Please wait...
Not technically piracy as i own the DVD ( just missed ripping it long ago )... But everything is in the closet now ( or gone ) and i really didn't want to dig it out just for one disk.
Not really done this in a while, and wanted to avoid the 'torrent sites' since im way out of that world now, so decided just to use DHT and a magnet collector. But failed miserably. Is this still a thing or did the world move on when i was not paying attention? Back when i cared, It was a wonderful distributed alternative, hitting the network directly instead of hoping your favorite torrent site was still around.
No matter what magnet i try, i get nothing back when it searches to list the files. I do realize age is a factor, and if no one has the files, then you lose, but i thought it would still at least list the files.. just no seeds. Even tried some unrelated ones of current 'stuff' that was discovered the same day just to try... same results. Tried VPN to different states, even another country.
2025-06-09 13:02 from Nurb432one
Not technically piracy as i own the DVD ( just missed ripping it
long ago )... But everything is in the closet now ( or gone )
and i really didn't want to dig it out just for one disk.
Not really done this in a while, and wanted to avoid the
'torrent sites' since im way out of that world now, so decided
just to use DHT and a magnet collector. But failed miserably. Is
this still a thing or did the world move on when i was not
paying attention? Back when i cared, It was a wonderful
distributed alternative, hitting the network directly instead of
hoping your favorite torrent site was still around.
No matter what magnet i try, i get nothing back when it searches
to list the files. I do realize age is a factor, and if no
has the files, then you lose, but i thought it would still at
least list the files.. just no seeds. Even tried some unrelated
ones of current 'stuff' that was discovered the same day just to
try... same results. Tried VPN to different states, even
another country.
What I have found is that if you leave the scene and then return years later, you usually discover the places you used to frequent have gone dry. What usually happened is that people moved to a different piracy site.
But yeah, technical requirenments are becoming a bit harder to meet. Less people has internet routable addresses to seed from so casual downloaders are cut out. The ones that remain typically exist in closed private communities with strict membership rules. The quality in those places is outright brutal but they demand certain dedication from you.
Also some public sites remain that are still very good.
I get the idea that there are still some 'sites' out there ( doubt any i used to visit :) ). But the whole point of DHT scanning was to get around all that.. It just scans the actual network.. Sure, sites are "curated" so they have that advantage, and you never know what crap you will get direct, but it was a way around all the censors and blocks and stuff.
Or at least was. I guess i need to turn my scanner back on. let it run for a few weeks and try some of the 'recent adds'.
pirate bay is still active.
US isps are an issue.
We have had visitors from the US download many seasons of shows to take back while they're here :)
2025-06-19 10:24 from triLcat
pirate bay is still active.
US isps are an issue.
We have had visitors from the US download many seasons of shows
to take back while they're here :)
The Pirate Bay is ok but also kind of meh, and a shadow of what it used to be.
Back in the day you could bet anything "usual" would be on Thr Pirate Bay, including things in weird languages (such as mine). Nowadays it is hard to find things in any language that is not English unless it is extremely popular. No more Ninja Holocast IV (Hindi)(1973) for you.
Specialized sites are thriving, though, but mainly because they accept only dedicated users and the standards for entry are getting higher.
Which sucks for the casuals.
Sat Jun 21 2025 19:13:55 UTC from darknetuserthey accept only dedicated users and the standards for entry are getting higher.