Most of the stuff I torrent is off archive.org nowadays, but I've found way too many archive.org torrents that sit at 99.7% complete. I can't figure out why that is. I've tried rechecking, redownloading, and so forth, but it just... Doesn't finish.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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I have many torrents stuck, not being able to reach 1.0 ratio :)
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I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.
I have found that, if you restart your bittorrent client, or if you switch up your VPN connection, it can get things moving again. Not sure why.
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Five as well. A bunch recently cleared out for no explicable reasons (other than seeders mysteriously showed up).
I recently turned to piracy after being a dedicated ‘churner’ keeping only on service a month. So I have a lot of catching up to do. Five miscellaneous things hanging out in the queue is no problem.
I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading
You might check out aoulseek for music. There is a surprising amount of content available there.
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Last October I pirated around 100 horror movies and only 2 of them took longer than a day.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) - took a couple of days, it was stuck at 10% for a while and one day i wake up and the whole thing finished in like 6 hours. I'm guessing someone turned on a pc that had been off for a long time lol.
Cabin Fever (2002) - this one took over a week and I was deadset on not paying for it so I just let it sit, pretty much the same thing with the previous torrent, it was stuck at a low percentage for a long time and then one day I hop on my computer and it had fully finished.
Other than that, a lot of Japanese films or foreign films in general will take a long time if they're not that popular. If I don't care too much I'll just delete it and forget about it.
HAH NONE
It used to be a couple dozen, but I cleaned it up a couple of months back and somehow haven't had any get stuck since
I'm a 1 at a time kinda guy, so nothing really gets stuck in a queue. but I haven't had to give up on anything so far this year.
0 as I don't torrent at all anymore. I download zip, rar, or 7z files only.
Wtf
Torrenting is just too much effort. I'd rather download cracked software without the torrent process.
What
I'd rather... get my pirated software quicker and easier? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Keep sailing the high seas, I'll be flying a plane instead.
There are websites where you could skip the torrent process entirely. No I won't list them. They're sacred to me, I can't live without them.
I remember torrenting as a kid, never knew what seeding meant so I'd seed like 24/7. All I know is that downloading a torrent file takes ages, then extracting it takes centuries, all for there to be a rar, 7z, or zip inside.
Who needs μtorrent when μ could just use 7Zip?
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