Hadn't heard of that one. But there are a few other aggregators around you can check out e.g. cloudtorrents.com, idope.se, knaben.eu, snowfl.com, torrentdownload.info, torrentseeker.com
A lot of people run searches through qBittorrent search plugins so that's another alternative.
Or use something like Jackett or Prowlarr for multi site search.
I thought that site imploded?
It was rebooted by some of the old staff.
https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-staffers-launch-new-site-to-keep-the-legacy-alive-190724/
Now I am curious if my login still works…
It won't, all the old usernames/passwords were lost.
Demonoid allows uploads, they also happen to be open signup right now see the other community !opensignups@lemmy.ml
at TPB but that doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore.
See their forums, they have instructions on how to apply for an account there https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available
There are a bunch of other public torrent indexers that you can try to apply for uploading but it doesn't always work out e.g. TorrentGalaxy, 1337x, GloTorrents, TorrentFunk, YourBitTorrent.
SolidTorrents / BitSearch does allow adding torrent hashes into their database without an account.
See the earlier posts, lots of discussion, I also have a list going in the last linked post that you are free to test and comment back on what worked for you :)
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4968148
It's okay, killbots have a preset kill limit. Just send wave after wave of human soldiers at them until they shut down.
Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it's happened before with that software
https://rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0
Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.
Granted I have not used it in a while but I'd be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.
https://github.com/rejetto/hfs
That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.
Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.
If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn't have to worry about this).
If you're doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
Keep an eye out for open trackers
Or keep an eye on the invite giveaway thread in !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Or interview for the big music trackers and work your way up the ranks to participate in their internal tracker recruitment threads e.g. https://interviewfor.red and https://interview.orpheus.network
PS - Trackers like TL tend to do open signups a few times a year so it's not really that difficult to get going once you catch an open signup.
Sucks but not surprising. Broadcom has a history of doing things like this, ugh. Even with their paid products they jack up the price so much that the only customers that stick around are the business enterprise types that are locked in & can't easily migrate for various reasons.
since I don’t believe the qbt executable is signed.
Yup you are correct, another reason that anti-virus/malware type software will mess with the download or execution of the installer.
Based on the current info that's kind of my initial hunch. The installer could crash if the user's anti-virus/malware messed with it. We also don't know if there is other software installed on the system doing things like that..
Otherwise, ruling out other things could be just that Windows itself is possibly borked. The sfc / dism method may fix that. Installers definitely crash when something is wrong with the Windows OS.
What version of Windows? Is this a normal install of Windows or did you do anything different/custom?
Assuming Windows 10/11 try disabling Real-time protection (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / Real-time protection) at least temporarily during the install.
Also disable any other anti-virus/malware type software you have.
With all of that disabled re-download qBittorrent from the normal download sources https://www.qbittorrent.org/download
When you attempt to run the setup make sure to run it as administrator so it is elevated (do a shift right-click on the setup.exe file & select Run as administrator).
If the install finally works, before you re-enable Real-time protection you should add the installed qbittorrent.exe in the Windows Defender Exclusions and Controlled folder access (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / add or remove exclusions) and (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage ransomware protection / Allow an app through Controlled folder access). The installed qbittorrent is probably in C:\Program Files\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe or wherever your programs are normally installed.
If none of that worked then I'd go with the other commenters, run RAM and hard drive diagnostics & make sure that's all working correctly.
Or maybe your Windows OS install is broken somehow, I'd run sfc and dism in those cases (a bit outside of scope of this community but you can search around for that).
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Or this works too
Meanwhile no mention about their limited upload speeds.