What do you do if you can't find a movie on torrents? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by Uri@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Live torrents for some old movies and pretty hard to find. I thought about somehow extracting .m3u8 but that didn't worked out. Those sits are getting better at hiding real stream URL. Any way to easy do it or something?

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[-] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

What went wrong with the .m3u8 file? I've had lots of success ripping from websites using yt-dlp. For sites it doesn't have explicit support for, it can fail if it can't find the stream URL.

In those cases, I open the Network tab of Firefox's developer tools and try to find something that looks like a stream URL, and then copy it out of there and give it to yt-dlp. (Don't forget to surround the URL in double quotes if the URL contains an &)

If you provide the URL you're trying to download from, I can try to take a look.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

I was so surprised when I caught wind of it.
Then I did a bunch of ripping from my domestic tv network :)

Those bastards from public broadcast thought that content they produced and ordered may only be available for X years before they have to pull it because private networks complained they can't compete. ಥ_ಥ

Video auf YouTube verfügbar bis zum 14/10/2055 Link zur Mediathek: https://www.arte.tv/de...

https://youtu.be/-qSAuWKQ-Xo

Example is about availability on YT but those networks also have the issue on their own libraries for public access :(

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