Torrents

[t8769]

Which Torrent site do people find good in 2018?

What software do you usually use to download?

Any problems?


Thanks

 

[lopburi3]

Torrentz2

Tixati

No

[johng]

The bay with pirates in it,
Transmission,
No problems.

[shadowofacloud]

The bay, eztv, rarbg.

 

uTorrent

 

None whatsoever.

[tebee]

Like Demonoid as it's good for ebooks, but it's having problems at the mo 

the bay, Rutracker for music

BigluBY - Vuze fork

No probs man!

[Stocky]

Limetorrents, Eztv, Piratebay, Rarbg

 

qBittorrent

 

No problems

 

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Edited September 20, 2018 by Stocky

[NCC1701A]

Transmission using a VPN 24/7. I use a 8 year old Macbook Pro only for torrents. nothing else.

 

On a different note The Pirate Bay has been down for sometime now. ?

[ThaidDown]

Sites - as mentioned in previous posts

 

qbittorrent

 

No probs.

 

Note TPB . org is up as of now.

 

 

[Beachcomber]

All Torrent sites:-

 

https://unblocked.gdn/?domain=http://extratorrent.unblocked.gdn&status=523&request=/

 

Take your pick.

[tutsiwarrior]

bittorrent is consistent...the big question now are the search engines...after the demise of kick ass torrents (KAT) what's left? I've been using bit che for a year or so and it does OK but it's a bit primitive...

 

 

[lopburi3]

7 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

bittorrent is consistent...the big question now are the search engines...after the demise of kick ass torrents (KAT) what's left? I've been using bit che for a year or so and it does OK but it's a bit primitive...

 

 

Torrentz2 lists what is on all of them and gives you the choice of what one to use for download - there are more choices than you may be aware of.

 

I find the simple/open/free/no adds Tixati the best choice since they became available a few years ago.

[shadowofacloud]

 Also another site - something I have discovered recently: http://tparser.org/ .

 

 Lots of lossless jazz, including some fairly rare items.

[tebee]

1 hour ago, shadowofacloud said:

 Also another site - something I have discovered recently: http://tparser.org/ .

 

 Lots of lossless jazz, including some fairly rare items.

That site seems to be a meta-torrent index, pulling files from other Russian torrent sites including my favorite  https://rutracker.org

 

I like Rutracker for the obsessively complete discographies on there often including very obscure stuff.

[katana]

Useful links there.

www.idope.se used to be good but has gone down recently.

[tebee]

3 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

bittorrent is consistent...the big question now are the search engines...after the demise of kick ass torrents (KAT) what's left? I've been using bit che for a year or so and it does OK but it's a bit primitive...

 

 

BTDigg which searches DHT has resurfaced http://btdig.com

[shadowofacloud]

8 minutes ago, tebee said:

That site seems to be a meta-torrent index, pulling files from other Russian torrent sites including my favorite  https://rutracker.org

 

I like Rutracker for the obsessively complete discographies on there often including very obscure stuff.

 

 Good point. I guess I was too focused on what I was looking for to notice that it links to rutracker. ?

[bendejo]

μTorrent , still at 3.4.1

no ads, no streaming capabilities etc, just plain ol' up/down loads

 

rarbg for the recent stuff, then an assortment of others for older stuff

 

 

[DPGumbypgh]

Use Rarbg if need to search for movies but for regular downloading of TV shows I use https://zooqle.com with an RSS feed  or DuckieTV extension for Chrome which can be linked to a Trakt account. Both of them pretty much automates the process. 
Torrent client qbittorent on computer and tTorrent on Android box if i don't have my computer.

[t8769]

Many thanks for the information - most helpful!

Do most people have a separate PC for downloading, for security - or just download to their main PCs?

 

I only had a Torrent virus once, that was 10 years ago.

I'm using Win10's built in antivirus, have not had any problems so far - though some people say there are better.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

[shadowofacloud]

40 minutes ago, t8769 said:

Do most people have a separate PC for downloading, for security - or just download to their main PCs?

I only had a Torrent virus once, that was 10 years ago.
I'm using Win10's built in antivirus, have not had any problems so far - though some people say there are better.

 

 

 

 

 

Same machine - with VPN and AV.

 

Achtually, I am using three different devices, depending of my location - and Ubuntu desktop,  a W10 desktop or an anadroid tablet. I will use VPN on all of them and an AV the W10 machine. But I do not have a dedicated machine for torrents.

 

If you are super paranoid you could buy a virtual desktop (which can be purchased using BTC etc. thus fairly anonymously) and run your torrent client there,  then connect to the desktop via RDP (or (s)FTP or whatever) over a VPN and download the files to your actual machine. But that't a crazy overkill for BT only.

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, t8769 said:

Do most people have a separate PC for downloading, for security - or just download to their main PCs?

I use a Zyxel NAS, no need for the computer to be on at all, the NAS does the downloading then shares the files on my home network to the TV.

[siamcrut]

I don’t use torrents anymore.
I have a VPN on my smartphone and stream with
https://solarmoviez.ru
and some European television Mediathek.
Works fine for me and can watch movies also when I’m on the road.

[NCC1701A]

I use TOR for the thepiratebay.onion site. works when the .org site is down, which seems to be constant now. 

[NCC1701A]

2 hours ago, t8769 said:

Many thanks for the information - most helpful!

Do most people have a separate PC for downloading, for security - or just download to their main PCs?

 

I only had a Torrent virus once, that was 10 years ago.

I'm using Win10's built in antivirus, have not had any problems so far - though some people say there are better.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

I use a separate Macbook computer just for torrents. 

[KneeDeep]

6 hours ago, t8769 said:

Many thanks for the information - most helpful!

Do most people have a separate PC for downloading, for security - or just download to their main PCs?

 

I only had a Torrent virus once, that was 10 years ago.

I'm using Win10's built in antivirus, have not had any problems so far - though some people say there are better.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seedbox is the way. The issue with Torrents is not with viruses, but that you may be uploading/sharing copyrighted material.

Every now and then someone gets sued for it.

[petedk]

On 9/20/2018 at 4:12 PM, NCC1701A said:

Transmission using a VPN 24/7. I use a 8 year old Macbook Pro only for torrents. nothing else.

 

On a different note The Pirate Bay has been down for sometime now. ?

 

Works well for me.  Sometimes I get a message about database maintenance but a quick refresh sorts that out.

[NCC1701A]

4 minutes ago, petedk said:

 

Works well for me.  Sometimes I get a message about database maintenance but a quick refresh sorts that out.

where are you located? because pirates bay was down for months. people talking about it all over the web.

 

oh and by the way, I REALLY HATE THIS NEW FONT! (nothing to do with you.) 

[WorriedNoodle]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

because pirates bay was down for months

It has been down occasionally? Its up now.  https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Edited September 26, 2018 by WorriedNoodle

[t8769]

Thanks for the info - yes the new font is awful!

 

[petedk]

On 9/26/2018 at 10:37 AM, NCC1701A said:

where are you located? because pirates bay was down for months. people talking about it all over the web.

 

oh and by the way, I REALLY HATE THIS NEW FONT! (nothing to do with you.) 

 

I am in Bangkok.

That is strange. I have been using it every two or three days. I sometimes get a message that it is down for 10 minutes due to maintenance, but a quick refresh and It is back. I think two or three weeks ago, it was down for two days

 

It can't have been down as there are always a number of seeders and leechers.

Edited October 1, 2018 by petedk