I'm using mldonkey which supports many p2p protocols. For the edonkey protocol it required a `server.met.gz` file to connect to more servers. Do I need something like that for the rest of the netwroks? overnet, kademlia, bittorrent, opennap, soulseek, gnutella, gnutella2, fasttrack, directconnect, fileTP.

Interesting discussion on r/torrents

libby scrapes Library Genesis with curl and pup and gives you a list of downloads with fzf. I made this because I felt the alternatives were too slow. Feel free to add issues/feature requests/PRs! The tool is available on the AUR as libby-git. [GitHub](https://github.com/carterprince/libby) [Source](https://github.com/carterprince/libby/blob/main/libby)

Master piece or train wreck. People seem to be split on if it was good or not

I'm downloading a torrent with many files and it's been at 99.7% for a few months. I would like to know how to search on emule for the same files? I've thought maybe I can get the hash for a file in qbittorrent but I couldn't and even if I had it, there isn't a database with all the hashes for a file so I couldn't find the emule hash with the bittorrent one.

On [Envy](https://github.com/GetEnvy/Envy) with the default settings and DC++ connection enabled, I've only got 2 G2 hubs, 3 G1 peers, and 1 DC++ hubs after 30 minutes. Only 6 neighbors in total. Is this normal? How do I get more connections? Specially on eDonkey where it hasn't achieved a single connection. And clicking on `Update eDonkey server list from the web. (.MET file)` gives a `Download connection to http://peerates.net/servers.php was lost` error. Does anyone know a way of editing this `.MET` file manually?

::: spoiler Where is the true succesor to eMule? Most of you will say that the succesor to eMule is BitTorrent as it is the most widely used P2P network today, but there are some things that BitTorrent lacks and eMule provides. The most notorious for me are the following: Built-in network-wide search Easy sharing Unique links Maybe you don't consider this features important, but the fact is that with the approach BitTorrent takes, we are highly dependent on central points that make the network vulnerable. With BitTorrent we depend on trackers and link listing websites to share content. A torrent client is useless on its own if we don't have a link listing site to get torrents or magnet-links from. On the other side, with the built-in search eMule provides, one can start downloading without the need for a website to take links from. Easy sharing is also very important, because it provides more peers to download files from. This is specially important on rare files, because with torrents the seeds to download a file can become scattered between different torrents and there can be 5 different torrents seeding the same data, yet they don't share peers. It is clear that one torrent with multiple seeds is preferred that multiple torrents with one seed each, for example. When there is one single way to identify a file on the network (like with ed2k hashlinks) even the less tech-savvy users are able to contribute. Sharing on eMule is as simple as dropping the file you want to share on your incoming folder (even if it is not the optimal way to do it). In BitTorrent, you must download an existing torrent file or magnet link, stop the download, replace the half downloaded files with the ones you already had downloaded, making sure that you use the same directory structure and filenames that are defined in the torrent, recheck the torrent and start it, all this in order to share files you had downloaded previously. Tell a noob user to do that to help you download some rare file... And now imagine that you have an entire drive full of sharing material, but the directory structure and filenames differ from the ones used on the torrents (because you like to keep things ordered in your hard drive). This scenario makes it impossible to share those files on the torrent network without creating brand new torrents, so you can't contribute and be one more seed on already existing torrents. Why not use eMule then? Because it's slow, inneficient, and there is practically only one client that is no longer actively developed. Searching for alternatives, the most similar program that has various clients and is multiplatform is Direct Connect, but it is not decentralized, and different servers don't communicate with each other, so peers for the same file are not shared globally and instead are scattered around different hubs Is there really no other program that works the way eMule does? Is there no true spiritual succesor to eMule nowadays? ::: - [My project idea](https://git.disroot.org/hirrolot19/Jedi_Archives) - [Comparison of file-sharing applications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file-sharing_applications) - [Best p2p network to bulk share stuff?](https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/ayo1hu/best_p2p_network_to_bulk_share_stuff/) - [List of P2P protocols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P2P_protocols) - [What are your favorite file-sharing applications?](https://lemmy.ml/post/335082) - [Alternatives to soulseek](https://reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/plt569/good_alternatives_to_soulseek/) - [How to search and download unpopular and old files on the internet](https://medium.com/@ValdikSS/how-to-search-and-download-unpopular-and-old-files-on-the-internet-e5947ef507ba)

If someone downloads something illegal will I get in trouble because of the i2p network? There was someone who was [raided after using tribler](https://old.reddit.com/r/torrents/comments/30jlz0/raided_after_using_tribler/) and I don't know if this is the same. I've also seen soulseek but there was only music. Is there any other?

Share big torrent media collections.

... 2 times, transcribed it from memory, and produced one of the earliest records of musical piracy.

It's not loading me right now and I don't know of any other websites with so many torrents.

For a program I'm doing with torrent integration. I would like to know what are things it would be useful to store about torrents. Besides magnet link, seeds and leeches. For example popularity, upvotes and downvotes? Comments so people can say if they've found a virus? Uploader nickname?

I've downloaded [Star Trek](https://btdig.com/f280df13e9f479778fb70300ddc367ac6c4d1c31/%22star-trek-=-the-complete-13-tv-series-(1966=present)%22) and I would like to download the subtitles for all the episodes automatically instead of downloading them one by one. How can I do that? Edit: I've found bazarr. But the documentation shows how to configure it while using sonarr. How do I use it on it's own?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/256669 > Anyone know if a self-hosted VPN is 100% secure?

Looking for a book I've found it in a collection with many books starting by a letter. But if I download it I would like to download also the rest of the letters. How would you search for it? I've found the torrent at [btdig.com](https://btdig.com). The torrent is: [T, 51516 files, 629.43 GB, found 1 month ago](https://btdig.com/2f07a9dc00624ce93ec105782722a9a60a4fde95/%22time-of-contempt%22) [🧲](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2f07a9dc00624ce93ec105782722a9a60a4fde95&dn=T&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce)

I'm running a similar script, and it's great. Takes a minute to find less popular films, but broadly works fine.

I haveint forgotten [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines)'s [Favorite apps and services](https://lemmy.ml/post/28944/comment/436), and in particular his recommendation for torrents VPN (AirVPN, Mullvad, NordVPN, ProtonVPN). I've never used a VPN, and so far no issues (not really an avid consumer, but I've occasionally done torrenting for ~20 years). I use the pseudo encryption supported, and in particular, I use rtorrent wiht: `protocol.encryption.set = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry` For sure that doesn't really mask it, but obfuscates a bit the torrenting from ISP providers, which are not doing a hard work looking for torrenting. Regarding privacy, my understanding is one should trust no one, :) And it's hard for me to understand why it doesn't apply to VPNs... At any rate, from those suggestions, as of now, which is the one somehow better at protecting one's identity, privacy and security? That would be my major concern, and if there's a way to keep that with port forwarding. Not interested on fastest, but rather safest... I'm wondering how on earth I've never had issues, when I always read not using a VPN is sort of nuts.

I would like to use something like btdigg but where I can search with filters like size>1 gb or age<1 year and combine things like that. And also BTDigg only shows results for 100 pages, I would like to go from beginning to end without limits. Is there something like that?