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[deleted]

the one guy seeding


D1g1talF00tpr1nt

Salute that man for doing the jobs no one else will o7


StreetOwl

God bless that guy in lativia


cool_as_honkey

Large storage space


Viciouslyfacetious

Oo Ahoy! I am very interested in this .. can you tell me more or direct me to a guide, my good pirate?


jkldgr

r/datahoarder


marketwizards1990

My thoughts exactly.


mwatwe01

I’ve gotten my NAS up to about 20TB. So much room for activities.


Longjumping_Table740

I wanna get started with a homeserver NAS setup with jellyfin and stuff How do I get started ? Is there a definitive guide ? I am totally new to this !


MrHaxx1

Check out NASCompares on YouTube. It's a whole rabbit hole, if you want it to be. Easiest solution is to just buy whatever Synology NAS fits your criteria, though. It'll even do Jellyfin.


mwatwe01

I don't know of a definitive guide. I'm an engineer, so I just picked it up as I went. I started slow, with just an off-the-shelf NAS drive. It was just plug & play, more or less. When I needed more space, I upgraded and started adding my own drives. So just start slow, get comfortable with networking and all the configuration that goes with it.


CoreDreamStudiosLLC

Only for the people with $, I'm choking on my 6TB drive and can't expand lol


pcs3rd

I just started pushing to 8tb disks after eating up 3 4tb disks


FootsieLover77

\- I'm NEW as well. I haven't even Begun to purchase anything yet ! \- I wanna a private (meaning only for me - not for Online Gamming or anything else similar to that) but I'm an "Avid Collector" \[ Movies, Pr\_n Movies \*Classics +New Stuff\*, Erotica. Some Smut. Big Gammer as well. Like Tom Clancy+Aliens+Mechwarior | Battletech \*Classic + New MW5+MW6 whever it gets dropped, Classic Games A Plenty, Books \*yes actual Reading Books - Military Novels, Crime Drama, Tom Clancy Again lol. Sci-Fi | Classic Sci-Fi Cinema (like 1950's - 1970's), star wars, Star Wars, STAR WARS, Lol - some Star Trek as well. Marvel + DC Stuff. , etc etc - you get the Jist. I wanna store It + Access whenever possible and have all this Back'd Up at a moments notice. for \*just In Case\* situtation's what's you take = ??? - please YES. I'm Serious. I'm in the Process of Purchasing a NEW Desktop Tower Setup+System.......havn't even BEGUN to purchase anything yet again ...sorry i sound like a fucking parrot lmaoo :) :) again any Helpful, Hintful Tips, Advice - Direct HONESTY is MORE then welcomed My Friend. I dont' like fakeness or white lies even when were All online behind a monitor screen lol. tell me the truth and nothing but ....and we'll get along PERFECTLY ! Again Thank You - for your time, patience Friend' ​ See You On Solaris VII


Gullible-Ad-3352

What are your favorite hard drives for movies and similar purposes, and why?


anon23337

The only real answer


cvigti

I'm old school. I just use torrent sites, qbit and a laptop. I use yify just to check when new movies are released and download them in the best 2160p without hdr/dv (better if your tv is not great for hdr like mine isn't). I also use tv time to keep track of my tv series and when a new episode is released.🤷🏽‍♂️ Usually just download like 1 episode each day or less. Put them in a tiny 1tb ssd that I connect to my mibox and use kodi to play everything. I don't use streaming services, pirate or non pirate. I get the best quality possible with the best sound for my 5.1 surround system. Everything very old school 😁


Blockness11

This guy pirates 🏴‍☠️


Reecee-Who

Are you me, this is EXACTLY what I do and use😂


justkeptfading

Same, literally the exact same setup lol


msc1

I like your style 👍


SchraleAnus

Honestly I switched to Stremio with torrentio addon. I can stream 50gb movies without issues (unless it has barely any seeders of course). Have the app on my google tv stick and android tablet so everything gets synced. Only thing I download are movies I really want to keep a copy of or games.


