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Maybe it's time to admit that i just own a hard drive full of very, very dead torrents (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is there some metric that shows amount of time a seeder has had files available but not necessarily actively seeding?

Archivists like you should get accolades for keeping the more rarely sought after media. More so than we need yet another seed of Avengers.

Thank you for seeding them. Unless it's weird porn.

... it's weird porn, isn't it ...

[-] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 25 points 5 days ago

Gooner librarian lmfao

[-] Derickdoes@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 5 days ago

Uses the Gooey Decimal System

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago

Private trackers award points for this

[-] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago

No, it's movies, and it's largely smaller lower-quality RARBG releases. They used to have a range of qualities available and the middle was always more popular, their highest and lowest quality releases used to be harder to seed, and that was years ago before they shut down

[-] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 days ago

Some movies are porn too.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago

I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don't really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.