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What do you do if you can't find a movie on torrents? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by Uri@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Live torrents for some old movies and pretty hard to find. I thought about somehow extracting .m3u8 but that didn't worked out. Those sits are getting better at hiding real stream URL. Any way to easy do it or something?

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[–] droolio@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I prefer scene releases as there's a decent quality version in whatever resolution for practically everything - and being properly tagged you can usually find the exact file on places like Usenet/IRC. One trick I use is to search in BiglyBT for the exact file size in bytes as per srrdb, and it often comes up with something (sometimes even several torrents with no seeds that can be swarm merged).

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this swarm merge file like an automatic way of manually adding trackers on a torrent entry in my client?
It reads like that.

[–] droolio@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

Not quite. It let's you seed two or more different torrents that have the same (bit-identical) media file, and automatically merges and cross-shares the chunks between them. Even if there's no seeders on each individual torrent, it's feasible to combine the downloading power to get them completed and become the seeder. Done it many times and works pretty well.