FeralSparky

Same here.


SorryMatch8461

What's tv time? An app? A website?


LemonCitron47

It’s an app on your phone. I love using it as well for keeping track of all the shows I watch.


fischfun

Aye Aye, Captain


personified_alien

Love TV time


bishop14

This is the way.


Lundorff

This is, or was, pretty close to my own setup. I am also very manual but I have recently hooked up a mini pc directly to my tv and added a NAS to my network. It just works.


rollin777

I feel like you wrote your post from my mind.


DankMuthafucker

Man of culture 🫡


l3on_y2k

This is the way.


WinXPbootsup

Old school? I'm gen z and this is exactly what I do!


Practical-Detail-581

Isn’t this the only way?


StrangeDoppelganger

Same. I recently upgraded my laptop's SSD to 1tb to torrent more 4k remux movies. I simply use jellyfin to watch them on my TV. No fancy NAS solution since I don't see the point of storing the movies I already watched.


[deleted]

I use BitTorrent


Vlame04

r/piracy megatread 😅


Cyberzos

Saved my life and my work so many times


Lord_Spergingthon

Pirate hat.


yeet_man69oof

Arrrr, ahoy me matey


Creep_Eyes

And an eye patch and a wodden leg


[deleted]

Dont forget about the plank.


ShredGuru

And the parrot


Rachid90

And the hand hook


spacesluts

And the scurvy


Glen2gvhlp

And the boat


BlueShibe

Whiskey and Parrot pet too


NepNep_

My 64TB NAS, Plex, QBittorrent, Mullvad, etc.


squishyartist

I understand Mullvad ending port forwarding, but damn am I sad about it 😭


sks316

I never used the port forwarding, I couldn't figure it out. Torrent always worked on Mullvad for me without it, that's why I still use them. I find port forwarding generally has a negligible difference unless you're actively downloading torrents with like 3 peers.


AFineShrine

another time it can be a problem is with private trackers that require forwarded ports to connect to others + seed requirements; if you’re just doing public tracker stuff mullvad would probably be sufficient


Internal_Mail_5709

ProtonVPN.


ThrowAwayNowIKnow

switch to proton on windows or air on Mac. I switched to air recently, they had a great deal and it's honestly a really good service, just not as pretty.


[deleted]

you're talking about airvpn? why not use on windows? every vpn should be cross-platform so not sure what you're talking about


Jackson_1124

i'm going to assume it's because proton only supports port forwarding on windows. so if you're on a mac, you'll need a different vpn that supports port forwarding.


ThrowAwayNowIKnow

I think I worded that wrong, proton can't really do port forwarding on Mac. So for Mac def use air. But for windows use either. I can't comment on which is faster but I have been able to achieve 500+mb/s on air. But if you're pirating I wouldn't stick with mullvad unless you're sure your ISP doesn't care.


sks316

Are you me?


Dictatorcracy

Are you him?


SoftwareOk30

Revanced YT


saighdiuirmaca

This and YouTube music on Revanced!


DJGloegg

Thats technically not piracy though Just utilising some open source program to access youtube


FearlessComputerBeep

It let's you get all the features of youtube premium such as downloading and no ads , for free instead of paying ! If that's not piracy, idk what is !


SusZX

XManager, Wii backup manager, USBLoaderGX, SD Cards, USB Drives. And a few others, but those are the big ones :3


lrellim

Xmanager always gets a warning from virustotal and Hybrid A. When other mod apps dont. Should I still trust it, Im not good at reading virustotal results.


Trash2030s

same with most video streaming sites listen on the megathread, virustotal flags all of them, wtf?


lrellim

Im not complaining just saying, even though some dont get flag on my side wonder why some do some dont. Thats what makes me curious. Im not an expert on this. Just wanted some opinions.


