You re-downloaded your media to get better quality files.
I re-downloaded my media because I misconfigured Radarr.
We are not the same.
Also, pro-tip: When configuring Radarr (or Sonarr for that matter), be sure to define a recycle bin.
I woke up the next morning with all my media wiped. That was in June/July. I'm still recovering.
Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…
you can set up a “vpn killswitch” ...... A lot of VPN client apps have this feature built in.
Most quality VPNs will have a killswitch built in and enabled automatically, with nothing to setup, but they are notoriously unreliable and can fail. The key term people want to search for is "bind." You want to bind qBit to your VPN. If your VPN isn't working, qBit doesn't have a connection. Most decent, privacy first, "no log" VPNs (Mullvad, Proton, AirVPN, iVPN, etc.) will provide instructions on binding. This is above and beyond their built-in killswitch.
I can recommend PIA, NordVPN
I'm not saying you shouldn't recommend these, or that people shouldn't use them, but IMO, people should at least be warned to search for the following, so they can make an informed decision:
NordVPN also doesn't have port forwarding so you're unlikely to be able to seed anything back. This'll get you banned from private trackers and goes against the whole concept of torrenting.
Excellent info. Thank you!
People still use that malware of a client???
uTorrent 2.2.1 Build 25154 is good. There's a few builds of uTorrent that are fine.
But yeah, qbittorrent is the default "why didn't you use it?" client.
It's good in the sense that it's the last version before it got enshittified by ads, but the now nearly-legendary v2.2.1 is also 5 years behind in security patches. It was an awesome, fast, stable client and I miss it, but I don’t think it's worth the risk. Like you and everyone else has been saying, OP should be using Qbittorent.
Which would your suggest? It's been a long time since I've had to do a little pirating.
qBitTorrent is one of the standard clients.
Thanks! I'll give it a go after this is all done downloading.
Tixati, Deluge and Transmission are also good, modern clients
Radar and sonarr would just automatically upgrade those for you. No need to mass delete and redownload.
You really shouldn't use uTorrent. There are a number of safer and better open source alternatives out there.
Which would you suggest?
Qbittorrent is my favorite client but there are a couple of great alternatives like Transmission or Deluge.
You have triggered me by mentioning uTorrent.
My apologies. I'll be discontinuing it's use after this project is done.
Pretty easy to do with just 500 fies. That's just 2/3 of the Simpsons.
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I raw dog my torrents with no VPN
Can someone tell me the actual risks involved? I always thought it was so you didn't get your ISP up your ass and shut you off, my power company is my ISP and they don't give a shit
What really am I risking here?
Edit: US
Depends where you live. In some countries nothing. In other countries fines. In some death penalty.
Me, Germany, 20 years of no VPN = nothing ever happend Friend of me, also germany, downloads Minecraft once without VPN = 800€ cease and desist letter So yeah. Pretty much a gamble.
One of three things, one your ISP doesn't give a shit and nothing happens. Two, you get nasty-grams telling you to cease or have your service cut, three your information gets forwarded to the copyright owners company and you possibly are fined or worse brought in by a lawsuit.
Depends on where you are. Depending on country it can range from no one giving a shit, over to getting letters from your ISP, over to getting smaller fines, up to getting railed for your life.
And all of that wouldnt be possible if you legally purchased all of this
Sonarr/Radarr will do this for you automagically for most TV and Movies, never have to visit a dodgy torrent site again.
Started setting it up years ago and over time re-downloaded all those shitty yify rips with full fat bluray remuxes wherever available and the highest quality possible otherwise. Hit 100tb pretty quickly lol.
I have my rig set up to automatically upgrade to bluray remuxes when available, then once they are older than 1 month and over a certain filesize they get automatically compressed with a fairly slow, low crf H265-10bit encode with FileFlows to cut their size roughly in half while still being visually perfect on the normal TVs, all 4k content stays untouched for the main theatre.
that would take me awhile. im up to ~30,000 episodes of 'shows' and 2,500 movies
ive been recently doing the same..grabbing the 4k versions of stuff that matters.
my fav config is gluetun+deluge for a containerized seedbox
Don’t radarr and sonarr download better versions automatically? Seems these measures were drastic.
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