private trackers in general
The thing with private trackers is that theren’t that many more people who can use it
What are the benefits of private trackers for someone who only pirates widely popular media and games?
nothing. Private trackers are overrated. Unless you want some obscure things.
Is there a private tracker for good quality versions of really terrible movies?
Things like The Room and Silent Night Deadly Night 2. I feel like there must be a niche bad movie lovers community…
For playing videos: An AppleTV4K with the Infuse app. Just point it to your network share and it builds a library and plays back pretty much anything. It’s also incredibly user friendly for roommates or family to use.
https://movie-web.app/ Its pretty good.
That is nonsense.
At least in the US, no one has ever been charged for using (implicitly non-p2p) streaming sites. People are charged for distribution - that is, the upload portion of p2p. Just viewing stuff in your browser is perfectly safe without a VPN.
Well, since it is just a an organised frontend for a multiple HLS streaming sources, I wouldn’t worry about my IP leaking (it’s not P2P).
Your ISP can only see the domains which you are connecting to, not the content that is transferred (cuz https).
If you are still paranoid, just route it through tor! It’s just a website after all. (ik it’s slow but it works!)
Except it’s often not your ISP going after you, and https does not protect against everything. A few years ago there was a scandal in Germany when a moneygrubbing law firm took out ads on a porn site to get user IPs and the referer header, then sent demands to users for illegally downloading copyrighted material.
A court initially rubber-stamped the requests for IP info from the law firm.
A better judge/court clarified the law (streaming is fine in Germany) in that case and there were hopefully consequences for the law firm and the lawyers involved, but some suckers paid hush money first.
For Manga/Comics/Webtoons/Etc.:
Tachidesk on desktop
Tachiyomi on mobile.
These are both fantastic and allow you to grab manga, comics, etc. from pretty much every site you can think of to have it all in one place.
For Movies/TV/Anime:
Kodi + Debrid + Arctic Horizon 2/TMDbHelper + Fen + Otaku (resources: 1, 2; screenshots: album)
I love this. I can watch literally anything I want as if it was a netflix-like service, and don’t have to use a VPN. Can even throw this on a shield/chromecast/firestick.
edit: tachidesk doesn’t have a fit-to-page feature, but you can just use stylus with this:
img{
height:100vh ; /* fit height of screen */
min-width:0 ; /* also needed for fit height */
}
edit 2: Also, not really piracy per se, but Syncplay is great for watching downloaded content with friends.
Have you tried stremio + real debrid, I’ve been using that and wanted to see if there’s any benefits to switching to kodi.
I haven’t ever tried it so unfortunately I can’t directly compare. I’ve been using kodi + debrid for years though with zero issues, and since it served my needs perfectly I haven’t tried anything new since. I even set it up on a chromecast for my tech illiterate dad, and he’s been cable/stream service free since.
Banged my head against Tachidesk for a bit tonight, I do not see how to import sources, even a local one, I guess there is more hidden config stuff to do.
I do not see how to import sources
You need to install extensions before you can use the source section to perform a search. Once you’ve done that, typing something into the search field under sources will search through all the extensions you have installed.
even a local one
They have an entire guide on that.
I am so glad we don’t, modern Reddit awards are such an assault on the eyes lol.
