Keep Seeding
A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.
I finally got it, and decided I'd seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I'll just keep this one going.
Now if only torrenting wouldn't mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(
For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks
but who want a quite simple life :)
Really 5 EUR: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/products/vpn/#pricing
Just rent a seedbox.
Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home.
sounds like pure intimidation to me.
1/ one could have "never received this letter"
2/ one could decide not to pay, and then what? will they go to court? based on what evidence?
3/ if it ever goes to court, "i don't know, i wasnt even home that day" should always work no?
i don't understand while in some countries (actually only one that i know of, Germany) people seem to be terrified by this lawyer's spam...
Oh no it isn't. Walldorf Frommer is well known to send "Unterlassungerklärungen" which you have to answer. It will go to court if you do not work against this. You normally need your own lawyer to defuse what they send you.
Also, if you are in court, there is the concept of "Störerhaftung" which is a wet dream for everyone suing you for copyright infringement. They will have your IP and the time, thus your address. Now you either have to name someone who did do it, or if you can't you will automatically be liable.
This isn't any intimidation, it is one company using the laws in place here to fuck you majorly over. There are a lot of stories about this and if you seed on any public tracker you WILL get a letter.
Jo, seitdem zieh ich nur noch über OCHs
If you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.
What’s this in reference to, as one Not In That Country?
God, back in uni with free electricity and internet in the dorms, we managed to seed over a terabyte of data before IT got suspicious and turned off that port. Then we seeded over slower wifi until they turned the port back on next semester, haha. Good times.
That was where we learned that the pirated copies of stuff were easier to find, higher quality, and worked on hardware that websites declared "too old" to stream their content. It all started when we had a bunch of people over to watch a movie, and Amazon refused to play it on older hardware. It instantly converted half a dozen people to piracy, lol.
Like Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem.
The last two things I pirated were No One Lives Forever, a game that's completely delisted on all storefronts, and Ratchet & Clank, because Sony can't figure out how to add the PS2 versions of games to the PS5 and I refuse to stream it (data cap) or lug around my PS3.
Both I would've purchased legally had they not made it a pain in the ass.
Funny how that works
When rarbg went down I immediately went and for any torrent I still had loaded in my client I quadrupled my normal ratio (3.5 -> 12.00). Then I also just increased my ratio generally.
I wish I had more disk space to keep things going even longer, but I really gotta cycle stuff out unfortunately.
When rarbg went down I waited a couple weeks for straghlers then stopped seeding all rarbg torrents. Is there a reason to? How will people even find these torrents?
There is a specific magnet link you can get a specific sql file from. Inside is a cool database containing a big amount of records of torrent magnets which you can input into the tracker and download.
rarbg.best
I'd love to find a good alternative to Rarbg, truly the end of an era
TorrentGalaxy is the closest I've found so far.
Is it TorrentGalaxy.to?
Not from the same source, but I'm in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there's only one seeder, from which I'm currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it's theirs that's a bit on the slow side).
I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha
I always am going crazy seeing a 1mib/s upload divided by 10 peers while I am sitting here with a gig symmetric line ready to satisfy all within a minute (if their pipes allow it).
JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN BANDWIDTH and I shall satisfy everyone and their dog for a 100 ratio...
that sucks
Not all heros wear capes
Let me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)
Is quality worth the 50gb?
I don't have any fancy speakers or monitor...
At 80+Gb that means it's a straight blu-ray rip without being recompressed at all, which is perfect if you have a nice home theater system. You definitely notice the difference then. But if you're just watching on an average monitor with headphones or such, then you're honestly better off finding a smaller version that someone properly compressed down a bit.
My very fancy sweet spot is somewhere between 10-20gb 1080p
My alright sweet spot is around 7-10gb 1080p.
Higher is too much in disk space for me.
7–20gb for a 1080p movie? Only my 4k movies are allowed to burn that much space. Most of my 1080p movies are under 5gb (usually under 3). I think the only 1080p movie I have at that size is Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification (2020) at ~11gb, and that's only because I haven't found a dual audio version in HEVC/AV1.
Edit: For context, I watch on a 1440p monitor with headphones that simulate 7.1 surround sound (Logitech G Pro X Wireless). A LOT of my 1080p movies are RARBG's 2gb 5.1 releases. Incredible quality for how tiny the files are. Actual magic.
They look amazing on a big TV with a nice sound system. If it’s just for watching on your computer I would recommend the 2GB RARBG releases.
Try it out and see for yourself if it's worth it to you.
Even with fancy gear some people don't appreciate higher quality, i'm somewhat jealous, because that would save me so much money.
Try getting older!
A decade ago, I was extremely into hi-fi — most of my disposable income went to it. (Martin Logan electrostatic speakers and McIntosh amps, stereo JL Fathom 13.5” subs, sound treatment and reference mic for balancing and analysis …)
Now? I’m perfectly and completely pleased with my AirPods Max. My hearing just ain’t what it used to be, and I genuinely don’t hear the slightest difference. (… obviously modulo feeling the bass, hah.)
