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IRC XDCC servers have similar content to many torrent sites, but unlike torrents you don't seed, just download. You can also automate downloading, see !help in any channel.

IRC Download Servers:

  • irc.scenep2p.net/6697 registration optional
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  • Register: /msg NickServ REGISTER YourPassword YourEmail
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[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

Kvirc memories coming back...

[–] x550@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Nice one OP thanks for sharing

[–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

IRC, DCC, Rizon, Nickserv, his post makes me feel 20 years younger! Can’t wait to try out IRC again later tonight.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh wow, an xdcc post, let me use the rare opportunity to plug my project: https://github.com/MaggiWuerze/xddcwebloader

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I built it mostly for subsplease anime releases and just recently learned that there are actual search engines for this, so I'm currently looking into adding an option to integrate search engines of choice

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually not that hard to build your own search engine for specific server/channel.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm looking more for a generic approach, so users can register any search engine of their choice (as long as it returns a json result set I guess)

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

I think only one has api SunXDCC and its bad. Best code your own apis for that.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Not too loud. Don't want the suits to find out.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago

Usenet has existed just fine for decades doing the same thing. They’ll never prosecute for downloaders, only uploaders. And encryption is just getting more and more powerful so that’s unlikely to change.

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago

Honestly, I think they are preoccupied with other things right now.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Used to have mIRC downloading music videos on the brand new 56k modem.

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago

Good old days, I remember downloading movies than splitting it into many floppies to share. Once i could get my hands on CDs/DVDs/USBs, collection grew like wildfire, and of course sharing was so much faster. Now I can't use anything except HDDs/SSDs, just so much easier.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Glad to see the old ways still persist

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

IRC never left the scene. 😜 I recommend trying at least scenep2p you wont regret it.

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This fails to mention the download queues, and the active and passive bots (btw, fuck the channels that don't follow the expecting naming conventions). If you are behind NAT there are stuff you can't download because it's the wrong type of bot.

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

scenep2p allows three requests per person and you can ask any release on Pbot to be on regular, but a lot of new stuff is not on Pbots.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 7 hours ago

Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago

Wow. Blast from the past. I see znc is still a thing too

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

Guess I’ll have to travel back in time again and check it out. thanks for the writeup