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.

  • BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    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

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      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…

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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?

  • vd1n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Is quality worth the 50gb?

    I don’t have any fancy speakers or monitor…

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • monty@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It looks great on my TV! The HD version also looks very good but flipping between them this version is noticably higher quality.

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • gk99@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • notepass@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

        • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          They base off Mullvad which removed the ability to forward ports, not the 1st choice for P2P, but anything else

          • kernelPanic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t understand. Aren’t all ports go through the encrypted traffic once I start a vpn?

            • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              They do, but if you can’t forward a port nothing can get to you from outside, which you want with P2P, per default anything from outside is blocked.

              If two people with no port forwarding meet, they aren’t able to connect, one side has to have an open port, so you’re missing many peers and seeders and you can counter this by being the one with the open port so anyone is able to connect to you.

        • narp@feddit.deEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          I’m trying but the save button just loops endlessly…

          What difference does it make? Aren’t you able to see the comment?

          • neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            It’s not so huge a concern right now, but it lets people that write userscripts write, say, a userscript to automatically translate a post into your preferred language from the post’s language.

            Such a thing would be easier if the userscript could trust that a post is set to the language it’s written in.

            This load circle thing is it implicitly failing due to you not having selected Deutsch as one of your languages in your profile (most likely).

            There are other things it could be as well.

            • narp@feddit.deEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Interesting! I tried it a bit more:

              • I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
              • I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
              • Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
              • Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
              • Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”

              Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!

              Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Just rent a seedbox.
      Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home.

    • Joe Bidet@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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…

      • notepass@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    The oldest active torrent I know of is the fanimatrix. I’m still seeding it just in case.