(Yes. I listen to music over Bluetooth. Not even APT-X. WHO HAVE I BECOME? 😭)
You get diminishing returns. But yes, on a large 4K TV you can notice the difference.
With prices being about 14$/tb on sale for the cheapest 8-16tb drives, yeah, it really is. And if the cheap drive breaks, no problem, you only had public torrents on it anyways.
It looks great on my TV! The HD version also looks very good but flipping between them this version is noticably higher quality.
The only time I seed, really. If there's only like 2 or 3 seeders and they have shit connections, I'll seed for a while. Not that my upload speed is any good...
But on a thing with thousands of seeders and maybe 20 leeches? Why? 🤷🏻♂️
I seed anime OSTs, plenty enough and rare collections.
If you folks happen to download that category, chances are I am one of your sources 🤣
Thanks friend! You're doing the work of Kamisama
Thank you sailor.
Excellent work!
I did this with the That 70s show FGT torrents. Nobody seeds older media anymore, so each one had/has a >30 ratio on the 5GB-per-season BDrips
I wish for low-risk older media people would just keep the seed open forever. Very little bandwidth will be taken up but people will have it there if they want to go back and watch it.
And this is why I backup all the torrents I download. If I lose the drive, they might not be seeded anymore and I won't be able to re-download everything. There's stuff in my collection that was hard to find 5 years ago.
Is there a specific way you backup torrents? Or do you just drop them in a folder?
The only sane way to have a backup would be a NAS with raid 1. Other than that? Yeah, just drop them in a folder. The other dude probably just has them on an external drive, if that fails they are gone.
I pretty much always leave stuff seeding once I get it these days. Ever since I bumped the disk space on my NAS it made it a lot easier to leave stuff instead of jockeying for space on disk.
My higher ratio items are all old shits like You Got Served lmao
Highest ratio I ever saw was from season 2 of one punch man. Was over 500.
Dude seeding must have been doing his push ups
Had that with a few movies recently which took about a week to download. I removed my limits for those, I'm only at a ratio of 5 or smth on those tho. Still, it's honest work
The only torrent I ever removed my seed cap for was a set of DVD-audio ISOs. I had it downloading for months, but it never got above 5%. Eventually I found the same disc images on another site, so I dropped them in the download folder and rechecked the torrent, which came back 97% complete. The only files missing were box art scans and NFOs. I let that thing seed for about five months.
Plenty of seeders on private trackers
Good for them.
And Usenet!
too many 😭
I want to seed too, but I can't get anyone to receive it
I rather just stick to Real-Debrid, and never worry about seeds nor seeding ever again. Cached torrents are the future!
Since Real-Debrid has a copy of the torrent's data, does it do any seeding?
Not as far as I'm aware, but the way I justify it is that the more people who are using a Debrid service, the less strain it puts on torrents because of fewer leechers. Real-Debrid only needs to download the file once, and then every subscriber has immediate access to it.
You can always just use a seedbox instead. The main reason why I use Debrid is because it allows me to stream any show or movie I want instantly to my TV, without having to wait, the instant downloads for games & software is just an added bonus. So for me it's worth the tradeoff of not being able to do my rightful duty and seed.
Paying for piracy is stupid
Worth it for the Gbps download speeds. I can download two 50+ GB titles, install them, decide I don't like them, and uninstall 'em, all in under an hour.
Not to mention that you need a VPN for torrent clients (and not Debrid), so at the end of the day, you're paying for piracy regardless. So it makes sense to just go with the cheaper and faster option.
Disagree. I use a paid streaming service that's every bit as convenient as Netflix, but has a library consisting of almost anything you could possibly think of. No need to hope somebody's seeding it, or go searching through dozens of different sites. It's one super easy go-to source that not only has the content, but remembers where you left off, allows user profiles, etc. That convenience is worth paying for.
The oldest active torrent I know of is the fanimatrix. I'm still seeding it just in case.
Yay.
Sometimes certain debried like Alldebried might be able to get you the torrent without any seeding p2p.
But they might be a paid service so that's up to you.
That chance is so low that you might even safe money just buying what you're looking for
Only if it’s still cached on their servers. If the torrent has zero seeders and it’s not cached even the debrid sites can’t complete the download on their side.
What client is that you're using here? UI seems nice
I'm gonna say... Transmission, but I'm not sure
Looks like the Transmission web-ui
That is Transmission webui in dark mode
Stop using torrents and start using newsgroups.
Where do I start?
Here's a good guide, t's old, but nothing should be too different.
https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started
Use radar instead of Couch Potato.
You can find up to date guides for any of the individual products.
I recommend NZBgeek's lifetime subscription.
Then, set torrents as your news group's backup and you should be good to go.
Spend an evening setting this up and you'll be golden. Just subscribe to any shows or movies you want and it will automatically download them when they are available.
You can set preferences around quality, file size, language, format, etc
pay to pirate 😂
It's safer, faster, more reliable, and much easier to automate.
I only paid $20 for a lifetime subscription.