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I have a newly created torrent file. the tracker response when I try to upload is:

"One or more of the files or folders in the torrent has a name that contains the forbidden character '?'. Please rename the files as necessary and recreate the torrent.

Note: The complete list of characters that are disallowed are shown below:
: ? < > \ * | "

I have gone thru the files and file names and removed any instance of ?.

If I open the .torrent file in a text app there are dozens of ?'s in the hash, not sure what else to do?

I have never had this before and following the same routine I always do.

Im a very casual user of torrent software.

Have been using PIA (Private Internet Access) for years now, mostly because it was the cheapest option I could find when choosing.

Recently, I noticed that LOTS of my torrents stall or never start.

Sometimes it seems that swapping to a different VPN server/location gets it going again.

Would switching to another VPN potentially alleviate my stalling/never starting issues?

Other potential theories:

• I'm just trying to find more obscure stuff these days and less people are seeding
• There are less people seeding in general these days so you'll have to learn to live with it
• Swapping torrent software would make a difference (currently using transmission)
• Something else?

Would love some insight from someone more knoweledgeable than me 😆

Boggles the mind that there have been zero mentions on here of probably one of the most searched for torrents. Any news on when this might show up?

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I have not the chance to be invited on private trackers but I'm trying to build a ratio by myself without cheats.

I’m trying to install a torrent on my Windows (whatever the latest one is) laptop. I downloaded an app from the App Store called Torrent Downloader HD which was ready to go but I backed off when it asked me to pay (wasn’t sure about giving my credit card) and I couldn’t find any info on the app. I downloaded uTorrent, but it won’t open it. I’ve tried dragging and dropping the file on the website, right click Open and double clicking. Nothing happens.

All I need is to choose a VPN. I am going to be torrenting with IPTorrents using qBittorrent. That's it. I just need a VPN that I can leech/seed. I guess one that can also geounlock. Plain and simple. Help me choose. There seem to be so many options and complicated things going on, but I just want it to work and be safe. I just want to click the button and not have issues.

Is something with socks5 a good idea?

What do I choose?

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Thank you everyone! ProtonMail seems like it's going to be the best fit for me. Thank you for the input.

I run BiglyBT, because I truly enjoy the flexibility and power it provides. IMO nothing comes even close to BiglyBT/Vuze/Azureus in that regard.

But I have been looking over my existing seeding, and have noticed that a number of torrents from a long time ago - a decade-plus, in some cases - simply aren’t seeding out any more. I am seeing an “Up Idle” in the years, with some of them being idle for the last 5 years. Which means that nothing has requested anything from these torrents in a damn long time.

My current pruning strategy is something like this:

• Examine age. Start with the oldest torrents
• Are there zero peers?
• Are there zero leechers?
• Is the Up Idle measured in years (ideally 3+)?
• Is the share ratio less than 20 (ideally <1)?

Then I prune.

Obviously, my keep strategy is pretty much the opposite:

• Are there less than 2 peers?
• Are there any leechers?
• Is the Up Idle less than 1 year (ideally <1mo)?
• Is the share ratio 20+ (min. >2)?

Then I definitely keep, because there is still active demand for them.

As of now, I have pruned my torrents from 3K+ down to about 1,500, with the currently-oldest torrent being a PDF of Excel 2016 for Business Statistics from 8 years ago (to the day, actually!) still being actively leeched. It only has a share ratio just shy of 500. Other younger torrents are getting close to share rations of 5,000+.

Aside from just indiscriminate removal, does anyone employ a different strategy?

I am trying to downlaod this and my internet speed when i speed test is around 40-45mbps which is around 4-5mb/s but my downlaod speed is like always lower than 2MB/s but my upload speed is going like 3-4Mb/s.

Y is that?

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I heard lot about Rutracker but to my surprise I could not find REMUX torrents of latest releases. Am I missing anything

Yo is vpn needed for torrenting? I live in Czechia and here no one really gives a shit i think, but still, im so broke, i dont even have money to buy bread, and i cant really afford paying for vpn, do i need vpn, if yes can i use some free one like proton?

Hi! Im new to this. I first torrented this version of a game: https://dodi-repacks.site/803-thehunter-call-of-the-wild-v1898534-all-dlcs-multi10-dodi-repack/

but I want to update to this version: https://www.skidrowcodex.net/thehunter-call-of-the-wild-salzwiesen-park-tenoke/

How can I update this game without losing any progress? Thanks and sorry if this is dumb question!

The torrent clouds won't see the IP address assigned to you by your ISP, in fact they cannot even determine your ISP, so they can't report your activity to your ISP. They will only see the IP address assigned to you by Cloudflare. They might report your activity to Cloudflare, but like any VPN, Cloudflare explicitly guarantees never to attach any of those requests back to you, or your IP address. They ignore them, just like the ISPs usually do.

Cloudflare WARP took me less than 1 minute to download AND install. I mean it's like 5 clicks.

