None if something doesn't give me a decent speed in a minute or so I delete it and look for alternatives.
Wild I had to fight spellcheck about 4 times just to post this one sentence, SwiftKey seems to be getting constantly worse.
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The Microsoft ai running against it is bottlenecking
none of mine were stuck, I seeded 5000+ movies/series/games/music. mostly use Usenet now, but my library is shared on soulseek and I do ratio at least 1-2 before I remove it. I upload 1TB a day on average.
Nzb is where all the OGs are.
I haven't torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so ~~I~~ we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.
And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn't able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.
((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))
If it doesn't immediately have a seeder, I just give up. Like I don't have the patience, I could die tomorrow, no time to waste.
I go to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance btw) and hope I can find another torrent, or a DDL.
I would recommend at least giving it a day or two. Sometimes the last seeder is someone who only seeds at night to avoid congestion on their LAN or save power or whatever
I'm a night seeded. My VPN has, rarely, dropped me off zoom calls, and it has a deleterious effect on my work. So nighttime it is.
You can use split tunneling so only your torrent client gets routed through the VPN
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About 3 years ago I got tired of stuck torrent queues and spent a few hours learning what Usenet is and it's various components. A little learning curve compared to torrents, but very comparable in the end. The only major difference is having to pay for a Usenet provider VPN and potentially subscribing to Usenet boards for membership.
I bought a yearly sub to a provider and lifetime sub to a very well know board. I justify the cost as money that would be wasted on a subscription service, except half the yearly cost. Usenet is now the primary download in my arr stack with torrent as a backup.
In my experience Usenet performs much faster than torrent, and there's no seeding requirement at all. Just grab and go. And it seems to have about 90% of what I'm looking for, from anime to old shows\movies (1950s to 20XX).
Is Usenet something that's available for free? I've sailed the high seas for decades, but never gotten into Usenet
I've tried a few times to really wrap my head around Usenet and I've got a couple of bookmarked tabs but... Man, I even had trouble setting up the arrs. My brain might be a bit too smooth these days.
I thought usenet was a message board from the '90s.
I was introduced to Block News a number of years ago, myself. I have since switched to an unlimited account. Usenet has absolutely transformed how I pirate. Once it's set up, it's so much easier, quicker, and safer.
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A couple dozen? If you count ones that have never started, anyway.
I don't pirate anymore since I had to pay 1000€
my life sucks now.
Out of curiosity, were you using a private tracker? VPN? Just interested in the circumstances. Obviously something anyone who downloads has in the back of their minds. I remember getting a letter 20+ years ago, addressed to my dad from Verizon, to cut it out. I got smarter after that, or so I think.
no, I was 15.. well I still am, it wasn't that long ago, and I had been torrenting for 3 years, I believe, nothing ever happened. I also didnt know anything about private trackers, I tried getting into it once, but practically anything that costs money I would have to ask my parents for, and I'm too shy for that. Anyways, I was always saying "yeah I'm gonna get a VPN..." never did. Now my parents had to pay the price for that. I might get a VPN when I get my own bank account and stuff.. in 3 years, so I'm responsible for it.
Well sorry to hear that dude, I was also probably fifteen when I got my letter from Verizon, maybe 16 or 17. Don't let the passion for sticking out to the man fade, but not doing it on Mom and Dad's Internet is commendable.
i2p
Did it actually affect your life more than having to pay a fine?
yes, I now have to use shitty streaming sites that are slow, unreliable and have absolutely no "rare" content. Also I won't be able to build a collection, which leaves me feeling incomplete and miserable. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
Ouch, where?
Bet it's Germany lol
100% Germany, my sister got hit with almost 3k€ for torrenting Young Sheldon 🤦
The real crime here is pirating Young Sheldon.
yup! Germany. Warner Bros came for me.
If I didn't delete them like 16
1 from nyaa.si for 3 weeks.
None? Huh maybe I'm lucky. I use Rutracker, therarbg, nyaa and occasionally in a pinch a 1337x mirror (I know I know).
You should also know RARBG shut down some time ago so you're using a fake clone site there too.
I'm not using a fake clone site, I'm using a fan-made successor site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/16hro1r/introducing_therarbg_a_fork_of_the_nowdefunct/
Pls lurk moar before you spout more FUD.
I've not had any issues with it and it has the og RARBG encodes with actual seeds (search ORARBG).
It's not a "fake clone" it's a "fan-made fork" based off some anonymous redditor's statement? It has the "OG encodes" but they're named differently and use different trackers?
The top comment on your link:
Use whatever site you like, but don't pretend to be some authority on the subject while patronizing people, especially when you're exclusively using public sites.
What's wrong with 1337x? I use the .to
Shit site with mostly shit torrents for plebs. At least that's my association, it's where the YIFY consoomers go.
Is rarbg back again? They got shut down a couple years ago.
No, that RARBG is gone, this is just a successor site using the name and hosting the old RARBG torrents.
None since I don't have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.
No longer stuck but Iron Monkey took about 2 months on/off until I got the whole thing. I try to seed where I can but internet isn't the best and sometimes there just isn't a lot of demand. That one's at 0.07 right now because not a lot of people downloading
just one 'oh god (1977)'
Its been 48 years, it’s time to give up ~/s~
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I'm not cool enough or interesting enough for this problem. Most of my shit is pirate bay top 100 at some point
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