zeluko

Selfhosting an assistant will probably work better and be much for privacy friendly

Better quality releases and more active users with much less leeches as they get thrown out.
Though there are many site admins with some complex here too.. your experience can vary.

And of course you need to contribute to the community, most trackers will grant you buffer for both uploading and keeping the torrent running. You want something, then you have to give back.
If the tracker doesnt give possebilities to build your buffer in multiple ways, other than just uploading, its usually a shit tracker.
And some are just super hard to impossible to get into. Start small, wait for open signups or just go to new trackers, they might get bigger over time.
Dont publicly beg for invites, you can humiliate yourself in private chats if you are into that.

BTRFS or ZFS and then you can just rollback to an earlier snapshot.

law enforcement is exactly that.. enforcement.
If there are no laws in place to force providers to do that, it cant be done via these means.
And if you cannot enforce because the provider is outside the jurisdiction, then you cant either.

And if you start forcing blocks, the users will adapt by either changing provider or simply evading the block.

US great consumer protection at work again?

Just keep it seeding?
Of course if you want both, best space saving would be to use the same file.
I have multiple servers, so it doesnt really matter anyways, one machine downloads and seeds via its SSD and theother is just for storage on HDDs. Though i could setup tiered storage in this scenario to be able to seed more with same SSD strorage amount.

You can downsample from BluRay, which would give you least loss.
But if you only have some good h264 version and want space savings, you can also reencode that, while probably loosing some small amount of quality, depending on your settings.

I found TheRarbg to have better results compared to 1337.
And often 1337 is not accessible.. probably because of cloudflare

I dont understand why this wasnt already a rule?
Why is the US so retroactive? Something goes bad and only then you start thinking about it and how to stop it in the future, when it becomes a big problem.

So i understood you just want some local storage system with some fault tolerance.
ZFS will do that. Nothing fancy, just volumes as either blockdevice or ZFS filesystem.

If you want something more fancy, maybe even distributed, check out storage cluster systems with erasure coding, less storage wasted than with pure replication, though comes at reconstruction cost if something goes wrong.

MinIO comes to mind, tough i never used it.. my requirements seem to be so rare, these tools only get close :/
afaik you can add more disks and nodes more or less dynamically with it.

idk about wordpress, but can imagine you can just get a domain transfer, pay another year with the new provider and then freely use it.

You shouldnt be actually able to refuse necessary cookies as the site needs to function even if you click 'decline all' by law.
If a site does break, report it to the supervisory authority of your country.
If you are in the US.. hahahahah.