Ill conceived idea to resurrect a dead torrent (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.

If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

4 seeders

4 seeds means it's not actually a dead torrent. Slow uploading sure, but not dead. I'd suggest just leaving it alone, if it's going at 8% per week it should finish on its own in roughly 13 weeks assuming the speeds don't change much. That's going to be a while but once you've got it you'll be seed number 5 as long as you keep seeding it on your end.

If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder?

Sure that may work in theory. Just keep in mind you'd need to find tons of ROM files that are exact bit-by-bit matches of the files in the torrent - otherwise overwriting mismatched data into your currently downloading torrent would make things slower for you since you'd now have to re-download that data to get back to 8% or whatever.

EDIT: Looks like you lucked out, congrats seed #5 :)

[-] sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

TY! :D I DID luck out. the first version that worked came literally from Vimm's Lair which doesn't offer multiple releases but I do prefer to use over other places.

you're right, but the 8% stopped after the first day. it was dead since then. do some people only seed certain things on a rotation schedule?

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

More likely those seeds are super-busy so it just takes a while to keep a consistent upload. these type of seeds tend to be on a ton of other low seed torrents. So any new seeds helps.

And of course there's the seeds that just don't have great connections e.g. could be a laptop that is literally only online x hours a day or even week, or they can only upload at night or whatever.

[-] sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

ohhhh, that makes sense. yeah now that I've added this new files suddenly more seeds have showed up. also the number of peers has decreased to 1 (48). it seems like ever since I started using Tribbler as my client that these numbers fluxuate more than can be realistic