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Was recovering an old virtual machine onto a new box and was shocked to see 9,999, I presume thats an upper limit in the UI. Dune (2021) for those curious
Now wheres my crossbones flag?
Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.
I think you're doing my part too
What a guy!
Makes you cry...
Und I did.
this must be something I'm too usenet to understand
kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service
Actually if you would be so kind, what is the rundown of Usenet? I've searched a bit but been busy to really sit down on it, should I consider it being just a side thing (for now)?
Usenet is here to stay, it is similar as if you pay for vip in order to be able to leech without seeding. This makes automated pirating legal in some countries (like mine) since only doing direct downloads from your usenet provider. The usenet provider have servers which exchange bits of data with IDs similar like we do with torrenting. As a user, you now go to a indexer, who gives you a map, with which bits of data you can construct your file. So you then download each bit directly and put everything together and are rewarded with a normal file. Until now I have found every release which is also in predb using the private indexers I have.
I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?
Beside a Usenet provider, you also need to sign up with an "indexer".
To compare a Usenet download with a download on the regular internet:
NZBGeek is a good indexer.
Thank you very much, until I start getting thin on content from public trackers I think I'll stick to torrents, especially if the bar of entry is lower, I'm in a good situation to seed so I might as well bring that to others
I am curious over the legality, is it in a way that the provider is storing the whole file just obfuscated? My (rather poor) understanding is that torrents work because the file pieces are distributed
In some countries, like Switzerland for example, it is legal to download, but illegal to upload content that is copyright protected. So if you want pirate legally, you ether only leech public torrents, buy vip leech pass on private tracker or simply turn to usenet.
I think it is that way, so that a consumer getting something from someone (free or paid) can not get in trouble for accepting, since how should the consumer know it is a pirated copy (I think the law was written prior digital age). But the one offering can get in trouble, since that person is more likely to know that it is a pirated copy. There is even an exception, which allows you to share your pirated copy with close friends. You can not even get in trouble if you rent stuff, copy it and give the original back after.
Any Usenet providers and indexers you'd recommend? I tried it a few months ago but couldn't quite wrap my head around how to use it. (I'm technically literate, but Usenet was completely foreign to me until a few months ago.)
Fight club rules. Yeah, I'm old school
Its pay to pirate.
There's honor amoung thieves and you have most of it.
Nice!
My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.
Kudos ☠️☠️☠️
I can't get over 0.00 most of the time because no one's leeching 😭
Idk how I'm even supposed to get a good ratio
Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷♂️
Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.
I was suddenly nostalgic for MythBusters again, and in my acquisition I found a couple seasons that have pretty low seeders. Will gladly be a forever seeder even if one person a year leaches
There's a fanedit out there of the complete series Mythbusters with all of the flashbacks and filler removed. No more 5-minute long "before the break" segments.
Do you know the name of the fanedit? I'd like to check it out
Good trackers reward seeding old torrents
Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).
But when they do leach you'll be thanked.
I would imagine, and namely the reason I raise the sails again, content thats being migrated across different subscriptions will become a real hot token item
I have one tracker I am twice as long active with versus another one and I almst catched up the uploaded data with less torrents active. Sometimes I wonder if I am just not the primary target for that tracker or I just don't like the popular stuff.
It's over nine thousand!
Must be from a public tracker
Yessir, and frankly I'm caring a lot more for the torrents that are barely breathing on public trackers, its made me a little sad seeing how inaccessible some content can tend to get, but to be fair I haven't sailed the deep end with private trackers or anything yet
When I was able to seed relentlessly, I aimed for 3.0. Typically, popular things got into the tens or twenties, while rare stuff would get lucky to cross the 1.0 threshold.
Thieves and beggars, never shall we die and all that.
When I downloaded The Last Of Us it would shoot to 4-5 and get stuck there. Meanwhile, I downloaded Madagascar on a random Monday and a week or so later that thing is at 36.0.
It's totally random.
What's your upload amount? Ratio isn't vs the total size of the torrent, so this can happen if you remove a readd a torrent to the client for a file that's already in the hard drive. Say you download 1kb of a 1gb file, but then upload 10mb you can get some insane ratios.
Most unfortunately overall statistics aren't exported, the VM had been sitting active on a PC for a while before I turned it off for a few months and wiped it recently
I can say those top ratios were movies I had first acquired, and never had set a seed limit so I'm certain I've been seeding the entire file
I2P would love to have you
you store all that in the Homework folder?
Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you
It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs
Insane, my highest is around 100 ratio.
That's almost certainly a partial cross seed, but if it isn't, that's one hell of an accomplishment.
Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴☠️
Thank you ❤️