Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?

Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I'd need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don't even think about letting them manage the same root folder!

That dubbed audio tracks of movies could be downloaded separatey and easily merged in the audio, in a way similar to subtitles. This way, the audio track in non English languages would be downloaded very quickly, even with just one seeder, and the whole movie in original language has way more seeders than dubbed ones.

sci-hub doesn't get new research papers any more, and the new alternatives are all much less user friendly. As far as I can tell, wosonhj.com is what's currently recommended, where you have to post in a forum and wait for either a bot or a human to send the paper to you. Other alternatives, like annas-archive, nexusbot or STC all didn't have the paper I was looking for.
I just want old sci-hub back, honestly.

Honestly my biggest thing is for affordable 10 or even 20 TB SSDs to hit the market.

Continued losses, in the billions, for ad-riddled streaming services is all I can ask for.

Being able to find, download and seed old series and movies.

Nobody ever stays seeding anymore because big private trackers make it all about ratio and small ones simply don't have to userbase to support "old" series.

Back with RARBG I had every season of that 70's show and had around a ratio of around 50. For old scooby doo, red green show, Mr. Rogers, Tom & Jerry, some cartoons from when I was a kid, etc... Now it is difficult to even find a lot of that media, much less have a good ratio from it on smaller private trackers where it might get 1 download per 6 months or so. There is absolutely no incentive for keeping around older media. If you want to get in good in trackers, you HAVE to pump and dump the most popular torrent of the week once a month or so to get a good enough ratio.

For example, on SceneTime I have a ratio of like 0.1 because it simply doesn't have users. However, they assign bonus points based on how long your torrent is seeding, if I am not mistaken, so my site "effective ratio" has gone up to 2 because you can spend the bonus points to add "upload GB" to your account if you are keeping alive "unpopular" torrents.

A way to fairly pay the original content creator.

If I really enjoy a movie, series or music, I often actually want to send the actual creator some money to reward their creativity. May be just a dollar, may be ten. But I can't.

Honestly? Resurrection of Rarbg. That site was gold.

Arr service that links with SoulSeek, automatically downloads music, passes it through beets, calculates ReplayGain values and the rest of the missing metadata and then organizes and renames it

filenames following the standards of library apps like jellyfin, plex, etc.

i don't want every file to be named "[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv"

jellyfin can't identify most of these, and the relevant information can be found out easily by tapping properties (in windows, anyway)

More people to get in to I2P.

I need people to submit more of the research papers that I need to be able to read to lib Gen or sci hub

Better matching with dubbed versions of non-English shows. I have to manually search, since the "language" isn't English in the original, even though there's an English dub. Using Sonarr

The return of RARBG

Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.

A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.

Better music support. Movies and TV do great through the *arrs and Jellyfin, but music is a big mess.

A live broadcast open p2p protocol

For TMDB to end their stupid policy of setting broadcast episode order as the default. Any app that uses them for metadata to match files names ends up with wrong episodes because obviously nobody wants broadcast order.

More I2P torrenting support

More VR porn 😸

I really want IPFS to go mainstream. It solves a lot of problems with piracy and the internet in general. But people started thinking it was a blockchain thing, and I haven't heard much about it since then. Libgen uses it but that's the only place I've seen it be embraced.

A different, better protocol for sharing. Torrent is cool but files on it tend to die off, and also can't be updated. I'm thinking something like syncthing might be the future.

I wish I could watch sports matches on demand, not just live. And I wish ad-free podcasts were available to pirate. It’s an unrealistic dream.

Being able to find and complete certain torrents. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong anymore, but I used to be able to copy and paste the hash into a search engine and complete seeders for a torrent that got stalled. Now it seems like it does nothing and I'm stuck forever. :(

I want self-sovereign identity. I want to control who gets what information about me from my ID, and how that data is hosted. I'm aware that there are some really hostile attitudes about blockchain, but I'd like if a public blockchain could be used to host the information, so that the identity info could be decentralized and decoupled from any given provider.

I want control of my digital identity back, dammit.

postscript someone kindly pointed out this is c/piracy, not c/privacy, which I thought it was. Off topic; my bad.

Not always, but occasionally I have issues with playing a video and the language not being my preferred (English). Either the video doesn't have English audio or it's not the default. Not a biggie but it can waste some time if there's no talking for the first few min and my family isn't used to navigating audio settings.