Copyright. If you say “You can find X at Y” US copyright has gotten so out of control even linking is infringement like hosting, even via magnet link. The megathread is pretty old and doesn’t even have old things that are still useful like the saved google searches, so your point is apt… Have you tried watchsomuch or OG piratebay? Piratebay has more old shit still with seeds than you might think.

Hope whoever leaked it has FIRE opsec

There are also lists one can find of open proxy servers, they’re all probably malicious but if just getting a single file via https… it would be non-incidental to override the certificate check, so these gutter proxy sharks are probably not at that level unless a major state actor wants you.

Good, if you have ever met a Yale student, you know they are interested in power, not knowledge (despite knowledge being power – but the SAT doesn’t cover 80’s GI Joe). It’s a waste to have good professors wasting time with kids who are only interested in seizing the state like a late antiquity Roman noble.

Pika Backup does backups. For testing Windows, you’ll want to run a VM, QEMU is best for that (There’s a KDE wrapper I forget the name of for it with a better GUI) but you can probably do some level of testing running your app with Wine. You can run Excel with Wine (also the Office365 web Excel runs in browser)

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As of last I was aware, eMule was still kicking (pun intended)

Beware it will not last like a factory made DVD or Bluray. Home burned optical media is more volatile, so not a great solution for decades-long backups.

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Last time I tried YTS they wouldn’t show magnet links anymore without you making an account (and during downtime they show IIS.NET errors, which is a pretty clear indication a large corporation is hiring contractors to run it) which seems VERY sketchy put together

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I love how they always assume pirates would be buying this shitty content at $3/episode in the absence of piracy. They’d be playing videogames or listening to music or podcasts if this crap wasn’t free.

Afaik, most seedboxes don’t give you full root login, you just get bittorrent and sftp, but if you find a full cloud VPS solution that’s friendly with sailing the seas, you could setup whatever you want.