Dead torrents are a lot less common as people are often rewarded for seeding torrents for long periods of time or seeding torrents with very few seeds. You often get faster download speeds on torrents with few seeds as people often use seedboxes to maintain ratio.

Dont think that true anymore, im no expert but rips from tidal or quboz sound way better to me then cd rips did

If used them a few times before tools to rip from streaming services became as common as they are now and thkse releases are fine. Dont really see a reason to use them nowadays tho besdies the scenes seal of approval.

Also I get your frustration with people not understanding what you mean with “scene” here, but tbf you could have specified which scene, in this case it would be the warezscene that you are talking about.

For those unaware about the warezscene, they are the groups that make releases for every type of media and are bound by rules (you can look them up if you wanna know specifics about those), the names the op mentioned are a result of those rules.

Just dns blocks, s.to for example has a site dedicated to lising all domains of theirs and ways to change your dns server which isnt blocked afaik. serien.domains if you wanna check it out

Scene groups only release to other scene groups via ftp servers, they dont release in places the average joe can download them. Their releases trickel down from people with access to those ftp servers and hit usenet and private trackers before then hitting public trackers.

CODEX (and any other scene group for that matter) has no website, they dont release to the public.

You can always check the megathread here or fmhy.net for sites that might have it. cs.rin.ru seems to have downloads for X-Plane 11 and 12 from a quick search.

It doesnt seem like its fake but i have never heard of that site before, personally i use predb.net and xrel

Connection limits could be one part of the story, im not sure what the defaults are in qBit but i have set mine at 100 or something like that. Another issue that you could be facing is the torrent itself, it might already have 100+ people with seedboxes seeding but only a few peers downloading, since so many people are alredy uploading its hard for you to get any upload in. Try a few other torrents, preferably once with only a few seeds but quite a lot more people trying to download.

I have been using ultra for over a year now and dont have the issue you are talking about. How many seeds/peers do the torrents have? Might just be that there arent a lot of people dling what you are seeding

hawke.uno has x265 stuff, they had open signups recently but idk if they still are

cs.rin.ru is probably your best bet to find those, but you will have too look for each game separately

By taking a look at the megathread and using one of the many sites linked there to obtain the desired content

its pretty easy to get into immortuos just head to their forum (its a different site then the tracker) and apply for an invite. Its your standart private tracker but almost everything is in german but you can change the UI language to english

While the laws are a bit strict piracy is still pretty common. But mostly with stream sites or ddl, torrenting is more niche and it can be a lot more difficult to get into specific trackers since there arent any big invite forums.

Dont think there is any dedicated tracker for 4k stuff, you might find some here and there. I know that immortuos has some 4k movies and i think TV and you can probably get some on other trackers by requesting it.

(primary) search in https://doditorrent.org

i dont think thats the offical site for dodi repacks, fmhy and the megathread here both point to dodi-repacks.site

Not sure, i think there are some ai features still not done. Haven’t looked at them for a while

From my experience most of the stuff that uses steamworks for multiplayer can work on a pirated copy, you can only play with other pirates tho. Then games where you can host your own servers and p2p games can be done often as well. Some games that require you to use offical servers have server emus written for already but they arent finished iirc (i kbow of BO4 and Diablo3)

No worries, the names are quite similar so its probably not too uncommon for the two to get confused with each other

Prism needs a microsoft acc to work afaik, there probably is a fork that doesnt but i dont know of. All my recommendations came from either the megathread here or fmhy.net