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captain_samuel_brady ,

Are ye a pirate or are ye Robin Hood?

gwi1785 OP ,

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.

Inkidu ,

I don’t have a lot of stuff that’s not already uploaded. Niche books mostly. I offer x3 the upload on public torrents and indefinite on privates.

Wea ,
@Wea@lemmy.world avatar

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%.

rambos ,

Better then pay for usenet instead of VPN. Not sure is 0% enough to protect yourself

brickfrog ,

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.

rambos ,

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

Hubi ,

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.

MaDeX ,

Anyone recommend a seed box?

Commiunism ,

I don’t use torrents all that much to be quite honest - I just download and forget about it with my qbittorrent running in the background pretty much 16 hours a day while I’m awake.

Think the highest seed ratio I accumulated doing this was 500 ratio on a 50gb file.

MaDeX ,

FBI OPEN UP

whyNotSquirrel ,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

On private trackers I seed until I delete the files(if I need space or the movie/tv-show is really bad)

On public trackers I don’t take too much risks and only seed one day or ratio up to 1.

And it’s setup on Radarr / Sonarr / Transmission, so I don’t have to do much anymore

nooneescapesthelaw ,

I dont upload but i do seed, im not gonna lie my ratio is below 1

editilly ,

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

FrostyCaveman ,

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

formContainer ,

I set my thing up to seed but I think my upload speed is too slow. I occasionally seed slowly and its set to constantly do it but my ratio is not great… If anyone has tips to improve this please let me know!

Shere_Khan ,

Does your tracker support bonus points?

formContainer ,

I have no idea what that even is if I’m being honest

Yendor ,

Are you port forwarding? You’ll have more possible peers if you have a port open, so better speeds on average.

formContainer ,

I just have default settings at the moment. If port forwarding will help then I will look into it

theshatterstone54 ,

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.

atlasraven31 , (edited )

I seed older stuff. Newer stuff I just get to 2:1 or so and that’s it.

Shere_Khan ,

I upload to the snahp forms, and i have found some hard to find stuff for dudes on reddit or whatever, but mostly i just seed

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