Over 30 anime piracy websites shut down
Holy crap! Are any private trackers hit?
streaming sites like Aniwave
Oh so nothing changes for me, gotchu. They could’ve been clearer in the title.
I2P ftw
2.75 TB and counting of minimum 1080p x265 media at relatively high bitrates (although anime’s still <200GB). Should probably invest in a nas at some point and maybe try figuring out the arr stack again (I’m too dumb and tired these days apparently)
Not the largest collection by any stretch, I know, but it’s mine and with Jellyfin, waaaay better than paying >$100 for multiple streaming services and still not finding anything good to watch
Smug frieren is good
She knows what makes men happy
Not just men i think
Torrenting will become huge again
I mean… when did it stop being huge?
It’s just back to business as usual.
Hugest
Like others I’ve seen torrenting my episodes instead, but man… I miss the convenience.
Don’t get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they’re the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I’m typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it… it’s a bit of a bother, you know.
Hey.
Want convenience?
Miru is more convenient than even crunchyroll from what I experienced.
Awesome, thanks!
I’m curious how it handles the low seed torrents. You know, the ones with like 3 seeders that aren’t guaranteed to be active and the only meaningful progress you’ll make comes from one random Swedish person with really good internet that comes online at odd hours of the night…
I’ve been recommended to use this by a friend, and miru does not disappoint
I mainly use it to watch the remaining episodes that I havent added to my jellyfin server yet tho
Going to test this later, thank you!
Any updates?
I miss the convenience.
I busted off my convenience for a little bit when setting up Plex + Riven + Zurg (the same could be said about my Arr stack) after that huge learning curve it is all about convenience baby, I get all my stuff in all my devices with one single account, keep the progress of the full library even pair it up with services such as Trakt, and I can even share the love.
For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.
It’s a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it’s done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)
I just tested this now. This is brilliant, thank you for the idea! I wasn’t even aware that the torrent site could generate RSS for search queries!
For now I’m simply following those RSS feeds through liferea, but later on I might even automate it further.
I use Taiga for tracking anime, and it can auto download torrents, my torrent client can auto add torrents downloaded by taiga. For airing stuff I don’t auto download things using taiga though, as it will usually take the first and best torrent it finds, so I opt to just check what’s foud and double click the matches when they are the right version.
And Netflix/Hulu/etc. new accounts are skyrocketing, I presume?
It would be funny if no observable increase in new user happens
I feel like all people recommending torrenting here are not really understanding the users of those streaming portals. I use them because I dont want to torrent the newest anime epiaode every week and I dont want any automated torrenting setups, because every mistake/fuck up might result in a 3 to 4 digit fine.
I torrent when it actually makes sense for me (high quality or offline viewing) and stream the rest. I am grateful for all those that provide me with those streaming sites and I regularly recommend them to friends after I install an adblocker for them.
They are pointing to a solution, not saying streaming is bad.
Where are you that you could face such a steep punishment? Setting up safe, automatic tormenting is really easy
It’s legitimately a non issue, set the torrent software to only connect to the VPN end point
Germany
Knew someone who torrented just a few episodes of some series some years ago. The initial claims from the chamber of lawyers “Waldorf Frommer” was about 1000€ which could be reduced to a few 100€ by objecting. Just did a search for “kanzlei torrents” to see if that specific lawyers are still at it. Seems it’s an industry now with initial demands going up to 2000€ and more.
Haven’t torrented anything apart from linux iso’s for years because of that.
Why don’t you just use real debrid or something and stream the torrents remotely?
I am gonna give you a couple answers for that based on what I have read in other places such as Reddit, perhaps OP does not agree with them.
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RD or debrid services in general are paid services and it goes against their piracy beliefs (This is the silliest thing I could ever read… It only makes sense if you don’t care for quality and/or you haven’t tried a debrid service in your life).
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Streaming torrents even paired with debrid services or VPNs (not needed when using a debrid service, or in some countries for bare torrenting) is more cumbersome than just using a website (even in this day and age when Stremio exists), which I kinda agree with them… But you get what you pay for… Am I right?
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They just don’t have a clue of what a debrid service is.
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Sounds like streaming from a streaming site with extra steps. But yeah when I torrent I use a cheap seedbox and then download from there to my own hardware.
You could do a semi-automated system where you have all your currently airing in RSS, but still need to manually start them. It’d at least save you from having to go searching every time.
Sounds cool, maybe I will try this when I play around with piracy tools again
Seedbox?
I use one, but its a cheap legacy contract and I literally just torrent there, seed till I have a ration if 1 and then download to my own hardware
My favorite anime website is down; good thing FMHY has a bunch of great ones to choose from. Migrating sucks, though.
Do streaming sites actually work for others? Like reliably? At least for me, sometimes they work okay, and I can watch a movie without any buffering, but most of the time I have to deal with lots and lots of buffering. Sometimes every few seconds even. Maybe it’s because of the VPN? Never tried it without. But then again, even with a VPN, I get around 75Mbps.
So. What android apps and extensions are still best? Dantotsu with extensions seems hit and miss. Probably due to these takedowns.
Thank God we have torrents, but what makes me most sad about this is that many of these sites have unique catalogs that torrents don’t have or that you can never get seeds from… being honest, I would 100% migrate to torrent if it didn’t have this small big problem.
Cut off one head and two more shall appear. Hail hydra!
Good riddance, the less people who watch anime the better our society will be as a whole
Surely this is a troll.
