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That sounds correct. AFAIK most countries in the world do not do credit card AVS (address verification service) so aside from a select few countries you would be able to enter just about any address for those country's cards.

e.g. related discussion https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/11979/in-what-countries-can-credit-card-merchants-use-address-verification or just search the internet for other sources.

The one catch is the card would have to be from that country that doesn't support AVS e.g. for India I think you are saying that you used an India based card, right?

Most people just use a NAS (self built or one of the pre-built types) & stuff a bunch of hard drives into it. Or just stuff a bunch of hard drives into their desktop(s).

Sure there are people outfitting rack(s) of server(s) but generally that's just the truly dedicated people going that route.

For what it's worth hard drives nowadays go up to ~22TB so your 34TB example would only need two massive hard drives. A compact NAS or small desktop would work fine for that example.

auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

qB already has that, see Tools / Options / BitTorrent / "Automatically add these trackers to new downloads"

I don't use that feature but it seems to be there.

Probably OBS would be your first try, it should be able to do a video capture and is Linux compatible.

Or if you're willing to set up a VM running Windows you could look into the non-free closed-source stream rippers for 720p/1080p. e.g. RedFox AnyStream, DVDFab StreamFab, etc.

EDIT: Just realized AnyStream also has Linux builds so that could be a non-free closed-source solution.

qBittorrent tends to be the popular one but all the standard FOSS clients should work fine with Sonarr (e.g. qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission).

I don't have Transmission in front of me here to give you specific guidance but auth failed basically means you should double-check Transmission's web ui user/password/port number & make sure it's the same both there & in Sonarr. The same would apply for any other torrent client you want to set up in Sonarr.

I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set.

The download only has one BDMV folder? You should have 6 different BDMV folders if it's supposed to be six discs. Sort of sounds like the uploader tinkered with the data & maybe flattened the whole thing into one massive disc?

Once I organized this into a streams/playlist/clip/meta folders by file type and feed it into makemkv I can only see disk one.

Yeah that makes sense, 1 BDMV folder = 1 disc.

I'm not actually sure how you'd even go about flattening 6 discs into one BDMV folder, thing is many of those files (especially the .m2ts files) have the same duplicate name across multiple discs. Maybe the uploader used Blu-ray editing software to do that, or maybe you only have 1 disc not 6.

My hunch is maybe the uploader purposely re-wrote the whole thing into one massive disc so you're not really looking at 6 discs anymore. Not sure if this'll help but maybe try feeding the whole thing into BDInfo & see what it comes up with, at the very least it'll be able to give you some visibility into which specific .m2ts streams each .mpls is linked to, & that way you can hopefully decipher the different episodes/whatever that you're looking for.

PS - If this data was edited by the uploader I'm not sure how easy or feasible it would be to figure out how to split it back into 6 discs. (assuming this data is indeed 6 discs)

Unfortunately most public torrent indexers tend to restrict ability to upload so it's not quite that straightforward.

There's a few you can investigate, let us know how it goes.

• 1337x - Not sure what their registration requirements are, if any.
• ~~Angie Torrents - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements. (their website isn't great, maybe check out the others before trying here)~~ Might be down?
• BitSearch - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
• Demonoid - I'm pretty sure registered users can upload there, keep an eye on when they open registration.
• GloTorrents - They do have specific uploading requirements so probably not for you but maybe will help others, see their forums https://forums.glodls.to/threads/uploading.5/
• SolidTorrents - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
• The Pirate Bay - They have a manual registration process explained in their forums https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available
• TorrentFunk - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
• YourBittorrent - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
• Ext - They have registration/uploads per https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

Also note that many of the russian torrent forums do seem to allow registering & posting torrents but am unsure of their specific requirements. Also non-english. (ruTracker, Rutor, etc.)

EDIT: Added Ext

EDIT: Fixed SolidTorrents link, crossed out Angie Torrents for now

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Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.

Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you'd need to check the individual projects to be sure.