I’ve been on 1337x, ABC, torrentquest, eztvx, msearch, and pretty much all of the other sites on the megathread, both for “greatest treasures” (the general purpose section) and the movies & TV section specifically. Yet, the show that my wife and I want to watch is nowhere to be found in any of these. We’re confused why, as it’s not exactly an unpopular show.

Despite it not seeming to exist in a torrent format anywhere, among many other shows, it is forbidden both here and elsewhere to ask for help on finding a specific title. I was just hoping to learn the reasoning why. Is it just because the forum would be flooded with people asking for titles instead of taking the time to dig through the resources? What are people supposed to do when they do dig through the resources then?

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Private trackers have usually most stuff.
    Only with very rare or obscure content it depends on where you are.
    Some trackers specialize in specific genres or regions (e.g. horror or latino/asian).

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Private trackers usually have a request mechanism that you can use. I currently use seedpool and digitalcore which let you request media after you’ve spent enough time seeding media

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Is the Piracy room on Matrix an acceptable place to ask for that kind of stuff? I mean it is End-to-End Encrypted. Even if it isn’t allowed there you could always ask someone else via DM on Matrix, is why I highly recommend people make and link their matrix accounts to their Lemmy profiles. You do have to know who to ask of course but these types of vague posts are great for that.

    Note: Can’t use Lemmy’s built-in DMs you need to use Matrix or some other E2EE service, especially if they’re going to share direct links to you. Don’t use a corporate one like Facebook messenger or Whatsapp which is advertised as E2EE, those are a scam and they break their own encryption.

    • gumpiere@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It appears I cannot join the room because I do not belong to any of the required rooms/spaces… Any help?

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Huh, could’ve sworn when I joined it the first time it was encrypted since it said I can’t see the history of encrptypted messages and I got “can’t decrypt message” errors a few times on my Android client.

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 days ago

          It doesn’t makes sense to encrypt a room that anybody can join…

          • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            3 days ago

            Sure it does, it makes it so newcomers can’t view the chat history, it makes less sense to encrypt a room anyone can join but it doesn’t make no sense at all.

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      There’s no proof of them actually breaking their own encryption.

      Further, if that piracy room on matrix is public, it obviously doesn’t matter that the communication on it is private. It’s still a public place.

      • zeca@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        3 days ago

        the matrix room may be public, but when you choose someone to talk to via dm, at that point encryption matters. Of course, you shouldnt really trust that random person from the matrix room, but it being an encrypted chat reduces the risk somewhat.

        • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          The public room being encrypted does nothing. Source: I work for the FBI and I’m in that room.

          I don’t know what dms have to do with it?

        • Bzdalderon@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 days ago

          The amount of incidents I’ve logged at work and home where messages talking about specific things I’ve never said aloud or mentioned elsewhere that have resulted in ads is insane. There’s no way they don’t, unless they read your messages before they encrypt them.

    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Wow, that’s shit. I’ve been with Newsgroup.ninja for the past… decade. I’m grandfathered in on some /r/usenet promotion from a long time ago but they’re still pretty cheap and offer the same retention as easynews. Everything is on usenet, it’s just a matter of finding the right indexer, nice thing is the good indexers just want money so barring a few sites it’s pretty easy to get started.

      https://www.newsgroup.ninja/

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You can always try 4chan’s /r/ board. It’s specifically for requesting shit, usually links to pirated content.

    Haven’t teied using it in almost a decade though, so can’t vouch too well for it.

  • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Have you tried…

    you know,

    (cough)

    maybe just …

    (air quotes) “heavily implying”

    the , ah, you know …

    particular…

    (taps side of nose)

    ah, torrent

    in

    (eyebrow waggle)

    ahem,

    QUESTION?

    Eh?

    Ehhhhh?

    • Bayesian@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      That first part is where I’m stuck lol. I am fine with maintaining a good ratio but have limited bandwidth to pass a big exam or get in with the right crowd socially…

        • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          You’re technically not supposed to invite people you don’t know because you’re responsible for your invitees to some degree.

  • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    If it’s hard to find, first i try searching via jackett integration into qbittorrent. if unsuccessful, i go over to xrel.to and search for it there (its a pure information site, don’t ask for downloads there pls). You can verify if there has ever been a release of the specific title, and if, you can see the exact name of the release. if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene. if it’s newer content, you can try to search later; if its older content, go buy it and upload it yourself (safely!) so the next person doesn’t have the same issue.

    • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      if you can’t find it there too, you can be pretty sure that there never was a release, neither p2p nor scene.

      This is not really true. I tried a few searches of more obscure movies and they don’t have releases that are available on multiple private trackers.

      That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

      • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 days ago

        yeah, i didn’t want to get into the private tracker stuff, since i never used one before; i described pretty much the ressources you have as a “commoner”. I am aware that there are many specialized sources out there, where a lot more obscure material is available, but most of those take special effort to gain access to.

        • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 days ago

          There are also non-english language public trackers that don’t leverage western style filename rules.

          E.g. mazepa.to (Ukrainian) and rutracker.org (russian). The sites require registration (open to all), but the torrents are public (no ratio requirements and torrent do not have the private flag).

          The search functions support English language titles with no issues at all. You can find any mainstream movie/show on both trackers. Rutracker has some niche content that I’ve not been able to find on specialized private trackers.

          One drawback is that the trackers require local language dubs/VO, so some some content is never released on them.

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        That being said, if you can’t find a release, the best option is it just to buy a DVD or BlueRay version of it.

        And then rip it and upload so that the next person doesn’t have to.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Sorry, you’re not going to find The Duck Factory anywhere. Despite being Jim Carrey’s first starring roll, it’s just a formulaic 80s sitcom with limited production value and typical period writing.