TLDR: Download your content offline before it gets lost forever.
From now on you should never trust online hosting, I started seeing a lot of piracy sources( Streaming websites, torrent indexes,… Etc) get shut down.
So I highly recommend for all pirates to download anything they want offline to reuse and don’t trust keeping it online, sadly for me, a lot of material had been lost as there is almost no online service or piracy service has it( I am talking about material that is 5-10 years old.).
I know that this is not the first time piracy websites/hosts gets taken down but this time feels different as it became aggressive and I feel that in the next months a considerable amount of content are going to be lost.
People also need to keep seeding torrents. That’s how we can keep stuff alive
Everybody should look into hardlinks and cross-seeding. By today’s standards, it’s painless and very unlikely to ever take up your bandwith
and very unlikely to ever take up your bandwith
Are you sure about that? Not all of us have fiber, you know. For instance, I have like 175 Mbps down, but only like either 2 or 10 Mbps up. (I can’t remember which. Lol.)
In my case, I’m always seeding hundreds of torrents…yet my upload rarely goes about 1 or maaaybe 2 Mbps. Could just be luck, but you can always throttle the speeds if you need to
Torrent clients also have bandwidth limiters built in. So if a user has 5Mbps upload, change it to 1 or 2 on the setting and off you go.
both of them are much too slow to seed usefully
Exactly, which is why I
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Use a VPN server specifically configured for P2P,
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Use port forwarding on said server,
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Only have three torrents active at a time so as not to divide my bandwidth too much, and
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Typically seed for weeks at a time so as to give the ratio time to build at such low speeds. (I typically try to seed up to 10.0x, but you know, with old seeds, that’s not always possible to do even with weeks of seeding. :) )
Seeding in this way may not be very effective, but it makes it at least feasible.
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I feel like this whole hobby has always existed on the verge of being deleted for whatever reason, and I am forever grateful that there are people who put this stuff up in the first place.
Still need to work out a way for me to help out.
To add to this, back that local hardrive up on a REMOVABLE drive, and keep it physically detached. We are all one lightning strike away from near total loss.
or unplug the pc/nas/whatever everytime it’s shut down
Would a surge protector be enough? I’ve never owned one, but I’ve considered putting my PC, router and (in the future) NAS behind both a surge protector and a UPS.
This goes for any content not just piracy sites. Just the other day I seen someone I watch delete half of their videos but luckily I had downloaded everything.
There’s a bunch of stuff from Youtube alone I can’t see again because I didn’t download it when I had the chance…
Youtube has been getting crazy with deletions! If it’s not G rated it’s getting tossed.
I started seeing a lot of piracy sources( Streaming websites, torrent indexes,… Etc) get shut down.
Been like that for the past 30 years. Or worse, they remain active but kept as a Honeypot.
12 TB drives are pretty cheap right now.
Just bought a bunch of $75 12TB disks from GoHardDrive’s eBay storefront.
Still running through the diagnostics, but nothing has jumped out yet, 48hrs in. Sure, they’re 4 years old and have over a petabyte of lifetime writes. They also have 5 year warranties.
Aren’t these old and abused disks…?
In a sense. They’re also fancy-pants enterprise drives rated to be able to last over a million hours.
Drive failures follow the old “bathtub curve”. You get the lemons that fail when they’re brand new – that’s one side of the curve. Then for several years, they fail at a consistently low rate. Then once they start getting really old, the failure rate goes up – giving you the other side of the curve.
True, these are probably closer to the “old age” side of the bathtub curve. But GHD is pretty good about honoring their warranty. Back stuff up and you should be fine.
HDD usually don’t have a limited number of writes like SSD do, if they are robust, maybe enterprise units, they can last a long time.
In a home environment some prefer using slower (5400 vs 7200), non-enterprise hard drives, maybe fewer drives with higher capacity, to reduce noise, power consumption and improve cooling (in enterprise settings this stuff is standardized and they don’t care about noise, in my custom pc I might have forgotten to use the vibration dampeners or I mounted the disks vertically…every white box is different).
Also there are big differences between different models and makers. If they’re cheap enough those helium filled enterprise drives can be one of the best options!
This is all true but I’ve seen my fair share of enterprise disks die after a few years of use.
In my case I’m using ZFS so a disk or two of varying types might not be the end of the world. In the 9 years I’ve had my NAS I’ve lost 3 WD RED 3B disks. Kind of surprise at my failure rate tbh
Where? 🤔
Diskprices is great for comparing price per terabyte across different brands.
Got an 18tb from serverpartdeals for 160 I think.
I just buy all my stuff on newegg. Decent 12 TB drives are going for around $250 to $300 right now.
And upload content as torrents, share the torrent files/magnet links and keep seeding!
We need some sort of historical torrent indexer for lost/dead torrents, a wayback machine for magnet links that gathers/scrapes them automagically from the internet
that’s the pirate bay
Can someone explain to me why these services were on the clearnet to begin with?
i2p and Tor are really slow + the amount of people who use them are small compared to the clearnet and also a lot of those websites have ads on their website which would not work on i2p or Tor , so it does not make any sense to host it there.
I guess z-library needs to make a template on how to get a setup like theirs working. Unlimited subdomains lmao
Ads work on .onion. I’d never click one, but you can show a banner no problem.
Thanks for reminding me. Yeah I need to backup my ROM library of old games. Got most of them from Vimm’s lair earlier this year. They had to take down a lot of the games shortly after cause threats of law suit from Nintendo, Sega among others. It’s just absurd many of the games on there are not even available legally anymore.
I’ve been maxxing out ram on my pi 3b OMV/docker server and was looking at getting a pi 5 to replace it. Are there any good guides for setting up that *arr stuff I see out and about?
Also open to other hardware alternatives to upgrade from a pi. I saw a lot of n100 hype but I just don’t expect it to be the miracle worker some people claim it to be lol
