• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    1 month ago
    Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.

    Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I’d try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn’t fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that’s one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.

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      1 month ago

      “Good” is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn’t changed much, but instead you’ve become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

      • ClownStatue@piefed.social
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        1 month ago

        Good definitely is subjective. I have Robot Jox in my library and it won’t be deleted until I’ve left this mortal coil.

  • Priyathium@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I did that.

    And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn’t seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

    Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

    Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

    Today’s leechers are tomorrow’s seeders.

    And don’t blame them.

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    just had a silly idea: stopping your torrent right as it starts to seed (to avoid ISP letters) is like pulling out as a form of birth control