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A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they're all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me...

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[–] Romanmir@lemmy.today 227 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You re-downloaded your media to get better quality files.

I re-downloaded my media because I misconfigured Radarr.

We are not the same.

[–] Romanmir@lemmy.today 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…

  1. qbittorrent is better in many many ways compared to utorrent and hasa very similar interface. qbit is open-source, utorrent isn't. qbit doesn't have ads or malware, utorrent has or has had both many times. qbit allows you to bind to a specific network interface (e.g. you VPN connection instead of regular ethernet one) which offer better protection if your vpn drops. feel free to do your own research here or elsewhere on the web if you doubt any of my points.
  2. if your VPN is a free one, that wont protect you at all. those guys will squeal and turn over server logs with ip address at the drop of a hat. Even a lot of paid-for VPNs are shitty lying bastards. So picking a good vpn can be challenging there are probably posts here covering recommendations but generally you want ones that have either been taken to court and were unable to provide logs OR ones that have been audited by a respected 3rd party firm that can confirm they are truly a "no log VPN". I can recommend PIA, NordVPN, and Mullvad as some ones that are highly unlikely to turn over any logs (bc they don't have them) but there are others and doing your own research isn't a bad thing. The site torrentfreak.com does an article once a year or so that covers a few of the more popular VPNs and different aspects of thier privacy but they don't declare a "best vpn", just rate them on varius privacy and security aspects.
  3. Even if you have a good VPN, check that you aren't leaking your real IP via dns lookups: ipleak.net or dnsleaktest.com
  4. Check that you torrent client set up not to leak: search for 'torrent ip leak test' and do one of the torrent ip leak tests. ipleak.net hasone of these if you scroll down on the page; look for "Torrent Address detection" and click "Activate" button and it will give a magnet link to start test with
  5. additionally, you can set up a "vpn killswitch" to prevent traffic from going over regular internet if you vpn drops. If you using qbit, this probably isn't strictly required but many people here like to have this as an additional safety. i can't really provide details on this bc the process varies widely. A lot of VPN client apps have this feature built in. But even if they don't, you can set something like this up in most firewalls but exact steps will vary depending on OS (Windows/Linux/Mac) and which firewall you are using (or I guess whether or not you even have one installed).
[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Excellent info. Thank you!

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 63 points 11 months ago (3 children)

People still use that malware of a client???

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Which would your suggest? It's been a long time since I've had to do a little pirating.

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

qBitTorrent is one of the standard clients.

[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll give it a go after this is all done downloading.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

Tixati, Deluge and Transmission are also good, modern clients

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Radar and sonarr would just automatically upgrade those for you. No need to mass delete and redownload.

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[–] GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You have triggered me by mentioning uTorrent.

[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

My apologies. I'll be discontinuing it's use after this project is done.

[–] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pardon me for living under a rock, but what's wrong with uTorrent?

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Its installer comes bundled with bloatware, several years ago even having included a bitcoin miner in one of their releases.

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[–] Hubi@feddit.de 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You really shouldn't use uTorrent. There are a number of safer and better open source alternatives out there.

[–] Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.de 24 points 11 months ago

Qbittorrent is my favorite client but there are a couple of great alternatives like Transmission or Deluge.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Pretty easy to do with just 500 fies. That's just 2/3 of the Simpsons.

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have all Simpsons, at max res as they released them! Same with Family Guy, South Park and Robot Chicken (RIP).

Also replaced all my movies that I watch on repeat often to 4K.

I have no idea how much data I used, and don't care. USENET rocks!

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How many gigs is all of Simpsons?

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[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Should probably switch to qbtorrent. What VPN are you using?

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[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 39 points 11 months ago

Depends where you live. In some countries nothing. In other countries fines. In some death penalty.

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] SeatBeeSate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

And all of that wouldnt be possible if you legally purchased all of this

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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

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.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] burliman@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Don’t radarr and sonarr download better versions automatically? Seems these measures were drastic.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m keeping my original pirates of Mr. Robot for posterity

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