You don’t want to know how much that would cost in Ontario

The screenshot is showing the ratio on a single torrent, not a tracker. The only time you’ll see that is usually if you are the person that submitted the torrent.

P2P releases can come from anywhere. If you are worried about viruses and malware, it’s probably best to avoid them even though the danger is still very low.

Scene releases are almost always purchased legitimately by the group for cracking. The most popular repackers usually use scene releases as their source.

Dodi and fitgirl both use scene releases as their base. Even says so with their releases. I’d assume they likely have top site access or they have a connection to someone who does. Same is true for the repackers on the private sites I use.

Qbittorrent let’s you set a torrent to download in sequential order and download first and last pieces first. This let’s me play files as they are downloading.

Even understanding all this, a 2 hour movie in a 2.5gb hevc file is still a very tempting thing. Every movie I could ever want, at acceptable quality, all in under 8tb of space is really amazing.

The electricity bill shouldn’t be that bad. Seeding torrents doesn’t put a lot of load on the system. Depending on your hardware it could be pretty low power consumption. On the high end it might hit 4kwh a day.

My experience with Linux is very limited other than my steam deck. For cracked games, if there is no Linux version available, I usually install them on my windows pc first, copy the games folder to the deck then add it to the library as a non steam game. After that you just specify the proton version in the games steam properties and it runs.

Ideally you would want native Linux versions. Those are few and far between but they do get released from time to time.

I’ve never paid for a private tracker but users can donate if they want. Like I said, I have a firm belief that piracy should be free. Never paid for it, never will. A good tracker with top site bots and well seeded torrents is good enough for me. Releases are on there within minutes, download speeds that max out my connection are good enough for me.

All the private trackers I use have bonus systems so you can still build ratio. It’s usually a slow start on a new tracker but once you get established it’s very easy to keep a 1:1 or better ratio. I don’t bother with debrid services because paying for piracy is where I draw the line.

As for checking hashes, I don’t do it on any of the private trackers I use but OP seems overly paranoid so I figured it was solid advice for them. I always checked when I still used public trackers. Only twice did I ever find a mismatch, one was actually malicious and the other was just a random crc error.

That’s fair. As long as the hash matches what is in the predb nfo, you should be good to go. I have encountered legit looking releases on public sites with edited nfo files though so definitely double check against a reliable source ce for that.

Get scene releases from trusted sources (not public trackers) and ensure that the hash matches what is in the nfo on predb.

I didn’t know about the leak until now. Now I’m going to track it down when I otherwise wouldn’t have. Thanks Warner Brothers.

If your elected officials own rental properties and short term rentals (many do) the you can find expect next to zero enforcement on things like this.

Or they’re banking on us thinking that