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What do you do if you can't find a movie on torrents? (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by 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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[–] -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I just have a computer on my home network, which is also the media server.

That, my dear friend, is a seedbox, that you had to pay for, and whose continued uptime you have to pay for. It also reduces all the other upload you can do, which is also payment. So okay, maybe my "dedicated" was wrong, but still.

Apart from that...

Think about this logically. If people join private trackers and only upload/download from each other, what happens if one person has a ratio of 56?

It means that 55 people have to have a ratio of 0 or 77 people of 0.25, etc. So, people with such high ratios can only exist if there are others who become leechers. And "becoming a leecher" just means you relatively invest less in seeding than others.

Private trackers work only if you are in the top x% of seeders. The more "super-seeders" there are, the more you have to invest yourself, essentially artificially increasing the barrier of entry more and more.

It's just a very stupid system.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You are describing a hard ratio system - a private tracker with no freeleech, no bonus points, just a strict ratio system. Most private trackers don't operate that way.

    Your math falls apart once you consider people downloading freeleech torrents without having the torrents count against their ratio, or people generating bonus points just by seeding torrents and then using those bonus points to improve their ratio (bonus points converted to upload data for example). There are even private trackers that are ratioless and basically exist on minimum seed time, seeding bonus points, etc.

    Long term seeders at most private trackers end up with so many seed bonus points, or just accumulated upload data, that the private tracker becomes essentially ratioless even if it technically still tracks ratio.

    I don't care if you like private trackers or not, you do you, just mentioning your logic doesn't make a ton of sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Well, then I guess I only got into those trackers. Point me to where I can find those like you say. But wait - it's probably not going to be possible to get into those.

    It's just such a weird system

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Torrentleech will open signups usually on ebery major holiday and around black friday.
    Or look at r/opensignups and related pages on the web to join one which interests you.

    Other trackers will do usually do that on an anniversary or by invite forums on affiliated trackers.
    And for those forums you just need to meet the required ratio/upload and account age.
    But those "high value" trackers are rarely worth it as most content will trickle down to the lower tiers with lower requirements.

    Specialty trackers are hard and rarely worth it as well (except if only they can get what you need).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    That's only under the assumption that everyone downloads everything or only the same things...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Individually, yes, by correct selection of torrents you can "game" the system to your advantage. But you are wrong in the sense that the whole system in total still works like I say, if you're good at selecting the right torrent, then another person has to not be good at it, which then in turn will be the one without the good ratio.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    If all like the new movie than only a late newcomer will be "shafted".
    And that user only needs to play the patient game until another user with the same quality requirements and.or preferences comes along.

    It's just like the real life favor game.
    Give a favor, receive a favor.
    Fill a request, get download ratio you can use elsewhere on something you want.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I have a 2TB seedbox relatively low end on a shared setup running just fine.
    About 3TB upload on my best tracker.

    Just need to know how to play the game.
    Speed vs Patience.

    And you obviously havent spend enough energy (about 2h of thinking) on how to play the game.

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