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[-] Priyathium@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I did that.

And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn't seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

Today's leechers are tomorrow's seeders.

And don't blame them.

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds like you grew up and your hardware did too!

Not everyone is able to seed unfortunately. Here the downloading aspect although not allowed seeding is when you can receive fines.

Hence I cross seed everything to I2P.

Of course only Linux ISOs 😉

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I leech because i have a 1mbps upload speed and if i'm uploading using that then my download speeds tank rendering my connection useless.

I'm moving in the next year and when i get a place with more than ADSL you bet i'm setting up a seedbox

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.

Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm aware of that. And if I liked copoganda I'd be swimming in shows. That's just getting older I guess.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's so much good shit on TV, and at least half of it doesn't involve cops.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 2 weeks ago

at least half of it doesn’t involve cops.

I like how safe you're playing that estimate 😂

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I get that. I used to think The Big Bang Theory was funny
*shudder*

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the comparison. Better than sitting in silence, worse than touching grass.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

I think I would rather watch paint dry than The Big Bang Theory tbh

[-] Stretch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

[Laugh Track]

[-] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately BitTorrent clients are kinda messy and don't make it easy to maintain a long term seeding library. I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they are messy. I tried BiglyBT a few years back, and while I love a lot of features, I think that was overkill for sure. qBittorrent is the golden standard at the moment for sure.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 weeks ago

Also I don't understand the upload torrents limit, ok, limit concurrent uploads, but everything I'm seeding should be available all the time

[-] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Eh, mine's linuxmint-20-cinnamon-64bit

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

god i even hate pausing seeding for even an hour cause i'm like BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE WANTS IT???

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

just had a silly idea: stopping your torrent right as it starts to seed (to avoid ISP letters) is like pulling out as a form of birth control

[-] Arnl@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but you still seed while you download

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Digital pre-cum.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

How do I delete someone else's comment?

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Meta's legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don't expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual... Shit is fucked.

[-] fading_person@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

So they downloaded it all to train their models and didn't even seed back!?

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, beacuse that would be distribution of copyrighted materials...

[-] Johanno@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

I have now a ratio of 9.1 and 250TB of uploaded....

Also my hard drive is getting full. I guess I have to clean up some torrents soon.

Or buy new storage

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago

Buy more storage, but also... join private trackers when they open signups. You'd be amazing there.

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I never really understood private trackers TBH or rather the reason behind them. I like the idea of publicly sharing more anyway

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

I suffer with seeding unpopular torrents and rarely see my ratio even each 1.0

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mostly seed stuff that's on the verge of being lost media and my ratio is often insane because there just aren't other seeds. Ironically for many old/unpopular films the Internet Archive is a lot better than any torrents.

The comment on this internet archive review in particular had me laughing.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

internet archive is amazing; i found a 100gb woodstock 94 bootleg vhs collection of the 3 day ppv recording and it took like 2 days to download despite only having 1-2 seeders

[-] globuli@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

what was your highest rate? A ratio of 3x ?

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it -1 points 2 weeks ago

People should learn how to seed. If you don't want to seed, just pay for Usenet.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

I used to seed everything religiously. Then I joined some private trackers, and suddenly I felt like I needed to conserve all that upload bandwidth for torrents on private trackers. Humans kinda suck. I still seed plenty, tho: