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:

  • M.int@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    8 hours 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    • sunxdcc.com has been superseded by skullxdcc.com.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.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 hours 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.
    • tyler@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      15 hours 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.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        16 hours 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

          • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            15 hours 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.comOPEnglish
      7·
      18 hours 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.

  • StitchInTime@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

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

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    8·
    18 hours ago

    Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.

  • CactusEcho@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    15 hours 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.

    • B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      scenep2p allows three requests per person and you can ask any release on Pbot to be on regular, but a lot of new stuff is not on Pbots.