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submitted 3 days ago by B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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
- #the.lounge #the.source
irc.rizon.net/9999 registration optional
- #elite-chat #elitewarez
irc.abandoned-irc.net/6697 registration optional
- #zw-chat #zombie-warez
irc.abjects.net/9999 registraion required, no proxy allowed
- #mg-chat #moviegods

Recommended Software:

General Rules:

If you don't know something ask, there are many people at any given time who will help.
Having multiple nicknames on same account is allowed, as long as not abused.
If you have a server you can ask to run a xdcc bots in the channels.
Never try to randomly pm'ing someone, especially if you are new and don't know anyone.
Never try to spam/scam/trolll youll get banned faster than you can blink.
Never create and use multiple accounts to do requests, youll get banned.
It is highly recommended that you register your nick and use SASL authentication.

IRC Commands:

User: /nick YourNick
Register: /msg NickServ REGISTER YourPassword YourEmail
Identify: /msg NickServ IDENTIFY YourPassword

IRC Channel Commands:

!help - for all commands available.
!search or !s - to find any release.
!request WhatYouWant
!get or !g - to download release.

XDCC Search Engines:

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[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 days ago

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

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days 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.

[-] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

So many good memories our trading mp3 files on dalnet and effnet. Wish mirc from the 90s ran on Linux today.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 22 points 3 days ago

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

[-] tyler@programming.dev 11 points 2 days 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 12 points 3 days ago

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

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago

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

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Very cool, good job!

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

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 2 days ago

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

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

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 2 days ago

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

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, probably will have to build some parser to use whatever I get from their endpoints. And so far I haven't added authentication for servers that need it, so thats also on the to do list :D

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ok, so from xdcc.rocks, xdcc.eu and skuldxcc.com only xdcc.eu doesn't return its search results as json. For that one I'll have to find a way to parse an html table :D

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I highly recommend coding your own api from parsed html data.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Having parsed HTML before (or tried to) I'm not sure if that was sarcasm :D

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

You asking me? If you are of course I did its very easy.

[-] hesh@quokk.au 16 points 3 days ago

Glad to see the old ways still persist

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Nice list. Some additional information:

You don't need to register on abjects to download in ´#moviegods´.
To download in irc://irc.scenep2p.net/THE.SOURCE you apperently now do need to register to download. This didn't used to be the case.
sunxdcc.com has been superseded by skullxdcc.com. Made by the same person as sun and on sunxdcc a popup even tells you to switch.
irc://irc.rizon.net/nibl is a channel for anime downloads; no registration required. Can be searched via nibl.co.uk/search
irc://irc.xertion.org:6667/MK is another channel for anime; this does now seem to require registration. Can be searched via xdcc.animk.info

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

#moviegods - used to required this, but they don't allow any proxy.
scenep2p - you can use #the.source.nospam without registration, and proxy is allowed as long as you behave.
I dont think skullxdcc.com was built by same people, style of coding completely different unless they did ai vibe coding than its possible.

[-] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I used #moviegods on and off for years without ever registering without problem (maybe they briefly required it when I wasn't using them?)
You need to register now to actually download even if you use #the.source.nospam. You can interact in the channel without registering, but as soon you try to message a bot to actually download you get the following automated message "You must identify to a registered nick to private message this user"
skullxdcc.com seems to be made by the same person.

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

#moviegods maybe it changed now, but this was like 2-3 years ago. Before the second they detected you are using proxy/vpn you were auto banned.
#the.source.nospam maybe it changed now, few months ago you were able to use it unregistered. But its alwasy recommended to register your nick and use SASL/SSL to authenticate.
skullxdcc I looked at the style of coding and it seems not, but i dont know.

EDIT: My bad for some reason I confused skullxdcc with xdcc.rocks. You might be right.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 3 days 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 6 points 3 days ago

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

[-] x550@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Nice one OP thanks for sharing

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Polaris2k 4 lyfe

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm from back in time, and I can tell you that present timeline sucks! I don't know if I can stay in this timeline, might have to travel back. Just need to fix oil in my time machine and i'm good to go.

[-] StitchInTime@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] CactusEcho@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

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.