thedrizzle

The Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/etc team, and their support forums/subreddit are seriously the worst about this. Nearly every question, concern, or request with regard to torrent trackers is met with a smug response about usenet.

Assholes have started exploiting Sonarr’s torrent pulling system to trick it into downloading fucking malware on people’s computers, and rather than acknowledge this is an issue their users are facing and they should try and do something to help them, they’ve done nothing, expecting users to deal with it in their clients and through addons. The implication is if you’re not using usenet, they don’t care what their software puts on your computer. It’s your fault for using public trackers.

Each instance owner is running these instances themselves, presumably out of the home, for free.

They could go after an instance owner, sure, but

There’s no “but”. They could fight a lawsuit, sure, but that’s time consuming and expensive, and why bother? The piracy isn’t coming from their instance, why should they have to fight a lawsuit for it? Piracy has its own instance, nothing has been defederated, they’re just not hosting the content on their server to save themselves the hassle down the road. I can’t imagine they’ll be the only one.

Just because that’s the post we see doesn’t mean there isn’t more to this.

Realistically, I can see other instances doing this eventually as well.

Nah. It’s a walled garden, you should know better than to trust those by now.

There’s nothing shady here, just kneejerk and protectionist.

Beehaw defederated because they they decided they didn’t want to actually moderate their communities. Easier to just screen everyone before letting them join, to weed out people they may potentially disagree with. Ostensibly to filter out hate but only a fool thinks it stops there.

Just a small tip, doublecheck all your user and group permissions after following that guide. I went through this before and the guide gave a bad instruction on the permissions for a folder that I ended up spending hours diagnosing. I still see at least one space where it tells you sonarr should be in the “sonarr” group and not the “media” group as previously instructed.

The guy they have that wrote these guides and answers all support questions for Sonarr and Radarr, he’s an absolute asshole, bad at giving instructions, and often unhelpful. I’d say don’t even bother with him.

With Sonarr/Radarr and Jellyfin, that convenience has effectively been trumped. I don’t know how they can compete

Wow that’s old.

Frankly, as shitty is a lot of that stuff was, DVDs were like the last form of media distribution that I would actually call tolerable in terms of consumer friendliness. You still got a physical disk with the actual movie that was easy to rip and share, no internet required. If it weren’t for the quality limitations, I’d still collect them as the primary physical backup to my media server.