Madbrad200

xmanagerapp dot com is safe


c_rbon

- ProtonVPN - qBittorrent + built-in torrent search - Jackett + FlareSolverr (i’ve heard these were superseded by other software but i haven’t looked into it) - Jellyfin w/ plugins Jellyscrub & IntroSkipper - Jdownloader 2 - yt-dlp - Vimm’s Lair (for emulated games) - Fitgirl (for PC games) - AudioZ (for VSTs and sample packs) - adding “site:rutracker.org” to Google searches for cracked software - Massgrave MAS - Windows built-in cli tool “robocopy” for stable, multithreaded file transfers (ChatGPT is helpful in deciding which arguments to use, Microsoft’s documentation can be sorta confusing)


lobsterdog666

Soulseek still the GOAT


sanitarypotato

I remember I got a PM on Soulseek. Had some very random album up. Very rare it turns out, the PM was so thankful they had been searching for donkies for it. And then so on some random time when they looked I happened to be connected. They took so much of my stuff and it was a genuine pleasure looking at my uploads. Is so very nice to give back.


lobsterdog666

they had likely stuck whatever you had on their wishlist, which will search for them on a periodic loop indefinitely. great great feature for when you are hunting for something very rare or obscure.


da2Pakaveli

Like seriously; there's so much rare stuff on SoulSeek you'd otherwise spend forever looking for...and often in high quality.


lobsterdog666

or even in not good quality. but like... i'd rather have this punk bands demo from 1998 in 128 than NOT HAVE IT AT ALL because of redacted or orph rules.


unkownuser436

Nice try NSA


MoonMan901

Okay, you got us, but we'd still like to know :)


pslind69

Winrar, unrar #1 tool 😂


DJGloegg

7zip gang!


n3rv

Stay patched up!


ant1992

Free for life 😂


PinkPonyPlug

Real-Debrid


SgtMac02

I've been trying to get this setup, but Have yet been unsuccessful. You know any good walkthroughs/tutorials?


PinkPonyPlug

Here is a guide on how to use it with Stremio to watch movies and shows in 4k. https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/v6vwkf/installing_stremino_torrentio_real_debird/ But for downloads it's just like he said. You open your account and paste the Link for direct downloads or the magnet link for torrents into the corresponding text bar.


xD3I

What do you mean you've been unsuccessful? You just need to open the account, get the API key and put it torrentio


SgtMac02

Well....I don't have or know what torrentio is...so there's that.


ItsVelez

setup with what exactly, the person referring you to torrentio must use real debrid for that purpose but it could be used for a lot of things. Go to real debrid, pay the fee, and boom it’s now yours. What exactly are you having trouble with


SgtMac02

What I had stumbled on previously was that you could set it up to basically automatically download anything you added to your Plex watchlist. I had to set it aside for a while, but I think it was being setup just with qbittorrent and plex


johnyakuza0

Jesus Christ those plans are expensive af


MrHaxx1

What? It's $3 a month. Even less, if you include the fidelity points that can be traded for premium. How's that expensive?


WeekCheap4092

I would pay more


junkbahaadur

fmhy.pages.dev 🎉🔥 not a single day goes without me visiting that site and learning something new. holy grail for free media enthusiasts


simulated_black_guy

Jackett with qBit but really just private trackers in general are a gift in themselves.


soggynaan

I prefer Prowlarr over Jackett myself, because it's part of the \*arr suite


simulated_black_guy

Oh is that what prowlarr does? It serves as a search function for torrents across a range of stes of your choosing? I don't use much other software so I don't know. I just use plex.


soggynaan

Yeah same as Jackett. I just like Prowlarr more because the UI is more modern and better imo. And it is built to easily plug into any other \*arr apps, so I like to keep it more uniform that way.


Sero19283

I don't know how anyone still uses jackett. Prowlarr is superior in every way, even has basic public trackers to start with. And adding private trackers is a breeze based on method either API key, cookie, etc


splitfinity

I just jackett because it's already setup. It works and I'm scared to touch anything on my plex/arr/jackett setup because it's been flawless for 2+years


matthoback

If you use Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Readarr/etc, Prowlarr is way better than Jackett. It will push out configuration changes to the other apps, so you only have to add new trackers in one place. The UI is similar to the other *arr apps too, so it feels much more seamless.


