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

submitted 2 days 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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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

You are describing a hard ratio system - a private tracker with no freeleech, no bonus points, just a strict ratio system. Most private trackers don't operate that way.

Your math falls apart once you consider people downloading freeleech torrents without having the torrents count against their ratio, or people generating bonus points just by seeding torrents and then using those bonus points to improve their ratio (bonus points converted to upload data for example). There are even private trackers that are ratioless and basically exist on minimum seed time, seeding bonus points, etc.

Long term seeders at most private trackers end up with so many seed bonus points, or just accumulated upload data, that the private tracker becomes essentially ratioless even if it technically still tracks ratio.

I don't care if you like private trackers or not, you do you, just mentioning your logic doesn't make a ton of sense.

[-] Azzu@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

Well, then I guess I only got into those trackers. Point me to where I can find those like you say. But wait - it's probably not going to be possible to get into those.

It's just such a weird system

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Torrentleech will open signups usually on ebery major holiday and around black friday.
Or look at r/opensignups and related pages on the web to join one which interests you.

Other trackers will do usually do that on an anniversary or by invite forums on affiliated trackers.
And for those forums you just need to meet the required ratio/upload and account age.
But those "high value" trackers are rarely worth it as most content will trickle down to the lower tiers with lower requirements.

Specialty trackers are hard and rarely worth it as well (except if only they can get what you need).

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