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IMO just join a private group and use Plex.

You'll never have any ISP woes/issues.

As long as private trackers have absurd seeding rules and require you to sign up (initially) without your VPN active, I won't be touching them with a ten foot socket.

Get a seedbox and set it to seed indefinitely, you solve both problems at once.

Just buy a hard drive.

Why are you so afraid of them knowing your IP?

People running such trackers usually have no idea about security, they‘ll likely put your IP in an excel sheet, for law enforcement to take when their home is raided.

there was one tracker that suffered this, 32p.

From what I have seen about published seeding rules most trackers as switching to pretty reasonable rules. Typically the only major sin is not seeding for a minimum length of time (usually a few days). Then there are ratio rules but these are typically assisted by bonuses for long seeding even with no downloads and freeleach for new and popular torrents. There are still a few trackers where the site ratio stat is zero-sum but for the most part this isn't the case. As long as you do make content available you will not be punished.

The challenge is twofold on “elite” private trackers:

1. Getting into the tracker requires ratio proof from other reputable trackers.

2. Freeleech becomes less common, which makes maintaining a >1.0 ratio difficult without a seedbox and IRC based tools (eg, autobrr).

I think they mean join a group that uses a shared Plex server. People sell slots on their own servers with an automated/semi-automated request workflow for new content.

Plex saved me from my Samsung TV's abysmal UPnP client.

If you happen to go down the same route I did and eventually get frustrated with Plex's frankly abysmal apps and interfaces (the server is terrific though) I cannot recommend Infuse enough as a replacement. I HATED the Plex Apple TV app and infuse is a fantastic replacement.

Depending on what features you want (I'm not sure how it is with, say, streaming outside your LAN) Jellyfin works pretty well for me and is extremely simple to set up.

Use Jellyfin over Plex, it is open source for one thing and it's not being enshittified as Plex is, as Plex tries to generate revenue from notoriously cheap customers, by definition.

Anywhere I can find jellyfin shares?

How?

I know reddit had censored and shut the sub down but in past I used r/plexshare. You probably could just search for one on yandex or something. Google sucks for a search like that. The problem I had with plex was it can at any moment be shut down. Plex is actively looking for those sharing services like this and shutting them down. Then it would be offline from anywhere from 1hr to 12 hours. Usually pretty quick but more then one night I sit to watch my show and it had been shut down. I used a site called all media access I believe and they charged $10 a month. It was however with it in my opinion. They have since moved off plex and on to something like iptv but I just am not with them anymore so don’t know the details. But if I was you check out all media access.

You might look into seedboxes, I use feral hosting, basically it’s a server someplace where torrenting is legal that you run a remote torrent client on. Then on a server in my house I sync the files locally with syncthing and run plex locally.

Jellyfin is another similar app to plex but it’s open source and while promising is not quite there yet for what I want out of a media app.

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