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Have 4K TV show torrents entirely disappeared from public trackers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by Kribensis@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I use a seedbox to run qBittorrent with Jackett, and have a bunch of sources on there. I know there are other methods, but that works for me and I'm comfortable with it.

Rarbg has been gone for about five months and it's harder and harder to find 4k TV rips. For current shows, sometimes you can get episodes as they air, but it's rare to see full seasons.

The tipping point was when I searched for a Netflix show from two weeks ago just now, with zero 4K results.

I've always hated private trackers since they're a pain in the ass, but is that the only option now? Do I need to look at a different method entirely? I've been torrenting since that existed, but if I need to do something else, let me know.

I don't expect to get torrent sites in any responses, but you can do that if you have any 😂

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[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Admittedly, if you're already using private torrent trackers, you'll probably find more missing releases by working towards joining higher tier trackers than usenet alone has. Usenet is more worthwhile for people without high enough bandwidth to build the ratio needed to join such trackers.

[-] spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Ahh this makes more sense to me now. The seedbox service i pay for has great bandwidth, and my personal bandwidth is enough to stream 4k content from it. So i kinda use my seedbox as a proxy instead

[-] ECB@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

For me it's less about bandwidth and more about not having to worry about building/ maintaining ratio. It's just one less thing to think about.

I love seeding so I thought private trackers would be for me, but it's so hard to go positive when EVERYONE is trying to. Yeah, there is freeleach but then I was downloading a bunch of stuff that I didn't want, just for the sake of it.