There are tons of them
Edit: fmhy.net is one I recommend.
apparently in some cases uTorrent, BitSpirit, and libTorrent simply write your IP address directly into the information they send to the tracker and/or to other peers
These are just bad practices by shady bittorrent programs. Choose a good client and you’ll avoid those issues.
The reason why is that Tor doesn’t support UDP and it’s just harmful for the network to do bittorrent over it.
read OP’s post. if it not were for privacy in the first place and people ripping media, there wouldn’t be any copy left of those shows.
Of course not all pirates archive, but there’s an important percentage that do. Non-pirates are running out of options because each year less and less audiovisual productions release as physical media (old DVDs, more recently blue rays) and are only available through a subscription model where you do not own the actual content.
So piracy is pretty much the only route available to archive a lot of content.
reworking the whole library, I had 1.5 TB of mp3s, but they were super messy organized. Sure, I could have gone through organizing it but still mp3s suck.
So I’m starting over with a FLAC only music library. I use Navidrome on a local server and with a Subsonic client on my phone I can choose to download certain songs or playlists to use when I’m away.
CD quality FLACs are the minimum for me. They are nineties technology and still most digital music isn’t even close to that. I find it hilarious how Spotify is still serving mp3s.
I mean, as long as you visit libgen with https your ISP shouldn’t be able to tell if you’re uploading books. But yeah, if Tor doesn’t slow down the upload too much, it’s a good protection measure.
For checking on metadata, I recommend you to use Calibre. It allows you to view and remove undesired metadata and you might also use Calibre to automatically add the correct metadata to the PDFs so they are searchable in libgen’s database.
come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.
Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.