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Could this become a "Caring is Sharing" sub, just like the old days (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Floofah@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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For too long imo, piracy had become a "grab it all" environment. The old "Caring is Sharing" mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.

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[-] Floofah@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Have been doing this stuff for more years than most of you have been alive, ha,ha!!

In the early days of torrents, seeding was a key feature to keep the post alive. But now it seems too many just want to download and fuck off, with absolutely no seeding back. Why is that? They just download something, then it’s fuck off to anyone else who might want to download it?

To me the basic spirit of sharing has gone. Maybe I’m just an old cunt now, but to me it’s a real shame.

[-] WillyWanker69@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This is because many countries only have laws that prevent providing pirated content and not downloading it. This means downloading content is almost never illegal, but providing it(seeding) is.

[-] dabe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah pretty much where I’m at. I have to be careful not to seed basically at all, otherwise I’ll get angry letters from my ISP. Kinda sucks, and most if not all VPN services charge money to be able to use torrenting over them. But maybe someday I’ll work out a system.

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I loved having 20 instances of the original torrent client running killing my connection for some sweet anime.

[-] Azzu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I usually keep stuff to seed until 3.0 ratio or longer if I'm keeping the files. If it's just taking really long and I need the drive space at 1.0 or even earlier. That should be ok right?

[-] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

If you don't have the space to be able to keep things around, that's understandable, but less than 1.00 is considered to be leeching and is frowned upon. You've given back less than you've taken. I consider 2.00 a fair minimum, as you've returned twice as much as you've received to the ecosystem. 3.00 when and where you can is more than most will do, I think.

[-] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I just keep things seeding until I need more space, then I'll remove things based on ratio, average upload per day, and how much I want to keep the torrent alive. For example Queen Charlotte ratio is at 81.12, I don't really like it but since a lot of people want it I'm keeping it up. Alternatively for anime it's mostly a ratio of 2-3 but because I know how few people actually seed anime I keep it up (doesn't hurt that it's only like 1 GiB per episode too). As for removals I'm probably gonna remove High On Life soon since it's pretty heavy at 35.98 GiB and only has a ratio of 4.67 after 2 weeks.

[-] cccc@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll get rid of single episode anime at the end of the season because that’s when packs will take over what people download. I’ll keep seeding packs whenever I get them though.

[-] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Ah that's a good point, should probably be doing that.

[-] theplotinsideyou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, the spirit left a long time ago, Leechers now run the high seas for sure.

[-] ItsaB3AR@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I set up a vm for torrents so I could seed as much as possible without affecting other things I had to do. I have been seeding for 100 days minimum per torrent. Nothing worse than a torrent with no seeds.