out at an inopportune moment. Maybe it's shy.

Hi! I've been trying to navigate to ext.to today and I've got this message from Cloudflare. Is any of you is experiencing the same? Do you know what's going on?

Hi music sailors !

A few months ago i posted Qobuz / Tidal web extension FLAC downloaders testing versions.
Still working on it, looking for feedback :)

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Infos | QobuzExt & TidalExt

ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma at scale.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/once-hobbled-lumma-stealer-is-back-with-lures-that-are-hard-to-resist/

Hi there

I would like to prevent to the best of my ability getting malware or virus when torrenting. I know there is never 100% certainty of not getting one, but i'd like to mitigate it. I'd like to ask your advice/expertise.

These are the practices I use. Please build on them if you think there is room for improvement and how.

• First off, I use linux (transmission) and only download media (music, movies), no software. I know this already lowers the risks significantly since most malware are on .exe for Windows, however I am aware mp3/mp4 and mkv files can still embed malware to exploit VLC vulnerabilities and also Linux.

• I use Proton VPN with kill switch in advanced settings - no internet (at all) allowed when the VPN is not connected.

• I limit opening the downloaded media in the PC. After seeding for a few months, I usually transfer them into an external HDD and delete them from the PC. Media may be used in a TV/phone for viewing/listening.

• I have downloaded torrent media going into a separate internal SSD which is encrypted (obviously unencrypted when torrenting). This probably doesn't do much, but I get somewhat piece of mind when I am not torrenting and the ssd is locked.

• I use normally pirate bay org and get the torrents with the higher number of seeds.

I understood joining some private tracker may help, but I found it difficult to join. Any advice and recommendations are welcome!

Anyone using it ?

I'm considering it for a future system to sidestep the cloudflare bs with the *arr stack. I dont want to use flarsolverr as it just moves the problem to a different place. We can change urls for now and indexers but long term cloudflare is a problem.

I've been looking into local dht database to address this.

Im curious to hear your experiences with bitmagnet , magnetico or if you are doing something else.

Do you clean the db to certain media types or only have actively seeded content ?

Hey, long time lurker on lemmy but I have never posted before. I just wanted to express my gratitude to the piracy community for the contributions, philosophy, and megathread which have been extremely consequential in my life. I started my piracy journey about a year and a half ago. I was a broke asf student living off of loans in low income housing with my partner. I watched over the years as the world changed from blockbuster to streaming to everything becoming a subscription. I saw what everyone else was seeing, the transition to rentier capitalism, to a world where everything is a subscription and we own nothing and are expected to be happy. I, the same as all of you, thoroughly reject that notion. You can hardly even buy a dvd anymore, and even if you do, it is expected that you forgoe the convinience of streaming media. I had already been pirating textbooks for years at that point like many of my fellow students, but I started becoming anxious that I would loose access to my favourite shows, movies, and video games. I think the high prices of retro games and not being able to watch pokemon on one streaming service got to me, and then there was that whole always online thing with the crew game and the stop killing games movement. I was done, so I came here. I started off with just a couple of games and movies, but then I decided I wanted my own personal library. I have purchased several harddrives and I store all my games, movies, shows, and books on my harddrives and stream what I can using Jellyfin. I used to think that technology was bad, that it was something that stole your attention span, but ever since I started pirating, I feel like that sense of independence around technology has taken a hold of me. I idealize a world where we all share software for free, media is made for the love of the art, and we don't pay obscene amounts of money for media that we already own. It is my hope to continue expanding my knowledge of computers, and continue to make them work for me rather than the other way around. I am especially excited now that I completed my degree that I can focus on learning about computers more as a hobby. This community has inspired me to take technology into my own hands and I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the good that this community does.

Ive thought about torrents but they require a paid vpn from what i know? I dont really want to pay, which is why im thinking about piracy because im not made of money and cant afford a vpn. Im just not sure if its possible to be safe and sail the seven seas all for free?

What would you advise i do? what did you do when starting out?