plinky [he/him]

i can find random sites with some combination of words crack/hash/magnet, even with direct links, but unless you are willing to run it in virtual machine, this is just inviting viruses and getting pc broken, direct link websites are sketchier in that way.

in general, try to find the name of the group which cracked it, then try to find their site/forum where they first posted it, that’s somewhat reasonable-ish approach, but again their own website might be sketchy, not to mention lately this stuff happens on telegram anyway.

(tl;dr without virtual machine or your pc is clean from any of your info and passwords it’s very risky)

it definitely exists (at least on private trackers), but why you need a direct download?

i mean probably? but that some designer type shit (driver modifications/ram/bios or something) not that typical in civilized piracy circles, worst i got is some referal swaps/default sites in browsers 10 years ago

By itself - no, why would it? Cracked software will cause virus thingy to pop off anyway though, so either be careful with sources, or don’t have anything important on pc.

Like shenanigans protection of something unknown is trying it in vm first🫠, so it’s kinda on trust side of equation more often (see comments, trusted releaser etc)

(you can of course do some checks of registry, recently installed programs/processes/autorun settings etc, but something like encryption locker worms will fuck up your pc in a minute)

can’t you just force torrent program to use vpn as a only network connection

good idea to make cloudflare default middleman 🫠

(maybe you can change to some far removed dns, so that it would resolve to other cdn-s, if it’s a big website?)

yay, congrats

I meant jellyfin on xbox, they seem to have some version of it. If it works, then you are kinda golden, install jellyfin on pc, add a folder with movies as a library, and install clients where you need them, and it would work (if your ip on home network is fixed that is, would need some router fixing if not, cause it talks by ip:port to server (your pc)). Think jellyfin fixed sketchiest issues with transcoding, so it kinda not that involved on server side

ah, dunno how good their app is on xbox, it was abandoned for a long time :( roku should work fine though

i know i will be like a meme of “answers completely different question”, but jellyfin does this natively, so if you strictly need this for movies/media, maybe try it out?

also searching for “title_name” “magnet” is productive as well, either on ddg/ecosia/yandex (using torrent keyword instead brings results as well, but also sketch looking websites. also magnet links don’t require registration)

Fair enough 🙂 just have my own beef with streamio

But it’s no popcorn time or streamio, no? it doesn’t force your preferred client to download in streaming mode, or start playing when available/immediately depending on speed

cloudflare stuff mainly and coupling to rrr friends is understandable but involved process. But compared to streamio, where you search for stuff, select versions and can watch immediately, it is more involved

prowlarr? kinda sorta, but no easy interface

So guess russians will have to maintain their own fork of the kernel, and do their stuff on it? 🤷 as I’ve understood, they are (mainly or wholly) driver maintainers for some russian hardware