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Take it as a challenge and waste inordinate amounts of time finding it 'free'!
Torrent stuck at 99.9% :/
The only seed has 99.9% availability, I am doubting anyone actually has 100%.
I have a funny storry:
there is a book I really wanted to read. It is an old af psychology science book. There is no pirated version of it anywhere.
I found one copy of it on the used market and bought it because the price was ok (70$).
At home, I open it up and go through it properly and see that THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER WAS CUT OUT!!! Literally there were the ends of the pages still bound with strings and you can see a wavy scalpel cut where the rest of the page would be.
Thats the physical equivalent of an incomplete torrent. Felt so bad.
Who would do this 😭
Before it was sold, it was at a university library. The uni I went to had an open library, so anybody could come in. So either a student or somebody from the public, I guess.
A madman.
have you tried staring at the torrent? if it doesnt work try staring longer
I stared at it as if it were scp-173, nothing happened.
Maybe I need stare at SCP-96 and use it as the fuel for my modem instead.
That's a special kind of pain.
"What do you mean 'force start' isn't doing anything?!?!"
It honestly depends. If it's something I was on the fence about AND it's not absurdly overpriced, probably just buy. Or put on a Steam wishlist for some future sale while I keep trying to find elsewhere.
Ive had decent luck watching things stuck at 99.9% and having it work fine. Sometimes it's just an .nfo file or the like thats missing.
Omg I might have done that to some people! Never realised!
Previously I skipped downloadning the "unneccesary" files like .nfo og random .txt, or subtitles for other languages.
Never considered that would result in incomplete downloads for others.
Which torrent is it
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you'd have it.
Like its not one track, its separate files for each chapter, so I can still listen to most of it. only like two chapters have missing bits and is kinda semi-corrupted due to the missing bits.
Kinda feel like getting Audible because then its kinda unlimited access and I'll binge through a a few books, then cancel when I'm out of content (that I'm interested in) lol. I don't think I'll have use for the audio files after listening through it once.
libro.fm has a nice drm free audio bookshop if you change your mind and do want to keep the audio files afterwards
Fuck that, don't use audible! What is the title / author?
I don’t know; I’ve seen the internet pull some weird shit out of its back pocket
Libraries are generally pretty good for books and audiobooks. Get stuff through libby or hoopla.
There's also a chance that the seeder finished the download but their software didn't actually finished processing the files. Sometimes just copying the content to another location (to be safe) and renaming the "part" files to its intended file extension is all you need to do.
Are you on audibookbay?
Yes. Only one seed, its 99.9% availability.
I can technically still listen to most of it, but the missing 0.01% triggers me for some reason.
How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?
If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?
To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.
And then seed it to torrent
Same. For me it's not about the money but the service and experience. I wouldn't mind buying a blu-ray and ripping it but I'm not going to subscribe to some service, log in, and use their app to watch a single show or movie because I find that whole process to be a chore.
A chore, frequently an obnoxious experience and lastly a trap.
I don't want a promise of 'maybe we will let you view this until we capriciously remove it from our service'. Either I own what I pay for or no deal. I try to heavily prioritize GOG over Steam and while I have some streaming services in my orbit (not my choices) I always have 'backup' copies of my own.
I have spent 3 hours once to find this with a reasonable resolution, bitrate and subtitles (the subs were the hard part):
Same issue with "FUTURE WAR 198X年".
In the end I got a copy from archive.org with hardsubbed english subs
That's how we do it! Take no prisoners and don't accept substandard booty.
Yarrrr!