So I’ve been getting back into torrenting because I’m fed up with the inability to actually own the music I pay for. I used to torrent a lot back in the day, mostly music with a bit of anime and obscure/foreign movies and TV shows here and there, but that was a long time ago. I had been going back to the most famous of all coastal bodies of water where buccaneers reside, but I just tried too go there only to find it’s currently not working. I know from lurking here that 1337x and rargb are no longer safe and LT doesn’t have much to offer. All I want is music, but it seems most places are geared towards TV and movies. Where does an audiophile turn to in times like these?

  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ive seen posts how 1337 is not safe, but I use it with no problem. You have to be carefull with all public torrents and you should be fine. All public torrents are the same imo, you should be careful with any online source anyway. Its always better to join private tracker and even better private tracker dedicated to music. Alternatively you can pay for usenet. Cant recommend any usenet, but I think torrentleech is nice general purpose tracker. Redacted for music, but that one is probably hard to join.

    Anyway check lidarr, its awesome downloader for music. Its open source and you can use it with any torrent or usenet provider. Its not good like sonarr and radarr imo, but stil next level experience. Servarr ftw

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      1 year ago

      Those posts are people running wild with a hint of a conspiracy going on and many people immediately jumped on the bandwagon. You’re completely right and not every site will be 100% safe, but it’s not like there is some conspiracy with the mods getting paid off for malicious content. That’s just absurd to consider with the “evidence” provided.

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        1 year ago

        Especially when the “evidence” is coming from Empress, of all people.