dudemanbro

My guy/gal, MAM is one of the easiest places to get a good ratio because it mainly based on getting point from seeding. Actual upload is gonna be pretty low. Just download a bunch of ebooks is you are low on space and just seed. Literally download like 100 ebooks (probably less than 50MB total in space and you’d get like 50-80 points an hour and then you can easily build up ratio by buying upload credits. Lets say you are seeding enough to net you 100 points and hour, if you seed a full day that’s 2400 points and you can buy quite a bit of upload credit for that. If you download more free leech stuff then even more points. I love MAM and its incredibly easy to build ratio this way

Anna’s Archive & Z-Lib. You can search by language. I cant speak on how big/good its German catalogue is though.

I mainly download x265. I have a few AV1 4K here and there but for now will still to HEVC till AV1 get more widely adopted

I use All and Real. Real has been very useful because of its larger user base, thus ensuring that many more things are cached and maintained. Also streaming is very easy with other things like Kodi and its addons. AllDebrid also has many of the same things cached as real. Ive had many instanced where things were on All and not on Real. I also think things download faster on All than on Real (but this is just from my experience).

TG and 1337 are pretty good and have me covered. I also have a copy of the RARBG database that has the hashes that I use if I want to find something from there. Pretty easy to get the magnets from Qbit and then save the magnet back as a .torrent and then check if there are already cached in a debrid service. Pretty easy and simple

With Alldebrid? I mean the premium link generator still works well and fine. It’s just the cyberlocker aspect of it with regards to torrents that is messed up, since they used Uptobox. Still a bummer tho.

https://x.com/Uptobox_com/status/1704510079125295167?s=20 According to Uptobox’s tweet none of the data lost, but I would take that with a grain of salt. Thus, I don’t know how its gonna affect things at Alldebrid and all those cached torrents

My home-base is a private forum (DDL). I think of it as a place where people gather the best media from around the internet. We may not get it first but it eventually makes its way there. There are also many exclusive uploads (mostly encodes) but people do some fantastic work with upscales of movies and/or TV series. The user base is also part of the many private trackers the world has to offer. I am part of like 2 private trackers and they are phenomenal as well. I also use public trackers extensively as well as there is actually a lot of stuff out there. I will always try and seed for public trackers but I definitely don’t go as long as I would for private ones (just cause I don’t want to get dinged) (Yeah I could use a VPN but too lazy, even though I am in a place that don’t give many fucks about media piracy). I prefer DDL because I don’t have to maintain ratio, but I do understand that with private trackers there can be some more longevity (but isn’t really guaranteed). There are also other private trackers of the index variety that aren’t built around ratio which can be nice.

There can be a lot of rules with private trackers, and yes some of them are really annoying, not gonna lie. The rules are there for a reason, for the most part. For some it’s about building a community, while for others it’s about making sure stuff survives for as long as possible. There are so many tools for a fellow seafarer to have and private trackers are just one of them and they serve a purpose. I am of the belief that all information should be available to everyone forever, but the world don’t work like that and the long dick of the law can really fuck you life up. I think a valuable lesson from private trackers is that it makes one not just be a leech and makes one give back. There is nothing wrong with leeching, but I always like to think that piracy is about sharing the wealth. (not trying to moralize piracy, to each their own)

But as you said, public trackers have A LOT of stuff. So much media can be found on them. Private trackers help if you want the best of the best with regards to certain media or for hard to find stuff. Each have their place and it all about using the tools available to you

Here is some basic info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

As someone has said it pretty much goes [Title][Year][Resolution][Source][Codec(s)-Video/Audio][GroupName]

Title and Year: self explanatory

[Resolution]: 1080p, 2160p, HD, UHD, etc

[Source] Bluray, Webrip, Web-DL, Streaming-Provider, Cam, etc…

[Codec]: This can be a lot but kinda depends on what the uploader wants to mention/bring attention to

         Video: x264 (AVC) or h264, x265(HEVC) or h265, AV1,  x266 (VVC), etc...

         May also include stuff like : 8bit (SDR), 10bit (HDR),  DV (Dolby), Hybrid

         Audio: # of channels (5.1, 7.1)

                     Codecs:  Will tell you if the audio is lossless vs lossy

                     Examples DTS:X, TrueHD Atmos, DTS-HD MA, TrueHD, LPCM, FLAC [lossless] vs. DTS-HD HR, E-AC3, DTS-ES, DTS, AC3 [lossy]]

Group Name: Name of group or person that made the file.

Finally there is the container file which nowadays is MKV (Matroska Video file) but you can run into MP4. There are older formats but you don’t see them very often so I wont really mention them.

This is a quick run down but there is plenty of info out there that goes more into detail and you can just google questions like: what is lossless vs lossy?

Hope this helps

I have been using it for the past few years. I haven’t had any issues so far.

Fucking absurd.