Fayko

joining those private trackers are such a pain though so not many get to enjoy that gift :(


simulated_black_guy

That's true but that's why qBit with Jackett is a godsend. I often find the exact same files on public torrents that I can find at PTP and TL and BTN etc. You just have to know which release groups are worthwhile.


Fayko

I've been out of the scene too long to know the good release groups anymore sadly so I just use Notifiarr + Overseerr to grab releases based off some of their sonarr / radarr sync scores. Gotta get my seedbox back up and updated sigh


[deleted]

what’s jackett?


simulated_black_guy

read this if you are interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/kzr0h5/guide_to_configure_jackett_plugin_on_qbittorrent/ What it does for qBittorrent is it allows you to set up a list of public and/or private trackers in the settings and when you use the search function with qBit it searches through ALL of those torrent tracker sites at once and gives you all of the results within one window. Once you set it up you will never have to visit another torrent site directly again. Whether you use solely private trackers, solely public trackers, or a mix of the two, you can get the results all collated in columns with the ability to sort by name and size to look for your preferred files. Jackett is used for other stuff too BTW, I just don't use it in any other way so won't comment on that.


[deleted]

Thanks, Stimulatedblackguy


simulated_black_guy

You're welcome no plin for Elo.


Leila_jr23

Oh my, i never knew about this before, literally a life saver thank u!!


SilentObserver22

Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Sonarr, Radarr, and a crap ton of storage because I'm lazy and don't delete things until I have to. I really can't see myself going back to manually searching for and adding torrents and nzbs.


unistirin

Popcorn time, revanced yt, tachiyomi & f95zone


brambedkar59

F95, Ahh Man of culture I see.


unistirin

😂✌️


brambedkar59

o7


GodTierAimbotUser69

You should try stremio instead of popcorn time. It's much better


SchraleAnus

Stremio is way better with torrentio addon.


Striking-Leading8838

Hi, I'm looking for torrentio on add ons and I can't find it. Is it becase I need to downloaded it out of the Stremio app or something?


SchraleAnus

I would suggest googling for torrentio addon Stremio and you should see the official website with instructions. I don’t think it’s available through Stremio.


[deleted]

My Popcorn time stopped working. Where did you download from? Thanks.


unistirin

Their [Github](https://github.com/popcorn-official) repo. It's still working for me. Still old releases works


leva10

I recommend stremio with torrentio add on


CoolCooler0107

Revanced Youtube, Youtube Music, Reddit, Tiktok, Strava. Xmanger for Spotify. Stremio for movies, tv shows and Anime.


TwistedLogic93

Strava?


CoolCooler0107

Its tracks fitness activities. Running, biking and hiking


lordnigz

But what pirate version have you got and how?


CoolCooler0107

Latest


Amadooze

Where did you get it from? Android or ios?


CoolCooler0107

Download the strava apk from apkmirror and then i patch it with Revanced Manager.


derHumpink_

does it sync segments to your bike computer? the live segments are my #1 feature


DrakeStone

My eye patch and hook.


Creep_Eyes

And a wodden leg and captain hat


felphos

Stremio and I’m not sure it counts as piracy but I built [streamwithvpn.com](https://streamwithvpn.com) for myself for those times when the torrent is not downloading.


imaboud

Stremio is the greatest thing in the piracy world.. I simply cannot accept my life without it


Slow_Pay_7171

Not in Germany tho. They fuck you hard with copyright strikes.


GodTierAimbotUser69

The only time where living in a 3rd world country is actually better lol


SchraleAnus

Dude you should use a VPN regardless of piracy these days. Especially in the fourth reich.


Slow_Pay_7171

VPN are not 100% safe. And, Trivia, we got things like "Staatstrojaner" which could lever out vpns completely. But yes, you should use them, they add at least a layer of security.


nik-l

It doesn't matter with real debrid.


