Some countries have laws that are harsh for seeding (distribution) but not for leeching
And that’s why I have a seed target of 0.9, so I’ll never have seeded the entirety of anything.
Proud to live in a place that doesn’t care and also proud of my ISP for posting articles on how to torrent stuff on their main website lol
Does anyone know a VPN that allows port forwarding that also is truly anonymous? I’m looking for something like Mullvad that does not require email and accepts monero.
I’m also open to recommendations for a seedbox that accepts monero.
is would also like to know
Dude holding the horseshoe magnet is a chef’s kiss detail
Feels a bit off the mark… The private tracker communities I frequent seem pretty lively.
Public torrents were never something I understood for anything not open source.
Leeching is just a minimal issue to be dealt with by community blocking. Most communities are flexible in the rules to allow for providing in other ways if constant uploading isn’t an option.
I suspect the joke here is that there’s always someone trying to bitch about leeching. The Internet has always been trash, blah about the good ol days etc.
Maybe people just idolized the way they initially learned and now blame others when changes happen.
Remember kids, advertising is evil and copyright infringement is the only ethical solution.
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Posting generational memes from 2016? That’s a bold choice.
It’s Kelly tho
Kelly is incredible
Tbf, torrenting without seeding is currently relevant, given the Facebook AI lawsuit in progress…
As for making it a generational thing, that’s a decision by the artist that I personally don’t agree with 🤷
Don’t younger people prefer streaming and direct download pirate sites to torrenting anyway
I’m trying to convert some of my (alarmingly) slightly younger friends to torrent trackers. So far so good
edit: and tbf slightly older people are almost as bad about streaming in my experience, so it affects everyone
Oh yeah. All my coworkers talk/ask about “sites” which are just streaming sites filled to the absolute brim with ads and all the videos are low bitrate. Kinda sad ngl
i will never seed
you will get booted off of most private trackers lol (and some public ones)
idc i only use public trackers. but i dont believe the part about public trackers kicking leachers. i used 1337x and rutracker for years and never seeded
rutracker has rules that you have to have a 0.3 ratio at least, idk if they can do anything if you don’t have an account or if that’s enforced at all, my ratio’s too good to know
edit: no longer the case as pointed out below
Rutracker used to have such rule many years ago but it is long gone.
thanks for correcting, ig they didn’t update the wiki page
I have never been good about seeding because my old laptop sucked and I rarely torrent stuff and dont really underestand what the ettiquite is or what seeding actually entails. I always kinda worried it’d keep my computer awake all the time and like use battery, or consume computational resources while I’m trying to use it
Anyone wanna give me the lowdown on seeding, etiquette, and what to expect? I’d like to be better about it, but I don’t have anyone to really learn this stuff from 😅
Seeding uses your drive (reads it so long as it’s seeding to someone), your bandwidth (obviously), and a negligible amount of power/computational resources.
If you have a tracker you trust you could start by reading their guides. Like my most used public tracker tells you to have a ratio of 0.3, meaning for every part/torrent downloaded you seed 0.3 back to the people. I usually stay for at least 1-1.2 until I turn my pc off. If you want to be helpful you could also get some “rare” stuff to seed, same tracker classifies it as having fewer than 5 others seeding it.
In general, “don’t hit and run” holds true, if you can seed for just an hour after you’ve downloaded your stuff, do it. When it comes to torrenting, we are all we got.
That is really helpful, thank you so much!
What is a tracker? 😅 I’m super ignorant about this stuff lol
Either a website hosting and cataloguing torrent files (or magnet links, doesn’t matter), or a special server that doesn’t host anything and just helps communicate the peers (people seeding and leeching). Both are commonly called that
edit: i meant the first one in my previous comment btw
