Popular torrent site TorrentGalaxy has been offline for two weeks, with no explanation from its operators. Members of the site’s staff are also being kept in the dark, and many fear the site may never return. To the delight of copyright holders, the site’s troubles are now being felt across the torrent ecosystem after the site’s upload bots also stopped working.
The Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/etc team, and their support forums/subreddit are seriously the worst about this. Nearly every question of concern or request with regard to torrent trackers is met with a smug response about usenet.
Assholes have started exploiting Sonarr’s fetching system to trick people into downloading fucking malware, 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. 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.