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Really sad to hear this. I basically built my entire Plex server with RARBG.

Anyone have any solid private tracker recommendations for movies and TV shows?

After taking advantage of public trackers like RARBG, I feel like it's my time to give back.

The problem with private trackers isn’t availability, it’s getting in the door. You typically need to grind for 3-6 months on newer private trackers before you can get an invite to more well-established trackers.

Unless you know someone already on the tracker and they are willing to vouch for you.

If you want a list head over to /r/trackers and use the search function.

They were hard to get into 20 years ago, and from what I hear it seems to be nearly impossible now. Seems like they've protected themselves by staying small and not inviting strangers. I know some haven't distributed invites to general members (in good standing) for years.

I recommend registering on some usenet indexer instead.

I download all my linux ISO's through usenet these days.

Games? Or other software?

That almost costs more than actually paying for the content.

I pay ~$100 year and it's a far better experience than I've ever had with torrents

You also have to associate credit card info with illegal activity that leads directly back to your physical self. Pass.

Nope. Most accept crypto.

Well unless it's Monero, it's still just as traceable and you pay twice as much in various transfer fees.

nope, bitcoin, doge and many others are pseudonymous and as long as you are not retarded enough to buy it someplace which requires KYC, it is stupidly difficult to trace it to your identity. Especially in court.

Usenet is good for mainstream/relatively new content, but it's not easy to find less popular/old stuff there.

My experience has been opposite, actually. A couple times I got content from Usenet when all torrents I could find were already dead. (Usually I then seed those torrents, if the files from Usenet match)

Hasn't binary Usenet been dead for something like a decade? Anything on the public NZB indexers got DMCA'd very quickly even many years ago.

Well, there are also semi-private and private indexers. The binary stream size grows every week.

check out /r/trackers

also watch entry level trackers for open invites. speed, iptorrents, torrentleech, etc

https://1337x.to/

Torrent leech is great for movies and tv.

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