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The original post: /r/torrents by /u/JmannTW on 2025-02-27 08:37:02.

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/james101-_- on 2025-02-27 03:55:11.

Torrent galaxy is offline again

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/OldAbbreviations12 on 2025-02-26 23:26:59.

I have read before that some people have encountered some .mkv.lnk files but I thought that they were looking for it and it was not possible to fall for this.

I wanted to find something on a dht search engine which is supposed to be released today and I found some results with older dates, like 3-4 days ago. I could see of course the content of the torrent and I understood right away that it was fake.

I planned to try to download it and see the content of that 1GB .lnk file and I was expecting bad download speed. To my surprise I got very good speed and it had plenty of seeders! I assume this is due to some automated scripts or tools like radarr etc. The icon seemed like a normal movie icon and it had the arrow that indicates a shortcut in windows but many people would fall for that.

I haven't blocked .lnk extensions before so I did now just in case. To those who don't know, for qbittorrent is under Options->Downloads->Excluded file names and you add "*.lnk" without the quotes.

The lesson I guess is to not trust a video torrent if it has many seeders because probably they're seeded by people who just have automated things configured wrong and even the seemingly "video files" can have malicious scripts inside.

For those who are interested I'm providing a few lines of that shortcut file which points to cmd.exe

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The original post: /r/torrents by /u/reddit-Kingfish on 2025-02-26 23:15:55.

Started yeaterday. Cloudflare will not verify that I'm human when I go to TorrentQuest. Brave browser, Shields off, Adblock off, no difference. Cloudflare will not even give me the box to check that I am human. It's in an endless loop. The sites in question will load in Chrome and Firefox. Any suggestions appreciated. Or suggest a torrent site that looks like TorrentQuest, I like their layout.

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/imdjay on 2025-02-26 17:41:08.

Just a thought that got me curious. when you buy any legitimate source of a movie, let's say a DVD for example, could there still be a legal argument against you if you then downloaded a "pirated" version for your personal use?

I know this probably isn't a concern for folks and would end up as a "why bother", but hey, it's interesting to me

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/AcceleratedTempo on 2025-02-26 17:32:39.

First time torrenting and didn’t realize I would need a vpn. I downloaded qbittorent without a vpn and then downloaded express vpn right after to download games. Am I going to get a letter with a warning? Also would I need to have the vpn on while playing the games or only while the game is downloading?

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/confused-something on 2025-02-26 12:23:11.

so like the title asks, i have no idea what it is, i just got the hint that a torrent will help me record scenes of a show from online streaming services (for edits) but i have no idea how it works, what it actually is so any help will be appreciated

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/Azloxion on 2025-02-26 09:37:01.

Hello,

I installed DelugeVPN (binhex docker) on Unraid 7 and wanted to have a thin client on my Fedora machine so i can create torrents. The Deluge daemon is routed through ProtonVPN, remote connection is enabled in Deluges settings.

No matter what i tried in the Thin client, i cannot connect to the daemon. What am i doing wrong?

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/FranklinJSlay on 2025-02-26 04:30:18.

Even though it's back, it seems like a former shell of what it was. My two favourite guys on the platform who used to consistently upload DV 4k movies/TV shows in the MP4 format for us LG OLED TV owners are no longer active, they haven't logged in for months, especially Freddy. Lots of YTS uploads are popping up too on the side which was never a thing before.

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The original post: /r/torrents by /u/AdministrationOk881 on 2025-02-26 04:08:00.

I have a fairly weak gaming computer, and i wonder if seeding basically 24/7 is damaging my hard drives.

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/ThatRandomGuyIsHere on 2025-02-25 23:25:45.

Yeah 1337x recomended it but im not sure

The original post: /r/torrents by /u/Marco3104 on 2025-02-25 22:34:13.

In the last two days, I have learned about the functionality of Prowlarr combined with the cross-seed script, it's wonderful. I added all the indexers I need, connected the script to my client and tested a few settings.

Now, when I use the search command so that the script goes through all my torrents to find potential cross-seed candidates on the trackers, I can see in the verbose logs that the script sends many requests to the indexers (lets say 10 requests for every torrent of my collection). Since I can't find a command (please correct me if there is one) that allows me to search for candidates of only a couple of torrents, the script processes all my torrents sequentially, resulting in a high number of requests within a short period.

I have two questions:

1. Do the indexers place a burden on the trackers when requesting metadata for potential torrent candidates or do they retrieve this information from a separate source?
2. If they do strain the trackers, is it even a significant or an issue at all? Or is it something I should be concerned about? I would be heartbroken to get banned for something like this.

To give an idea of the scale: I have a few hundred torrents, therefore the script ends up requesting metadata for a couple of thousands of torrents within about half an hour.