is it considered rude to limit my upload in qbittorrent? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 13 hours ago by cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

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[-] fizzle@quokk.au 32 points 12 hours ago

No one cares or will even notice your lack of participation.

Some seeders have amazing infrastructure and can seed in an hour what would take you a year on a residential connection.

This is not an "if everyone did that" problem because not everyone has limited residential bandwidth.

If youre worried about moral obligations adopt a few torrents with very low numbers of seeders to ensure they dont die.

Alternatively, you could rent a seed box for a month and upload 5 years worth.