And of course you should bind it to your torrent client, so it only works when you are connected to Cloudflare.

Every 9 months or so, our Xfinity data usage randomly surges and we get overcharged. The data cap is really high, it's like 1200GB or something crazy, and month to month we typically use maybe 700GB MAX. But so far this month Xfinity are claiming we've used over 1300GB of data and exceeded the cap.

Our usage and practices have been totally normal and consistent month-to-month, no visitors using our Wi-Fi, nothing like that. The only thing I can think of is that I torrented a couple movies and seasons of some old TV shows, but those all together only comprise about 50GB of actual files. Does torrenting those files use massively more data than the size of the files themselves, or am I missing something?

Can someone please explain to me how you run .exe It's my first time pirating and I don't know much about it as a whole so please I can't figure it out

Hi

I need some help regarding my the torrent setup I want to realise:

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I have the following questions:
- What does need to go behind a VPN? I have qBittorent behind one, what else?
- What role does Oversee/Jellyseer play?
- What role does Sabnbzget play?
- I heard Prowlaar should be used in favour of jackett, as it is more modern and basically bases on jackett, but as far as I can tell, jackket is integrated into qbittorrent and qbittoren is integrated into prowlaar via api.
- Do I need anything else?

Thanks a lot!

BTW: Thanks a lot for these awesome explanations here: https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/zdpd9k/automation_for_dummies_or_how_i_learned_to_love/ from u/Depraved_Sinner

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The attached image is of the file its tweaking over

I've been using Bittorrent for ears now but i want to switch to a safer option (that also does not install bloatware). Any options?

I'm trying to download an open matte version of a movie. The only 2 torrents I could find were a 480p version 1.5gb and a 50gb version, which is bigger than any movie I've ever downloaded, it's 4k.

I'm pretty sure my 11-12 yo laptop is just too old to play without stuttering the image. Even after trying to change a heap of the vlc settings.

It also doesn't have English audio because the uploader is Russian and it's got the Russian Dub. So I need to somehow extract an English audio file from a different torrent and add to this torrent, is this possible?

My other option is to watch on the tv with my headset connected to my laptop, playing the audio file from a different video on my laptop, which would be a massive pain as I'd have to press pause/play at the exact same time and attempt to sync up the laptop audio with the tv video

I'm frustrated because I simply cannot watch movies with 20% of the image chopped off, when I know there is an open matte version.

I’ve been paying for NordVPN for a couple months now, but someone posted in a previous post that they used a free vpn, so what’s up with that? What do use, what is your experience ?

I created a torrent of a movie and I really want to share it in public torrents sites but the ones I usually use don't have that option (1337x and Torrents downloads). Where I can share my torrent file?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/s/1OZ3HIRzBL

I cannot find the comment/post where someone suggested this site. So posting to tell others about it.

I’ve been on the torrent train for 20+ years. I use YTS.MX and PB. I used to use others over the years. I was curious if I’m missing a better way to find media? Thanks!

Does anyone have any good free vpn recommendations? When I search up free vpn, all I get is proton vpn(free version doesn't do torrents, or at least I can't make it), or some vpn that needs a free trial, which requires a credit card or something. An alternative would be telling me how protonvpn can be used freely with torrents. Thank you in advance.

Why is it that when I choose something to download it stalls and never starts, stuck on 0. Although the file has seeders. Im new to this so I would really appreciate an advice

So, I’m trying to download a couple of shows by a Dutch comedian named Bert Visscher. I found torrents on multiple sites, but unfortunately, there are no seeders. Is there any solution to this problem? Or does anyone know of a torrent site that mainly offers Dutch content? Or do I need specific Dutch trackers? Thank you!"

So yesterday for the fun of it.

I came up with this idea of torrenting (a 60gb game) on my old samsung A51. I bought the Flud+ as I had google play creds on it for free.

I formatted my portable ssd (512gb BX500) to exFAT (256kb) as NTFS wasnt* readable to android unless I had a middle man software which I didnt like the idea of (paragon).

So it detects now in exfat 500gb drive. However. When downloading torrent directly in it. I get a message: “Not enough storage” even though 500gb is free of use (465gb) and the game is 58gb in size.

How do I resolve this? As it gives me the leverage to use my pc and at the same time I get the game downloaded and ready directly for installation.

Edit: I just finished downloading (a 55gb game) after “download anyway”. It took the same time as downloading on internal drive and moving it.

But why is Flud+ giving me that notification of “Not enough storage” though did it completed the download.

I downloaded a folder full of videos. After I watched all the videos I deleted them, until finally all the files were deleted and there was nothing left in the folder. Yet the torrent client shows that I'm uploading data from that folder.

How can I upload something if everything in that folder is deleted?

So I got this torrent a few weeks ago and most of the time it stays on 0.0KB/s No progress has been made, but today I was shocked to see it slowly move, then it's gone. It's currently 1.2% Can anyone explain wtf happened? Why did it just disappear?