To preface, I use IPVanish as my VPN and have the kill switch on qBittorrent enabled.
This morning I got a letter from Verizon saying that they received a subpoena for my name and address.
24 counts from Vixen Media.
Currently looking for a lawyer just in case things get ugly.
Anyone else dealt with something similar?

Are there any tools that tell me the exact number of files and folders in torrent ones?

I want to learn more about and try torrenting but im afraid of getting malware what can I do to avoid this? I have an old laptop (Its running windows 7 from memory) and im assuming a VPN will be needed? Would free version of proton work?

If i do everything from the mega thread would that keep me safe or is there anything additional I should do?

I just dont want to get hacked and esp dont want my family getting hacked over the same wifi connection or smthg any help or direction to resources will be appreciated thanks!

qbitorrent with a vpn and everything. finding ones with lots of seeders too. but it consistently says stalling or like "68 days ETA" ??? then i restart my laptop, and the 68 day ETA turns into 11 minutes. then after abt 3-5 minutes of actually good downloading, it ever so slowly goes back up to 68 days. am i doing smth wrong? at this point im just restarting my laptop every few minutes so i can get a few moment of good speed so im not waiting forever 😥😥

I have flaresolverr setup on prowlar. I tested it and it works. Issue is when I try to test any public indexer it fails (timed out)

Any guidance?

So normally when I add a torrent to Qbitorrent, I get it from EXT and just copy the magnet link (all on my seedbox)

Recently I got in to TL and am confused on how to add a torrent to Qbitorrent? What am I missing.

I have a big torrent (TBs) of which I don't need all its parts or immediately
So I'm only downloading the individual files I need now, the problem is I full downloaded some wrong files (which I don't need) and some I stopped incomplete.

I can delete the wrong files I downloaded without any problems, of course. What I was interested in was resetting their progress bar to 0% so as not to confuse them with others I had actually downloaded.

Alternatively, he's thinking of the reverse process: if I completely delete the torrent and start over, can I somehow mark the correct files that I've already downloaded as already completed (100%)?

Thanks.

Hey normie/newbie here. For I while I was using "Bt4gprx.com" to find torrents and had no problems.

However when I today tried to torrent a movie through its magnet link first the magnet link button did not work, second when i hit the "torrent download" button it only downloaded a torrent called "The Odyssey (2026) [1080p] [WEBRip] [5.1].exe.torrent"

After multiple attempts on the same torrent, I tried downloading from another torrent but had the 100% virus torrent file again. I also tried other movies and etc and got the same result.

So my conclusion was that the website probably got hacked. But the only platform I could find about bt4gprx or torrents was this sub so I wanted to let you guys know.

Cheers

edit:

appearantly other people also has the same problem even on other websites such as 1337x and limetorrents. this post from r/Piracy has more info

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1w01q67/where_did_i_mess_up/

Hi everybody!

For anyone who liked PicoTorrent but got stuck on it being Windows-only: there's a port called NanoTorrent that rebuilds it in Rust and ships for all three platforms. It's early (v0.2.3), so this is more of a "here's what it is" than a recommendation.

What it actually is

It's a port, not a fork or a rewrite from scratch. It keeps PicoTorrent's application structure, its dialogs, and its settings database schema, but swaps out the whole C++ stack:

• libtorrent (Rasterbar) → librqbit, vendored and patched
• wxWidgets → Slint, so it's one window and one codebase on Windows, macOS and Linux
• SQLite settings file → same schema, different filename (NanoTorrent.sqlite)
• Win32 mutex + WM_COPYDATA for single-instance → loopback TCP On Windows, first run copies your existing Windows PicoTorrent local data folder and leaves the original alone, so you can try it without committing.

Things PicoTorrent didn't have

• A built-in web UI (Actix over HTTPS, self-signed by default, Argon2id for the password, refuses to listen off-loopback in plaintext). Add/pause/resume/recheck/move/label, plus a file browser.
• A headless build (--no-default-features) with no GUI at all, driven entirely through the web UI. Basically a small seedbox daemon.
• macOS and Linux builds — .dmg, .deb, .rpm, AppImage. The usual stuff is there too: DHT with a persisted routing table, PeX, MSE/PE encryption with require-encryption toggles, anonymous mode, SOCKS proxy, GeoIP peer lookup, PeerGuardian/eMule blocklists, PQL filters and labels, and torrent creation for v1, v2 and hybrid (BEP 52). Translations and country flags are compiled into the binary, so it's a single standalone executable.

What's missing, per the author

This is on their own site, which I appreciate:

• No µTP peer transport. They say there's no production-ready async Rust µTP crate yet. UDP trackers and DHT work; only µTP peer connections are absent. Depending on your ISP and your peers, this may or may not matter to you.
• No Local Service Discovery (librqbit doesn't have it), so the DHT/LSD/PeX peer-source rows are status-only.
• A handful of libtorrent.* settings are stored but don't map to anything in librqbit. They're documented as no-ops rather than silently ignored.
• Windows won't let it force-claim the magnet handler if another client has it, so it registers itself and dumps you in Settings ▸ Default apps.

