The paid way to do this is is to buy something like Streamfab to download the stream directly from the source. Note for the most part you will be limited to 720p/1080p. Another paid software that used to be around was Redfox AnyStream but they went offline last year.

Only private trackers / scene would know about 2160p / 4K downloads and they’re not going to share publicly about their methods.

The free method is to attempt to do the video capture yourself (see earlier comments) rather than download the stream itself.

Of course for the most part tons of content has already been downloaded by others and made available via torrents, DDL, etc.

Seems like more plebbit spam.

Lots of permaseeders out there, you can be one too :)

There’s no real downside as long as your ISP doesn’t limit your bandwidth.

I’m getting the “moov atom not found” error even though the file is at 100%. The whole torrent isn’t at 100% yet, but I enabled sequential downloading.

Either the .mp4 is corrupt, or you need to wait for the torrent itself to finish 100% complete.

You are downloading in sequential mode, and it sounds like these .mp4 files were generated with the moov atom at the end of the file. Which means the file is cut off at the very end (aka corrupt) or the torrent itself just never finished downloading the last pieces of that .mp4 file.

At least that’s how I’m understanding your question… you’re saying the file is at 100% but you’re also saying the torrent isn’t at 100%, to me that sounds like there’s torrent pieces missing to complete the rest of the .mp4 file maybe.

EDIT: Just to add, technically encoding software can write that moov atom at the beginning of the .mp4 file which would avoid this problem entirely but it sounds like these files you’re downloading aren’t encoded that way. In encoding software usually that means “optimizing” the file or making it “web” ready for a web browser to play immediately as it downloads sequentially… I forget what ffmpeg calls it specifically.

EDIT 2: Thinking about it, if you’re desperate to play this file as-is maybe you can run it through ffmpeg to create a new .mp4 file and then play it that way. It’s not a real fix since the original source seems to be broken but you may be able to get something playable at least.

Again with this? You’re just spamming /c/Piracy at this point (and probably breaking rule #4).

Torrent swarms need at least one connectable (port forwarded) peer for any torrent data to transfer. In large torrent swarms you won’t notice this too much since there are usually plenty of connectable peers available.

The effect tends to be more noticeable in smaller swarms.

In practice you may not notice unless you try to download those torrents with one lone seed who also happen to have no port forward. In those cases you’ll see there’s a seed but no torrent data ever transfers over to you. (note that the same happens in reverse if you’re the lone seed on many torrents)

Are there new ones that carry the torch? Do the successors to these release groups have their trackers too?

The vast majority of public torrent indexers do not run their own trackers.

Dead trackers are common with old torrents. Personally I remove all the public trackers and just let DHT take care of that.

But if you prefer to have active public trackers on there then you could

1. Remove all the dead ones
2. Add the top x trackers from https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

Something like https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli ? Haven’t used it myself but it’s been on my radar.

I’ve found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they’re “hard” to get into

You just have to interview for either/both of them, they’re not really that hard to get into. Certainly easier to get into vs any of the big movie/tv trackers, none of those have interview to join.

That said if you are already established at other big private trackers then often you may be able to just join via the tracker’s internal forums, tracker recruiters are often found there.

Discussed in the earlier post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35846542

I’ve always paid with crypto.

But you might be able to buy a prepaid credit card with cash and then use that for the seedbox payment? Maybe just double-check that it would work with your seedbox provider e.g. in the U.S. most prepaid cards sold in stores are U.S. only and won’t process international transactions and since most seedbox providers are outside the U.S. they may not work together. Haven’t spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the right prepaid card for those scenarios.

I don’t use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn’t known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.

Of course it would be better if it was open source but he’s never been an open source coder AFAIK.

On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.

qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don’t have a gui to do initial setup with.

To DIY you can buy your own domain and attach it to any paid email provider, then you get an infinite amount of temporary addresses. e.g. if you own @ rumschlumpel.blahblahblah.org then you can create abc@ , xyz@ , abc123@ , etc. as much as you like.

Just about all the email provider suggestions in this thread have a paid tier that you can configure your own domain with.

Edit: why the downvotes?

Users on lemmy.world are generally very anti cryptocurrency, they’re going to downvote anything discussing the topic. Just browse other cryptocurrency posts in this instance and read all the .world comments.

re: your question I suspect to truly selfhost you’d need to sync the bitcoin blockchain onto your own system and work from there, either with the official client or some other heavy wallet. Beyond that not sure, may need to script a query to your local wallet to monitor for changes to specific BTC addresses (if something doesn’t already exist to do this).

https://interviewfor.red/

https://interview.orpheus.network/

So, I used to have my own VPS

Not sure if this is a requirement for you but if you are used to using your own VPS then you might be used to have root / SSH access. When browsing seedbox services you may want to double-check if their plan(s) offer that.

That’s a tough one, if these are public torrents you may be stuck having to search for the torrents one-by-one and hope you can find their associated .torrent files to re-seed the torrents.

You do need a .torrent file, or bare minimum a magnet link to an active/non-dead swarm, to be able to re-seed torrents with existing data. Magnet links without any current peers on them are a bit useless for this task unfortunately.

If these torrents are from private trackers you can check the private tracker website(s), many of them have a feature to allow you to re-download all the .torrent files you previously downloaded from the tracker.

I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to “the highest bidder”

Debrid services do collect data, the recent RealDebrid drama seems relevant since this app is basically for use with those services

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32433831

It actually seems more private to self host Jellyfin to stream/playback already downloaded media files but that’s just my own interpretation.

I tend to look towards full blu-ray/remuxes/flac that sort of thing, private trackers are more suited towards that with both p2p groups as well as the general scene groups.

Public torrents work well enough but the release groups that cater to public torrent indexers tend to be in a race to the smallest file possible. Hence you see a ton of “4K” uploads that are tiny for download but are crap for playback beyond a phone screen. Even yify himself knew he wasn’t aiming for quality encodes. But generally speaking there will always be people looking for those type of uploads and public torrents do cater towards that.

In its early days IPFS was being pushed as a anti-censorship tool, obviously blocklists/denylists is the opposite of that. But it’s all a moot point, you’re linking to a discussion from 2015. AFAIK denylists were already implemented e.g. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-content-blocking-for-the-ipfs-stack/