Popular torrent site TorrentGalaxy has been offline for two weeks, with no explanation from its operators. Members of the site’s staff are also being kept in the dark, and many fear the site may never return. To the delight of copyright holders, the site’s troubles are now being felt across the torrent ecosystem after the site’s upload bots also stopped working.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 days ago

    RIP. Though personally I haven’t used them in years since cloudflare was blocking prowlarr.

      • @[email protected]
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        47 days ago

        I’ve tried! but recently it seems to not work anymore? Github seems to imply it doesnt after my failed attempt (it picked up requests but cloudflare bot protection beats it).

        i think there’s other alternatives that can beat cloudflare bot detection but now that Ive got access to 2 private trackers I’m not usually picking through public stuff now.

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    487 days ago

    Saddens me. I mean we are starting to lose good sites; RARBG, ZippyShare and now maybe TorrentGalaxy (and 1ficher?).

    • @[email protected]
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      267 days ago

      True, but like any piracy system there are endless heads to the hydra that pop up every time. 1ficher is a bit worse since those files are gone, but at least mirrors for trackers have some utility in finding old torrent swarms.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    237 days ago

    Sad that one of my favorite go-to sites for shows/movies is slowly dying. I hope the site gets itself together and can keep running.

    • FundMECFS
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      147 days ago

      Same. To be fair, 1337x and TPB work fine, but idk why I just really liked TGX

      • @[email protected]
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        57 days ago

        I just cannot bring myself to go to TPB in this day and age. It got too mainstream and seems like prime honeypot material now

    • FundMECFS
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      287 days ago

      The beauty of torrents is it’s completely free to use (+ decentralisation rocks). Unfortunately usenet doesn’t have that.

    • Dr. Taco
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      87 days ago

      Genuine question…why’s this comment getting downvoted?

      I use both torrents and usenet in my setup, and none of the usenet sites I frequent have done down like the big torrent sites in recent years. It seems like a reasonable suggestion.

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        6 days ago

        Usenet is harder to use

        Usenet is more expensive

        As someone who’s been around a while, I disagree. The tools now are so much easier than those when ISPs mirrored usenet, and the cost is so much less than just internet back then

        • Chewy
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          I don’t think Usenet is really more difficult to use than Torrents. While writing I noticed you have to pay for a Usenet provider (and likely the indexer too), which does make it more difficult than torrent. But only if you live in a region where piracy is not persecuted and you can skip the VPN.

          Usenet: You buy a provider and put it’s credentials into sabNZBd. You have an indexer, which gives you a .nzb, which you put into sabNZBd to download your files. If your provider is missing pieces the download might fail.

          Torrent: You buy a VPN and bind qBittorrent to it. You have an tracker, which gives you a .torrent, which you out into qBittorrent to download your files. If there’s no seeder or you aren’t port forwarded the download might fail.

        • thedrizzle
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          The Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/etc team, and their support forums/subreddit are seriously the worst about this. Nearly every question, concern, or request with regard to torrent trackers is met with a smug response about usenet.

          Assholes have started exploiting Sonarr’s torrent pulling system to trick it into downloading fucking malware on people’s computers, and rather than acknowledge this is an issue their users are facing and they should try and do something to help them, they’ve done nothing, expecting users to deal with it in their clients and through addons. The implication is if you’re not using usenet, they don’t care what their software puts on your computer. It’s your fault for using public trackers.

      • @[email protected]
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        197 days ago

        Is usenet the Arch of piracy? Like in every thread about torrents someone jumps in with “I use usenet btw”