Been out of the piracy scene for a bit, maybe about 6 months to a year, as I basically have been good with the streaming services I already sign up for. But this past week I’ve rebuilt my setup (my mini server died), and tested it by trying to torrent something yesterday just to make sure I still can, and I noticed Torrent Galaxy was down. Then I saw some articles that it’s been down a lot lately. Does anyone know what’s going on? Or was it fine and it was just something on my side, like a DNS issue?
I hope it’s fine because that was the best public tracker I knew. For example, the show I was looking for to test my setup with couldn’t be found on 1337x (TPB ended up coming through but I don’t trust that site as much as I used to). Are they really cracking down on public tracker indexes right now? Have any good alternatives popped up yet? Is there anything we as a community can do to get around or resist these efforts?
I’m not even a diehard pirate, I like the efficiency and user friendliness of paid services or products, I just like it to be an option when I want to punish companies for customer unfriendliness (ex: I stopped paying for Netflix when they prevented sharing outside of household), and without public trackers the hobby feels too niche and exclusive.
Torrent Galaxy has been rather unreliable since it changed owners. I would keep an eye out for open signups on any decent private trackers.
Didn’t know they changed owners. That’s unfortunate.
@cmnybo @WanderingVentra how does one go about finding a private tracker and can they be added to the search function in qbittorrent?
One way to find a private tracker is to monitor /r/OpenSignups. I would suggest using the RSS feed so you can get notified of new posts. Most trackers are only open for a short time. Don’t bother with the new trackers that constantly pop up, they don’t have enough users to maintain a good ratio easily. Be sure to get into TorrentLeech next time they open signups, that’s a good general purpose tracker and it’s very easy to maintain your ratio there.
Another way is to get into MyAnonaMouse, Orpheus, or Redacted through an interview and use the invites forum to get into other trackers.
There are unofficial qBittorrent search plugins for some private trackers. If you can’t find a plugin for the tracker you want, you could always use Jackett.
I second TorrentLeech. It’s a great tracker
@cmnybo thanks again, i got it sorted in feedly
Thank me later.
Thanks!!!
Website changed, but it is still out there.
Edit: syntax
Gotcha. Good to know. So it’s like TPB would change domains or hosts every couple months in the old days? Lol