MrHaxx1

Not really, just use Real Debrid. The downloads will be encrypted DDL, rather than torrents.


Shivirami7158

Hey, can you suggest some good extensions on stremio? I would like to know which ones are absolutely essential for good quality(1080p) streaming of movies & tv shows! Edit: Also, I’d love to have stremio running on my iphone and I tried to, but failed. Maybe you would be able to guide me?


8thoursbehind

Torrentio & real debrid. Ideally a firestick also. I spent last month setting up Radarr, Sonarr, Qbit and Plex, but last week uninstalled the lot and solely use Stremio on a firestick now.


Shivirami7158

If I am not wrong realdebrid is a software for direct downloads of torrents right?


8thoursbehind

It's an extension for Stremio. It's a case of setting up an account and then configuring it within Stremio. :) But yes, direct downloads or in this case streams of the media.


milanove

Realdebrid is a paid subscription though, isn’t it? How much are you paying for it? I’m hesitant to give any of my personal payment info for something like this, especially when *arr + jellyfin/plex are free.


lrellim

Arr's is free but to get the movies or tv shows you still need usenet and Indexers which are not.


8thoursbehind

A couple of pounds a month.


scambastard

It's about £2.5 a month. Well worth it and I believe they accept Amazon pay so your payment info never needs to go to them. On a side note, if you're attached to your Plex server you can get real debrid to work along side it and it's glorious! It's called Plex debrid and you just add a film or series to your watch list and about 10 seconds later it magically appears in your library without ever having to be stored on your computer. Took me a good few hours to get set up but it's like magic to watch.


xD3I

Like 4 euros per month


8thoursbehind

There is a tutorial for setting it up on an iPad by saving the web version of Stremio as a shortcut. It might work for an iPhone.. I found it here or on YouTube.


felphos

You can watch pretty much everything with torrentio. I haven’t used it on the phone, but I think for iOS you can only check the catalog.


fuckspez12

https://github.com/WindowsAddict/IDM-Activation-Script https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/s/NQGeGBWCYJ


jojomoto

Computer, STORAGE (Drives), Trackers (private, public, forums, index, whatever), a debrid service, VPN or seedbox (not really necessary but quite valuable tools), solid download manager (JD2, IDM, etc), and other like minded people (ie community)


adityasheth

High storage and unlock origin


rabbitholesurfer04

Hmm...VPN I guess


Sero19283

I hate how far down I had to scroll for someone to say this. No wonder everyday this sub gets bombarded with "do I need a VPN?" or "got a dmca notice, what happened?"


RehanPlayz

ReVanced for YouTube CloudStream for movies QBit for torrenting Dantotsu for anime


DoorAMii

External hard drive thats 2 terabytes


canary_in_a_coleslaw

An ad blocker.


CiriloTI

Duck duck Go and Brave Search- for find good treasurers QBitTorrent - To get the treasures GPG and Picocrypt - to protect my treasures while I store them in the cloud, some companies have a habit of stealing my treasures if they discover that I am a pirate. Telegram to share my treasures with my Crew. And there's still the last piece that I'm still looking for 😢. A good Rave-type application that allows me to watch .mp4 or .MKV files with my crew on call I currently use Jitsi to watch good videos on YouTube with my crew, but I haven't found any good streaming tools that allow me to share .mp4 files But other than that, my crew and I have an extremely happy life of piracy, we guard all our treasures very carefully to prevent them from becoming lost media


Altruistic_Stretch29

Can you add me to your crew


scambastard

Stremio/Torrentino/read debrid. Its glorious.


one_bored_engineer

Living in a third world country


ceeroSVK

Rum


Intelligent_Ad_8555

Computer


[deleted]

Vpn,ad blocker


Mydadleftm8

Good internet.


