Posting this as a PSA as it has been extremely useful for me, but seems relatively unknown.
PikPak is a cloud torrent and file storage site that maintains an enormous cache of torrents. They are based in Singapore IIRC so coverage is especially good for Asian content but more often than not, whatever it is I am searching for is cached on PikPak. When the first user requests a torrent, it is downloaded and saved on PikPak's servers, making it immediately available for anyone who requests it after that. In other words, the files don't need to be downloaded from bittorrent, and this means in many cases torrents that are dead are still available on PikPak.
Free accounts (what I have) let you have 6GB storage, but you can save files to your computer then delete from your account to free up storage. And you are only allowed 3 torrents per day. What I do to make sure I don't waste them on unavailable torrents is go to the main page for PikPak and paste the magnet link; if it is available on PikPak you will see a screenshot of the video and something like "Cloud Download estimated to take: X.Xs". (Although there are some cases where they have 99% of a file and it won't show that estimated time, but if you add it the video will still be there, maybe just some ads or junk files are missing).
Upgrading to premium gives you unlimited downloads and 10TB of storage, and the price seems good at ~$5/mo. Again I haven't upgraded, I only have a free account and it is enough for me, just a bit limited in what I can download because of space.
I hope it doesn't sound like I am advertising them, I am just sharing my experience with it as it is really an amazing tool to find hard-to-find content and save time & frustration on incomplete torrents.
One caution though: if a torrent is still available on the bittorrent network but has only a few seeders, and isn't already cached on PikPak, it's better to download it the old-fashioned way and seed it to keep it alive. PikPak doesn't seed torrents (very disappointing), so by downloading a dying torrent that won't be reseeded, you might actually be killing it forever.
Bonus note: for finding torrents I use https://btdig.com. It monitors the DHT network to show every torrent it has ever seen on the network so it saves me some hunting around torrent sites or missing hard-to-find torrents. The site is rudimentary but it is great how comprehensive it is.
Back to PikPak, using a referral code to sign up gets you extra days of free premium (10 days) and I would get a couple days free too (I don't get money). (I decided to put the code on my profile page so you can find it there, mods please let me know if that's not allowed, I don't want to be spammy)!
PikPak is a cloud torrent and file storage site that maintains an enormous cache of torrents. They are based in Singapore IIRC so coverage is especially good for Asian content but more often than not, whatever it is I am searching for is cached on PikPak. When the first user requests a torrent, it is downloaded and saved on PikPak's servers, making it immediately available for anyone who requests it after that. In other words, the files don't need to be downloaded from bittorrent, and this means in many cases torrents that are dead are still available on PikPak.
Free accounts (what I have) let you have 6GB storage, but you can save files to your computer then delete from your account to free up storage. And you are only allowed 3 torrents per day. What I do to make sure I don't waste them on unavailable torrents is go to the main page for PikPak and paste the magnet link; if it is available on PikPak you will see a screenshot of the video and something like "Cloud Download estimated to take: X.Xs". (Although there are some cases where they have 99% of a file and it won't show that estimated time, but if you add it the video will still be there, maybe just some ads or junk files are missing).
Upgrading to premium gives you unlimited downloads and 10TB of storage, and the price seems good at ~$5/mo. Again I haven't upgraded, I only have a free account and it is enough for me, just a bit limited in what I can download because of space.
I hope it doesn't sound like I am advertising them, I am just sharing my experience with it as it is really an amazing tool to find hard-to-find content and save time & frustration on incomplete torrents.
One caution though: if a torrent is still available on the bittorrent network but has only a few seeders, and isn't already cached on PikPak, it's better to download it the old-fashioned way and seed it to keep it alive. PikPak doesn't seed torrents (very disappointing), so by downloading a dying torrent that won't be reseeded, you might actually be killing it forever.
Bonus note: for finding torrents I use https://btdig.com. It monitors the DHT network to show every torrent it has ever seen on the network so it saves me some hunting around torrent sites or missing hard-to-find torrents. The site is rudimentary but it is great how comprehensive it is.
Back to PikPak, using a referral code to sign up gets you extra days of free premium (10 days) and I would get a couple days free too (I don't get money). (I decided to put the code on my profile page so you can find it there, mods please let me know if that's not allowed, I don't want to be spammy)!
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