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Let it never be said that I'm a leecher (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 week ago by bdonvr@thelemmy.club to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My most uploaded file is a copy of Shrek 2 with Latin American Spanish dub, it took me over a month to download. I swear to God the only one seeding it was someone who would just open their client, download whatever they were looking for, then shut it off. It's the only copy of that dub I could find in decent quality. Now I'm at ~50 ratio for that file.

If you can only find 0 seed torrents just chuck it in your client anyway, I've had several actually complete.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 39 points 1 week ago

This is great advice. It's easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've once had to bring up my ratio on a (now defunct) private torrent site in orde to download new torrents. I was looking for high leech low seed torrents, and I am ashamed to say I've seeded over 500 GB of granny porn (like 20gb original size). Brought up my ratio, tho.

[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 106 points 1 week ago

1PB sent, 25 ratio

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think you've won, great work!

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[-] Willem@kutsuya.dev 31 points 1 week ago

All Linux iso's, right?

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[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

FBI, open up!

Jk. Thank you for your service

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[-] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago

I think I just busted a nut

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

Kings, Queens, and in-betweens, we have found our new emperor. Blesséd be the giga-chad @twiked@sh.itjust.works

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[-] Laser@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

Dang

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 week ago

I, too, am a seeder.

[-] Txmyx@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

For how long are you doing this and what's your upload speed?

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

I started using qbit about a year ago after using deluge. I have gb down and 100mb up.

Unironically, a lot of that ratio is from Linux isos and other open source software distribution. Take the load off their servers!

[-] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 week ago

My upload ratio looks like ass because I edit videos for a thing with friends, and we use torrent to send the raw footage between computers. So I have like a 0.2 ratio because I'm downloading 5 gigs and then we kill the torrent.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

Interesting use case

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

It's strange that people know how to create and share torrents but not open a port or install an FTP server.

[-] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

My friends aren't tech nerds, they dont want to do that stuff unfortunately. Qbittorent is simple enough for them to adopt without complaint.

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[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago

Welcome aboard!

Arrr!

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 week ago

🫡

[-] Ithorian@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Carrying our comrades with data caps.

rat-salute

[-] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

Arr!

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 26 points 1 week ago

I have so many files that have been stalled at >95% for months.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Have you checked what is missing, sometimes people only pick the wanted files from a torrent, so maybe those 5% are just bloat nobody cared to seed as well.

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[-] black0ut@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago

[-] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Damn. You have my respect.

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[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Nice. I just got above 2 for my ratio. I don't have symmetric internet, but I have my torrents set up to never stop, and I don't delete.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

God I wish I had symmetrical upload. Gigabit down and like, 125mbps up.

Not so much for this but I self host stuff like my photos and I notice it's slower when scrolling my photos outside the house. And using my personal VPN, makes my download limited to my upload speed.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

just checked mine i didn't think i was that high but i generally just leave it running all day

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Thanks for making up for my shortcomings <3

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Sharing is caring <3

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 11 points 1 week ago

the beauty of decentralization, aint shit corpos can do about it lol

get fucked, parasites. should have never fragmented streaming services into cable style bullshit.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One time I found a KDrama that changed my life (Crash Landing on You), and to thank the producers, I set up a dedicated seedbox for years that did nothing but seed their show :). I think I hit like 7TB uploaded before shutting it off

[-] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Joined: 9 years, 11 months ago
Last Seen: 19 secs ago
Uploaded: 137.847 TiB
Downloaded: 7.191 TiB
Ratio: 19.16
Required ratio: 0.50

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

I can never get decent upload speeds. I seed everything I can but the most I've ever seen is 100 kbps. Average is probably more like 10 and very few upload at all. Haven't been able to find the reason.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

This is me too. I've got about 5TB of material being seeded 24/7 from my media seever, but I rarely see more than single-digit GB total upload volume per day. The majority of the time, except for the occasional blip, I rarely see total upload rate get over a few hundred kB/s despite having the cap at 24MB/s.

I'd have to stop torrenting completely and only seed for a year to get my ratio past 2.0 lol

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I would absolutely be a seeder if my router didn't reset itself in the middle of the night. That, and I'd be worried about getting caught by my ISP, even with my VPN.

Regardless, these people are the real heroes.