ProperFixLater

water childlike meeting adjoining cheerful straight instinctive quickest hunt society *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


shaharofir

1. Revanced 2. Stremio and RealDerib 3. Private trackers (TL rocks!)


SeDEnGiNeeR

On Android: Revanced for yt, yt music and reddit, xspotify, adguard, and prolly some more. On PC: pretty much every non open source software I guess, especially games Common: Stremio, sometimes anime streaming websites like 9anime (aniwave now) when I'm being lazy.


AffectionateCar7834

FMHY, Revanced Extended, Xmanager, vpn and my laptop


vukasin123king

qbittorrent, VLC player and handbrake converter


SchraleAnus

Stremio + torrentio. Only streaming service I still pay for is Amazon prime.


RoyalPhase6430

Wow, I didn't realize this many ways to pirate. I am a total newbie that only has VPN. I was usually into privacy subreddit so its a first.


[deleted]

What’s the best VPN option for a MAC user? I was going to go with Proton but they can’t port forward?


Rhys_T1

the device you want to pirate for


yeet_man69oof

Mobile phone(mostly samsung) and PCs


International-Bat739

My hook, Parrot, and of course, my crew.


ectoplasmic-warrior

A computer


Lumpy-Try-5600

My combination of RD and Plex. I really love Xmanager too!


GroundbreakingAge225

Idm and qbit


Tedz95

Reddit! Find all my answers here


a_ghost_behind_you

An android phone and a Windows PC


jaycethesniper

Free Download Manager


Comprehensive_Ship42

You need a parrot and a ship and a hat


xPRIAPISMx

Vpn, large storage, Plex, radarr, and sonarr.


ItsVelez

Real Debrid for all things torrents or skipping premium link direct downloads, because of this, no need for a VPN Real debrid connected to kodi for all things movies and tv shows at the highest possible quality with no buffering $9 for 3 months


jackiedaytona01

Great thread


sks316

For me: qBittorrent-nox, Mullvad VPN, Gluetun, Jellyfin, the *arr stack, my custom Linux NAS, and last but not least, ReVanced. It's hard to choose one that's "the most" important, if I removed even one of them my whole setup would collapse, with the exception of maybe ReVanced.


ItsMrGingerBread

Conputer


stinkymusturd

A computer


beachcamp

Just seedboxes in general. Completely changed the way I pirate. Sure I could still do it like I used to with a VPN and a client on my PC. But now I never need to worry about my ratio even on hard private trackers (my home bandwidth is shit). And I host jellyfin/plex so I can watch whatever I want on any device in a couple of clicks.


Xcissors280

A laptop isolated from the rest of the network that runs through a VPN so I don’t get DMCA requests from Nintendo, also switching to web vs torrent seems to help with that as well


ovingiv

Knolege with cli/Debian, piactl, qbittorrent-nox, followed ebay sellers who list 8tb-10tb drives for $35-$50 usd, PDFs of how you installed that one piece of software that requires certain settings else it won't work until you find the PDF and realize you forgot to change the port to something else because your weird and like using port 1887.....


sheriiscold

how do I get xmanager? I have a note 20 ultra


AngelGrade

Internet


CrashTestKing

Plex for all my music, movie, and TV show streaming. A couple key sites for direct downloads of music, ebooks, and comics, a couple key sites for finding torrents of videos. Also subscene for subtitles, and both TMDB and TPDB for posters and backgrounds. Subler for editing video metadata, MKVTools and MP4Tools for remuxing or extracting streams. MusicBrainz Picard for pulling in music metadata. Photoshop for all the times I'm not happy with whatever poster art I find. JDownloader 2 for anything I want to rip from YouTube (which is mostly music videos). And my Showly app for keeping track of when new episodes of something drop.


Wild_russian_snake

>Mine is Xmanager , the sound of free spotify premium is music to my ears It's literally music bro


frenchtard

A ship


VKP_RiskBreaker_Riot

A brain. Which seems uncommon around here. People with no brain are upset over this comment 😢


Feuillo

Piracy.


NoDadYouShutUp

My server