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Whenever thepiratebay goes down, it is a disaster for me to find anything online. The megathread is next to useless, taking me to all these crazy sites that don't have a torrent option. Instead, they have individual episode downloads of 600 episode TV series. And to access each individual episode, I have to click on a mirror that takes me elsewhere. Then, from that site, I have to click on something that takes me to another site. Then, I have to wait 10 seconds, then I have to confirm the download, then it asks me if I want to pay for premium, then it takes 30 minutes to download one episode.

I'm not actually sure what the community's goal is here. To me, it seems like the entire idea of piracy will go down if thepiratebay ever goes permanently down because this giant "community resource" we have is an utter cluster, with so much garbage shoved in it.

Outside of thepiratebay, how do you guys effectively perform any of the tasks one would want to do on a place like this?

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[–] djmarcone@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use qbittorrent, add the search tool to it, add all the search engines you can, and then let qbittorrent search all the torrent sites for you. Tpb is just 1 of many.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use prowlarr, sonarr, and radarr instead of all this.

[–] ColdCreasent@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, three programs instead of one with searching included in its functions?

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually four because you'll still need qbittorrent. These programs automate the whole process so all you need to do after setting them up is tell them what you want at what quality level and they'll take care of literally everything else.

[–] ColdCreasent@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I’ll take a look at the set. Thanks. May not end up using it but the idea of it all running after you set it up is nice.