i wonder how much is left from the very early sharing ideals from the dawn of the internet.
do you juat take or do you offer something?
upload stuff, contribute by seeding, rip, be part of a group …?
Obvious answer is that people are sharing otherwise you’d have nothing to download :P
For me I usually permaseed, or at least seed back 5-10x if not planning to keep a download. Also have created new uploads at torrent sites and occasionally fill requests.
I seed as much as I can but I still have a 0.75 ratio sadly. I tend to dl random old shit nobody wants so i’m just helping the other weirdos like me. I plan on switchi g to linux and I’d like to set up my computer to be as secure as possible and then maybe upload stuff also.
And like in the old times I bring my hdd with me and share with friends when we meet in person !
I don’t seed. I live in a country with tight laws and actual cases of people getting sued over torrenting and seeding. With different financial outcomes between those two.
We are on the poor side and while I have some technical knowledge I’m not confident enough I can protect myself from financial trouble. So I unfortunately torrent through a VPN and have my client set to seed 0%.
Better then pay for usenet instead of VPN. Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself
Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself
It’s definitely not. Copyright trolls send letters to all peers in a torrent swarm regardless of uploading/downloading. And in any case the bittorrent protocol uploads and downloads simultaneously - Even if the commenter is attempting to seed 0% they are still participating in the torrent swarm and uploading pieces of data to others in the swarm during their own download.
I have to assume that commenter’s VPN is working as intended or maybe they have been lucky.
Private trackers I seed until Im running out of storage, public ones up to 1.2 ratio.
I used to upload some content, but dont have anything thats not already available anymore.
I did some donations to our fellow pirates tho
I love seeing the seed ratio go up. For new releases it’s common to see 100:1 before I shut em off. My system is pretty disorganised and not automated which is why I manually clean up torrents. I’d love to run some long running seeds in future but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
But yea… SEED NUMBER GO UP
I basically seed forever, and I also upload and fill requests sometimes. I have dozens of terabytes seeding. I see it as my contribution to the preservation of the art, and if I’m going to take up the storage space with it I might as well be seeding it too.
Absolutely. I used to rip movies myself for my favorite private tracker. It shut down a while ago though, so now I’m just back to regular seeding.
I torrent using my phone 99% of the time, so I try to get to a 2:1 if possible, but large files like tv shows that have upwars of 200 gb take up too much space, and I can’t have multiple seasons downloaded at the same time, so I usually get them up to 1:1 and then download the next episodes
Minimum 10:1 ratio always
I seed older stuff. Newer stuff I just get to 2:1 or so and that’s it.
Minimum 2:1 for something popular, try to do 3 or 4 to 1 for less popular ones, especially ones with a few seeds and a lot of peers. I don’t uploaf or rip, because I don’t know how, and have no reason to.
I always seed. I also upload stuff, if I don’t find it.
Are ye a pirate or are ye Robin Hood?
i am a thief like we all are, no need for euphemism.
but i’d rather be robin hood than stoertebeker.
where do you think your files come from?
i just think if everybody once in a while would just buy and upload one file there would be a lot of new or unusual stuff.
I dont upload but i do seed, im not gonna lie my ratio is below 1
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