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@quad@akko.quad.moe https://kuroiru.co/app

@kura oh man, that's rough. i need those blu-ray qualities for my favorite shows.

all the sites just take webrips and re-encode them to further lower the quality (usually hardsubbing them in the process). i don't like it, at least download the actual webrips before they're re-encoded

@quad@akko.quad.moe
a) not enough HDD space
b) torrents get monitored a lot in Germany and these you easily get Abmahnungen. (pay lots of money or jailtime)
c) bnot a lot if series IB the close past I finished watching or deemed worth downloading in HQ.
d) is shanaproject still the best place to get torrents even ? years ago I did torrent

@kura Airing stuff I just get off nyaa.si.

For higher quality stuff I use private trackers

@quad@akko.quad.moe
never got into private trackers.
for years we had lawyers that specialized into fishing for people that did file sharing.
and demanded enormous sums of money for people that did file sharing. even so large that the state ruled out a limit for those sums. lots of paces closed because of it, but there are still a lot.

so I tend to distance myself from file sharing.
i don't have the money for it.
the times I did, I never got caught. but it is still very scary.

@kura meh, lots of fear mongering about torrents. if you live in a country where they actually try to prosecute one can get a VPN or a seedbox instead

@quad @kura I have been using a seed box company called feral hosting for at least
14 years and I can recommend them

@sun @kura I used Bytesized hosting for 3-4 years before I got a server at home. I dunno if they're still as good as they used to be though, but they were good when I used them.

They're a bit on pricier side though since they have a focus on running apps like Jellyfin and whatnot, so they tend to provide more CPU and RAM than others, but also a higher price tag.