• Aurix@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Pirates are the librarians of the new age. But I caution you, much media cannot be found as soon as you step of the path of the big releases. So it really isn’t the final solution.

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      11 months ago

      It’s the best we’ve got unlike the rather ridiculous proposals of backing up their own games some have made. Average person does not have the storage or the determination to digitize everything and keep it safe in case of corruption with multiple back ups.

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      11 months ago

      If you can’t find something on piracy trackers you just need better trackers.

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        11 months ago

        That’s not always true. There are a lot of obscure/niche products that just aren’t popular enough for there to be perpetual seeders for all of them. Plenty of things have been lost to the annals of time, unfortunately. It doesn’t help that some companies will still witch-hunt pirates offering their ancient products that the company no longer even offers a way to procure legitimately (cough Nintendo cough).

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        That simply isn’t true. Some stuff is obscure, especially if it’s in a less-spoken language or it’s dubbed content for a less-spoken language.

        Other times the torrent exists but it has no seeders.

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        11 months ago

        The defaults picked out by Radarr sometimes fail. Not sure where it’s pulling Seed/Leech figures from but those are never right. The only way to find out it to try downloading a few and then nuke the ones that have least seeders you can connect to.

        • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          I think that’s why Jackett is recommended to use with Sonarr/Radarr now. I just got my unraid server (mostly) running and that was one of the recommendations I saw made frequently.

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            11 months ago

            I use Prowlarr. Maybe it’s that. I dunno if anything produces the right figures tbh.

            Surely something has to connect to the torrent servers to see how many seeds there are, and that can even take the torrent program a little while to find them all.

            I’ve only had one torrent fail at 99% so far as the last “seed” seemed to be fake.