It’s good enough for recent releases (note you may have to open a port for passive XDCC) but because it’s not easy to automate, even public trackers + *arrs (w/ VPN) are just more convenient.
Occasionally you might find releases on IRC and not on public trackers, and visa versa, so it’s good to have a backup. I prefer scene releases so it’s easy to find specific stuff with the xdcc search sites (e.g. dot eu and sun), and maybe a 'lil help from srrdb to verify CRCs.
IRC is fine to get your movie and TV needs met. There are a couple servers doing it well. Speeds are decent enough, a few minutes per 8-9 gig files. Retention sucks, as pretty rapid turn-over is basically required; these are files hosted on dedis/vps’s with finite disk space.
You should be able to find most stuff released with-in the last year without too much effort.
Also, some servers offer request credits in exchange for downloads, so you can ask for more niche or rare content. Happy hunting!
I mean movies and tv shows. I know it is alive but can you find stuff that you can only find on private trackers for example and how is the speed on average?
I understand your paranoia, but it’s impossible to answer a question if you don’t ask one.
Linux distros can’t be pirated. As for TV shows and films, Usenet > Torrent > WWW
Or so I’ve heard.
Yeah I might be a bit paranoid, on reddit usenet it is very common to refer to pirated content as linux distros. I edited it again, but with movies and tv shows. I guess I picked it as a habit with how frequently I use the reddit Usenet subreddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/7fpgfq/_/
I do use usenet but dcma takedowns are very quick these days that new movies get removed very quickly, is IRC better in this aspect, also I don’t have private tracker and public trackers are noticeably worse than usenet in terms of release groups.
On Reddit (and probably other places), “Linux distros” or “ISOs” was a roundabout way of referring to porn.
