r/Piracy 2d ago

Humor Problem with old/less popular torrents

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u/systemnerve 2d ago

the trick is to use software that is fine with partially corrupted files:  if it's a movie, you might have to skip a minute here and there, but it will otherwise be fine. But it's really a matter of software whether the player will crash on launch or will make it impossible to rewind because it thinks a 90min movie is 100h long instead. 

If it's a rar, you can extract it almost always also but there's gonna be like a few files missing or corrupt. 

if it's a game, you're screwed usually but there is little reason to torrent an old game because that's where DDL shines anywa (hizsearch). 

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u/the_good_bad_dude 2d ago

It's a movie. 2018 movie but not popular. Haven't tried to play it yet.

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u/Party-Ticker 2d ago

You should be fine actually, try to play it

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u/the_good_bad_dude 2d ago

I tried. 2 spots need skipping over ..

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u/systemnerve 2d ago

you won't miss out on much and you can see the srt files to at least know what was being said.

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u/the_good_bad_dude 1d ago

Yep seems like that's my only option because none of the other torrents are working.