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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?

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 8 months ago

Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago

I think you're doing my part too

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

this must be something I'm too usenet to understand

kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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)?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

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:

  • Usenet = your internet provider (which enables you to connect to stuff)
  • Indexer = search engine (helps you find the stuff)

NZBGeek is a good indexer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fight club rules. Yeah, I'm old school

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Its pay to pirate.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

There's honor amoung thieves and you have most of it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Nice!

My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.

Kudos ☠️☠️☠️

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Good trackers reward seeding old torrents

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

But when they do leach you'll be thanked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

It's over nine thousand!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Must be from a public tracker

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I2P would love to have you

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you store all that in the Homework folder?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Insane, my highest is around 100 ratio.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's almost certainly a partial cross seed, but if it isn't, that's one hell of an accomplishment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Thank you ❤️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

please excuse my stupidity but what does this mean? i know it's something with torrenting but i don't know what exactly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They have really high seeding ratios.

0.5 would mean they uploaded half the filesize. 1 means whole filesize. 2 means twice. You get the idea.

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