I’m a bit surprised to see so many torrent posts. Are most people still using Torrents? Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

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      Sonarr and radarr manage downloads for TV and movies in a nice way for Usenet and actually torrents as well. You can set up quality profiles and choose which shows and movies you want to download and they will grab torrents/nzbs that meet your preferences, automatically start them in your torrent app or Usenet downloader, and then organize them in folders with appropriate metadata for Kodi/Plex when the downloads complete. They automate the process very nicely.

      Edit, I’m a Usenet guy if that wasn’t already clear lol

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        How is Usenet for privacy compared to torrents, e.g. if a usenet service you are paying for is compromised at some stage are they likely to be able to identify you based on payment data for example?

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          Usenet services are more concerned about removing illegal content when it’s reported than what users are downloading. You can get a provider that doesn’t log download activity and accepts Bitcoin payments, you’d want to use its SSL connection, and you can go through a VPN as well (some Usenet providers even bundle VPN services with their Usenet subscription). It’s generally much safer than torrenting from a privacy standpoint where anyone on your tracker sees your IP (or, once again, your VPN’s IP). I’m not aware of any Usenet server that says it didn’t log downloads secretly doing so because it’s really not in their interest to lie about it. They know why people are subscribing.

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      Not OP but: they are apps to schedule automatic downloads. Like Star Trek Strange New Worlds but don’t wanna go every week and download it manually? Set it up in Sonarr and when you wake up the new episodes are waiting for you. Radarr is the same for film, prowlarr for aggregating torrent trackers all in 1 spot, bazarr for subtitles, and there’s a few others. Can also be set up with usenet in addition to torrents.

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          Yeah I switched after Jackett kept having issues with RARBG before they shut down. The biggest change is the fact that adding a tracker to Prowlarr will automatically add it to radarr, sonarr, and the like rather than having to duplicate everything manually yourself.

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          I did, it was very little time to invest, and it’s pretty cool that it integrates to sonarr & radarr and sync’s your configuration from a central place. Also the web UI seems to have more information and stats if you ever need.

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          Jackett is for trackers that don’t have a native api or similar but Prowlarr can likely handle most of what you use today.

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      Both these give you a simple way to search for things you want. They use IMDB and the like to give you a big list of results. You add what you want to your collection and in the background they scurry off to torrent sites or usenet and downloads it. Then they name everything nicely and stuff then in your Plex library.

      You can set them up to use specific torrent sites. Download specific qualities, or more likely an order of qualities by preference and all sorts of other tweaks.