Who is good at finding obscure torrents?

Post by **tnf** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:52 pm

Let me know. I'm looking for something (not warez) and have never really used the whole torrent thing.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:54 pm

i'm your man

Post by **SplishSplash** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:55 pm

http://www.torrentz.com is pretty good, because it searches several torrent sites at once.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:56 pm

Torrents don't really go with obscurity so well because of the architecture of the torrent system. It's more suited to popular files than to obscure ones. The better networks for obscure files are Direct Connect and eDonkey, because their 'share' system ups the chances of something obscure being available for download.

Within the torrent community, you can certainly specialise into some pretty specific subject areas and find trackers/sites dedicated to those areas. For anime/asian media, hongfire, boxtorrents or deadfrog. For public domain, PD torrents, archive.org and etree. For adult, cheggit, puretna and empornium.

Then there's the filtering/search sites like torrentreactor and ubersites like piratebay

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:56 pm

Well you can send teh pm if you wish

Post by **CitizenKane** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:14 pm

dont use torrentspy if ur gf is in the room, i typed in 'Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde' (a Pharcyde album) and it picked up the word 'Ride' and sprung up a myriad of hardcore porn torrents and ads all over the page.
on another occassion i typed in Marvin Gaye and.....well u can guess the rest

Post by **tnf** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:31 pm

thanks folks.

Post by **Pext** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:24 pm

mininova.org

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:32 pm

What are you after? It may be on newsgroups (I can check) most obscurer things are.

Post by **tnf** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:35 pm

Odd...the torrent won't start...just sits there with bittorrent showing the files but no transfer rate..regardless of the place I try and dl from.

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:54 pm

CitizenKane wrote:on another occassion i typed in Marvin Gaye and.....well u can guess the rest

all your dreams came true?

Post by **tnf** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:51 pm

found it...all done. thanks everyone for the information. i would have been stumbling around like a monkey fucking a football if I hadn't been directed to the appropriate torrent sites.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:21 pm

Anything decent you where after? Some kinda edu oriented documentary? Srry if I ask but if it's anything good I wouldn't mind looking at it

Post by **CitizenKane** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:30 pm

fuck sake, speaking of torrents:

started downloading a torrent earlier entitled 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein Mac', opened it just now only to the realisation that it was a PC file, just named wrong. fuckin so pissed off. got that one off Mininova fyi, fuckin cunts not using them again

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:32 pm

lol...no0bs^^^...

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:33 pm

suits you, warezmonkey

Post by **tnf** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:33 pm

YES WE BOW TO YOUR SUPERIOR TORRENT ABILITIES.

lol @ the guy talking up his torrent skills.

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:22 pm

CitizenKane wrote:fuck sake, speaking of torrents:

started downloading a torrent earlier entitled 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein Mac', opened it just now only to the realisation that it was a PC file, just named wrong. fuckin so pissed off. got that one off Mininova fyi, fuckin cunts not using them again

dumbass

torrentspy has user comments. mininova doesn't. it's a no-brainer, really

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:08 pm

only no0bs need user comments...and morons...questions?...

Post by **LawL** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:18 pm

Why are you such a no0b/moron?

Post by **CitizenKane** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:20 pm

yes i know but there was no comments for that file on torrentspy or mininova or anywhere i looked for that matter

Post by **werldhed** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:35 pm

seremtan wrote:torrentspy has user comments. mininova doesn't. it's a no-brainer, really

Post by **Lieutenant Dan** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:38 am

Pext wrote:mininova.org

Mininova.org is nice for torrents but there site is unreliable sometimes.

Post by **Pext** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:19 am

yep... as in: lost is released earlier somewhere else.

i like their vivid ebook section though

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:53 am

seremtan wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:fuck sake, speaking of torrents:

started downloading a torrent earlier entitled 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein Mac', opened it just now only to the realisation that it was a PC file, just named wrong. fuckin so pissed off. got that one off Mininova fyi, fuckin cunts not using them again
dumbass

torrentspy has user comments. mininova doesn't. it's a no-brainer, really

Except Torrentspy is shit for anything older..