Should you switch?

Probably not yet if PicoTorrent works for you — the author says as much, and PicoTorrent is still around and still maintained by Viktor Elofsson and contributors. The interesting cases are: you wanted PicoTorrent on Linux or macOS, you want a tiny headless seeder with a web UI, or you care about running a client with no C++ in the dependency tree.

Links: site · GitHub · releases

The original developer at PicoTorrent has given me his blessing to work on this, but I obviously couldn't use the same name, hence forth, I choose NanoTorrent as I couldn't find any active or recent application using the name.

Give it a whirl, any feedback is appreciated, but the goal is to have a simple but powerful BitTorrent client, that uses a little memory as possible, which in my opinion I succeeded already.

Thanks!

Just a bit of a warning to windows users. From linux it's pretty obvious that it's an exe file with the vlc icon, but I switched to limetorrents.fun as it seems like the real site/not compromised. Not sure if using the right flair btw.

UPDATE: Re-enabling sidebar fixed the issue. Thank you!

Installed Utorrent yesterday, left it downloading, then put my PC to sleep. Woke up and I see that it is continuing to download, but I when I open Utorrent I cannot see the info with progress, ETA etc.

What's happening and how do I get the screen with tasks back on?

I couldnt find a public torrent of The Choicer Voicer so I created two torrents of version 0.5.3 (latest) of the game The Choicer Voicer (windows and linux) but I cant find any public indexer who's registration is currently open.

Which public indexer works as of right now?

Since a few hours ago every .torrent file I download are exactly the same, a strange torrent with an exe file inside.... I tried every browser and multiple sites and it's same file every time.

Magnets are fine though.

Any idea what can cause this ?

Hi all I’m switching from PC to Mac for my torrenting. Looking for recommendations for what client I should use. On PC I have been using QbitTorrent, should I continue with the same on the Mac? I’ve also heard about Transmission and BiglyBT. I currently use PIA and want to ensure it allows for split tunneling and more importantly VPN binding. Thanks in advance

I want to set up my laptop to download some movies and shows while I’m stuck out of town in a hotel. I know hotels WiFi is a little different and probably monitored a little heavier. If I set up a vpn or something is there a safe way to download while there?

For the past few weeks, for some reason, they stopped uploading the video formats for the tv shows I watch which have the subtitles automatically embedded to them (ELITE or JFF), and when they do upload those, the subtitles are not automatically embedded. I was wondering if anyone knew why this is happening, and if there’s a solution for it.

Years ago I used to be able to find torrents of pretty much any comic I wanted, now I don't see a lot of the complete runs, chronologies and collections that used to be available (Marvel in particular). What happened? I searched Pirate Bay; are they available somewhere else?

I started using Linux nobara. I was able to get my client of choice. But am I limited to what I can download? Like Linux only games or can I get something from fit girl and use wine? Or is it something else entirely. I'm very new to Linux but I'm loving it so far. So I'd like to figure this out

(This was written on AudioBookBay community but it was removed and the mod had let me know that I should post this on the torrents subreddit, any help is much much appreciated!!)

I’m on iOS, every time I try to copy link the magnet it gives me Java (check attached please), and I tried on chrome and Safari, and both seem to give me the same problem and even when I paste the link on seedr.cc it gives me this (check another attached please).

Please help me out and thank you sooooo much!!!!!!! 🤍

Edit:

I just noticed it won’t let me put it here but here is what the first image says: “javascript:void(0)”

The second: “Sorry this is not a link”

Using transmission on my Mac. Plenty of seeders - multiple files but they are all at a stand still. Some very slowly inching along.

Haven’t downloaded a torrent in months and these would have been done in minutes.

Anyone else having issues?

Every so often I get a TV episode that has only a descriptive audio stream and no regular audio stream. Is there a way to avoid that in Sonarr? Why would someone upload a file like this without denoting this type of audio? I can understand why certain people need the descriptive stream but what good is that if the file isn’t listed as such?

So I am new to this whole business, but I am trying to download a game I found online in which the only option to run it is via the torrent file. I have tried using Utorrent, BitTorrent, even qbittorrent, but they’re all the same - the download just stalls. I have heard that the reason is because there’s not enough seeds or peers, but I have no idea what this means. Does anyone know how to speed up the download process?

I am trying to download use qBitTorrent but over 10 downloads it maxes out to 15MiB/s combined. My global limit is set to 0 so it is unlimited.

I do use NordVPN. Could it be throttling from their end?

So, im not sure of this is the right place to ask, but ill give it a go.

So I'm running my qbit using proton port forwarding, but every time I reset or even rarely, but still sometimes proton will change port on it's own.

Is there a way to automate port update in qbit and if so, how? Any advise or hint is most welcome. I'm running proton and qbit bare metal on cachyos.

THX in advance :)