I use a seedbox to run qBittorrent with Jackett, and have a bunch of sources on there. I know there are other methods, but that works for me and I’m comfortable with it.
Rarbg has been gone for about five months and it’s harder and harder to find 4k TV rips. For current shows, sometimes you can get episodes as they air, but it’s rare to see full seasons.
The tipping point was when I searched for a Netflix show from two weeks ago just now, with zero 4K results.
I’ve always hated private trackers since they’re a pain in the ass, but is that the only option now? Do I need to look at a different method entirely? I’ve been torrenting since that existed, but if I need to do something else, let me know.
I don’t expect to get torrent sites in any responses, but you can do that if you have any 😂
Plenty of them on Stremio and with the Torrentio addon
For some shows I’ve noticed that it’s not too difficult to get around half of their seasons in 4K, with the 4K releases for the remaining seasons being seemingly nowhere, whether it be on public trackers, private trackers, or usenet. Doesn’t seem to be an issue of shows only being shot in 4K after their first few seasons, as in some cases the 1st and 3rd seasons may have 4K releases without the 2nd season having one, for instance.
Private trackers (e.g. TorrentLeech) often have rules around large torrents (>15gb) or even around season packs for shows. This means it’s trivial to download 4K season packs, and all you have to do is seed them for the requisite number of days (to avoid being tagged with a hit and run), rather than try to maintain a ratio.
I’ve been able to found them in 1337x and TorrentGalaxy
I use both sources daily. 4K TV has notably disappeared from them in the past few months.
The segment of pirates that try to hunt for the highest quality are a small niche. Most pirates will sacrifice just to have it.
Most of the stuff I want to watch, even without piracy, isn’t even originally broadcast in 4K to begin with so there is obviously no 4K rips for those.
Man streaming services are even now making it hard to watch their content in 4k so yeah like, I’ve stopped expecting to see others ripping at that resolution, and will mostly only seek it out if it’s something that deserves to be watched in 4k.
Where is the best place for Debrid users to find 4k content since private trackers are a no go for us?
- hdencode org (best public one)
- rlsbb ru
- scene-rls net
Private trackers have had everything I’ve ever actually wanted to watch in 4K (assuming it was filmed that way to begin with)
I think it’s about audience. People who care about quality and bitrates and such usually have their couple of private trackers. People who just want to watch things regardless of quality just get whatever
That’s what I’m asking. Until recently, one didn’t need to bother with private trackers unless they wanted, say, a 4K rip of Suspiria from 1977, or some other incredibly specific thing. Private trackers, at least to me, were more trouble than they were worth. Why should I deal with them at all when I can get everything I need without begging for an invite and then annoying myself?
As a result, I have never joined a private tracker, not ever.
But now? I’m not sure. Something does seem to have changed systemically.
There are semi private trackers out there that you can get an invite fairly easy, as do open signups pretty often.
You don’t need to think about it too much, as most 4K content usually crosses the trigger for freeleech. That means you are fine as long as you don’t do a Hit ’n Run, which in itself is an asshole thing to do.
I have a fully automated system and don’t even bother checking where I am downloading from, or what my ratios are, all is taken care in the background.
Do you mind if I ask more details about your system?
The whole Arr suite, plus others. I have a 24/7 low power machine running the following on unRAID with containers:
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Prowlarr
- Overserr
- qBittorrent
- a VPN container
- Recyclarr
- cross-seed
- qbit manage (this is key)
- unpackerr
- autobrr
I have more of course but this is what’s relevant to you.
I also have some custom scripts for patching some things up to my like.
